Bentley Announces Finalists in 2017 Be Inspired Awards Program Recognizing BIM Advancements in Infrastructure Design, Construction, and Operations

Winners to be Selected and Announced at The Year in
Infrastructure 2017 Conference, October 10-12 in Singapore

EXTON, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of
comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure,
today announced the finalists in the 2017 Be
Inspired Awards program. The annual awards honor the
extraordinary work of Bentley users advancing infrastructure design,
construction, and operations throughout the world. Ten independent jury
panels comprising distinguished industry experts selected the 51
finalists from more than 400 nominations submitted by organizations in
more than 50 countries.

The finalists will present their innovative projects to their peers, the
jurors, industry thought leaders, and more than 120 members of the media
as part of related infrastructure forums at The Year
in Infrastructure 2017 Conference, October 10-12 in
Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre.

This gathering of leading professionals in the world of infrastructure
design, construction, and operations will feature:

• thought-provoking keynotes by Bentley senior executives and prominent
  industry thought leaders
• live technology presentations from Bentley’s alliance partners –
  Microsoft, Siemens, Bureau Veritas, and Topcon
• opportunities for attendees to meet and have one-on-one discussions
  with awards finalists
• informative industry forums and panel discussions featuring speakers
  from Microsoft, Siemens, Bureau Veritas, Australia Road Research
  Board, Applied Research & Associates, Building and Construction
  Authority of Singapore, and more
• Be Inspired Awards finalists’ presentations on October 10 and 11
• evening ceremony and gala featuring announcement of the Be Inspired
  Awards winners on October 12

The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference is an ideal
opportunity for management-level executives in engineering firms,
architecture firms, construction companies, and government or
owner-operator organizations responsible for the design, delivery,
and/or operations of infrastructure to share best practices and meet
infrastructure professionals from around the world. All those who
submitted a nomination in the Be Inspired Awards program are also
invited to attend.

Bentley Systems Chief Communications Officer Chris Barron said, “The Year
in Infrastructure Conference is a one-of-a-kind networking and
learning experience for infrastructure leaders from around the world.
This year we have an unprecedented number of participants for the Be
Inspired program, and are pleased to congratulate and acknowledge
all of the participants for their excellent work and inspiring projects.
Conference attendees will have the chance to meet the awards finalists,
and see them present their projects, which represent this year’s most
outstanding BIM advancements in global infrastructure.”

This year’s conference will be held for the first time in Singapore at
the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, one of the most iconic
buildings in Asia. The structural design of Marina Bay Sands was done by
Arup and was Bentley’s 2010 Be Inspired Award winner for
Innovation in Structural Engineering.

Mike Lee, vice president of sales, Marina Bay Sands, said, “Marina Bay
Sands is honored to be the chosen venue for Bentley Systems’
first-to-Singapore conference. Our relationship with Bentley dates back
to our construction days, as our iconic building was structurally
engineered using Bentley Systems software. We look forward to welcoming
Bentley and its delegates to our integrated resort to experience its
multitude of business, leisure, and dining offerings under one roof.”

The Be Inspired Awards finalists for 2017 are as follows:

BIM Advancements in Bridges

• AECOM – Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge – (New Haven, Connecticut, United
  States)
• Arcadis-WSP/PB Joint Venture– Citylink Tulla Widening– (Melbourne,
  Victoria, Australia)
• Long Jian Road & Bridge Co., Ltd. – Heihe – Blagoveshchensk
  Heilongjiang River (Amur River) Road Bridge Project– (Heihe City,
  Heilongjiang Province, China)

BIM Advancements in Buildings and Campuses

• Morphosis – The Bloomberg Center – (New York, New York, United States)
• Shalom Baranes Associates – Cannon House Office Building Renewal –
  (Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
• WSP – 1 Blackfriars, London – (London, England, United Kingdom)

BIM Advancements in Construction

• China Construction Sixth Engineering Division, Tianjin University of
  Technology, Tianjin Tianhe-Cloud Building Engineering Technology Co.,
  Ltd. – Sanya New Airport Reclamation Project – (Sanya, Hainan, China)
• JMC2 – Heaven Sent – (Simi Valley, California, United States)
• Leighton Asia – Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities, Hong
  Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge – (Hong Kong)

BIM Advancements in Environmental Engineering

• NJS Engineers India Pvt. Ltd. – JICA Assisted Ganga Action Plan-II –
  (Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
• Raymond Vogel Landschaften AG – New Landscape for New Hydropower Plant
  in Hagneck – (Hagneck, Canton Bern, Switzerland)
• Stream Environment Sdn. Bhd. – Automated Waste Collection System for
  Changi Airport Terminal 4 – (Singapore)

BIM Advancements in Manufacturing

• CPC Corporation, Taiwan – Talin No.12 Topping Unit Project–
  (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
• PJSC Giprotyumenneftegaz – Central Production Facility,
  Novoportovskoye Field – (Tyumen Region, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous
  District, Russia)
• Satria Technologies Sdn. Bhd. – Sustainable Solutions for Control and
  Protection Systems – (Klang, Selangor, Malaysia)

BIM Advancements in Mining and Offshore Engineering

• AMEC Foster Wheeler – Gruyere Project – (South Dorothy Hills, Western
  Australia, Australia)
• Offshore Oil Engineering Co., Ltd. – PL19-3 Oil Field Jacket Design
  and Development of ‘Fixed Offshore Structure Design Tool’ Software –
  (Tianjin, China)
• Volgogradnefteproekt, LLC – Design of Electro-Technical Solutions and
  Systems for Control of the Conductor Supported Platform of Filanovsky
  Field– (Caspian Sea, Astrakhan Region, Russia)

BIM Advancements in Municipal Operations

• AAM Group – Creating Singapore’s National 3D Map Using Mobile Mapping
  – (Singapore)
• Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, PowerChina – Application of
  BIM Strategy for Shenzhen Qianhai Municipal Infrastructure – (Shenzhen
  City, Guangdong Province, China)
• Tianjin Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute –
  Construction and Design General Contracting of Retrofit Project at
  Haiyu East Line Municipal Road – (Sanya, Hainan Province, China)

BIM Advancements in Power Generation

• China Water Resource Pearl River Planning Surveying & Designing Co.,
  Ltd – Wugachong Reservoir Project – (Pu’an County, Qianxinan Buyei and
  Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, China)
• COBA – Engineering and Environmental Consultants – Kholombidzo Hydro
  Power Electric Plant – (District of Blantyre, Malawi)
• PowerChina ZhongNan Engineering Corporation Limited – Digital Delivery
  of Qiongzhong Pumped Storage Power Station – (Qiongzhong County,
  Hainan Province, China)

BIM Advancements in Project Delivery

• A Natural Gas Company – Implementation of a Comprehensive Technical
  Records & Information Management Program Powered by ProjectWise –
  (Canada)
• Ghafari Associates, LLC – General Motors Productivity Improvement
  Program – (Various Locations, Michigan, United States)
• Mott MacDonald and the Costain, VINCI Construction Grands Projets,
  Bachy Soletanche Joint Venture – East Section of the Thames Tideway
  Tunnel – (London, England, United Kingdom)

BIM Advancements in Rail and Transit

• China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group Co. Ltd.; Yungui Railway Yunnan
  Co. Ltd. – Application of BIM Strategy for Dali to Ruili Railway
  Project – (Baoshan, Yunnan Province, China)
• Jacobs/Zephyr UAS – Mapping 42 Miles of California High Speed Rail
  Corridor Utilizing UAVs – (Burbank to Los Angeles to Anaheim,
  California, United States)
• MRT Corporation Sdn. Bhd. – Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (KVMRT)
  SSP Line – (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

BIM Advancements in Reality Modeling

• CEDD-AECOM-The Earth Solutions – Development of Anderson Road Quarry
  Site – (Hong Kong)
• The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Architectural
  Engineering – Virtual Penn State Campus – (University Park,
  Pennsylvania, United States)
• The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. – Sanborn3D HD Maps for Autonomous
  Driving: Santa Clara – (Santa Clara County, California, United States)

BIM Advancements in Roads

• AECOM (Poland) – Road Design and Inter-disciplinary Coordination of
  the E10 Avvakko-Lappeasuando Project – (Gällivare kommun, Norrbottens
  län, Sweden)
• CCCC First Highway Consultants Co., Ltd. – Application of BIM Strategy
  on the Transformation of Meiguan Expressway to Urban Road Design
  Project – (Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China)
• CH2M Fairhurst JV – A9 Dualling – Glen Garry to Dalraddy –
  (Dalwhinnie, Highlands, United Kingdom)

BIM Advancements in Road and Rail Asset Performance

• New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) – NJDOT / Public
  Private Partnership of a Bentley-Hosted SUPERLOAD System for Oversize
  / Overweight Vehicle Permitting and Routing – (Trenton, New Jersey,
  United States)
• Oregon Department of Transportation – TransInfo – A Connected Data
  Environment for Transportation – (Salem, Oregon, United States)
• Highways England – Network Occupancy Management System (NOMS) –
  (Strategic Road Network, England, United Kingdom)

BIM Advancements in Utilities and Industrial Asset Performance

• AES Indianapolis Power and Light – T&D Implementation of Asset Risk at
  Indianapolis Power & Light – (Indianapolis, Indiana, United States)
• BP – Khazzan Central Information Store (CIS) – (Khazzan Field, Block
  61, Ad Dhahirah Governorate, Oman)
• North Caspian Operating Company N.V. – Kashagan Oilfield Corrosion and
  Inspection Management Project in the North Caspian Sea and Bolashak
  Operating Production Facility – (Atyrau Region, North Caspian Sea,
  Kazakhstan)

BIM Advancements in Utilities Transmission and Distribution

• Hubei Electric Power Survey and Design Institute – Macheng Caijiazhai
  Wind Farm Project – (Macheng, Hubei Province, China)
• Pestech International Berhad – Automation and Integration of
  Substation Design Work for 230kV Project – (Kratie and Kampong Cham,
  Cambodia)
• Pacific Gas & Electric Company – Reality Modeling in Bentley
  Substation – (San Francisco, California, United States)

BIM Advancements in Water and Wastewater Plants

• Beijing Institute of Water – Tongzhou Water Works of Beijing
  South-to-North Water Diversion Project – (Beijing, China)
• Shanghai New Jinshan Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd. – Xinjiang
  Water Purification No.2 Plant and Supporting Pipe Network – (Jinshan
  District, Shanghai, China)
• MWH Ltd. (operating in CiM6 alliance) – Netheridge STW – (Gloucester,
  England, United Kingdom)

BIM Advancements in Water Networks

• Manila Water Company, Inc. – Manila Water Natural Calamity Risk
  Resiliency and Mitigation Masterplan – (National Capital Region, Rizal
  Province, Philippines)
• Enorsul – Sanitation Services – Optimization of Water Distribution
  System and Reduction of Losses – (Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil)
• AEGEA – AEGEA Prolagos Sewerage Master Plan 2041 – (Região dos Lagos,
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

About The Be Inspired Awards Program and The Year
in Infrastructure 2017 Conference

Since 2004, the Be Inspired Awards program has showcased
excellence and innovation in the design, construction, and operations of
infrastructure projects around the world. The Be Inspired Awards
program is unique – the only competition of its kind that is global in
scope and comprehensive in categories covered, encompassing all types of
infrastructure projects. In the awards program, which is open to all
users of Bentley software, independent panels of industry experts select
finalists for each category. For additional information, visit www.bentley.com/BeInspired.

Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference is a global
gathering of leading executives in the world of infrastructure design,
construction, and operations. The conference features a series of
presentations and interactive workshops exploring the intersection of
technology and business drivers, and how they are shaping the future of
infrastructure project delivery and asset performance.

Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference will include:

• The Buildings and Campuses Forum
• The Digital Cities Forum
• The Industrial Forum
• The Rail and Transit Forum
• The Roads and Bridges Forum
• The Utilities and Water Forum
• The Be Inspired Awards Ceremony
• Alliance Partner Pavilion and Sessions
• The Project Delivery Summit (by invitation only)
• The Infrastructure Asset Performance Summit (by invitation only)
• The CIO Summit (by invitation only)

The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference Sponsors

• Platinum: Microsoft
• Gold: ARC Advisory Group, BNP Media, Engineering News-Record,
  Informed Infrastructure, New Civil Engineer, PennEnergy,
  Reliabilityweb.com, SPAR 3D, Water & Wastewater International

For more details and a complete list of sponsors, including
Silver level, click here.

The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference Alliance Partners

• Bureau Veritas
• Microsoft
• Siemens
• Topcon

The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference Supporting Partners

• Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE)
• Bluefield Research
• Building and Construction Authority, Singapore
• CEATI International, Inc.
• Chemtech Foundation
• FIG (International Federation of Surveyors)
• InfoNetrix
• Institution of Engineers, Singapore
• ISGF (India Smart Grid Forum)
• Korea BIM Association
• Newton-Evans Research Company
• OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium)
• Singapore Exhibition & Convention Bureau
• Your Singapore
• Zpryme

Media Day

On October 9, more than 120 journalists from leading media outlets
around the globe will gather at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention
Centre in Singapore for Bentley’s annual Media Day briefing. These
journalists will also participate in The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference.

For additional information about The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference
or to register, click here.
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The 2017 Be Inspired Awards finalists will present their projects
at Bentley’s The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference, October
10-12 in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre.

The
Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference

Attendees of the conference can meet the awards finalists, and see them
present their outstanding infrastructure projects.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing engineers, architects,
geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with
comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design,
construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage
information mobility across disciplines and throughout the
infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and
assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information
modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated
projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent
infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and
comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50
countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2011 has
invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

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investments, visit BI
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