Building WorkSuite
The Ultimate Building & Site Design Bundle
Design, visualize, analyze, communicate, and deliver entire building and land development projects with one cost-effective license.
Powering Diverse Design Projects From Concept to Completion
Bentley’s Building WorkSuite provides the ultimate portfolio of scalable and interoperable applications to create and visualize site projects with unparalleled precision.
Concept Design
Explore innovative early concepts and project feasibility with lifelike renderings and reality modeling.
Spatial Design
Optimize spatial coordination and analysis, integrating models and simulations to ensure regulatory compliance.
Technical Design
Facilitate detailed designs and site layouts with advanced visualization capabilities and streamlined regulatory management.
Manufacturing & Construction
Enable detailed drawings and materials management for steel and concrete structures, integrating rich data for design precision.
Handover
Provide comprehensive documentation, including reports and analyses, facilitating smooth handover and delivery processes.
Explore Bundled Software
- OpenBuildings Designer
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OpenBuildings Designer
Streamline design and facilitate seamless standardization. Create high-quality, LOD-dependent representations and enjoy easy integration of a German dataset optimized for DIN and VOB standards.
Key Features
- Enhance architectural design with advanced view filter technology, real-time precision, German standard compliance, and customizable detailing
- Integrate drawings, maps, and models for streamlined design management, visualization, and reporting
- Design diverse facilities that include factories, airports and hospitals, meeting German architectural needs
- Seamlessly blend architectural design, structural drafting, and documentation for consistent coordination
- OpenBuildings Speedikon
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OpenBuildings Speedikon
Streamline your design and development process to deliver global infrastructure projects on schedule and under budget.
Key Features
- OpenBuildings Energy Simulator: An integrated energy analysis module to help fulfill sustainability goals and complex requirements
- OpenBuildings GenerativeComponents: An associative and parametric modeling system to expedite design iterations through automation
- OpenBuildings Station Designer: Facilitate the functional design of rail and metro stations of any shape, size or complexity.
- ProStructures
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ProStructures
Increase productivity and profitability by creating and automatically updating 3D models, including structural steel and reinforced concrete structures.
Key Features
- Model complex reinforced concrete objects and steel structures with precision
- Reduce time and errors in documentation with automatic updates and integrated detailing capabilities
- Generate detailed models, placement drawings, fabrication details, and comprehensive reports
- Ensure documentation accuracy with automatic updates, reflecting model changes
- Deliver high-quality detailing and designs with accurate models, as well as updated reports and materials lists
- OpenSite Designer
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OpenSite Designer
A powerful and comprehensive software to efficiently plan, design, and manage site and land development projects.
Key Features
- Comprehensive site design, including grading, drainage, and road design
- Seamless CAD, GIS, and BIM data integration
- Create detailed terrain models for accurate representation of site conditions
- Visualize and analyze site designs in 3D for better understanding and decision-making
- Bentley LumenRT
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Bentley LumenRT
Transform designs into immersive digital experiences with stunning, real-time visualizations with dynamic environments.
Key Features
- Seamlessly integrate with major design software, streamlining model import and enhancement without complex conversions
- Create vibrant 3D environments with nature, urban elements, and dynamic weather to improve stakeholder understanding of designs
- Simplify animating objects and elements, simulating real-world motion to bring visualizations to life
- Deliver compelling presentations with photorealistic water, skies, and lighting
- Manage models efficiently, accommodating everything from small designs to extensive urban projects
- Bentley Descartes
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Bentley Descartes
A powerful companion feature provided with OpenBuildings Designer.
Key Features
- Integrate and enhance raster datasets in MicroStation for direct editing and processing
- Conduct efficient point cloud data handling, enabling real-world condition integration into designs
- Allow seamless blending of raster, vector, and point cloud data for detailed modeling and analysis Include complex modeling capabilities for terrain, volumetric analysis, and 3D creation from 2D data
- Boost productivity with specialized capabilities for raster and point cloud data
- iTwin Capture Modeler
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iTwin Capture Modeler
A cutting-edge solution designed to enhance digital twin workflows by enabling the creation, visualization, and analysis of reality meshes, point clouds, and digital photographs.
Key Features
- Integrate reality data from various sources into digital twin workflows for accurate 3D representation
- Simplify conversion of raw reality data into actionable insights, supporting the processing of large datasets
- Foster stakeholder collaboration by incorporating up-to-date reality models into the iTwin Platform
- Visualize and analyze reality data within the project context, including infrastructure inspection and progress monitoring
- Seamlessly integrate reality models with BIM and GIS data for detailed representation and accurate decision-making
OpenBuildings Designer
Streamline design and facilitate seamless standardization. Create high-quality, LOD-dependent representations and enjoy easy integration of a German dataset optimized for DIN and VOB standards.
Key Features
- Enhance architectural design with advanced view filter technology, real-time precision, German standard compliance, and customizable detailing
- Integrate drawings, maps, and models for streamlined design management, visualization, and reporting
- Design diverse facilities that include factories, airports and hospitals, meeting German architectural needs
- Seamlessly blend architectural design, structural drafting, and documentation for consistent coordination
OpenBuildings Speedikon
Streamline your design and development process to deliver global infrastructure projects on schedule and under budget.
Key Features
- OpenBuildings Energy Simulator: An integrated energy analysis module to help fulfill sustainability goals and complex requirements
- OpenBuildings GenerativeComponents: An associative and parametric modeling system to expedite design iterations through automation
- OpenBuildings Station Designer: Facilitate the functional design of rail and metro stations of any shape, size or complexity.
ProStructures
Increase productivity and profitability by creating and automatically updating 3D models, including structural steel and reinforced concrete structures.
Key Features
- Model complex reinforced concrete objects and steel structures with precision
- Reduce time and errors in documentation with automatic updates and integrated detailing capabilities
- Generate detailed models, placement drawings, fabrication details, and comprehensive reports
- Ensure documentation accuracy with automatic updates, reflecting model changes
- Deliver high-quality detailing and designs with accurate models, as well as updated reports and materials lists
OpenSite Designer
A powerful and comprehensive software to efficiently plan, design, and manage site and land development projects.
Key Features
- Comprehensive site design, including grading, drainage, and road design
- Seamless CAD, GIS, and BIM data integration
- Create detailed terrain models for accurate representation of site conditions
- Visualize and analyze site designs in 3D for better understanding and decision-making
Bentley LumenRT
Transform designs into immersive digital experiences with stunning, real-time visualizations with dynamic environments.
Key Features
- Seamlessly integrate with major design software, streamlining model import and enhancement without complex conversions
- Create vibrant 3D environments with nature, urban elements, and dynamic weather to improve stakeholder understanding of designs
- Simplify animating objects and elements, simulating real-world motion to bring visualizations to life
- Deliver compelling presentations with photorealistic water, skies, and lighting
- Manage models efficiently, accommodating everything from small designs to extensive urban projects
Bentley Descartes
A powerful companion feature provided with OpenBuildings Designer.
Key Features
- Integrate and enhance raster datasets in MicroStation for direct editing and processing
- Conduct efficient point cloud data handling, enabling real-world condition integration into designs
- Allow seamless blending of raster, vector, and point cloud data for detailed modeling and analysis Include complex modeling capabilities for terrain, volumetric analysis, and 3D creation from 2D data
- Boost productivity with specialized capabilities for raster and point cloud data
iTwin Capture Modeler
A cutting-edge solution designed to enhance digital twin workflows by enabling the creation, visualization, and analysis of reality meshes, point clouds, and digital photographs.
Key Features
- Integrate reality data from various sources into digital twin workflows for accurate 3D representation
- Simplify conversion of raw reality data into actionable insights, supporting the processing of large datasets
- Foster stakeholder collaboration by incorporating up-to-date reality models into the iTwin Platform
- Visualize and analyze reality data within the project context, including infrastructure inspection and progress monitoring
- Seamlessly integrate reality models with BIM and GIS data for detailed representation and accurate decision-making
Building WorkSuite
- Real-time collaborative workflows
- Easily integrated modeling data
- Solutions for regulatory compliance
- Advanced design automation capabilities
- Precise project visualization
*Prices vary per region. For more options, see licensing and subscriptions section.
7 Bundled Solutions. Countless Benefits
Bentley solutions expand the capabilities of designers and provide them [with] tools to experiment and digitize their thoughts and visions to create structures which will exist in the real world for a long time.
Featured User Stories
Guangdong Hydropower
Cutting Hydroelectric Design Time by 800 Hours
When one of China’s largest hydroelectric pump storage systems utilized software included in Building WorkSuite, the improvements to efficiency were staggering.
China Railway
Full Lifecycle BIM on a 256-km High-Speed Railway
As the first railway project to promote full lifecycle BIM on the whole line, Bentley software improved design quality by 50% and avoided costly design changes.
PT. Wijaya Karya (WIKA)
Designing a $4M (USD) COVID-19 Hospital in Just 10 Days
During the pandemic, traditional methods would’ve required over a month for project completion. So, WIKA turned to BIM technology to efficiently design a 300-bed modular hospital.
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FAQs
Building WorkSuite is the ultimate portfolio of design and analysis applications for building and land development—all packaged together in one cost-effective license. Architects, engineers, and construction professionals can design, visualize, communicate, and streamline building and site projects with solutions that all come from one company and all work together.
Featuring seven industry-leading applications, Building WorkSuite equips you to elevate your projects to new heights of excellence:
- OpenBuildings Designer
- OpenBuildings Speedikon
- OpenSite Designer
- Bentley LumenRT
- Bentley Descartes
- iTwin Capture Modeler
- ProStructures
The price of Building WorkSuite varies per region. While there are various types of licensing available, a common choice is the 12-month practitioner license offered through Bentley’s eStore. When you purchase through the eStore, you get a Virtuoso Subscription. This means you get the software and “Keys” (tokens) to redeem for customizable training, mentoring, and consulting services.
Building WorkSuite provides a range of products, each with specific system requirements. You can find the minimum system requirements for each software on its individual product page. Below is the list of minimum system requirements for OpenBuildings Designer, which has the highest requirements among the included software.
Processor
Intel or AMD processor 1.0 GHz or greater
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 11 or 10 (64-bit or 21H2), Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016 (64-bit)
Memory
16 GB RAM minimum, 32 GB RAM recommended.
For the most up-to-date system requirements, visit Bentley Communities.
