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Bentley Systems’ Going Digital Awards feature categories that honor the year’s best achievements across all stages of infrastructure development.
Explore the award categories below that will be judged by an independent panel of global industry experts.
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Bridges And Tunnels
Projects that demonstrate digital advancements of the assets connecting infrastructure from above and below ground.
Showcase how your project improved outcomes for the organizations involved, the surrounding communities, and the local environments.
Submissions must include the use of Bentley bridge and tunnel solutions alone or in combination with other software (e.g., iTwin Capture, iTwin Experience, iTwin IoT, OpenBridge, OpenRail, OpenRoads, MicroStation, PLAXIS, SYNCHRO, AssetWise, and ProjectWise) to plan, design, construct, operate, or otherwise enhance bridge and tunnel infrastructure.
Submissions should highlight the value gained through the integration and interoperability of Bentley products and technology across teams, disciplines, organizations, and stakeholders.
Submissions should demonstrate how process or workflow improvements helped increase efficiency and effectiveness, application of industry good practice, and compliance with project and/or industry standards.
Submissions should establish, and will be judged on, the impact of changes made in terms of sustainability, as well as social, economic, and/or environmental conditions, including how new or upgraded infrastructure will improve the quality of life for people who live and work nearby.
Submissions should clearly present quantifiable results achieved, including gains in productivity, efficiency, and quality; mitigation and management of risk; increased safety; reduced time and cost; and improved asset performance, reliability, or resilience.
Submissions must include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.
If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at [email protected]
2024 Going Digital Award Winner:
JMT
Digital Experience for I-95 Rappahannock River Crossing Construction Project
Construction
Projects that demonstrate digital advancements through the usage of Bentley’s Construction Management software solutions.
Whether in the construction phase and/or completed, your project should feature improved results driven by SYNCHRO workflows. If using iModel connectors, discuss benefits on the process design/construction models from various sources.
Submissions will be judged against the following key principles:
Return on Investment:
Present quantifiable results achieved through project optimization and risk management including reduced design/project time, resource hours saved, increases in safety and/or business performance, and cost savings realized.
4D Pre-planning:
Demonstrate how 4D multidiscipline models were used to:
- optimize and simulate the ideal construction path by identifying and resolving issues/clashes with WBS, schedule, costs, resources, and supply chain logistics prior to actual construction.
- perform 4D/5D model based QTO complete with WBS and cost codes to create quick and accurate cost estimates.
Project Management:
Demonstrate how:
- Bentley solutions have increased project management efficiencies including better team transparency, communication, collaboration, and risk management.
- progress is recorded on-site via mobile devices, phones, or tablets, as well as with automated tracking technology such as photogrammetry or RFID tags and presented as management dashboards for progress tracking.
Field Performance:
Exhibit how field performance data (daily logs, daily progress quantities, unplanned events, timesheets, etc.) is being managed and measured against planned costs and schedule to gain a complete view of project performance.
Sustainability Impact:
Exhibit sustainability efforts such as waste management, reduced carbon footprint, and use of more resilient resources that are essential to our quality of life and to sustain our economies and the environment.
If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at [email protected]
2024 Going Digital Award Winner:
Proicere Ltd.
SPRS Retreatment Plant (SRP) Sellafield
Enterprise Engineering
Projects that demonstrate innovation in digital collaboration, information management, information mobility, or content management.
Detail how your digital workflows increased transparency, efficiency, and collaboration, spanning the planning, design, and delivery of a single project or across a project portfolio.
Submissions must include standardized use of Bentley’s enterprise engineering applications, ProjectWise or BCDE, alone or in conjunction with other software and services, to collaborate with stakeholders and external supply chains for information management with decisive productivity improvements. Submissions should highlight any digital twin workflows powered by iTwin technology.
Submissions should emphasize the value gained through the implementation of information management and collaboration technology across teams, disciplines, organizations, and stakeholders.
Submissions should present quantifiable results that demonstrate how digital workflows increased transparency, productivity, risk mitigation, compliance with industry standards, and a clear return-on-investment. Return on investment can include reduced design time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and increased business performance.
Submissions must include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.
Submissions should highlight the ways in which their going digital initiatives influence the world beyond the project scope in areas such as sustainability, social impact, and environmental benefits.
If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at [email protected]
2024 Going Digital Award Winner:
Mott MacDonald and HDR
Ontario Line – Information Management
Facilities, Campuses, And Cities
Projects that demonstrate digital advancements for the entire lifecycle of buildings, airports, and campuses across a city or municipal region.
Emphasize how your project leveraged the latest digital advances to deliver improved outcomes while positively impacting the surrounding communities and environments.
Project delivery submissions should include discipline-specific application of Bentley’s building design solution (OpenBuildings Designer) and/or its unique capabilities, including computational design capability (OpenBuildings GenerativeComponents), energy analysis capability (OpenBuildings Energy Simulator), rail and metro station design capability (OpenBuildings Station Designer), and/or mobility solution (CityPhi, CUBE, Dynameq, Emme, LEGION, Streetlytics). These solutions can be used alone or in combination with other software to plan, design, construct, operate, or otherwise enhance buildings, facilities, campus, or city infrastructure.
Campus, facility, or city scale planning and operational submissions should include digital workflows associated to critical infrastructure, cadastral mapping, 3D/4D models (digital twins), and other geospatial workflows and include OpenCities Planner and can include other software such as iTwin Experience, iTwin Capture, and iTwin IoT.
Submissions should highlight the value gained through the integration and interoperability of Bentley products and technology across teams, disciplines, organizations, and stakeholders.
Submissions should demonstrate how process and workflow improvements helped increase efficiency and effectiveness, application of industry good practice, and compliance with project and/or industry standards.
Submissions should establish, and will be judged on, the impact of changes made in terms of sustainability, plus social, economic, and/or environmental conditions, including how new or upgraded infrastructure will improve the quality of life for people who live and work nearby.
Submissions should clearly present quantifiable results achieved, including gains in productivity, efficiency, and quality; mitigation and management of risk; increased safety; reduced time and cost; and improved asset performance, reliability, or resilience.
Submissions must include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, models, simulations, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.
If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at [email protected]
2024 Going Digital Award Winner:
China ENFI Engineering Co., Ltd.
Digital Construction Project of Comprehensive Waste Management Facilities in Xiong’an New Area
Process And Power Generation
Projects that demonstrate digital innovations in the entire lifecycle of industrial process or power generation facilities.
Your project should include an alternative design approach that accomplished at least one of the following:
- Significantly boosted productivity
- Improved sustainability via new construction methods, innovative equipment, or materials
- Transformed processes during operations to increase efficiency, safety, and reliability
Submissions must use Bentley software, either alone or in combination with other software. Suggested Bentley brands include AssetWise, iTwin, iTwin Capture, Plantsight, OpenPlant, OpenBuildings, OpenWindPower, AutoPIPE, ProjectWise, MicroStation, and SYNCHRO.
Submissions should include going digitalinnovations and will be judged against the following five key principles:
- Technical Innovation – Submissions should highlight the unique technical innovations achieved and the value gained through the integration and interoperability of Bentley products and third-party technology across teams, disciplines, organizations, and stakeholders.
- Process/Workflow Improvements – Submissions should demonstrate how process/workflow improvements helped increase individual efficiency and effectiveness of industry good practice, as well as compliance with project and/or industry standards.
- Organization or Regional Impact – Submissions should highlight the impact and value gain across their organizations and the application of industry good practice, as well as compliance with project and/or industry standards.
- Environmental Impact – Submissions should establish in terms of sustainability and social, economic, and/or environmental conditions, how the new or upgraded plant will improve the quality of life for people who live and work nearby.
- Return on Investment – Submissions should clearly present quantifiable results achieved, including gains in productivity, efficiency, and quality; mitigation and management of risk; increased safety; reduced time and cost; and improved asset performance, reliability, or resilience.
Submissions must include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.
If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at [email protected]
2024 Going Digital Award Winner:
PowerChina Zhongnan Engineering Corporation Limited
Digital Twin of Shandong Energy Group Bozhong Offshore Wind Farm Site A
Rail And Transit
Projects that demonstrate digital advancements across the lifecycle of rail and transit infrastructure.
Your project should include an innovative approach that accomplished at least one of the following:
- Significantly boosted productivity
- Improved sustainability via new construction methods
- Transformed of processes during operations to deliver increased reliability
Submissions must include an application or technology within Bentley’s rail and transit solution (alone or in combination with other software) during the planning, design and engineering, construction, or operations and maintenance a rail and transit network. Suggested Bentley brands include AssetWise, iTwin Experience, iTwin Capture, iTwin IoT, iTwin Platform, OpenBridge, OpenBuildings, OpenRail, OpenRoads, PLAXIS, ProjectWise, MicroStation, and SYNCHRO
Submissions should demonstrate going digitalinnovations and will be judged against the following four key principles:
- Integration and Interoperability – Submissions should highlight the value gained through the integration and interoperability of Bentley products and technology across teams, disciplines, organizations, and stakeholders.
- Process/Workflow Improvements – Submissions should demonstrate how process and workflow improvements helped increase efficiency and effectiveness, application of industry good practice, and compliance with project and/or industry standards.
- Regional Impact – Submissions should establish in terms of sustainability, plus social, economic, and/or environmental conditions, as well as how new or upgraded infrastructure will improve the quality of life for people who live and work nearby.
- Return on Investment – Submissions should clearly present quantifiable results achieved, including gains in productivity, efficiency, and quality; mitigation and management of risk; increased safety; reduced time and cost; and improved asset performance, reliability, or resilience.
Submissions must include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.
If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at [email protected]
2024 Going Digital Award Winner:
SPL Powerlines UK
Midland Main Line Electrification
Roads And Highways
Projects that demonstrate digital advancements for planning, design, construction, delivery, and operations of roads or highways.
Showcase how your project delivered improved outcomes for the organizations involved and, in turn, for the users of these vital assets.
Submissions must include one or more Bentley products for road projects (e.g., OpenRoads, ConceptStation, LumenRT, iTwin Capture, SYNCHRO, ProjectWise, MicroStation, iTwin, AssetWise Inspections, AssetWise Linear Network Management, SUPERLOAD) to plan, design, construct, operate, or otherwise enhance road infrastructure.
Submissions should demonstrate technical and/or innovative applications of Bentley products and technology.
Submissions will be judged based on how the project demonstrates the use of digital engineering data, including digital twins.
Submissions should present tangible and quantifiable results, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, or increased business performance with a clear return on investment (ROI) provided.
Submissions will also be judged on the impact of the changes made, including sustainability and local social, economic, or environmental situation.
Submissions should include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.
If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at [email protected]
2024 Going Digital Award Winner:
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)
Digital Twin Implementation for NLEX-SLEX Connector Road Project
Structural Engineering
Projects that demonstrate digital advancements in ingenuity, planning, modeling, analyzing, and delivering high-quality structures.
Detail your structural project’s usage of digital workflows and digital twins. These structures include buildings, facilities, offshore oil and gas platforms, and wind turbine foundations.
Submissions must have used Bentley applications innovatively to model, design, analyze, document, or detail a structure(s)—simple to complex—using any material. Applications can include STAAD, RAM, OpenWindPower, SACS, MOSES, and ADINA, but are not exclusive to these products. Bentley applications may be used in combination with other applications.
Submissions must demonstrate technical innovation using advancements like BIM or modern structural project workflows, interoperability, or data collaboration among multidisciplinary design teams.
Submissions must clearly document a return on investment with metrics in terms of reduced risk to owner, project, or submitter, or increased value in the resulting project. Submissions must also discuss safety, environmental impact, and business drivers for the project.
Submissions must adequately communicate the project scope, benefits, and return on investment achieved by using Bentley applications. Actual models or product screenshots, in addition to project images/renderings, are required. Clearly documenting time and/or cost savings with detailed or estimated cost figures or hours of time saved will help demonstrate the project’s return on investment. Additional screenshots, videos, animations, charts, or diagrams can help illustrate project excellence.
If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at [email protected]
2024 Going Digital Award Winner:
Hyundai Engineering
New Physical Modeling Method for Plant Steel Structures Using STAAD API
Subsurface Modeling And Analysis
Projects that demonstrate digital advancements in geology, geophysics, geotechnical engineering, and geodata management.
Special consideration will be given if your project showcases a positive impact on the environment, a community, or the economy, as well as reduced risk or optimized design for long-lasting performance.
Submissions must include use of at least one of the following applications from Seequent, The Bentley Subsurface Company, alone or in combination with other software:
- Geo-data and information management: Seequent Central, OpenGround, MX Deposit, Imago
- Geology and geostatistics: Leapfrog Works, Leapfrog Geo, Leapfrog Geothermal, Leapfrog Edge
- Geophysics: Oasis montaj, Aarhus GeoSoftware (AGS) Workbench, AGS Res2DInv, AGS Res3Dinv, AGS SPIA
- Geotechnical engineering: PLAXIS, GeoStudio
Submissions should clearly present quantifiable results achieved, including gains in productivity, efficiency, and quality; mitigation and management of risk; increased safety; reduced time and cost; and improved asset performance, reliability, or resilience.
Submissions must include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.
Submissions that demonstrate the use of multiple Bentley and/or Seequent products as part of a digital workflow are ideal.
If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at [email protected]
2024 Going Digital Award Winner:
Spark and WSP
North East Link Central Package
Surveying And Monitoring
Projects that demonstrate digital advancements in using reality modeling, mobile mapping, instrumentation, and sensor data management.
Validate your project’s success by showcasing the actionable, data-driven monitoring insights that you used for infrastructure digital twins throughout the asset lifecycle to make informed decisions.
Submissions must have used iTwin Capture, iTwin IoT, or iTwin Experience.
Submissions must demonstrate the value of surveying and monitoring to effective asset management and risk reduction, and not just the capture and visualization of geospatial data. It demonstrates a complete workflow from data capture to turning this data to actionable insights for infrastructure digital twins possibly leveraging artificial intelligence or machine learning.
Submissions should clearly present the project and benefits achieved, including a clear return on investment, such as resource hours saved, cost savings realized, etc. It should also demonstrate an increase in business performance, an explanation of technical innovation, and be supported by 3D model animation, high-resolution images, screenshots, or sample datasets.
Submissions will also be judged on the impact of the changes made, including sustainability and local social, economic, or environmental situation.
If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at [email protected]
2024 Going Digital Award Winner:
Water Supplies Department
Digital Twin of the Ex-Sham Shui Po Service Reservoir
Transmission And Distribution
Projects that demonstrate digital advancements in the planning, design, analysis, construction or operations of network infrastructure.
Nominate your inventive project that features electric or gas transmission and distribution and telecommunications networks.
Bentley technology (OpenUtilities Designer, OpenUtilities PowerView, OpenUtilities Substation, OpenComms Designer, SPIDAstudio, SPIDAcalc, SPIDAsilk, iTwin Capture, iTwin Experience, OpenTower, AssetWise, etc.) must have been used alone or in combination with other software and services to plan, design, analyze, build, or operate electric, gas, or communications networks.
Projects must demonstrate a combination of digital innovation, good project management, and a clear return on investment, such as reduced design and/or project time, resource hours saved, cost savings realized, and an increase in business performance.
Submissions should also discuss safety, environmental impact, and business drivers for the choice of facility.
If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at [email protected]
2024 Going Digital Award Winner:
Southwest Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd. of China Power Engineering Consulting Group
Full Life Cycle Digital Applications of Butuo ±800kV Converter Station
Water And Wastewater
Projects that demonstrate digital advancements for the entire asset lifecycle of all water infrastructure.
Explain how your project has delivered improved outcomes for the organizations involved and, in turn, for the communities served by these assets.
Submissions must demonstrate use of Bentley’s OpenFlows software (WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, SewerGEMS, SewerCAD, HAMMER, StormCAD, CivilStorm, PondPack, CulvertMaster, FlowMaster, FLOOD) and/or OpenFlows digital twin cloud solutions (WaterSight, PlantSight, SewerSight, iTwin). In addition, submissions may include other software, including but not limited to Bentley’s iTwin Capture, OpenPlant, STAAD, PLAXIS, OpenRoads, SYNCHRO, ProjectWise, or AssetWise.
Submissions should demonstrate going digital innovations and will be judged against the following four key principles:
- Integration and Interoperability – Submissions should highlight the value gained through the integration and interoperability of Bentley products and technology across teams, disciplines, organizations, and stakeholders.
- Process/Workflow Improvements – Submissions should demonstrate how process and workflow improvements helped increase efficiency and effectiveness, application of industry good practice, and compliance with project and/or industry standards.
- Regional Impact – Submissions should establish in terms of sustainability, plus social, economic, and/or environmental conditions, as well as how new or upgraded infrastructure will improve the quality of life for people who live and work nearby.
- Return on Investment – Submissions should clearly present quantifiable results achieved, including gains in productivity, efficiency, and quality; mitigation and management of risk; increased safety; reduced time and cost; and improved asset performance, reliability, or resilience.
Submissions must include high-quality, engaging, and informative images, screenshots, animations and movies, charts, and/or diagrams.
If you have any questions about the criteria, please contact us at [email protected]
2024 Going Digital Award Winner:
Basic Sanitation Utility Company of the State of São Paulo – Sabesp
Integra 4.0 Cultural Transformation Through Digitalization