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Bentley Systems Advances Digital Twins—Critical to Smart Infrastructure and Climate Change
This feature—which was originally published in our free monthly newsletter (INSIDER Xpresso) several weeks ago—focuses in on what we learned from the Bentley 2019 Year In Infrastructure Conference, held in Singapore, this past October. The key innovations we want to talk about from that conference center around “digital twins,” but we also want to highlight some stunning facts about the size and growth of the global infrastructure market. Some of these are “head-spinning” and hard to fathom, but nonetheless absolutely true.
YII2019: Bentley Joins as Multinational Member—Announces Support for IFC for Digital Twins
buildingSMART International’s IFC standard has gained a significant partner in Bentley Systems’ as it joins the consortium as a multinational member and announces new file format interoperability between its iModel standard for Digital Twins and the open industry IFC file format.
Bentley Systems Announces Winners of Year in Infrastructure 2019 Awards
Infrastructure in Bentley’s parlance includes from Buildings, Plants to Cities—entrants and winners span categories like Building and Campus, Digital Cities, Power Generation, Project Delivery, and so on.
YII2019: Bentley’s Citilabs and Orbit Geospatial Technologies’ Acquisitions
Advancing mobility digital twins through Orbit GT’s automated mobile mapping workflows (digital context) and Citilab’s CUBE simulations (digital components) for predictive transportation scenarios (digital chronology).
YII2019: Bentley Announces Acquisitions, New Joint Venture and Deeper Commitment to Digital Twins
Bentley announces key strategic acquisitions in Citylab, new iTwin Cloud Services, new updates and entirely new applications in its Open-branded tools and a new joint-venture.
US Infrastructure Projects Named ‘Finalists’ in Bentley Systems’ Annual Awards Program
Winners to be selected and announced in Singapore on 24 October at Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2019 Conference.
Bentley Systems OpenBuildings Station Designer Now Available
OpenBuildings Station Designer uniquely integrates multidisciplinary design and simulation for rail and transit stations.
Bentley Systems Announces Drummond Community High School Team as Winners in First ‘Future Infrastructure Challenge: DEC Hyperloop’
A panel of distinguished judges selects the winning team at competitive event challenging students to conceptualize a design for Hyperloop transport system and stations.
GRAPHISOFT and Surbana Jurong Enter Strategic Partnership
GRAPHISOFT signs Memorandum of Understanding with a global giant in urban design and infrastructure development and management.
Autodesk Improves BIM + GIS Workflows—New InfraWorks Update
Autodesk Connector for ArcGIS is first in-product capability from partnership between Esri and Autodesk. More features created or improved in InfraWorks update as well.
Bentley Expands in France—Unifies Offices with e-on Software Subsidiary
Bentley expands and consolidates into new office in Paris, including bringing in-house its e-on software subsidiary employees where they can collaborate better with Bentley infrastructure software engineers.
Autodesk releases new InfraWorks and Autodesk Civil 3D 2019
Autodesk releases updates to its infrastructure design and engineering products—InfraWorks 360 and Civil 3D 2019.
Autodesk Behind Bipartisan Industry Coalition to Promote Investment in US Infrastructure
Blueprint 2025 is a bipartisan coalition of 100 industry CEOs and public sector representatives—aimed at promoting infrastructure investment in the United States.
Siemens and Bentley Systems Agree to Jointly Offer Planning and Design Solutions for Utilities Markets
Siemens and Bentley partner to address digitalization of energy utility markets worldwide.
Bentley and AGI Announce Cesium Consortium—Accelerate Virtual Globe For BIM/Infrastructure
Partnership will help accelerate developments in open-source Javascript library for world-class 3D globes and maps with the aim of infrastructure and BIM visualization.
