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GEOSPATIAL It saved another 40,000 euro during maintenance. “This means that the software and services Nacap Telecom purchased have paid for themselves after one half year,” van Waas said. “Time is always an enemy if you’re pushed for time, but when soft skills and hard skills of people and systems come together in the right way, you’re able to deliver something beyond unique.” Since completion of the backbone network in 2006, Isidoor has expanded its mission to bring ﬁber to more organizations with the strategic placement of connectors at the street level. The Netherlands already has the highest broadband penetration in the European Union—broadband cable is available to 90 percent of the population. As more dark ﬁber goes light in Zuid Limburg, this southern region will continue to set the pace for bringing broadband to government, business, and education. owners and their customers have access to reliable connections day and night,” Beenakkers said. “Bentley enhances our professional reputation and ability to ensure future commissioned work.” Three-layered design Building out the Isilinx network required close coordination among all project participants. The open network model consists of three layers, with each layer being owned and operated by a different party. The Isidoor corporation is responsible for the service layer, which provides the Internet, telephone, and television services. Stichting Isilinx, a technology infrastructure company, owns and manages the active layer, which includes the equipment for provisioning and maintaining the network, and the physical layer, which includes the ﬁbers, cables, and connectors. Though Isidoor and Isilinx are afﬁliated, Nacap Telecom was responsible for designing the dark-ﬁber network for Isilinx. Bentley offered a comprehensive solution for drawing, documenting, and maintaining the ﬁber network. It enabled Nacap Telecom to connect the different types of layers within the network, and to connect BE Award Winner Revolutionizing Integrity Management Utility’s enterprisewide CAD/GIS applications saves estimated $4 million per year B v Maastricht section of the ﬁber network displayed on Google Earth™ with green lines representing bundles of conduits the speciﬁc data about each layer on a detailed level. The process was so efﬁcient, Nacap Telecom was able to design a larger network than planned in less time. A collaborative working environment guaranteed a fully coordinated and integrated design. “Since there are more parties involved now than when constructing the network initially, it has been a challenge to cooperate and communicate successfully with all stakeholders,” said Hans van Waas, Nacap Telecom’s project manager for the Isilinx network. “We not only had to ﬁne tune communications interfaces between the three layers, but also communicate with subcontractors and other third parties that needed to contribute and agree on construction procedures.” ProjectWise provided a secure, central hub for data and communication among disciplines and stakeholders. Nacap Telecom estimated that using Bentley solutions saved at least one man-year during design and construction, for a cost savings of 85,000 euro. altimore Gas & Electric Company (BGE) invested $37 million and ﬁve years in developing an enterprise-class geospatial data repository and associated applications. The system supports a wide range of corporate business processes and Bentley products play a signiﬁcant role in the beneﬁts achieved. For the Bentley portion of this effort, BGE has realized a return on investment of 14 percent, with a payback period of 151 days across a managed environment of more than 400 Bentley users. BGE serves more than 1 million business and residential electric customers and 600,000 gas customers in central Maryland, an area that encompasses the city of Baltimore and all or part of 10 counties. The electricity delivery system includes more than 1,200 miles PROJECT BGE Bentley Project OVERVIEW Organization Baltimore Gas & Electric Company BE Awards Category Geospatial Utilities Project Objective Convert more than 9,500 gas maps, 14,000 electric maps, 900,000 MicroStation drawings, and associated databases for utility services 32 BE MAGAZINE | Volume 4, Issue 4

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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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