The Year in Infrastructure 2008 - (Page 2) ABOUT THE 2008 BE AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE The annual BE Awards of Excellence competition was launched in 2004 to honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world’s infrastructure. But the recognition extends beyond the award winners to the more than 800 projects nominated for BE Awards of Excellence in the last five years. All of these projects demonstrate the superior vision, innovation, and unwavering commitment to best practices of the infrastructure professionals who designed and built them in fulfilling their mission to sustain infrastructure. Winners and finalists are selected by an accomplished panel of judges – independent of Bentley – that includes previous BE Award of Excellence winners, other Bentley users, editors and publishers, and industry and discipline experts, who adhere to the highest standards as it determines which project nominations best exemplify exceptional productivity and quality of work achieved through the innovative use of advanced technology. Before the panel convenes, each judge is tasked with the review and evaluation of all nominated projects for his or her assigned segment. The groups then assemble at the BE Conference – Bentley’s annual conference for users of its solutions and products – to deliberate on the entries. Winners and finalists are announced during the highlyanticipated BE Awards of Excellence evening ceremony and celebration. This year, more than 250 innovative projects were nominated in two category types: one of six Special (page 4) and one of 11 Industry (page 11). The 2008 Academic BE Awards of Excellence program (page 161) also invited university, technical college, and high school students to submit projects designed using Bentley software, along with a short essay describing their work. Recipients of the Lifetime Achievement (page 160) and Educator of the Year (page 162) awards were also honored. BE Awards of Excellence winners and nominees often receive additional worldwide acclaim as a result of their technological leadership. For example, Arup’s 2004 BE Award-winning National Aquatics Center project – also called the “Water Cube” – was recently featured in news stories around the world. Designed and built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the swimming center design features leading-edge technology in the form of blue bubble walls based on a natural pattern of organic cells and the formation of soap bubbles. In addition, FIGG’s 10-lane I-35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge in Minneapolis, a 2008 BE Awards of Excellence project nominee, opened in September 2008, a full three months ahead of schedule. The new bridge replaces the one that collapsed in August 2007. The FIGG project teams used innovative 3D software to streamline construction and speed assembly. The I-35W bridge project was featured in a recent NOVA scienceNOW episode entitled “Smart Bridges.” The Year in Infrastructure 2008 is also published in digital format. For the 2008 and other previous years’ editions, visit www.bentley.com/YearInInfrastructure. AboUT THE bE AwARdS oF ExCEllENCE Meet the 2008 BE Awards of Excellence Jurors IndusTrY/specIal: Matt Ball, Vector1Media; Scott H. Boutwell, CLS; Drury Crawley, US Department of Energy; Bob Drake, CE News, Zweig White; Edwin Ecob, Cambashi Ltd; Alan Edgar, OSCRE; John Ford, Project Solutions; Adrian Greeman, World Highways; Louis Hecht, Jr., OpenGIS Consortium; Lars Hesselgren, KPF; Chris Holcroft, AGI UK; Murray Hughes, Railway Gazette International; Ankush Krishan, IRCON International Ltd; Mark Mileshik, SNC-Lavalin Inc.; Bart Neighbors, ConocoPhillips; Helena Russell, Bridge Design & Engineering; Bernhard Valnion, Economic Engineering; Dorothy Lozowski, Chemical Engineering Magazine & E-Media; Brad Williams, Gartner, Energy & Utilities IAS; Bill Wilson, Roads & Bridges; Greg Yoko, Land Development Today academIc: Tristan Al-Haddad , Georgia Tech Architecture; Tom Barrett, Community College Baltimore County; Michael J. Chajes, University of Delaware; Earl Rusty Lee, University of Delaware; Charlie McGowan, Hatch 2 http://www.bentley.com/YearInInfrastructure
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