Bentley announces winners of 2014 Be Inspired Awards
During the awards ceremony, 18 Be Inspired Awards winners and seven Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards winners were acknowledged
Bentley Systems recently announced the winners of the 2014 Be Inspired Awards. The awards honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world’s infrastructure. They were presented at a ceremony during The Year in Infrastructure 2014 Conference, held 4-6 November in London, United Kingdom.
This global gathering of leading executives in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations featured presentations and interactive sessions exploring the intersection of technology and business drivers, and how they are shaping the future of infrastructure delivery and investment returns.
Special guest keynoters included:
• Professor Andrew McNaughton, FREng, Chief Engineer and Technical Director, HS2.
Andrew McNaughton has been with HS2 since 2009, developing the principles, network, and specific route design for high speed rail in Great Britain.
• Ed Merrow, Founder and President of Independent Project Analysis.
Ed Merrow is a globally recogniSed subject matter expert in the execution of large and complex megaprojects and capital projects in general.
During the awards ceremony, 18 Be Inspired Awards winners and seven Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards winners were acknowledged. In addition, this year’s recipient of the Bentley Educator of the Year award, dR Artur Krawczyk, a lecturer at AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland, was acknowledged.
Nine independent panels of jurors, comprising distinguished industry experts, selected the Be Inspired Awards winners from 54 project finalists. These finalists had been previously chosen from submissions by organiSations in 49 countries.
Candidates for Bentley’s Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards were selected by the jurors from the top finalist projects as well as other exemplary nominations. This selection was based on the projects’ uniquely innovative and visionary achievements that transcend the narrower focus of the standing Be Inspired Awards categories. The nominees were then reviewed by a panel of Bentley executives, who evaluated them based on the criteria established for each award.
Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “Our conference this year has been filled with insightful presentations and productive dialogue about BIM advancements. The effective strategies behind these advancements are helping infrastructure organiSations achieve better performing assets through increased depth of information modeling and better performing projects through increased breadth of information mobility. I thank and congratulate this year’s Be Inspired Awards winners, along with all of our nominees, for their valuable contributions to sustaining infrastructure and improving quality of life around the world.”
The Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards winners for 2014 are as follows:
Advancing Asset Lifecycle Information Management
American Electric Power – Bentley Substation and eB Implementation – (Gananna, Ohio and Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States)
Advancing Asset Lifecycle Information Management
• QGC Pty Limited – The Journey from Physical Assets to Digital Assets for the Queensland Curtis LNG Project – (Gladstone, Queensland, Australia)
Advancing Comprehensive BIM “Playbooks”
• HDR – Tappan Zee Hudson River Crossing: The New NY Bridge – (Westchester, New York, United States)
Advancing Dimensions in Infrastructure
• Beijing Building Construction Research Institute Co., Ltd.; Beijing Institute of Architectural Design; National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) – (Karst, Guizhou, China)
Advancing Information Technology
• Michigan Department of Transportation – ProjectWise: A Change in Construction – (Michigan, United States)
Advancing Urban Infrastructure
• Engevix Engenharia, Themag Engenharia, and Planservi Engenharia – Santos Guarujá Tunnel – (Santos and Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil)
Effective Strategies in Construction Modeling
• Takenaka – Yawaragi Mori No Stadium – (Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, Japan)
The Be Inspired Awards winners for 2014 are as follows:
Innovation in Asset Performance Management
• Severn Trent Water Ltd – EToN 6: Technology in Street Works – (Midlands, United Kingdom)
Innovation in Bridges
• Anhui Transport Consulting & Design Institute Co., Ltd – Second Wuhu Yangtze River Highway Bridge – (Wuhu, Anhui, China)
Innovation in Building
• Morphosis Architects – Emerson College Los Angeles – (Los Angeles, California, United States)
Innovation in Construction
• Jacobs – EPC Success Using ConstructSim – (Houston, Texas, United States)
Innovation in Government
• Ordnance Survey Ireland – A New Authoritative Spatial Data Infrastructure for Ireland – (Dublin, Ireland)
Innovation in Land Development and Management
• Cathie Associates – Montevideo Multipurpose Harbour – (Montevideo, Uruguay)
Innovation in Megaprojects
• Jacobs and Bouygues Civil Works Florida – Port of Miami Tunnel and Access Improvements – (Miami, Florida, United States)
Innovation in Mining and Metals
• Ausenco – Constancia Project – (Chamaca and Livitaca, Chumbivilcas, Peru)
Innovation in Offshore Engineering
• Dockwise Shipping B.V. – SHWE Transportation and Installation – (Bay of Bengal, Myanmar)
Innovation in Power Generation
• Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd. – Development of Decommissioning Engineering Platform Based on Plant 3D Model – (Japan)
Innovation in Process Manufacturing
• 3DDraughting – LPG Import and Storage Terminal – (Saldanha Bay, Western Cape, South Africa)
Innovation in Project Performance
• J.L. Patterson & Associates, Inc. – Tehachapi Mountains Double Track Project – (Tehachapi, California, United States)
Innovation in Rail and Transit
• Hatch Mott MacDonald – Intelligent Rail Signal Design via 2D Schematics and 3D Models – (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada)
Innovation in Roads
• Well-Connected Alliance – The Waterview Connection – (Auckland, New Zealand)
Innovation in Structural Engineering
• Beijing Building Construction Research Institute Co., Ltd.; Beijing Institute of Architectural Design; National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) – (Karst, Guizhou, China)
Innovation in Utilities and Communications Networks
• Time Warner Cable – An Enterprise GIS Strategy for Increased Revenue and Lower Costs Using Bentley’s Communications Solution – (Centennial, Colorado, United States)
Innovation in Water or Wastewater Treatment Plants
• MWH – Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works Thermal Hydrolysis Plant – (Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom)
Innovation in Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Network Modeling and Analysis
• Manila Water Company – Marikina North Project – (Marikina City, Philippines)
Bentley Systems has posted highlights of this year’s winning projects and finalists on its website at www.bentley.com/beinspired2014winners
