Pittsburgh Flexicore Realizes the Value of BIM for Concrete Manufacture
For more than 50 years, Pittsburgh Flexicore Co. has been a leading manufacturer of precast, pre-stressed concrete components, and structures in the northeastern United States. In that time, the company has manufactured over 25 million square feet of hollow core products for approximately 4,000 projects, and become a premier supplier of products from beams and columns to stairs and wall panels. The company has seen numerous changes to the way precast concrete components are designed, manufact...
Jiangxi Electric Power Design Institute (JXEPDI) Increases Substation Design Efficiency
As an energy industry leader, the Power Construction Corporation of China (POWERCHINA) provides the full range of services from planning, survey, design, and engineering to finance, construction, installation, and operation and maintenance of hydropower, thermal power, new energy, and infrastructure projects. POWERCHINA’s subsidiary, Jiangxi Electric Power Design Institute (JXEPDI), delivered the 220 kilovolt Duxiling Substation for owner-operator China State Grid Corporation to support economic...
gINT Supports Comprehensive Geotechnical Information Management System for the Municipality of Abu Dhabi City
The Municipality of Abu Dhabi City ensures sustainable development and enhances the quality of life for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Since its inception in 1962, the Municipality has implemented projects aimed at establishing modern infrastructure for the city. The Municipality routinely commissions and manages projects where large volumes of data from site investigation and design are archived and accessed by internal and external users. Using Bentley’s gINT software and web...
Water Network Analysis Reduces Need for Further Infrastructure Investments
In an age characterized by growing populations and crumbling infrastructure it’s natural to look to new technology solutions for salvation. In many parts of the world, big investments in new infrastructure seem both highly desirable and unattainable—as much as new solutions are needed, the brutal fact of limited resources often limits investment to rehabilitations or new structures that are affordable and constructible within local means. Three water network projects highlighted at the Be Ins...
Louisville Parklands Project Gains Advantages from Wall System Specification
Creating a 21-mile long park system that encompasses more than 3,800 acres is no small task. But that’s just what 21st Century Parks set out to do in 2010. The Parklands is an extensive new park system in the Louisville, KY area that will include four major parks linked by a park drive, a world class urban trail system and a remarkable water trail, all tracing Floyds Fork, a classic Kentucky stream. The park system should be complete by 2015. The Parklands design has already been honored with...
Federated GIS Based on Bentley Map Enables Cancún to Collect 66 Percent More Property Tax
Bentley Channel Partner Innovacion Sistemas y Proyectos (iSP) is a leading provider of geospatial information systems (GIS) services to local, state, and federal governments as well as the pharmaceutical industry in Mexico. The City of Cancún retained iSP to modernize its cadastral information systems and increase property tax collection revenue. By creating a federated GIS built on Bentley Map, iSP enabled various departments to access accurate cadastre and cartography data. The federated GIS i...
ScottishPower Strikes a Strategy for Asset Management and Process Safety
Energy company ScottishPower, a division of Iberdrola, was the first power generator and the second company in the world to be certified on BSI Publicly Available Specification 55 (PAS 55:2008), which benchmarks best practices, in asset management. AssetWise Performance Management and the Bentley Asset Performance Management (APM) Methodology, coupled with the Amor Group Process Safety Methodology and KPI Dashboard, played a key role in ScottishPower’s achievement. The Need for Change/Challen...
Sweco’s ‘Live BIM’ Railway Project Improves Efficiency on Hallandsås Project
The construction of a railway tunnel through the Hallandsås ridge in southern Sweden has a long history, but the end is in sight with the start of traffic services scheduled for late 2015. To help meet the demanding project schedule and the challenges of performing tunnel excavation and detailed engineering design in parallel, Trafikverket, the Swedish Transport Administration, chose to advance its use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) practices with the help of Sweco Infrastructure AB. Swe...
HR Wallingford Nears Completion on State-of-the-Art Marine Test Facility
Work to create one of the world’s largest maritime test facilities has entered its final stage following the completion of a £3 million development at HR Wallingford’s site in Oxfordshire, UK. Keys to the new 1,600 m2 building were presented to HR Wallingford by Kier Construction on Thursday 17 April, and work has now begun on the fit-out of specialist facilities within the building to enhance the company’s scour, sediment and structure modelling capabilities. HR Wallingford works with organ...
Mobile Apps Increase the Productivity of Infrastructure Professionals Working in the Field
When working in the field, it is important that personnel are able to view and analyze the most current infrastructure data. Bentley’s mobile Apps bring that information to field crews’ fingertips, whether they leverage that data in construction, maintenance, surveying, inspection, or emergency response processes. Bentley’s mobile Apps solely focus on providing tremendous benefits for organizations involved with infrastructure projects: not only do they enable field workers to make better dec...
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June Issue 2026
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