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Bentley Announces Winners of 2009 Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards
EXTON, Pa., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing
comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, will
announce the winners of its 2009 Be Inspired Awards next week during its Be Inspired:
Infrastructure Best Practices Symposium and Awards in Charlotte, N.C. The awards
honor outstanding achievements in infrastructure and are judged by an independent
panel of industry experts.
Today, Bentley announced the winners of a new set of awards called Be Inspired
Special Recognition Awards. The winners of these awards are uniquely innovative and
visionary infrastructure projects and organizations that were placed into nomination
by the Be Inspired jurors for achievements embracing multiple Be Inspired Awards
categories. The nominees were then reviewed by a panel consisting of Bentley Systems
CEO Greg Bentley, CTO and founder Keith Bentley, COO Malcolm Walter, SVP Bhupinder
Singh, SVP Buddy Cleveland, and Jay McGraw, Group Publisher, McGraw-Hill
Construction. The achievements being recognized include: Attaining Return on
Innovation, Sustaining Our Society, Sustaining Our Environment, and Sustaining the
Professions.
Greg Bentley said, "In reviewing this year's Be Inspired Awards, the jurors
recognized that select nominations had distinguished themselves across a number of Be
Inspired categories and, therefore, deserved to be placed in a special awards
category. This new category acknowledges innovations in employing technology and
implementing practices that best exemplify Bentley's mission of Sustaining
Infrastructure. On behalf of all my colleagues at Bentley, I offer my hearty
congratulations to these winners for their distinctive accomplishments in improving
the quality of life for us all."
The winners of the 2009 Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards are as follows:
-- Attaining Return on Innovation - KBR/EOS Oil & Gas Services Joint
Venture, the North Rankin Redevelopment Project. This project best
represents innovation in the use of technology and creative workflows
to create value and deliver better-performing infrastructure with
quantifiable results. Its goal is the recovery of low-pressure gas from
the North Rankin and Perseus fields off Karratha, Western Australia.
The project scope includes the design and construction of a second
platform with gas compression facilities, low-pressure separators,
utilities, and accommodations. The project team's use of Bentley's
ProjectWise Lifecycle Server provided all stakeholders with access to
real-time information via a portal dashboard, allowing enhanced
decision-making and transparency between client and contractor. For
additional information, visit
-- Sustaining Our Society - Hatch Associates Pty Ltd, Adelaide
Desalination Project. This project best demonstrates the power of
infrastructure to benefit society by improving quality of life,
promoting economic development, and increasing resilience against
natural disasters or climate change. Its primary objective is the
design and development of a 100-gigaliter-capacity desalination plant
urgently commissioned by South Australia Water following a long
drought. The new plant will help the region supplement its fresh water
supply, relieve the current burden on the existing rain-water catchment
system, and allow water levels to regenerate. The project team employed
Bentley's advanced 3D modeling applications to achieve an optimal and
highly accurate plant layout and material take-off, as well as to
visualize the plant's impact on the environment and local communities.
For additional information,
-- Sustaining Our Environment - Olsson Associates, Antelope Valley. This
project best illustrates how an infrastructure project can help reduce
ecological footprint, increase biocapacity, and facilitate the wise use
of nonrenewable resources. The City of Lincoln, Nebraska, the
University of Nebraska, and the Lower Platte South Natural Resources
District had identified three goals for Antelope Valley: community
revitalization, storm water management, and transportation
improvements. The project has created new and improved housing, parks,
and recreation facilities; storm sewer improvements; and a roadway
system designed for 2025 traffic volumes. In addition, by removing 50
acres of the university campus from the 100-year flood plain, a flood
event will be contained to the banks of the new channel. Moreover,
various low-impact development concepts were used throughout the
project. The innovative use of Bentley's interoperable software
resulted in enhanced data sharing and increased workflow efficiencies
among design teams, clients, and other stakeholders. For additional
-- Sustaining the Professions - Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB). This
organization has demonstrated an exemplary commitment to sustaining the
infrastructure professions through continuous learning, professional
development, mentoring the next generation of infrastructure
professionals, and providing an exceptional environment for learning.
Its Professional Growth Network - an industry first - allows the firm's
emerging professionals to directly shape the future of PB by enabling
direct communication among peers and senior management. To date, it has
yielded recommendations for PB's corporate strategy as well as
improvements to the mentoring and new employee programs. PB also
maximizes the value it creates from its Bentley training subscription
by earning 50 percent of its Bentley Institute learning units online
and using a virtual classroom for more than 80 percent of its live
training. For additional information, visit
About Be Inspired: Infrastructure Best Practices Symposium and Awards
The Be Inspired: Infrastructure Best Practices Symposium and Awards, taking place
Oct. 12-14 in Charlotte, N.C., is Bentley's premier thought leadership and networking
event for 2009. During this invitation-only symposium, the finalists of the 2009 Be
Inspired Awards will present the best practices behind the successful realization of
their projects. In addition, all of the leading practitioners who have gathered for
this event will have an opportunity to participate in interactive roundtable
discussions on the key issues driving the business and design of infrastructure. For
additional information about the Be Inspired: Infrastructure Best Practices Symposium
and Awards, visit www.bentley.com/BeInspired.
About Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing architects, engineers,
constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for
sustaining infrastructure. Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 2,700 colleagues
and offices in more than 45 countries, had 2008 revenues surpassing $500 million,
and, since 1995, has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and
acquisitions.
For additional information about Bentley, visit www.bentley.com. To subscribe to
searchable collection of the year's top infrastructure projects from the annual Be
Awards of Excellence (which this year becomes the Be Inspired Awards), visit
professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to
connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit
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SOURCE: Bentley Systems, Incorporated
CONTACT: Ron Kuhfeld of Bentley Systems, Incorporated,
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