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QUICK TAKES The Drive To Innovate his issue of BE Magazine focuses on how new technologies are not only enabling improved efﬁciency and increased productivity, but also facilitating innovation. In “Converging on the Market: CAD, Geospatial, 3D, Visualization, and BIM” (page 6), Sam Bacharach of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) explains how a diverse set of technologies, including spatial technologies, are merging as they transition toward interoperability. Through the results of an OGC interoperability test bed, Bacharach demonstrates that building information modeling (BIM) and policies that promote data sharing and BIM standards are key components in solving a productivity challenge that costs the construction industry tens of billions of dollars each year in the United States alone. Says Bacharach, “BIM relies on interoperability among a range of information technologies to enable efﬁciencies: fewer delays, mistakes, and misunderstandings; fewer meetings and phone calls; and fewer physicial deliveries of information media.” In his article “Bytes and Bricks” on page 10, Jim Sinopoli of Sinopoli and Associates emphasizes the importance of gathering data and information created during the design and construction of a building so it can later be used during facility operation and management. Sinopoli offers suggestions on ways to facilitate the sharing of design and construction data when BIM is not being used, but sees BIM as the ultimate solution. “BIM has the potential to be the vehicle or depository for use by the design team, contractors, and the owner, with each party having the capability to add their own data and information to the model,” says Sinopoli. BIM, of course, isn’t the only new technology having an important impact on design efficiencies and innovation. In the article that begins on page 12, CAD User ’s David Chadwick explains how Bentley’s GenerativeComponents provides users with rapid iteration of design alternatives to accelerate their search for design innovation. GenerativeComponents is the ﬁrst parametric design system to apply the power of symbolic math—through graphical and scripting tools—to generate complex geometry with component relationships. This new tool gives architects the ability to intuitively explore complex shapes and structures without constraint. And yet, at the same time, says Chadwick, it delivers tools that enable the same users to create and maintain the precise algorithmic relationships between each of the components in the structure that provide for rapid and logical iteration. For a behind-the-scenes look at how GenerativeComponents became an unprecedented experience of open and iterative development for both Bentley and a forwardthinking community of elite practitioners, see Greg Bentley’s “The Last Word” (page 48). As always, BE Magazine also provides a diversiﬁed selection of inspiring projects designed and built by users around the globe—ranging from an opera house renovation in Australia and a greenﬁeld airport in India to a ﬁber-optic network in the Netherlands and a ﬂue gas desulfurization project in the United States. T BE Magazine Volume 4, Issue 4 EDITOR IN CHIEF Carol Minton carol.minton@be.org CONTRIBUTORS Sam A. Bacharach Sheila Bacon Greg Bentley Ray Bentley Aravinda Billavara Christine Byrne Cathy Chatﬁeld-Taylor David Chadwick Jackie Cissell Greg Corke Joe Croser Will Doak Sara Ferris Tony Flynn Joe Granville Chintana Herrin Rich Huffman Kate Kapson Ron Kuhfeld Sanjay Kumar Laura Meier Vern Owens Huw Roberts Christopher Rogers Carey Seaborg Jim Sinopoli Lisa Smith Caroline Tyra Anne-Marie Walters Dana Wormer Richard Zambuni ART DIRECTOR Nancy A.Walker CREATIVE/PRODUCTION Greg Ricciardi, Gabriella Wheeler 20nine Design Studios, LLC ADVERTISING Al Rundle Advertising and Circulation Ofﬁce 685 Stockton Drive Exton, PA 19341-0678 Phone: +1 610-321-6441 Fax: +1 610-458-6284 al.rundle@be.org To subscribe to BE Magazine, visit www.be.org. Carol Minton Editor in Chief © 2007 Bentley Systems, Incorporated. BE Magazine is published quarterly by Bentley Systems, Incorporated, 685 Stockton Drive, Exton, PA USA 19341. 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BE Magazine - Volume 4, issue 4 Contents The Drive To Innovate News BE Newsletter Highlights Converging on the Market Bytes and Bricks Generative Components Building Courting Success Remodeling an Icon Structural Integration Building News From Bentley Civil Greenfield Airport Takes Flight Good Neighbors Collaborative Innovation Civil News From Bentley Advertisers Index Geospatial Ring of Fiber Revolutionizing Integrity Management Port City Transformation In Conversation With Greg Bentley Geospatial News From Bentley Plant Single-Source Service Committed to Cleaner Air Expediting Expansion Plant News From Bentley Strength in Numbers The Art of Visualization A Winning Legacy Zero Change Culture: Further Definition A Remarkable Collaboration With a Forward-Thinking Community

BE Magazine - Volume 4, Issue 4

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