{"id":77321,"date":"2020-06-08T15:46:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=77321"},"modified":"2023-06-26T16:26:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T15:26:41","slug":"legion-simulator-and-openbuildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/legion-simulator-and-openbuildings\/77321\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentley Systems opens LEGION Simulator and OpenBuildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bentley.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bentley Systems<\/a> has opened up its LEGION Simulator and OpenBuildings Station Designer software for facilities managers to incorporate pedestrian simulation methodologies across their planning and operations teams<\/h2>\n<p>With social distancing and crowd management at the forefront of global concerns, OpenBuildings Station Designer and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/bentley-systems-pedestrian-simulation-software\/47936\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LEGION Simulator software<\/a> can help station owners, planning and design firms, and facilities operators to develop models, simulate crowd movement, analyse foot traffic, and optimise space <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/bentley-projectwise-365\/74944\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">utilisation of infrastructure<\/a> assets such as rail and metro stations, airports, retail and commercial complexes, hospitals, and stadiums.<\/p>\n<p>OpenBuildings Station Designer\u2019s BIM environment provides 3D context for LEGION\u2019s included pedestrian simulation to create an operational digital twin to improve safety, efficiency, and security while mitigating risk.<\/p>\n<p>The LEGION Simulator and OpenBuildings Station Designer offers the continued long-term benefits of a BIM collaboration environment that avoids data silos, coordination delays, and other limitations that result from the separation of planning and design workflows.<\/p>\n<h3>LEGION Simulator helps users:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Validating social distancing plans while helping to ensure safe operations;<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring space maximisation, activities distribution and controlled egress\/ingress;<\/li>\n<li>Modeling safe and comfortable wayfinding strategies and evacuation plans; and<\/li>\n<li>Providing virtual, collaborative planning, design and operations reviews.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ken Adamson, vice president, design integration for Bentley, said: \u201cWe are going through extraordinary times and change will be a constant reality in the months and years ahead. Bentley\u2019s OpenBuildings Station Designer and LEGION Simulator enable planners, architects, engineers, and operators to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/digital-twins-light-rail\/76313\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apply digital twin approaches<\/a> to solve today\u2019s design and operation challenges more quickly, efficiently, and safely across rail and metro stations, airports, and other public buildings and amenities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cameron MacDonald, technical director, operations advisory, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atkinsglobal.com\/en-gb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Atkins<\/a>, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, said: \u201cAtkins has collaborated successfully with LEGION for over 20 years, and we look forward to building upon our own thought leadership on Covid-19 and for the Transport Sector by applying LEGION\u2019s simulations for social distancing in response to requests by our metro clients in Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, and Saudi Arabia.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bentley Systems has opened up its LEGION Simulator and OpenBuildings Station Designer software for facilities managers to incorporate pedestrian simulation methodologies across their planning and operations teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172736],"tags":[576,172740,172720,943],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[172387],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-construction-software-news","7":"tag-bim-software","8":"tag-collaboration-software","9":"tag-digital-twins","10":"tag-sh-bentley-systems","11":"stakeholder_rel_tag-bentley-systems"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bentley Systems opens LEGION Simulator and OpenBuildings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bentley Systems has opened up its LEGION Simulator and OpenBuildings Station Designer software for facilities managers\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/legion-simulator-and-openbuildings\/77321\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bentley Systems opens LEGION Simulator and OpenBuildings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bentley Systems has opened up its LEGION Simulator and OpenBuildings Station Designer software for facilities managers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/legion-simulator-and-openbuildings\/77321\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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