OpenSite
Designer, OpenBuildings Designer, OpenBridge Designer, and OpenFlows
FLOOD further extend Bentley’s design engineering and analysis portfolio
LONDON -Thursday 18 October 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]
(BUSINESS
WIRE)-- The Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference – Bentley Systems,
Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software
solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of
infrastructure, today launched OpenSite Designer, a built-for-purpose
application for the design and construction of civil site projects. It
also launched OpenBuildings, bringing together its AECOsim building
design and Speedikon factory and industrial design applications; and
announced the availability of OpenBuildings Station Designer, a
specialized application for designing rail and metro stations. At the
same time, Bentley announced the availability of OpenBridge Designer,
which combines Bentley’s bridge modeling, analysis and design
capabilities into one comprehensive package, and OpenFlows FLOOD, a
flood analysis and early warning system.
In
addition, in pursuit of its ‘industrialization’ strategy, Bentley
announced it has rebranded under its Open portfolio several of its
applications based on MicroStation technology which collectively
accelerate the advancement of its comprehensive modeling environment by
connecting digital workflows across disciplines and sharing digital
components in its Connected Data Environment (CDE).
Bhupinder
Singh, chief product officer, Bentley Systems, said, “Open has three
meanings. First, it signifies open to multiple disciplines. Second, it
means open to analysis and simulation. Using different applications, two
different disciplines, for example, a geotechnical engineer and a
structural engineer, can iterate on the same dataset in our
comprehensive modeling environment, providing a ‘digital feedback loop’
and enhancing their collaboration across BIM workflows. And third,
because MicroStation technology underpins Open applications, users can
produce multidiscipline deliverables and accomplish multidiscipline
clash resolution from any Open application. Bentley’s comprehensive
modeling environment is ‘Open’ for collaborative digital workflows.”
Fully
49 of the 62 finalists and awardees of this year’s Year in
Infrastructure Awards credited collaborative digital workflows in their
successful outcomes. For example, OpenRoads, Bentley’s civil design
applications for road networks, is credited by 22 awards finalists’
projects in 12 categories, and OpenPlant, Bentley’s plant design project
management applications, is credited by 10 finalists’ projects in 9
different categories. ProjectWise and/or AssetWise were credited by
finalists’ projects in 16 of 19 awards categories this year.
OpenSite Designer
The
collaborative nature of digital workflows connecting analysis and
simulation with design and modeling is exemplified in OpenSite,
Bentley’s new solution for the design and construction of civil site
projects. OpenSite provides rapid site modeling and analysis, earthwork
optimization and quantification, drainage and underground utilities, and
automated project deliverables.
OpenSite
Designer provides the most comprehensive site design workflow available
including reality modeling, geotechnical, underground utilities,
stormwater drainage, terrain modeling, detailed drawing production, and
visualization. OpenSite Designer optimizes design outcomes with
multidiscipline information modeling and analysis. Interoperating with
PLAXIS, Bentley’s newly acquired geotechnical engineering solution, site
plans can be enhanced with new information about the active properties
of soil including bearing capacity, stresses, and displacement.
OpenBuildings Designer
The
newly launched OpenBuildings Designer incorporates all of the
capabilities of AECOsim Building Designer as well as Components Center
and a range of new capabilities and standards including EnergyPlus, a
building energy model to help users comply with ASHRAE standards in the
US, and UK energy requirements; support of international standards
including IFC 2x3, IFC4 Reference View, COBie, and Singapore’s Building
and Construction Authority; new capabilities to design curtain wall
systems; and OpenBuildings Speedikon, a leading application for
industrialized design and construction. OpenBuildings Designer takes
advantage of collaborative digital workflows with other applications in
Bentley’s Open portfolio, for example templates in OpenBuildings Station
Designer for tunnel segments created through GenerativeComponents based
on linear alignment from OpenRail. Showcasing their robustness and
versatility, OpenBuildings applications were credited by 32 of 62 of the
Year in Infrastructure Awards finalists projects in 15 of 19
categories.
OpenBridge Designer
OpenBridge
Designer is a new, all-encompassing application that integrates the
modeling capabilities of OpenBridge Modeler and the analysis and design
features of RM Bridge, LEAP Bridge Concrete, and LEAP Bridge Steel to
meet the design and construction needs of both concrete and steel
bridges. OpenBridge Designer enables bridge designers to rapidly create
an intelligent, parametric bridge model, fully integrated with analysis
and design, as well as drawings. It enables seamless synchronization of
various disciplines for analysis, design, detailing, documentation,
construction engineering and load-rating.
OpenFlows FLOOD
Bentley
also announced the rebranding of its Haestad water modeling and ACTION
Modulers flood analysis product lines to form OpenFlows for water
districts, sewer utilities and flood plain managers. OpenFlows extends
smart water networks capabilities with GIS-based asset-centric
information for water loss reduction, water operations, flood prediction
and prevention. OpenFlows FLOOD continuously monitors watersheds,
integrating data from real-time monitoring stations and numerical models
to calculate risk levels. OpenFlows FLOOD mitigates flood risk,
improving understanding of the processes involved in flood generation,
and transmitting early alerts to reduce the impact caused by floods.
Connecting Digital Workflows Across Disciplines
Applications
for analysis and simulation, on the one hand, can collaboratively and
iteratively work with applications for design and modeling, and on the
other, connect operational workflows and converge the work of different
disciplines. Collaborative digital workflows are characterized by data
captured or created for one purpose being accessed and used by other
applications for other purposes thereby saving time, minimizing rework,
and improving data quality over the asset lifecycle.
An
example of multidiscipline collaboration with OpenFlows involves
workflows that use ContextCapture to create a 3D reality mesh, feeding
into OpenFlows FLOOD modeling and using the terrain as input to various
analyses in a single review environment for visualization and
presentation to stakeholders using LumenRT.
Connecting
analysis with modeling in another Open collaborative digital workflow
involves the layout of road geometry, and hydraulic analysis and design
using storm analysis tools including the determination of the size of
storm inlets, pipes, depth of pipes, and manholes. The collaborative
nature of the workflow enables clash detection in the subsurface
environment, and iteration and adjustment as needed, to confirm
functional and physical characteristics.
Other
instances of Open collaborative digital workflows connecting design and
analysis include OpenUtilities with Siemens’ PSS©SINCAL, which helps
utilities improve resilience and deal with weak spots in the grid; and
OpenBuildings Station Designer with LEGION pedestrian simulation, to
enable designers to design, test, and validate simulations of scenarios
for pedestrian traffic.
Rebranding
Completing
its announcement about Open applications, Bentley said that Bentley Map
will be rebranded as OpenCities Map; and OpenComms, aimed primarily at
multisystem operators, will incorporate Bentley Fiber and Bentley Coax.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley
Systems is the leading global provider of software solutions to
engineers, architects, geospatial professionals, constructors, and
owner-operators for the design, construction, and operations of
infrastructure. Bentley’s MicroStation-based engineering and BIM
applications, and its digital twin cloud services, advance the project
delivery (ProjectWise) and the asset performance (AssetWise) of
transportation and other public works, utilities, industrial and
resources plants, and commercial and institutional facilities.
Bentley
Systems employs more than 3,500 colleagues, generates annual revenues
of $700 million in 170 countries, and has invested more than $1 billion
in research, development, and acquisitions since 2012. From inception in
1984, the company has remained majority-owned by its five founding
Bentley brothers. Bentley shares transact by invitation on the NASDAQ
Private Market; strategic partner Siemens AG has accumulated a
non-voting minority stake. www.bentley.com
OpenBridge
Designer integrates modeling capabilities and analysis and design
features of to meet the design and construction needs of both concrete
and steel bridges.
Bentley,
the Bentley logo, AECOsim Building Designer, AssetWise, ContextCapture,
LEGION, LumenRT, MicroStation, OpenBridge, OpenBuildings, OpenCities,
OpenCities Map, OpenComms, OpenFlows, OpenRoads, OpenUtilities, and
ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service
marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect
wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are
trademarks of their respective owners.
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