At the 2022 Year in Infrastructure Conference, London, Bentley Systems, the infrastructure engineering software company, announced the 12 winners of the 2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure. Bentley also announced new products – Bentley Infrastructure Cloud and new capabilities of its iTwin Platform.
Last week London was bustling with the geospatial event, and one of the most noteworthy events was Bentley Systems’ 2022 Year in Infrastructure (YII) Conference. The YII Conference is the company’s annual meeting for industry executives, government leaders, and representatives of international industry organizations.
Through this conference, Bentley Systems honors the extraordinary work of Bentley software users advancing infrastructure design, construction, and operations worldwide.
The categories for this year’s Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure encompass all forms of infrastructure projects and stages – from design to construction to operations.
The jurors determined the winners of the 12 award categories from 36 finalists that were shortlisted from over nearly 300 nominations submitted by more than 180 organizations from 47 countries.
Winners of the 2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure
Bridges and Tunnels
Ferrovial Construction and Alamo Construction
IH35 Nex Central Station
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Construction
ACCIONA
Safely Removing Dangerous Level Crossings through Digital Construction
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Enterprise Engineering
Mott MacDonald
Smart Object Library for the Environment Agency
United Kingdom
Facilities, Campuses, and Cities
Sydney Airport
Maps@SYD
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Geoprofessional
Mott MacDonald
Driving Efficiency and Sustainability in Material Reuse through GeoBIM
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Grid
POWERCHINA Hubei
Full Lifecycle Digital Application in Wuhan Xudong 220kV Substation Project
Wuhan, Hubei, China
Process and Power Generation
OQ Upstream
OQ Asset Reliability Digitalization with Purpose
Oman
Rail and Transit
PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk
Integrated High-Speed Rail & Station Jakarta – Bandung
Jakarta, Indonesia
Roads and Highways
Waka Kotahi and FH/HEB JV, BECA Ltd.
Takitimu North Link
Tauranga, Western Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Structural Engineering
WSP
Unity Place Delivered with Optimized Design by WSP Using Innovations from Bentley
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Surveying and Monitoring
Singapore Land Authority
SG Digital Twin Empowered by Mobile Mapping
Singapore
Water and Wastewater
Jacobs and PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency
Singapore’s National Water Agency
Singapore
In addition to the Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure winners, Bentley’s Chief Executive Officer Greg Bentley highlighted the Founders’ Honours in his plenary session on November 15.
The Founders’ Honours are chosen individually by the Bentley founders from the hundreds of Going Digital Awards nominations received. This recognition is presented to a few exemplary projects, individuals, and organizations that particularly inspired Bentley in its mission of advancing the world’s infrastructure while sustaining the global economy and the environment.
In his presentation, Greg Bentley said that of the finalists named in the 2022 Going Digital Awards, 42% credited iTwin as opposed to 27% in 2021 and 19% in 2020s. The use of digital twins has been propelled by the global pandemic, which restricted access on-site.
Instead, many companies looked at digital alternatives and digital twins, which has propounded the growing emphasis the global infrastructure community is placing on these solutions. For more details on the Founders’ Honours, click here.
New products
The company also announced Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, its combination of enterprise systems that span the end-to-end lifecycle and value chain of the world’s infrastructure. Powered by the iTwin Platform and Bentley’s infrastructure schemas and thus seamlessly integrating with Bentley’s engineering applications.
Bentley Infrastructure Cloud will enable better creation, delivery, and ongoing operation of better infrastructure, through complete and evergreen digital twins. Bentley Infrastructure Cloud encompasses ProjectWise for project delivery; SYNCHRO for construction; and AssetWise, for asset operations.
These enterprise systems now leverage digital twin technologies powered by iTwin to open up data contained in engineering files through automated and intrinsic mapping to Bentley’s infrastructure schemas.
Bentley Infrastructure Cloud provides user organizations with significant opportunities to improve collaboration, productivity, and quality by advancing these enterprise systems to become fundamentally data-centric without disrupting file-based workflows.
Keith Bentley, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, spoke next about how the iTwin platform will bring value to businesses in their day-to-day activities. COO Nicholas Cumins, VP-Mobility Dustin Parkman, and VP-Technology Julien Moutte shared elaborate technical details of the new products.
Rodrigo Fernandes, Director of ES(D)G (Empowering Sustainable Development Goals), shared Bentley’s initiatives in support of circularity and climate change adaptation. “Circularity and carbon capture are top of mind in infrastructure and engineering,” he said.
While Katriona Lord-Levins, Chief Success Officer, spoke about some of the company’s programs in the area of learning and education, such as the Digital Twin Design Challenge, a contest where students aged 12-25 years have the opportunity to reimagine a real-world structure designed with the Minecraft video game and Bentley’s iTwin technology.
Presentations by the finalists
On November 14, finalists presented their projects at the 2022 Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards event in London before the global press and 11 independent jury panels.
To view all of the finalist presentations, visit here. These presentations illustrate how Bentley’s users master project challenges and achieve set objectives by leveraging the latest digital advancements.
Geospatial World spoke to some of the finalists and winners of YII:
“Bentley Systems solutions such as ContextCapture, iTwin, MicroStation, OpenBridge, OpenBuildings, OpenRail, OpenRoads, PLAXIS, and SYNCHRO helped the project save USD 185 million in overall construction cost and helped completion of the project six months before the original schedule. The project will have a transformative effect on the macroeconomy in the long term as this high-speed train project will consume 17% less energy per 100 km and 12% less resistance during operation. We are optimistic, planning to replicate and apply the lesson learned from this project and use this digital twin as the starting point to build the next HSR from Bandung to Surabaya,” said Romi Ramadhan, BIM General Manager, WIKA.
PT WIJAYA KARYA (PERSERO) TBK are the winners in the Rail and Transit Category.
Dave Overman, Survey Crew Chief, The Foth Companies (finalists in the Roads and Highways Category), said, “By combining science, engineering, and technology, we establish dynamic project environments for our clients, making great things possible. Solutions such as ContextCapture, MicroStation, OpenRoads, and ProjectWise helped us secure repair and replacement funding from storms by up to 75% and enabled us to increase in adhering to the Historic Preservation Tax Incentive Program by 50%. We hope to serve as a model for communities in rural areas experiencing funding shortfalls – demonstrating how to leverage resources more efficiently.”
Adam Robson, Regional Rehearsal Lead at MWH Treatment, representing the Burnley Wastewater Treatment Works Capital Investment Project in the UK (finalist in the Water and Wastewater Category), said, “The Burnley WWTW project, part of United Utilities Water Company, was planned to improve site capabilities and comply with new, stricter regulatory standards and accommodate population growth.
“The project was designed with a clear digital intent to address coordination and logistical challenges in the context of time, cost, and site constraints. The team generated a 4D construction model using SYNCHRO to optimally phase the works and support monthly digital rehearsals to review progress. The 4D model serves as a digital twin, enabling informed decision making, and will be provided to the client so it can be used during the O&M phase.”
The conference is over, but we still need to complete it. Stay tuned as we publish video interviews with Bentley leaders and the Going Digital Awards finalists.
