LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference –
10 November 2015 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of
comprehensive software solutions for advancing
infrastructure, today announced the winners of the 2015 Be Inspired Awards. The awards honor the
extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world’s infrastructure. At a
ceremony and gala last night here at The Year
in Infrastructure 2015 Conference, 18 Be Inspired Awards winners
and five Be Inspired Special
Recognition Awards winners were acknowledged. In addition, Bentley’s Lifetime
Achievement Award was presented to J.P. (Peter) Blake, Director, Project Delivery Group for
Hatch. (For details on Blake’s career achievements, see press release).
The Year
in Infrastructure Conference is a global gathering of leading
executives in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations.
It features presentations and interactive sessions exploring the intersection
of technology and business drivers, and how they are shaping the future of
infrastructure delivery and investment returns. The 2015 event was also
attended by more than 100
members of the media from leading publications around the globe who met with
Bentley executives on Monday for the company’s annual Media Briefing. The
agenda also includes presentations
by finalists in the Be Inspired
Awards program, culminating in the selection of the winning projects.
This year, 10
independent panels of jurors, comprising distinguished industry experts,
selected the 18 Be Inspired Awards winners
from 54 project finalists. These finalists had been previously chosen from over
360 submissions by organizations in 66 countries.
Candidates for
Bentley’s Be Inspired Special
Recognition Awards were selected by the jurors from the top finalist projects
as well as other exemplary nominations. This selection was based on the
projects’ uniquely innovative and visionary achievements that transcend the
narrower focus of the standing Be
Inspired Awards categories. The nominees were then reviewed by a panel of
Bentley executives, who evaluated them based on the criteria established for
each award.
Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “This
has been a year of major achievements for Bentley Systems that include the
introduction of our CONNECT Edition infrastructure
engineering software, providing a common environment for comprehensive project delivery.
But the achievements that my colleagues and I are most proud of are those of
our users. For while our goal at Bentley is advancing
infrastructure, we can only accomplish it through the vision, talent, and
dedication of the architects, engineers, constructors, and operations professionals
who creatively apply our technology in pursuit of effective strategies for achieving
new levels of project and/or infrastructure asset performance.
“Such achievements are exemplified by the extraordinary
Be Inspired Award-winning projects we celebrated last night. I heartily congratulate the
organizations that were instrumental in the delivery or operations of these truly
inspiring projects. Moreover, I applaud all of the project nominees in this
year’s awards program for their contributions to improving quality of life around
the globe.”
The
Be Inspired Special Recognition
Awards winners for 2015 are as follows:
Advancing Collaborative BIM
·
Morphosis Architects – Bill
& Melinda Gates Hall – (Ithaca, New York, United States)
Advancing Comprehensive BIM “Playbooks”
·
Hatch Ltd – Keeyask Hydroelectric Generating Station Project –
(Nelson River, Manitoba, Canada)
Advancing Construction Modeling
·
Jacobs – NAG Project – (Baytown,
Texas, United States)
Advancing Information Mobility in Operations
·
Western Power Distribution
– EMU for iPad – (Exeter, United Kingdom)
Advancing Integrated Projects
·
HDR – Union Station to Oak Cliff Streetcar TIGER Design-Build
Project – (Dallas, Texas, United States)
The Be
Inspired Awards winners for 2015 are as follows:
Innovation in Asset Performance Management
·
SA Water – Predictive and
Operational Analytics Tools, Adelaide Metro Water Distribution Network – (Adelaide, South
Australia, Australia)
Innovation in Bridges
·
LCW Consult – The Ceira River Bridge – (Coimbra, Coimbra District, Portugal)
Innovation in Building
·
Robin Partington and
Partners – One
Merchant Square – (London,
United Kingdom)
Innovation in Construction
·
Vic’s Crane & Heavy
Haul, Inc. – Unit 25
Project – (Rosemount,
Minnesota, United States)
Innovation in Government
·
Singapore Land Authority – Mapping Singapore in 3D – (Singapore)
Innovation in Land Development
·
Tata Consulting Engineers
Ltd. – Detailed
Design of Utility Infrastructure – (Dharampur, Gujarat,
India)
Innovation in Megaprojects
·
AECOM – E4 Stockholm Bypass
FSK02 Rock Tunnels Design Contract – (Stockholm, Sweden)
Innovation in Mining
·
Tetra Tech Proteus – Kvanefjeld Rare Earth:
Uranium Project – (Narsaq,
Kujalleq, Greenland)
Innovation in Offshore
·
Keystone Engineering Inc. – Block Island Wind Farm – (Block Island, Rhode
Island, United States)
Innovation in Power Generation
·
MWH Global – Tyseley Resource
Recovery Centre – (Birmingham,
West Midland, United Kingdom)
Innovation in Process Manufacturing
·
Giprotyumenneftegaz – Preliminary Water
Removal Unit: North Vankor Field – (Igarka, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia)
Innovation in Project Delivery
·
AECOM – Global Project
Collaboration in a Design-build-finance-operate (DBFO) World – (Global)
Innovation in Rail and Transit
·
London Underground Ltd – Bond Street to Baker
Street Tunnel Remediation Project – (London, United Kingdom)
Innovation in Roads
·
Grontmij – A6 to Manchester Relief
Road – (Stockport,
Manchester and Cheshire, United Kingdom)
Innovation in Structures
·
Stanley D. Lindsey and
Associates, Ltd. – SkyHouse
Apartments – (Denver,
Colorado; Atlanta, Georgia; Orlando and Tampa, Florida; Charlotte and Raleigh, North
Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; Austin, Houston, and Dallas, Texas, United
States)
Innovation in Utilities and Communications
·
Pacific Gas and Electric
Company – Engineering
Contractor Collaboration Solution Using ProjectWise and Bentley Substation – (San Ramon, California,
United States)
Innovation in Water Network Analysis
·
Prolagos/Aegea – Water Master Plan for
the Região dos Lagos – (Região
dos Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Innovation in Water Treatment Plants
·
Aqua+ – Complex Scheduling and
Automatic Water Quality Monitoring of Groundwater – (Khabarovsk, Far East Federal District,
Russia)
Bentley Systems has posted
highlights of this year’s winning projects on its website. It will include more detailed descriptions of all
nominated projects in the print and digital versions of its 2015 Infrastructure
Yearbook, which will be published
after the first of the year. To review the past 11 editions of this
publication, which together feature more than 2,500 world-class projects
recognized in the Be Inspired Awards program
since 2004, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks.
About Be Inspired Awards Program and The Year in Infrastructure 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 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 the Be Inspired Awards.
The Year in Infrastructure Conference is a global gathering of
leading executives in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and
operations. This year’s conference includes:
- The Project Delivery Summit (by invitation only)
- The Infrastructure Asset Performance Summit (by invitation only)
·
The Building
and Facilities Forum
·
The Rail and Road
Forum
·
The Oil, Gas, Offshore, and Mining Forum
- The Utilities Forum
- The Visions for the Future Forum
- The Be Inspired Awards Ceremony
The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference sponsors include:
·
Platinum: Microsoft
·
Gold: ARC Advisory Group, Architectural Record, Electric
Light & Power, Engineering
News-Record, Geospatial Media + Communications, Infrastructure Intelligence, New
Civil Engineer, Offshore, Power Engineering, and WaterWorld
About Bentley
Systems
Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects,
engineers, 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 2008
has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
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Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference
website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being
held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a
searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks.
To access a professional networking
site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect,
communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.
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download the Bentley Infrastructure 500
Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium
of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the
value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.
