Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that Bentley
Architecture, an advanced Building Information Modeling (BIM)
application for architectural design and construction documentation,
has successfully passed certification for the coordination view of
IFC2x3. Implemented on the common technology platform for Bentley's
building applications, the IFC2x3 translator is also available in
Bentley Structural, Bentley Building Mechanical Systems, and Bentley
Building Electrical Systems.
Commenting on the certification, Volker Thein, Bentley's product
director for Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), said, "The IFC data
model is one of the keys to facilitating collaboration among project
teams and interoperability among software systems. We at Bentley are
proud to have achieved IFC2x3 certification and are fully committed to
this standard's ongoing development. It aligns perfectly with
Bentley's mission to provide BIM solutions that let architects,
engineers, contractors, and owners build as one."
Developed by the International Alliance for Interoperability
(IAI), IFC is a global industry standard for sharing design,
construction, and facility management data in a vendor-neutral format
across BIM applications that support it. By capturing both geometry
and properties of intelligent building objects and their
relationships, the IFC data model facilitates interoperability among
disparate applications, including design applications such as Bentley
Architecture, analysis applications, compliance checking software, and
so on. As a result, architects and engineers, contractors, building
owners and operators, and regulatory agencies can access, modify, and
coordinate design and construction information in a single shared
model and data repository.
The combination of IFC and information-rich Building Information
Models helps overcome the inefficiencies of a distributed and
fragmented building industry. At the same time, it enables fundamental
process improvements that provide all stakeholders with tremendous
benefits, including faster project delivery, less waste, and greater
productivity.
In addition to supporting IFC, Bentley's comprehensive portfolio
of fully integrated products and solutions provides other capabilities
that facilitate the sharing of information and interoperability among
BIM, CAD, and analysis applications, such as:
-- The ProjectWise scalable collaboration system for connecting
people and information across the distributed enterprise
-- DGN/DWG compatibility
-- 3D PDF and Google Earth(TM) support
-- Import/export tools for general-purpose industry standards
such as STEP, STL, IGES, DXF, and SKP (SketchUp)
-- Import/export tools for many dedicated industry standards such
as CIS/2 and SDNF
-- Seamless integration with Bentley's STAAD and RAM structural
analysis products
-- Direct integration with many structural analysis applications,
such as GT STRUDL, ROBOT, MIDAS/GENw, and SFRAME
-- Direct integration with CAMDUCT duct fabrication solutions
-- Integration with power analysis applications - EDSA (US
NEC/ANSI/IEEE), AMTECH ProDesign (BS 7671), elcoPower
(DIN/VDE)
-- Integration with lighting analysis solutions - Lumen Designer,
DIALux, Relux
For further information, visit
www.bentley.com/buildinginteroperability.
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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