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Bentley Acquires TDV GmbH, Leader in Analysis and Design Software for Bridges



    Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that it has acquired
    TDV GmbH of Austria, a leading provider of structural modeling,
    analysis, and design software for bridge engineering serving
    engineers, designers, and owners since 1970.

    TDV's industry-leading RM 2006 product for static and dynamic
    design and analysis of steel, concrete, and composite structures is
    used by hundreds of bridge design firms worldwide. The software is
    applicable to the design of virtually all bridge types - from simple
    segmented bridges to complex cable-stayed and suspension bridges to
    long crossings - and has been proven on thousands of projects. A
    number of these bridges have achieved historic milestones and are, or
    will soon become, global landmarks. Examples include:

    -- Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong, which has a main span of
    1018 meters, making it the first cable-stayed bridge ever
    designed with a main span longer than 1000 meters

    -- The 8206-kilometer-long Sutong Bridge in China, which will
    cross the Yangze River and include a multi-span cable-stayed
    section with a world-record-setting longest span of 1088
    meters

    -- Hardanger Bridge in Norway, a suspension bridge that will have
    a main span of approximately 1310 meters

    -- The new Woodrow Wilson Bridge in the United States, which will
    consist of two side-by-side bascule bridges each 1852 meters
    in length

    "This acquisition exemplifies Bentley's strategic focus on
    providing comprehensive software solutions for infrastructure
    projects," said Bhupinder Singh, senior vice president, Bentley
    Software. "RM 2006 adds sophisticated, advanced structural analysis
    capabilities to Bentley's market-leading structural design solutions,
    including our RAM and STAAD product lines, and expands our
    transportation design portfolio to encompass all elements of a roadway
    or rail design project."

    By integrating the capabilities of RM 2006 with those of Bentley's
    recently acquired BridgeKey software for load analysis rating and
    heavy-load permitting on existing bridges, as well as its GEOPAK
    Bridge, InRoads Bridge, Bentley Rebar, Bentley PowerRebar, and other
    products, Bentley now provides a true end-to-end bridge design and
    management solution. This opens the door to streamlined workflows and
    significant productivity improvements for organizations in the roadway
    and bridge sectors.

    RM 2006 provides built-in time dimension, parametric geometry
    definition, and integrated tendon design, allowing sophisticated
    calculation of time-dependent properties for all bridge types and
    construction sequences. In addition, it supports design to a full
    array of international design codes, including AASHTO Load and
    Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) Bridge Specifications, and offers
    highly sophisticated linear and nonlinear analysis options. These
    options include segmental construction loading, stage construction and
    erection control, stochastic wind event design, computational fluid
    dynamics (CFD), wind tunnel simulation, and more.

    Said Singh, "With the software's advanced parametric modeling and
    construction sequence-based analysis, bridge designers will be able to
    model and analyze every stage of the bridge construction project. In
    addition to staged construction analysis, the design team can now
    consider dynamic load conditions from wind, water, and high-speed
    trains."

    Said Dorian Janjic, former managing director of TDV and now vice
    president of Bentley Software's bridge engineering group, "On behalf
    of all of my colleagues at TDV, I want to say how pleased we are to be
    joining the Bentley team. Bentley's comprehensive portfolio of fully
    integrated road and railway software, coupled with its global reach,
    will enable us to offer our users more complete and scalable solutions
    that will lead to even greater success on their projects."

    For more information about Bentley's TDV line of solutions and
    services, go to www.tdv.at/wse/index.htm.

    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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    online, go to www.bentley.com/April2007annualreport.

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