Bentley Systems, Incorporated bearing the same name as Bentley, the British-based luxury automobiles and Grand Tourers of Volkswagen, the manufacturer of quality VW Cabriolet Parts --- has awarded thirty-one projects in the professional portion of the program. These projects set the standard and showcase the creativity as well as the technical mastery of the organizations that developed them. For the academic portion of the program, BE has awarded the Educator of the Year and the top four student designs.
The announcement of the winners was done last night at a dinner and ceremony that was hosted by Peter Sagal of the National Public Radio Program “Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” and co-sponsored by McGraw-Hill Construction, publisher of Engineering News-Record. There are also independent panel of BE Awards jurors comprising of accomplished Bentley users and renowned industry experts that has helped in choosing the winning projects from among the 280 nominations.
CEO Greg Bentley said, “Honoring the recipients of our BE Awards of Excellence and their wonderfully innovative work is something I look forward to every year. It is a privilege and a pleasure to recognize so much talent and so many projects that will have a positive impact on the world community for generations. On behalf of all my colleagues at Bentley, I heartily congratulate the winners and acknowledge the exceptional quality of all of the nominations.”
Mr. Bentley further said, “During his keynote address, Bentley COO Malcolm Walter announced the winners of a special new category of BE Awards – ‘Best Return on Innovation’ – personally selected this year by Malcolm based on ROI data supplied by each of the nominees. The winners included: Bechtel, Dutch Ministry of Finance, GHAFARI Associates, and Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. These organizations are not only improving the world’s infrastructure with award-winning projects, but they are also realizing substantial returns for their investments in innovation. Again, on behalf of Bentley colleagues around the globe, I offer my congratulations to each of these organizations on both accomplishments.”
Here are the winners of the 2007 BE Awards of Excellence:
Building
• BIM for Architecture: Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners Ltd – The Leadenhall Building
• BIM for Building Engineering: M/E Engineering, P.C. – BioMed Engineering and Optics Laboratory Building
• BIM for Multiple Disciplines: Arup – Review and Study of the Opera Theatre Interior and New Works, Sydney Opera House
• BIM for Visualization and Simulation: Dvorak architekti s.r.o. – Vrnata House
• BIM for Sustainable Design: Fortis Bank – Kanselarij Cluster Restructuring Project
• Building Innovation: LJB, Inc. – Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
• Building Structural Analysis, Design, and Documentation: WSP Group plc – Manchester Hilton
• Building Distributed Enterprise: The Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd – Central Premises Information Repository
Civil
• Civil Innovation: HNTB – TrueViz™ OnTarget®
• Civil Road Infrastructure: Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick (India) Pvt Ltd – Laning of Hyderabad-Vijayawada and Norra Länken
• Civil Site Design: Vela VKE Consulting Engineering – Zimbali Civil Infrastructure
• Civil Visualization and Simulation: Mott MacDonald Ltd – East London Line Project
• Civil Structural Analysis, Design, and Documentation: Arup – Marina Bayfront Pedestrian Bridge
• Civil Distributed Enterprise: The Banks Group – Centralized Data Storage Using StartPoint and Riverbed WAN Optimization
Geospatial
• Geospatial Communications: Nacap Telecom BV – Fibre Optics ‘Zuid-Limburg’ -Isilinx
• Geospatial Government: Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Ruimtelijke Ordening – IJburg
• Geospatial Mapping and Cadastre: Petrobras SA – SGO Project - Petrobras Subsea Assets Tracking
• Geospatial 3D GIS: AAMHatch – True Orthophotography and 3D Model of the City of Melbourne
• Geospatial Water Resource Management: ISKI Genel Mudurlugu – Infrastructure Integration of Mega City - Istanbul
• Geospatial Utilities: Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. – The BGE Bentley Project
• Geospatial Innovation: Dutch Ministry of Finance – Geospatially Enabling the Dutch Ministry of Finance; Putting ‘Where’ into SAP
• Geospatial Distributed Enterprise: Sandia National Laboratories – Power Through Integration Plant
• Plant Multi-Discipline Design: BSPiR Energoprojekt-Katowice S.A. – The Coke Plant “Przyjazn”
• Plant Lifecycle Information Management: North China Power Engineering (Beijing) Co. Ltd – Building Up NCPE Content Management Platform With ProjectWise as the Core
• Plant Structural Analysis, Design, and Documentation: Southern Co. Services – Plant Wansley Units 1-2 FGD Addition
• Plant Visualization and Simulation: Atkins Water – Bolton Wastewater Treatment Works
• Plant Innovation: VECO Alaska Inc. – Conoco Phillips Drill Site Technologies
• Plant Rookie of the Year: Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County – San Jose Creek Central Plant Modification
• Plant Distributed Enterprise: Bechtel – Jamnagar Export Refinery Project
Special Awards
• Best Overall IT Strategy: VECO Alaska Inc. – Bentley Enterprise Implementation and Management
• Well-Trained Organization: Halff Associates, Inc.
Academic Awards
• Educator of the Year: Dr. Howard Turner – California State Polytechnic University
• Middle School/High School - MicroStation: Steffan Egger – The Ultimate Bar (BRG 4/Waltergasse VIENNA)
• Middle School/High School – MicroStation PowerDraft: Anthony Apostolou, Meghan Goff, and Christine Lupton – Pelican Bay Elementary School (Eastern Technical High School
• University/Collegiate, Architecture/Building: Lim Yu Tian (Johathan) – ARCHinteractive (Singapore Polytechnic)
• University/Collegiate, Engineering: Piotr Łukasz Czerski– An Interchange ‘Przyczolkowa’ in Wilanow District Warsaw (Warsaw University of Technology)
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