BE Magazine Volume 5, Issue 2 - (Page 4) QUICK TAKES Sustaining Bridge Infrastructure Bentley has announced a strategic initiative to deliver bridge information modeling (BrIM) technology for the entire bridge lifecycle. A new business unit, Bentley BrIM will provide broad access to newly acquired advanced bridge products in Bentley’s software portfolio. In addition, it will integrate these and other related Bentley products to provide an interoperable, data-managed bridge solution for planning, design, engineering, analysis, fabrication, construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation. This end-to-end solution will enable the transportation industry to efficiently and effectively address the challenges of new and aging bridges and deliver sustainable, long-lasting infrastructure. CEO Greg Bentley explained, “Growing demand for new bridges in developing economies and aging bridges in developed economies are behind burgeoning workloads and mounting backlogs for bridge engineers around the world. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, in the United States alone, more than a quarter of the nation’s almost 600,000 bridges are deficient, and more than $65 billion could be invested immediately in a cost-beneficial way to replace or otherwise address existing bridge deficiencies.” Bentley Senior Vice President Gabe Norona, who will head the new initiative, added, “Bentley’s BrIM initiative will focus on new approaches to bridge project delivery and bridge sustainability. By closing the gaps in traditional bridge lifecycle processes and facilitating the flow of digital information between the various stages, BrIM will enable bridge designers, builders, and owner-operators to easily share a common bridge information model. This will help optimize design decisions and lead to process innovation, largely through information reuse.” CALLING FOR AUTHORS Bentley Institute Press is seeking authors to share their knowledge and experiences with practitioners, educators, and students who are working to improve the world’s infrastructure. We are looking for all topics relating to the infrastructure lifecycle, especially innovations and technologies in these areas: Building Information Modeling (BIM) Bridge Information Modeling (BrIM) Communications Networks Distributed Engineering Techniques Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Sustainable Infrastructure and Technology Land and Property Management Metals and Mining Oil and Gas Power Generation Utilities Rail and Transit Road and Bridge Design Water and Wastewater Systems Recognition for ISO 15926 Commitment At its annual conference in New Orleans, FIATECH presented Bentley with a Celebration of Engineering & Technology Innovation (CETI) Award in the Lifecycle Data Management & Information Integration category. The award honors Bentley for its collaboration on FIATECH’s “Accelerating the Deployment of the ISO 15926” project and recognizes Bentley’s extensive work this past year on the ISO 15926 international standard for process plant information. A direct result of this work was Bentley’s introduction at daratechPLANT2008 of OpenPlant, the first range of software products for the creation and management of plant infrastructure inherently based on the ISO 15926 standard. Bentley’s OpenPlant products facilitate distributed-enterprise collaboration spanning disparate systems. The OpenPlant hallmark is a seamless federation for sharing and reusing consistent and accurate data among distributed teams and work packages throughout the plant lifecycle. Bentley’s first ISO 15926-compliant offering was its ProjectWise Lifecycle Server. At daratechPLANT2008, Bentley also introduced OpenPlant PowerPID, the only commercial P&ID solution to be based on a completely open data model. Commenting on the award, Dr. Richard Jackson, director of FIATECH, said, “Clearly, Bentley is steadfast in its commitment to data interoperability using open industry standards and continues to be a leader in providing the vision for and fostering the widespread adoption of ISO 15926. Bentley is implementing 15926 at the core of its existing plant offerings and all future Bentley plant applications will be 15926-based. This will allow interoperability among Bentley’s software solutions and third-party ISO 15926-based solutions in a consistent way.” Submit your ideas today! WWW.BENTLEY.COM/CALLFORAUTHORS 4 BE MAGAZINE | Volume 5, Issue 2 http://www.fiatech.org/ http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Markets/Plant/OpenPlant/OpenPlant.htm http://www.bentley.com/callforauthors http://www.bentley.com/callforauthors
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