Award Categories and Criteria

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Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in planning, designing, building, modeling, analyzing, and maintaining bridges.

1. For consideration in this category, a Bentley bridge design and analysis application (OpenBridge Designer, OpenBridge Modeler, RM Bridge, or LEAP Bridge) must be used alone or in combination with other software.
2. Submitted projects must demonstrate a technical and/or innovative application of Bentley products and technology.
3. Projects will also be judged on the application of engineering principles, as well as the positive impact that it will have on the local social, economic, or environmental situation.
4. 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.

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Image Credit: Chongqing Communications Planning, Survey & Design Institute Co., Ltd., Guizhou Communications Construction Group Co., Ltd., Guizhou Bridge Construction Group Co., Ltd., China

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Projects that demonstrate innovation, excellence, and successful advancement of your digital strategy while planning, designing, building, operating, and maintaining a building or campus and its supporting infrastructure. Some examples are commercial buildings, educational and government campuses, rail and metro stations, airports, and other public or private facilities.

1. OpenBuildings Designer 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) must have been used to demonstrate excellence in design modeling, BIM data management, computational design, engineering analysis, design review visualization, or building asset lifecycle management.
2. Projects should demonstrate the use of latest digital innovation advancement that resulted in 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, and quality of space. Projects might also detail how they complied with regulations or accreditations, and how they improved the construction delivery process, operational efficiencies, material savings, and design or engineering innovation.
3. Projects should demonstrate effective interoperability, including data exchange for design coordination or hand-over as well as innovation in project team collaboration.
4. Projects 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.
5. 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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Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in planning and operations, or projects that leverage reality modeling, geospatial, city-scale digital twins, modeling, simulation and analysis, or project delivery at a city or campus scale.

1. Bentley technology used (alone or in combination with other software) to plan, design, model, build, survey, map, manage, or operate public infrastructure.
2. Digital cities operational submissions should include digital workflows associated to critical infrastructure, cadastral mapping, 3D/4D city- or campus-scale models (digital twins), and other geospatial workflows. City- or campus-scale project delivery submissions should include discipline-specific engineering and BIM process adoption.
3. Submissions must demonstrate a combination of technical innovation, good project management, collaborative workflows, tangible benefits to public infrastructure and the environment, and a clear return on investment. For city submissions focused on operational or asset performance, it should include planning and operational efficiencies, resource hours saved, savings in operational costs or improvements in asset performance. For submissions focused on city- or campus-scale projects, they should include reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, and cost savings realized.

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Projects that demonstrate excellence in digital construction using 4D modeling to simulate and optimize construction. The projects should show their impact on cost, safety, reliability, predictability, and quality, while including real-time progress recording to create project digital twins.

1. Bentley technology (such as SYNCHRO) must be used (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 4D time dimension 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 and 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—or with automated tracking technology—such as photogrammetry or RFID tags—and presented as management dashboards for progress tracking.

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Addressing real-world challenges using geotechnical engineering to provide safe, cost-efficient solutions that resulted in reduced risk, environmental sustainability, or optimized design for long-lasting performance.

1. Bentley applications must be used alone or in combination with other software. Preference will be given to projects using a Bentley geotechnical analysis (PLAXIS) or geotechnical information management (GIM) (OpenGround, gINT, Keynetix) application.
2. Projects must demonstrate, through a combination of planning with data integrity, and analyzing with sound computation, how going digital supported reducing risks.
3. Projects must demonstrate 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.
4. Submissions must discuss safety, environmental impact, project management, and/or business drivers.
5. GIM input data, for sub-surface geotechnical information and for surface topology, must be included, as well as design tools and analysis methods used.

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Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in the evaluation, planning, designing, engineering, modeling, and analyzing of land development projects.

1. For consideration in this category a Bentley land and site development application (such as OpenSite Designer or SITEOPS) must be used alone or in combination with other software.
2. Submitted projects must demonstrate a technical and/or innovative application of Bentley products and technology.
3. Projects will also be judged on the application of engineering principles, as well as the positive impact that it will have on the local social, economic, or environmental situation.
4. 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.

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Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in the planning, engineering, and/or construction of any factory or manufacturing facility. Projects can include onshore and offshore oil and gas production facilities, petrochemical and chemical plants, metals processing, food and pharmaceutical production, automotive, CPG, semi-conductors, hi-tech, and equipment manufacture. Projects can also demonstrate the industrial fabrication of large-scale building or other infrastructure components.

1. Bentley technology (PlantSight, OpenPlant, AutoPLANT, STAAD, AutoPIPE, OpenRoads, OpenBuildings Designer, Bentley Raceway and Cable Management, Promis.e, SYNCHRO) must be used (alone or in combination with other software) to plan, design, construct, and/or operate these facilities. Typically, these projects are multidiscipline.
2. Projects 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, such as increase competitiveness in a new market or optimizing design for lower cost of ownership in operations.
3. Submissions must also discuss the business drivers behind the project—time to market, increased efficiency, improved safety, and any environmental or sustainability goals of the facility and its production.

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Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in planning, design, analysis — especially structural integrity analysis — engineering, construction, operations, decommissioning of mines, mining facilities, marine, and offshore and onshore infrastructure, and structures, including oil and gas production facilities (topsides and platforms).

1. 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. Applications can include MineCycle Designer, Survey, or Bulk Material Handling, but are not exclusive to these products. Bentley applications may be used in combination with other applications.
2. Projects 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.
3. Submissions must also discuss safety, environmental impact, and business drivers for the project.
4. Submissions must clearly document a return on investment with metrics in terms of cost savings; reduced risk to owner, project, or submitter; or increased value in the resulting project.
5. 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 return on investment. Additional screenshots, videos, animations, charts, or diagrams can help illustrate the excellence of the project.

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Image Credit: AAEngineering Group, LLP, Kazakhstan

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Power generation projects that have demonstrated excellence and digital advancements in the planning, design, construction, and operations and maintenance of power generation infrastructure. Projects can include renewable energy (wind, solar, hydro), fossil fuel, cogeneration, and nuclear power plants.

1. Bentley technology must be used (alone or in combination with other software) to plan, design, build, or operate power-generation facilities.
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 must also discuss safety, environmental impact, and business drivers for the choice of facility.

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Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital innovations in project delivery as the result of improved project collaboration, project information management, enhanced information mobility, or content management. Projects should enable increased transparency spanning the planning, design, and construction of a single project or across a project portfolio.

1. Standardized use of Bentley Project Delivery technologies:
• ProjectWise technology to manage, control, and integrate information to plan, design, build, and deliver projects. ProjectWise Design Integration, ProjectWise 365 Cloud Services, or Bentley Mobile applications must be used to collaborate with the project team and external supply chain.
• And/or, BC (Business Collaborator) technology to manage, control and share CAPEX and portfolio information. BC Project, BC Program or BC Portfolio must be used for project information management and supply chain collaboration.
2. 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. Project return on investment can include reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance.
3. Submissions must present the return on investment and how the organization improved productivity, reduced risk, managed change, and resolved issues. Submissions must convey the return on investment using project images, screenshots, animations, charts/diagrams, and text.

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Projects that demonstrate innovation, excellence and digital advancements in the planning, design, or construction of new, or upgrades to existing, rail and transit networks. Submissions should highlight how advancements have positively impacted cost, productivity, quality, adherence to standards, and sustainability, along with enhanced safety and reduced risk, through the use and application of one or more products within Bentley’s rail and transit solution.

1. For consideration in this category, an application within Bentley’s rail and transit solution must have been used (alone or in combination with other software) during the planning, design, maintenance or upgrade, of rail and transit networks. Suggested applications include:
• OpenRail ConceptStation
• OpenRail Designer
• OpenRail Overhead Line Designer
• OpenBridge Designer (formerly RM Bridge and LEAP Bridge)
• OpenBuildings Designer or OpenBuildings Station Designer (formerly AECOsim Building Designer)
• LEGION
• OpenRoads Designer
• OpenSite Designer
• iTwin Design Review
• ProjectWise or ProjectWise 365
• AssetWise Linear Network Management (including applications previously known as eB and AssetWise ALIM)
• ComplyPro
2. Projects can include bridges, stations and platforms, track and civils, overhead line, and related infrastructure, with submissions being judged on the technical and/or innovative application of engineering principles, as well as the positive impact the project and/or upgrades to existing infrastructure will have on the social, economic, and/or environmental conditions of the region.
3. Submissions should clearly communicate the tangible and quantifiable results achieved, including improvements in productivity, efficiency, and quality, return on investment, adherence to standards, reduced time and cost, and mitigated risk.
4. Submissions must include high-quality images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.

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Image Credit: PowerChina Huadong Engineering Corporation, China

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Reality modeling is the process of capturing the physical reality of an infrastructure asset, creating a 3D representation of it, and maintaining it through continuous surveys. 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.

1. Projects must have used ContextCapture, Descartes, Orbit 3DM, or Pointools.
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. Example – technology used to:
Produce detailed models of infrastructure assets and/or their surrounding environment using at least one 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
3. 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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Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in planning, engineering, design, analysis, or project delivery of roads or highways.

1. A Bentley civil product for roads (OpenRoads, ConceptStation, LumenRT, or other OpenRoads applications) must have been used (alone or in combination) to design, maintain, operate, or otherwise enhance transportation infrastructure.
2. Submissions should demonstrate technical and/or innovative applications of Bentley products and technology.
3. 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.
4. Submissions will be judged based on how the project demonstrates the use of digital engineering data, including iModels and digital twins.
5. Projects will also be judged on the impact of the changes made, including sustainability and local social, economic, or environmental situation.

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Image Credit: Sichuan Road and Bridge (Group) Co. Ltd., China

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Deployments that demonstrate innovation, excellence and digital advancements in the operations and maintenance of road and rail infrastructure assets. Submissions should highlight how advancements have resulted in improved reliability, integrity, performance, operational efficiency and effectiveness, along with enhanced safety and reduced risk, through the use and application of one or more of Bentley’s AssetWise solutions.

1. For consideration in this category, submissions must demonstrate a technical and/or innovative application of one or more of Bentley’s AssetWise solutions on an existing road or rail network. Suggestions include:
• AssetWise Linear Network Management (including applications previously known as eB, Exor and AssetWise ALIM)
• AssetWise Linear Analytics (including application previously known as Optram)
• AssetWise Rail Condition Analytics
• AssetWise Inspections (including applications previously known as InspectTech and Ivara)
• AssetWise Enterprise Interoperability
• AssetWise Linear SUPERLOAD (Routing and Permitting)
2. Submissions will be judged on the integration and interoperability of Bentley products and technology with other enterprise-wide systems.
3. Submissions should demonstrate how projects have enabled process improvements; improved efficiencies; increased effectiveness; implementation of industry good practice; project management; and the positive impact on sustainability and social, economic, or environmental conditions of the region resulting from the changes implemented.
4. Submissions should clearly present tangible and quantifiable results achieved, including the mitigation and management of operational and safety risks, reduced costs, operational / maintenance improvements, improved asset performance, return on investment, and regulatory compliance met.
5. Submissions must include high-quality images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.

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Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in ingenuity, planning, modeling, designing, analyzing, documenting, and detailing in the delivery of high-quality structure(s).

1. Bentley applications must have been used to model, design, analyze, document, or detail a structure(s), simple to complex, using any material. Applications can include STAAD and RAM in addition to other Bentley and third-party applications.
2. Projects must demonstrate technical innovation using advancements like BIM or modern structural project workflows, interoperability, or data collaboration among multidisciplinary design teams.
3. Projects can demonstrate quality through functional performance, delivery process, material or time savings, design or engineering innovation, quality of service, and/or collaboration.
4. Submissions must clearly document a return on investment with metrics in terms of cost savings, reduced risk to owner, project, or submitter, or increased value in the resulting project.
5. 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.

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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 communications networks.

1. Bentley technology 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.

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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. Advancements should improve reliability, integrity, performance, and operational efficiency and effectiveness, along with enhanced safety and reduced risk.

1. 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 and ECM)
• AssetWise Asset Reliability (including Ivara)
• AssetWise Digital Twin Services (including Assetwise 4DAnalytics)
• AssetWise Enterprise Interoperability
• PlantSight
• OpenUtilities
2. Submissions will be judged on a combination of criteria, such as innovative use of technology (Bentley and other) and tangible and quantifiable results. These results can include the mitigation and management of operational and safety risks, reduced costs, operational/maintenance improvements, demonstrable return on assets/return on investment, 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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Image Credit: Gazdaş Gaziantep Doğal Gaz Dağitim A.Ş. and Trakya Bölgesi Doğal Gaz Dağitim A.Ş., Turkey

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Projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancements in planning, designing, and building water or wastewater treatment plants and that leverage some combination of reality modeling, discipline-specific engineering, simulation and analysis, and 4D construction for collaborative project delivery.

1. Bentley technology must be used (alone or in combination with other software) to plan, design, and/or construct these facilities.
2. 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.
3. Submissions should address safety, environmental impact, operations impact, and business drivers.

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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.

1. Bentley technology must be 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. Suggested applications include -
For planning, design, and analysis:
• OpenFlows WaterGEMS
• OpenFlows WaterCAD
• OpenFlows SewerCAD
• OpenFlows SewerGEMS
• OpenFlows StormCAD
• OpenFlows HAMMER
• OpenFlows CivilStorm
• OpenFlows CulvertMaster
• OpenFlows PondPack
For operations and maintenance (digital twins):
• OpenFlows WaterOPS
• OpenFlows WaterSight
• OpenFlows SewerOPS
• OpenFlows SewerSight
• OpenFlows WaterCAP
• OpenFlows SewerCAP
2. 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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Image Credit: DTK Hydronet Solutions, India