{"id":133964,"date":"2023-10-30T09:55:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T09:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=133964"},"modified":"2023-10-30T15:40:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T15:40:40","slug":"pbc-today-bentleys-year-in-infrastructure-going-digital-awards-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/pbc-today-bentleys-year-in-infrastructure-going-digital-awards-2023\/133964\/","title":{"rendered":"What PBC Today saw at Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

PBC Today attended Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards in Singapore, seeing real-world applications of their iTwin software<\/h2>\n

Held at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Bentley’s<\/a> annual Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards event celebrates the best in intelligent infrastructure, all developed, designed or benefitting from the use of Bentley software.<\/p>\n

With a 64% increase in its use among Going Digital Awards finalists, the iTwin Platform<\/a> was the star of this year’s show. When asked to quantify the engineering hours saved through digital advancements, the\u00a0Going Digital<\/em> Awards finalists reported significant median savings of 18%.<\/p>\n

Day 1 saw a variety of presentations from the Going Digital Awards finalists<\/h3>\n

Over 300 nominations were submitted from 51 countries, from which 36 finalists were selected to present at Singapore.<\/p>\n

Presentations highlighted the immense scale of each of the infrastructure projects and how Bentley’s digital twin software easily integrated thousands of factors and data to enable a seamless user experience.<\/p>\n

Personal favourites of this reporter include the passionate presentation given by Water & Wastewater finalists Geoinfo Services, who chose Bentley’s OpenFlows<\/a> to generate a hydraulic model and digital twin of the city of Ayodhya\u2019s 24-hour supply scheme in India, reducing design time by 75%.<\/p>\n

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@Bentley Systems<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The optimised network is now saving over $1.5m USD in annual operating expenses and through increasing access to clean water, now allows women and young girls to spend more time focusing on their careers and education, rather than on fetching water.<\/p>\n

Not just for typical infrastructure<\/h3>\n

Another notable nominee was Italferr’s digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica, aiming to preserve and protect an internationally recognised site of religious significance.<\/p>\n

In an unsual application of the software, Italferr used ProjectWise, iTwin Capture, and MicroStation to manage three terabytes of multisourced data and generate a digital twin model that saved 50 hours of modeling time and delivered the project 20 days ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n

Going forward, iTwin will be used to develop a structural monitoring system that will connected to the digital twin to monitor the basilica’s health.<\/p>\n

This success, as well as winning the award in the Surveying & Monitoring category, demonstrates the versatility and potential of digital twins and Bentley’s software in particular.<\/p>\n

Using iTwin, a structural monitoring system will be developed, facilitating data collection, and connected to the digital twin to monitor the basilica\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

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‘The Digital Twin For Structural Monitoring Of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica\u202f’, by Italferr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
After a day full of presentations and networking, there was the opportunity to let our hair down at Marina Bay Sand’s rooftop on the Skypark Observations Deck, standing a formidable 56 storeys up and looking over the Singapore skyline.<\/div>\n
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The view from the Skypark, @Bentley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Back to business on Day 2<\/h3>\n
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On Thursday morning, there were more opportunities to join breakout sessions and discuss the variety of ways in which Bentley’s modelling software had been utilised.<\/p>\n

Demonstrations of the iTwin platform<\/a> were given, using the Marina Bay Sands Hotel as an example.<\/p>\n

Keynote speeches and presentations were also given by Bentley’s c-suite, including CEO Greg Bentley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chief executive officer Greg Bentley introduces speakers at the conference keynote speech. @Bentley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Other speakers included Dr Victor Khoo, director of survey and geometrics at the Singapore Land Authority, in recognition of how Singapore has utilised digital twins and modelling solutions across their water and transport infrastructure to great success.<\/div>\n
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Founder Greg Bentley of @BentleySystems<\/a> recognised Singapore as a \u201cMecca of #infrastructureintelligence<\/a>\u201d, noting their use of #digitaltwin<\/a> software across #rail<\/a>, #watermanagement<\/a> and #landsurveying<\/a> #YII2023<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/BSenOfwIvg<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 PBC Today & BIM Today (@PBC_Today) October 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That evening, it was finally time for the Going Digital Awards<\/h3>\n
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We enjoyed a lovely meal with a delightful show from local performers, before moving on to announcing the winners. @Bentley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Voted on by industry professionals and press jurors, each of the winning projects in the awards had demonstrated innovative and efficient applications of Bentley software in their infrastructure projects, each of which had gone on to achieve not only initial project goals but often creating additional social value or productivity.<\/p>\n

The Going Digital Awards winners are as follows:<\/h3>\n