Going Digital: Advancements in BRIDGES
DESCRIPTION
Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in planning, designing, building, modeling, analyzing, and maintaining bridges.
2017 Winner: Long Jian Road & Bridge Co., Ltd., China
CRITERIA
- For consideration in this category, a Bentley bridge design and analysis application (OpenBridge Modeler, RM Bridge, or LEAP Bridge) must be used alone or in combination with other software.
- Submitted projects must demonstrate a technical and/or innovative application of Bentley products and technology.
- Projects will also be judged on the application of engineering principles, plus the positive impact it will have on the local social, economic, or environmental situation.
- Submissions should clearly present the project and benefits achieved, including a clear return on investment, and be supported by images, screenshots, animations, charts, or diagrams.
- If in doubt over any of the above criteria please contact award organizer.
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Going Digital: Advancements in BUILDINGS AND CAMPUSES
DESCRIPTION
Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in planning, designing, building, operating, and maintaining a building or campus and its supporting infrastructure, including commercial buildings, educational and government campuses, airports, and other public or private facilities.
2017 Winner: WSP, United Kingdom
CRITERIA
- Bentley building products (for example AECOsim Building Designer, or its GenerativeComponents capabilities) must have been used, demonstrating excellence in design modeling, BIM data management, computational design, engineering analysis, design review visualization, or building asset lifecycle management.
- The project should demonstrate the use of technical innovation resulting in a high-quality building projects. Quality can refer to the building or project’s functional performance to meet the client’s business need, aesthetics, reduction in carbon footprint, energy savings, quality of space, compliance with regulations or accreditations, construction delivery process, operational efficiencies, material savings, and design or engineering innovation.
- Projects should demonstrate effective interoperability, including data exchange for design coordination or hand-over as well as innovation in project team collaboration.
- The project must demonstrate a clear return on investment (to the owner, project, or submitter) in terms of either cost savings, risk avoidance, increased value in the resulting project, or increased business performance.
- Submissions must clearly present the project and benefits achieved by using project images, project models, animations, contract deliverables, simulations, charts, diagrams, text, and application screenshots.
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Going Digital: Advancements in COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
DESCRIPTION
Communications projects that have demonstrated excellence and digital advancements in the planning, design, construction, and operations and maintenance of communications network infrastructure.
2017 Special Recognition Winner: SEIKEY Enterprise Drone Solutions, Italy
CRITERIA
- Bentley technology must have been used (alone or in combination with other software and services) to plan, design, build, or operate communications networks.
- The project must demonstrate a combination of digital innovation, good project management, and a clear return on investment, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance.
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Going Digital: Advancements in CONSTRUCTION
DESCRIPTION
Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements during the construction phase of a project, demonstrating a clear return on investment, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance, describing how risks were mitigated to avoid overruns, and how the use of technology has advanced work processes especially with the construction workforce to the benefit of all stakeholders.
2017 Winner: Leighton Asia, Hong Kong
CRITERIA
- Any ProjectWise, Navigator, or ConstructSim product used (alone or in combination with other software) by construction personnel.
- The project must demonstrate a combination of technical innovation, good project management, and a clear return on investment, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance.
Example
Technology used to:
- Identify and resolve clashes and multidiscipline coordination prior to construction
- Provide information to other stakeholders (e.g. the public and senior executives)
- Improve communication across organizations and disciplines
- Standardize data and project standards among multiple project partners
- Facilitate a more rapid deployment of a project team
- Manage the delivery of design and construction information from multiple contractors
- Accelerate information sharing across the construction project team
- Optimize the ideal construction path prior to actual construction (e.g. crane and scaffolding positioning planning)
- Support real-time, WorkFace Planning
- Support real-time, earth-moving planning, tracking, and management
- Enable construction personnel from different organizations to share design data on a project
- Facilitate the delivery to site process
- Coordinate between project stakeholders (e.g., contractor, owner, suppliers)
- Share information among the design and/or construction teams and the client
- Improve project commissioning and/or handover
- Deliver critical construction and fabrication information directly to the materials controls and project controls systems
- Provide intelligent electronic deliverables to subcontractors to perform detailed fabrication design
- Redefine the form, scope, and timing of construction deliverables
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Going Digital: Advancements in DIGITAL CITIES
DESCRIPTION
Projects that have demonstrated excellence and digital advancements in local, regional, or national government infrastructure and that leverage project delivery, geospatial, 3D city modeling, mapping, engineering, or asset management solutions that comprise digital workflows.
2017 Winner: Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, PowerChina, China
CRITERIA
- Bentley technology has been used (alone or in combination with other software) to plan, design, model, build, survey, map, manage, or operate public infrastructure.
- Digital cities can include discipline-specific engineering where applicable, as well as adoption of best practices in critical infrastructure, cadastral mapping, 3D city GIS, BIM process adoption, project delivery, and other geospatial workflows.
- The project will need to demonstrate a combination of technical innovation, good project management, tangible benefits to public infrastructure and the environment, and a clear return on investment, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance.
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Going Digital: Advancements in ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
DESCRIPTION
Projects that have demonstrated excellence and digital advancements in sustaining our environment and advancing land development projects through the innovative application of engineering or geospatial technology.
2017 Winner: NJS Engineers India Pvt. Ltd., India
CRITERIA
- Bentley technology must be used alone or in combination with other software to design or enhance site or campus infrastructure.
- The project must demonstrate a combination of technical innovation through engineering and software, a positive social or environmental impact, good project management, and a clear return on investment, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance.
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Going Digital: Advancements in MANUFACTURING
DESCRIPTION
Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in the planning, engineering (especially structural integrity analysis), and/or construction of any factory or manufacturing facility, including onshore and offshore oil and gas production facilities, petrochemical and chemical plants, continuous metals processing, food and pharmaceutical production, automotive, CPG, semi-conductors, hi-tech, batch food and pharmaceutical plants, and equipment manufacture, or demonstrate the industrial fabrication of large-scale building or other infrastructure components.
2017 Winner: SATRIA Technologies Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia
CRITERIA
- Bentley technology (such as OpenPlant, AutoPLANT, STAAD, AutoPIPE, SACS, OpenRoads, AECOsim Building Designer, Bentley Raceway and Cable Management, and Promis.e) must be used (alone or in combination with other software) to plan, design, construct, and/or operate these facilities. Typically, these projects are multidiscipline.
- The project must demonstrate a combination of technical innovation, excellence in project management, and a clear return on investment, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance.
- The submission must also discuss the business drivers behind the project – time to market, increased efficiency, improved safety – and any environmental considerations of the facility and its production.
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Going Digital: Advancements in MINING AND OFFSHORE ENGINEERING
DESCRIPTION
2017 Winner: Offshore Oil Engineering Company Limited, China
Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in planning, design, analysis, especially structural integrity analysis, engineering, construction, operations, and decommissioning of mines, mining facilities, marine and offshore and onshore infrastructure, and structures, including oil and gas production facilities (topsides and platforms).
CRITERIA
Mining:
- Bentley applications must be used innovatively to design, plan, survey, map, manage, or develop mines or plan, design, construct, and/or operate materials handling or processing facilities. This includes applications such as MineCycle Designer, Survey, Bulk Material Handling, but is not exclusive to these products. Bentley applications may be used in combination with other applications.
- The project must demonstrate a combination of technical innovation, good project management, and a clear return on investment, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance.
- The submission must also discuss safety, environmental impact, and business drivers.
- Submissions must clearly document a return on investment with metrics in terms of either cost savings, risk avoidance to owner, project, or submitter or increased value in the resulting project.
- Submissions must adequately communicate the project scope, benefits and ROI achieved by using Bentley applications. Actual models or product screenshots in addition to project images/renderings are required. Clearly documenting savings with detailed or estimated cost figures or hours of time saved will help demonstrate the project ROI. Additional screenshots, videos, animations, charts, or diagrams can help illustrate the excellence of the project.
Offshore:
- Bentley applications must be used to innovatively plan, design, build, operate, model, or analyze these offshore facilities. This includes applications such as RAM, STAAD, AutoPIPE, SACS, MAXSURF, MOSES, and ProjectWise but is not exclusive to these products. Bentley applications may be used in combination with other applications.
- The project must demonstrate a combination of technical innovation, engineering and project management excellence, innovation in offshore structural engineering, and a clear return on investment, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance.
- The submission must cover specific offshore conditions found at sea, including various sea states, salt water and biological (marine growth) effects, wave, and vessel impact analysis.
- The submission must also discuss safety, environmental impact, and business drivers.
- Submissions must adequately communicate the project scope, benefits and ROI achieved by using Bentley applications. Actual models or product screenshots in addition to project images/renderings are required. Clearly documenting savings with detailed or estimated cost figures or hours of time saved will help demonstrate the project ROI. Additional screenshots, videos, animations, charts, or diagrams can help illustrate the excellence of the project.
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Going Digital: Advancements in POWER GENERATION
DESCRIPTION
2017 Winner: China Water Resource Pearl River Planning Surveying & Designing Co., Ltd., China
Power generation projects that have demonstrated excellence and digital advancements in the planning, design, construction, and operations and maintenance of power generation infrastructure, including renewable energy, fossil fuel, cogeneration, and nuclear power plants.
CRITERIA
- Bentley technology must be used (alone or in combination with other software) to plan, design, build, or operate power generation facilities.
- The project must demonstrate a combination of digital innovation, good project management, and a clear return on investment, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance.
- The submission must also discuss safety, environmental impact, and business drivers for the choice of facility.
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Going Digital: Advancements in PROJECT DELIVERY
DESCRIPTION
2017 Winner: Mott MacDonald and the Costain, VINCI Construction Grands Projets, Bachy Soletanche Joint Venture, United Kingdom
Organizations that demonstrate excellence and digital innovations in project delivery as the result of improved project collaboration, accelerated information sharing, enhanced information mobility and content management enabling increased transparency spanning the planning, design, and construction of a single project or across their project portfolio.
CRITERIA
- Standardized use of ProjectWise technology, including ProjectWise Design Integration, ProjectWise Deliverables Management, and any of the ProjectWise Connections Services to manage, control, and integrate information to plan, design, build, and deliver projects. In addition, the use of iModels, and Bentley Apps such as Navigator Mobile, ProjectWise Worksite, Bentley Map Mobile, and ProjectWise Edge to collaborate with the project supply chain.
- The project or project portfolio must demonstrate a combination of technical innovation and interoperability, superior project information management, and improved team collaboration with a clear return on investment, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance.
- Submissions must present the ROI and how your organization improved productivity, reduced risk, managed change, and resolved issues. This should be conveyed using project images, screenshots, animations, charts or diagrams, and text.
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Going Digital: Advancements in RAIL AND TRANSIT
DESCRIPTION
2017 Finalist: Jacobs/Zephyr UAS, United States
Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in the planning, design, or construction of rail or transit networks.
CRITERIA
- For consideration in this category, an application within Bentley’s rail and transit solution OpenRail must have been used alone or in combination with other software. Suggested applications include but are not limited to: OpenRail Connected Data Environment, OpenRail ConceptStation, OpenRail Designer, Power Rail Track, Power Rail Overhead Line, AECOsim Building Designer, OpenRoads, RM Bridge, and LEAP Bridge.
- Submitted projects must demonstrate a technical and/or innovative application of Bentley products and technology.
- Projects will also be judged on the application of engineering principles, plus the positive impact it will have on the local social, economic, or environmental situation.
- The submission should clearly present the project and benefits it has or will achieve, including return on investment numbers, and be supported by images, screenshots, animations, charts, or diagrams.
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Going Digital: Advancements in REALITY MODELING
DESCRIPTION
2017 Finalist: Sanborn Map Company, Inc., United States
Reality modeling is the process of capturing and visualizing the real-world context of an asset to better understand existing conditions and more clearly communicate designs within their environmental context. Projects must demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in reality capture and/or visualization that solved a specific design, construction or operations challenge. Projects must demonstrate how reality modeling enabled better decision making, and/or streamlined the process of collaboration or approvals through improved communication.
CRITERIA
- ContextCapture, Bentley LumenRT, Descartes, or Pointools must have been used.
- Submissions should clearly present the project and benefits achieved, including a clear return on investment, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, and cost savings realized. It should also demonstrate an increase in business performance, an explanation of technical innovation, and be supported by 3D model animation, data capture information, high-resolution images, screenshots, or sample datasets.
Example
Technology used to:
- Produce detailed models of infrastructure assets and/or their surrounding environment using any one or more of the following data types:
- Reality meshes
- Scalable terrain models
- Point clouds
- Integration of reality modeling with design or construction modeling for the purpose of:
- Documentation of as-built conditions
- Speeding conceptual design
- Supporting construction workflows
- Improving communication of proposed plans with stakeholders
- Innovative use of reality modeling for visual operations and virtual inspection such as:
- Asset management
- Inspection of assets
-Monitoring of materials
- Effective use of visualization to aid in:
- Informed design decision making with clearer environmental context
- Real-time design review and exploration
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Going Digital: Advancements in ROADS AND HIGHWAYS
DESCRIPTION
Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in planning, engineering, design, analysis, or project delivery of roads or highways.
2017 Winner: CCCC First Highway Consultants, Co., Ltd., China
CRITERIA
- Bentley technology shall have been used (alone or in combination with other software) to design, maintain, operate, or otherwise enhance transportation infrastructure.
- For consideration in this category a Bentley civil product such as InRoads, GEOPAK, MXRoad, OpenRoads, ConceptStation, or other OpenRoads application must have been used alone or in combination with other software.
- The project will demonstrate a combination of technical innovation, positive social, economic, or environmental impact on the region, good project management, and a clear return on investment.
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Going Digital: Advancements in ROAD AND RAIL ASSET PERFORMANCE
DESCRIPTION
Enterprise deployments that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in the operations and maintenance of road and rail infrastructure assets, resulting in improved reliability, integrity, performance, and safety.
2017 Winner: Highways England, United Kingdom
CRITERIA
- For consideration in this category, one or more of Bentley’s AssetWise solutions and/or services must have been used on either a road or rail network. Suggestions include:
- AssetWise Asset Lifecycle Information Management (including products previously known as eB, Exor)
- AssetWise Asset Reliability (including products previously known as InspectTech, Ivara)
- AssetWise Operational Analytics (including products previously known as Optram and Amulet)
- AssetWise Compliance and Safety (including ComplyPro)
- AssetWise Enterprise Interoperability
- SUPERLOAD Routing and Permitting
- Submissions must demonstrate a technical and/or innovative application of Bentley products and technology.
- Submissions will be judged on the integration and interoperability of Bentley technology with other enterprise wide systems, process improvements, improved efficiencies, implementation of industry good practice, project management.
- Submissions will also be judged on the impact of the changes made including sustainability and local social, economic, or environmental situation.
- The submission should clearly present tangible and quantifiable results (the mitigation and management of operational and safety risks, reduced costs, operational/maintenance improvements), return on asset performance (ROA), return on investment (ROI), and regulatory compliance met.
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Going Digital: Advancements in STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
DESCRIPTION
Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in ingenuity, planning, modeling, designing, analyzing, documenting, and detailing in the delivery of high-quality structure(s).
2017 Nominee: Skeleton Consultant Pvt. Ltd., India
CRITERIA
- Bentley applications must be used to innovatively model, design, analyze, document, or detail a structure(s), simple to complex, using any material. This includes applications such as STAAD, RAM, and ProStructures, but is not exclusive to these products. Bentley applications may be used in combination with other applications.
- The project must demonstrate technical innovation using advances such as BIM or modern structural project workflows, staged construction, application interoperability, or data collaboration among multidiscipline design teams.
- The quality of the project can be demonstrated by the structure’s functional performance, delivery process, material or time savings, design or engineering innovation, quality of service, collaboration, or otherwise.
- Submissions must clearly document a return on investment with metrics in terms of either cost savings, risk avoidance to owner, project, or submitter or increased value in the resulting project.
- Submissions must adequately communicate the project scope, benefits and ROI achieved by using Bentley applications. Actual models or product screenshots in addition to project images/renderings are required. Clearly documenting savings with detailed or estimated cost figures or hours of time saved will help demonstrate the project ROI. Additional screenshots, videos, animations, charts, or diagrams can help illustrate project excellence.
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Going Digital: Advancements in UTILITIES AND INDUSTRIAL ASSET PERFORMANCE
DESCRIPTION
Enterprise deployments that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in the operation, inspection, maintenance, and management of utility plants and networks, power generation facilities, oil and gas production facilities or any other industrial site – providing improved reliability, integrity, performance, and operational efficiency and effectiveness, along with enhanced safety and reduced risk.
2017 Finalist: North Caspian Operating Company N.V., Kazakhstan
CRITERIA
- The use of one or more of Bentley’s AssetWise software and/or services offerings in a utility, power generation station, oil and gas production facilities, or any other industrial site:
- AssetWise Asset Lifecycle Information Management (including eB, ECM)
- AssetWise Asset Reliability (including Ivara)
- AssetWise Operational Analytics (including Amulet)
- AssetWise Compliance and Safety (including ComplyPro)
- AssetWise Enterprise Interoperability
- Submissions will be judged on a combination of criteria including: innovative use of technology (Bentley and other), tangible and quantifiable results, including the mitigation and management of operational and safety risks, reduced costs, operational/maintenance improvements, demonstrable return on assets (ROA)/return on investment (ROI), process improvements, improved efficiencies/best practices, project efficiency / project management, interoperability with enterprise systems, the impact of the changes, sustainability and the positive impact on the local social, economic, or environmental situation.
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Going Digital: Advancements in UTILITIES TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
DESCRIPTION
Utilities projects that have demonstrated excellence and digital advancements in the planning, design, construction, and operations and maintenance of electric, gas, water and wastewater network infrastructure for distribution or transmission.
2017 Winner: PESTECH International Berhad, Cambodia
CRITERIA
- Bentley technology must have been used (alone or in combination with other software and services) to plan, design, build, or operate electric, gas, potable water distribution, or wastewater conveyance networks.
- The project must demonstrate a combination of digital innovation, good project management, and a clear return on investment, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance.
(Please note there is a separate category for Advancements in Water, Wastewater and Stormwater Networks)
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Going Digital: Advancements in WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS
DESCRIPTION
Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in planning, designing, and building water or wastewater treatment plants.
2017 Winner: Beijing Institute of Water, China
CRITERIA
- Bentley technology must be used (alone or in combination with other software) to plan, design, and/or construct these facilities.
- The project must demonstrate a combination of technical innovation, good project management, and a clear return on investment, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance.
- The submission should also discuss safety, environmental impact, operations impact, and business drivers.
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Going Digital: Advancements in WATER, WASTEWATER AND STORMWATER NETWORKS
DESCRIPTION
Projects that have demonstrated excellence and digital advancements in planning, designing, building, modeling, and analyzing water, wastewater, or stormwater networks using hydraulics and hydrology software.
2017 Winner: AEGEA, Brazil
CRITERIA
- Bentley technology should have been used (alone or in combination with other software) to plan, design, build, operate, model, or analyze potable water distribution, wastewater conveyance, or stormwater drainage infrastructure using hydraulics and hydrology software.
- The project will need to demonstrate a combination of technical innovation, good project management, and a clear return on investment, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance.
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