Bentley Publishes 'The Year in Infrastructure' Project Yearbook, Adds Project Search Tool to Web Site

Bentley Systems, Incorporated has published "The Year in
Infrastructure," a 162-page project yearbook highlighting the
extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world's
infrastructure.

The yearbook features the 225 nominees recognized and 29 winners
honored in the professional portion of the 2006 BE Awards of
Excellence program. The BE Awards are judged by an independent panel
of industry experts and are presented at an evening ceremony during
the annual BE Conference (www.be.org). These projects, which set
benchmarks and showcase the imagination and technical mastery of the
organizations that created them, fall into the following categories:

-- Building - BIM for Architecture, BIM for Building Engineering,
BIM for Multiple Disciplines, BIM for Simulation and
Visualization, Building Managed Environment, and Building New
Technology Adoption

-- Civil - Civil Managed Environment, Civil New Technology
Adoption, Civil Rail Design, Civil Road Design, Civil Site
Design, and Civil Visualization

-- Geospatial - Geospatial Communications, Geospatial Government,
Geospatial Managed Environment, Geospatial Mapping and
Cadastre, Geospatial Modeling, Geospatial Public Works,
Geospatial Utilities, and Geospatial Web Publishing

-- Plant - Plant Lifecycle Information Management, Plant Managed
Environment, Plant Multidiscipline Engineering, Plant New
Technology Adoption, Plant Rookie of the Year, Plant Supply
Chain Integration, and Plant Visualization

-- Special - Best Overall IT Strategy and Well-Trained
Organization

Also included in the yearbook are the Lifetime Achievement and
Educator of the Year BE Award nominees and winners for 2006, along
with the 38 nominees recognized and three winners honored in the
academic portion of the program.

To view "The Year in Infrastructure," go to
www.be.org/projectyearbook.

In addition, the more than 600 world-class projects acknowledged
in the 2004, 2005, and 2006 BE Awards of Excellence programs are now
searchable using a new Web tool available at www.be.org/search. The
tool enables visitors to the site to search on terms, titles, or
keywords to find projects of special interest or relevance to their
needs.

About BE and the BE Conference

BE, which stands for "Bentley Empowered," embodies the power of
community to create, innovate, and improve the world's infrastructure.

The BE Conference, which consistently scores a 99 percent attendee
satisfaction rating, is a once-a-year learning opportunity for Bentley
user organizations offering professional training, technology updates,
keynotes, and best practice sharing. At these sessions, attendees
better themselves, better their organizations, and better the ways
they can improve the world's infrastructure.

For more information on BE Conference 2007, being held April
29-May 3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California, and on BE
Conference Europe, being held June 10-14 at the Hilton London
Metropole in the United Kingdom, go to www.be.org.

About Bentley

Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle
of the world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio
for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans
architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With
revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2400
colleagues globally, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software
to the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms and major
owner-operators, and was named the world's No. 2 provider of
GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study.

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www.bentley.com. To view a copy of Bentley's May 2006 Annual Report
online, go to www.bentley.com/May2006annualreport.

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