2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure

Description

This category recognizes projects that demonstrate going digital innovations in the planning, design and engineering, construction, project delivery, or operations and maintenance of bridges and tunnels.

Submissions should focus on how projects, regardless of their size and complexity or whether they are new vs. an upgrade of an existing project, have delivered improved outcomes for the organizations involved, as well as the surrounding communities and environments of the bridge and tunnel assets.

1. Submissions must include the use of Bentley bridge and tunnel solutions alone or in combination with other software (e.g., ContextCapture, OpenBridge, OpenRail, OpenRoads, MicroStation, PLAXIS, SYNCHRO, AssetWise, and ProjectWise) to plan, design, construct, operate, or otherwise enhance bridge and tunnel infrastructure.
2. Submissions should highlight the value gained through the integration and interoperability of Bentley products and technology across teams, disciplines, organizations, and stakeholders.
3. Submissions should demonstrate how process or workflow improvements helped increase efficiency and effectiveness, application of industry good practice, and compliance with project and/or industry standards.
4. Submissions should establish, and will be judged on, the impact of changes made in terms of sustainability, as well as social, economic, and/or environmental conditions, including how new or upgraded infrastructure will improve the quality of life for people who live and work nearby.
5. Submissions should clearly present quantifiable results achieved, including gains in productivity, efficiency, and quality; mitigation and management of risk; increased safety; reduced time and cost; and improved asset performance, reliability, or resilience.
6. Submissions must include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.

If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at InfrastructureAwards@bentley.com

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Description

This category recognizes projects that demonstrate excellence in construction using 4D modeling to simulate and optimize construction, including project, performance, and cost management workflows that unite the office and field. The projects should show their impact on cost, safety, reliability, predictability, and quality, as well as include real-time progress recording to create project digital twins.

1. Bentley technology (such as SYNCHRO 4D, SYNCHRO Control, and SYNCHRO Field) must be used either alone or in combination with ProjectWise or other software by engineering and construction firms, 4D service providers, and owners.
2. Submissions should discuss how BIM models are linked with the fourth dimension of time to intrinsically and immersively synchronize, through digital workflows, the construction strategy, work breakdown structure, schedule, costs, resources, supply chain logistics, and progress. The schedule must be linked to the 3D geometry and data to enable a virtual simulation of the project or specific aspects of the project.
3. The 4D models should optimize the ideal construction path prior to actual construction and/or deliver critical construction and fabrication information directly to the materials controls and project controls systems. Models should also show how they identify and resolve clashes, as well as demonstrate multidiscipline coordination prior to construction.
4. Submissions should demonstrate a combination of technical innovation, good project management, and a clear return on investment. Some examples include reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance.
5. Credit will be given to submissions where progress is recorded on-site. For example, progress recorded via mobile devices, phones, or tablets, as well as with automated tracking technology—such as photogrammetry or RFID tags—and presented as management dashboards for progress tracking.

If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at InfrastructureAwards@bentley.com

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Description

This category recognizes organizations that have demonstrated excellence and innovation in digital collaboration, information management, information mobility, or content management through implementing digital workflows for improved outcomes on a specific design project(s) or broadly across the organization. Submissions should focus on how these digital workflows increased transparency, efficiency, and collaboration, spanning the planning, design, and delivery of a single project or across a project portfolio.

1. Submissions must include standardized use of Bentley’s enterprise engineering applications, ProjectWise or BCDE, alone or in conjunction with other software and services, to collaborate with stakeholders and external supply chains for information management with decisive productivity improvements. Submissions should highlight any digital twin workflows powered by iTwin technology.
2. Submissions should emphasize the value gained through the implementation of information management and collaboration technology across teams, disciplines, organizations, and stakeholders.
3. Submissions should present quantifiable results that demonstrate how digital workflows increased transparency, productivity, risk mitigation, compliance with industry standards, and a clear return-on-investment. Return on investment can include reduced design time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and increased business performance.
4. Submissions must include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.

If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at InfrastructureAwards@bentley.com

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Description

This category recognizes projects that demonstrate going digital innovation in planning, design and engineering, construction, project delivery, operations, and maintenance of a wide range of infrastructure, including standalone buildings (such as commercial and residential buildings, rail and metro stations, airports, and museums) to campuses (such as educational and government campuses) to an entire city. Submissions should emphasize how projects, regardless of their size and complexity or whether new vs. upgrade of existing infrastructure, have leveraged the latest digital advances to deliver improved outcomes for the organizations involved while positively impacting the surrounding communities and environments of the building, campus, or city.

1. Project delivery submissions should include discipline-specific application of Bentley’s building design solution (OpenBuildings Designer) and/or its unique capabilities, including computational design capability (OpenBuildings GenerativeComponents), energy analysis capability (OpenBuildings Energy Simulator), rail and metro station design capability (OpenBuildings Station Designer), and/or mobility solution (CityPhi, CUBE, Dynameq, Emme, LEGION, Streetlytics). These solutions can be used alone or in combination with other software to plan, design, construct, operate, or otherwise enhance building, campus, or city infrastructure.
2. City or campus scale operational submissions should include digital workflows associated to critical infrastructure, cadastral mapping, 3D/4D models (digital twins), and other geospatial workflows.
3. Submissions should highlight the value gained through the integration and interoperability of Bentley products and technology across teams, disciplines, organizations, and stakeholders.
4. Submissions should demonstrate how process and workflow improvements helped increase efficiency and effectiveness, application of industry good practice, and compliance with project and/or industry standards.
5. Submissions should establish, and will be judged on, the impact of changes made in terms of sustainability, plus social, economic, and/or environmental conditions, including how new or upgraded infrastructure will improve the quality of life for people who live and work nearby.
6. Submissions should clearly present quantifiable results achieved, including gains in productivity, efficiency, and quality; mitigation and management of risk; increased safety; reduced time and cost; and improved asset performance, reliability, or resilience.
7. Submissions must include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, models, simulations, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.

If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at InfrastructureAwards@bentley.com

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Description

This category recognizes projects that have demonstrated excellence and digital advancements in geo-data and information management, geology, geophysics, and geotechnical engineering that have resulted in reduced risk, environmental sustainability, or optimized design for long-lasting performance.

1. Submissions must include use of the following Bentley and/or Seequent applications, alone or in combination with other software:
• Geo-data and information management: OpenGround, Seequent Central, MX Deposit, Imago
• Geology and geostatistics: Leapfrog Edge /Geo /Geothermal /Works, AR2Tech
• Geophysics: Oasis montaj, AGS Workbench /Res2DInv /Res3Dinv /SPIA
• Geotechnical engineering: PLAXIS, GeoStudio
2. Submissions should clearly present quantifiable results achieved, including gains in productivity, efficiency, and quality; mitigation and management of risk; increased safety; reduced time and cost; and improved asset performance, reliability, or resilience.
3. Submissions must include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.
4. Submissions that demonstrate the use of multiple Bentley and/or Seequent products as part of a digital workflow are ideal.

If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at InfrastructureAwards@bentley.com

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Description

This category recognizes utilities projects that have demonstrated excellence and digital advancements in the planning, design, analysis, construction, or operations of network infrastructure. Examples include electric or gas transmission and distribution and telecommunications networks.

1. Bentley technology (OpenUtilities Digital Twin Services, OpenUtilities Designer, OpenUtilities PowerView, OpenUtilities Substation, OpenComms Designer, SPIDAstudio, SPIDAcalc, SPIDAsilk, OpenTower, AssetWise, etc.) must have been used alone or in combination with other software and services to plan, design, analyze, build, or operate electric, gas, or communications networks.
2. Projects 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.
3. Submissions should also discuss safety, environmental impact, and business drivers for the choice of facility

If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at InfrastructureAwards@bentley.com

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Description

This category recognizes projects that demonstrate going digital innovations in the planning, design, and construction of new or major refits to industrial process or power generation plants, as well as the ongoing operations and maintenance of existing facilities. It could include oil and gas facilities both onshore and offshore, metals and minerals processing, petrochemical and chemical plants, nuclear, fossil, and renewable energy power generation. Project should demonstrate either an alternative approach to design that helps boost productivity, uses new construction methods, innovative equipment or materials to improve sustainability, or transformed processes during operations to increase efficiency, safety, and reliability.

1. Submissions must use Bentley software, either alone or in combination with other software. Suggested Bentley brands include AssetWise, ContextCapture, iTwin, OpenPlant, OpenBuildings, OpenWindPower, AutoPIPE, ProjectWise, MicroStation, and SYNCHRO.
2. Submissions should include going digital innovations and will be judged against the following five key principles:
• Technical Innovation – Submissions should highlight the unique technical innovations achieved and the value gained through the integration and interoperability of Bentley products and third-party technology across teams, disciplines, organizations, and stakeholders.
• Process/Workflow Improvements – Submissions should demonstrate how process/workflow improvements helped increase individual efficiency and effectiveness of industry good practice, as well as compliance with project and/or industry standards.
• Organization or Regional Impact – Submissions should highlight the impact and value gain across their organizations and the application of industry good practice, as well as compliance with project and/or industry standards.
• Environmental Impact - Submissions should establish in terms of sustainability and social, economic, and/or environmental conditions, how the new or upgraded plant will improve the quality of life for people who live and work nearby.
• Return on Investment – Submissions should clearly present quantifiable results achieved, including gains in productivity, efficiency, and quality; mitigation and management of risk; increased safety; reduced time and cost; and improved asset performance, reliability, or resilience.
3. Submissions must include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.

If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at InfrastructureAwards@bentley.com

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Description

This category recognizes projects that demonstrate going digital innovations in the planning, design, construction of new, or the maintenance and upgrade of existing, rail and transit networks.

Going digital innovations might include alternative approaches to design that helped boost productivity, the use of new construction methods to improve sustainability, or the transformation of processes during operations delivering increased reliability. Submissions should focus on how projects, regardless of their size and complexity, have delivered improved outcomes for the organizations involved and, in turn, for the users of these vital assets.

1. Submissions must include an application or technology within Bentley’s rail and transit solution (alone or in combination with other software) during the planning, design and engineering, construction, or operations and maintenance a rail and transit network. Suggested Bentley brands include AssetWise, ContextCapture, iTwin, OpenBridge, OpenBuildings, OpenRail, OpenRoads, PLAXIS, ProjectWise, MicroStation, and SYNCHRO.
2. Submissions should demonstrate going digital innovations and will be judged against the following four key principles:
• Integration and Interoperability – Submissions should highlight the value gained through the integration and interoperability of Bentley products and technology across teams, disciplines, organizations, and stakeholders.
• Process/Workflow Improvements – Submissions should demonstrate how process and workflow improvements helped increase efficiency and effectiveness, application of industry good practice, and compliance with project and/or industry standards.
• Regional Impact – Submissions should establish in terms of sustainability, plus social, economic, and/or environmental conditions, as well as how new or upgraded infrastructure will improve the quality of life for people who live and work nearby.
• Return on Investment – Submissions should clearly present quantifiable results achieved, including gains in productivity, efficiency, and quality; mitigation and management of risk; increased safety; reduced time and cost; and improved asset performance, reliability, or resilience.
3. Submissions must include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.

If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at InfrastructureAwards@bentley.com

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Description

This category recognizes projects that demonstrate excellence and going digital innovations in planning, design and engineering, construction, project delivery, or operations of roads or highways. Submissions should focus on how projects, regardless of their size and complexity, have delivered improved outcomes for the organizations involved and, in turn, for the users of these vital assets.

1. Submissions must include one or more Bentley products for road projects (e.g., OpenRoads, ConceptStation, LumenRT, SYNCHRO, ProjectWise, AssetWise Inspections, AssetWise Linear Network Management, SUPERLOAD) to plan, design, construct, operate, or otherwise enhance road infrastructure.
2. Submissions should demonstrate technical and/or innovative applications of Bentley products and technology.
3. Submissions will be judged based on how the project demonstrates the use of digital engineering data, including digital twins.
4. Submissions should present tangible and quantifiable results, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, or increased business performance with a clear return on investment (ROI).
5. Submissions will also be judged on the impact of the changes made, including sustainability and local social, economic, or environmental situation.
6. Submissions should include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.

If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at InfrastructureAwards@bentley.com

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Description

This category recognizes projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in ingenuity, planning, modeling, designing, analyzing, documenting, and detailing in the delivery of high-quality structures, inclusive of buildings, facilities, offshore oil and gas platforms, and wind turbine foundations. The usage of digital workflows and digital twins in these projects is highly valued

1. Submissions must have used Bentley applications innovatively to model, design, analyze, document, or detail a structure(s)—simple to complex—using any material. Applications can include STAAD, RAM, OpenWindPower, SACS, and MOSES, but are not exclusive to these products. Bentley applications may be used in combination with other applications.
2. Submissions must demonstrate technical innovation using advancements like BIM or modern structural project workflows, interoperability, or data collaboration among multidisciplinary design teams.
3. Submissions must clearly document a return on investment with metrics in terms of reduced risk to owner, project, or submitter, or increased value in the resulting project. Submissions must also discuss safety, environmental impact, and business drivers for the project.
4. Submissions must adequately communicate the project scope, benefits, and return on investment achieved by using Bentley applications. Actual models or product screenshots, in addition to project images/renderings, are required. Clearly documenting time and/or cost savings with detailed or estimated cost figures or hours of time saved will help demonstrate the project’s return on investment. Additional screenshots, videos, animations, charts, or diagrams can help illustrate project excellence.

If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at InfrastructureAwards@bentley.com

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Description

This category recognizes projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in capturing the current and changing condition of assets using reality modeling, mobile mapping, instrumentation, and sensor data management that enable better decision-making throughout the asset lifecycle by adding 4D digital context to infrastructure projects, supporting the creation and continuous update of infrastructure digital twins, to better plan, construct, and monitor assets.

1. Submissions must have used ContextCapture, Descartes, Orbit 3DM, Pointools, sensemetrics, or Vista Data Vision.
2. 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.
3. Submissions must demonstrate the value of surveying and monitoring to effective asset management and risk reduction, and not just the capture and presentation of geospatial data. It must showcase the integration of measurements with design or construction workflows, and the use of surveying for autonomous operations and virtual inspections.
4. Jurors will prioritize submissions covering the use of surveying across multiple stages of the asset lifecycle.
5. Submissions will also be judged on the impact of the changes made, including sustainability and local social, economic, or environmental situation.

If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at InfrastructureAwards@bentley.com

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Description

This category recognizes projects that have demonstrated excellence and digital advancements in planning, modeling and analysis, design, construction, operation, or maintenance of water infrastructure, including water and wastewater treatment plants, urban water supply and distribution systems, wastewater collection/sanitary or combined conveyance sewer systems, stormwater systems, culverts, retention facilities, and outlet structures and channels using Bentley software. Submissions should focus on how projects have delivered improved outcomes for the organizations involved and, in turn, for the communities served by these assets.

1. Submissions must demonstrate use of Bentley’s OpenFlows software (WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, SewerGEMS, SewerCAD, HAMMER, StormCAD, CivilStorm, PondPack, CulvertMaster, FlowMaster, FLOOD) and/or OpenFlows digital twin cloud solutions (WaterSight, PlantSight, SewerSight, WaterCAP, iTwin). In addition, submissions may include other software, including but not limited to Bentley’s ContextCapture, OpenPlant, STAAD, PLAXIS, OpenRoads, ProjectWise, or AssetWise.
2. Submissions should include going digital innovations and will be judged against the following four key principles:
• Sustainability and Regional Impact – Submissions should establish benefits in terms of social, economic, and/or environmental impact, carbon footprint, and how the quality of life for people in the community has improved.
• Return on Investment – Submissions should clearly present quantifiable results achieved, including gains in productivity, efficiency, and quality; mitigation and management of risk; increased safety; reduced time and cost; and improved asset performance, reliability, or resilience.
• Integration and Interoperability – Submissions should highlight the value gained through the integration and interoperability of Bentley products and technology across teams, disciplines, organizations, and stakeholders.
• Process Improvements – Submissions should demonstrate how process and workflow improvements helped increase efficiency and effectiveness, application of industry good practice, and compliance with regulations or industry standards.
3. Submissions must include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.

If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at InfrastructureAwards@bentley.com

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