Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced the winners of the
2007 BE Awards of Excellence, which honor the extraordinary work of
Bentley users improving the world's infrastructure.
Thirty-one projects in the professional portion of the program
received BE Awards during the BE Conference in Los Angeles. These
projects set benchmarks and showcase the imagination and technical
mastery of the organizations that created them. In the academic
portion of the program, BE Awards went to the Educator of the Year and
to the top four student designs.
The winners were announced last night during a dinner and ceremony
hosted by Peter Sagal of the National Public Radio program "Wait
Wait... Don't Tell Me!," and co-sponsored by McGraw-Hill Construction,
publisher of Engineering News-Record. The independent panel of BE
Awards jurors, which included accomplished Bentley users and
distinguished industry experts, selected the winning projects from
more than 280 nominations.
"Honoring the recipients of our BE Awards of Excellence and their
wonderfully innovative work is something I look forward to every
year," said CEO Greg Bentley. "It is a privilege and a pleasure to
recognize so much talent and so many projects that will have a
positive impact on the world community for generations. On behalf of
all my colleagues at Bentley, I heartily congratulate the winners and
acknowledge the exceptional quality of all of the nominations."
Mr. Bentley continued, "During his keynote address, Bentley COO
Malcolm Walter announced the winners of a special new category of BE
Awards - 'Best Return on Innovation' - personally selected this year
by Malcolm based on ROI data supplied by each of the nominees. The
winners included: Bechtel, Dutch Ministry of Finance, GHAFARI
Associates, and Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
"These organizations are not only improving the world's
infrastructure with award-winning projects, but they are also
realizing substantial returns for their investments in innovation.
Again, on behalf of Bentley colleagues around the globe, I offer my
congratulations to each of these organizations on both
accomplishments."
The Winners of the 2007 BE Awards of Excellence
This year's BE Awards of Excellence winners are as follows:
Building
-- BIM for Architecture: Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners Ltd -
The Leadenhall Building
-- BIM for Building Engineering: M/E Engineering, P.C. - BioMed
Engineering and Optics Laboratory Building
-- BIM for Multiple Disciplines: Arup - Review and Study of the
Opera Theatre Interior and New Works, Sydney Opera House
-- BIM for Visualization and Simulation: Dvorak architekti s.r.o.
- Vrnata House
-- BIM for Sustainable Design: Fortis Bank - Kanselarij Cluster
Restructuring Project
-- Building Innovation: LJB, Inc. - Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
-- Building Structural Analysis, Design, and Documentation: WSP
Group plc - Manchester Hilton
-- Building Distributed Enterprise: The Standard Bank of South
Africa Ltd - Central Premises Information Repository
Civil
-- Civil Innovation: HNTB - TrueViz(TM) OnTarget(R)
-- Civil Road Infrastructure: Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick (India)
Pvt Ltd - Laning of Hyderabad-Vijayawada and Norra Lanken
-- Civil Site Design: Vela VKE Consulting Engineering - Zimbali
Civil Infrastructure
-- Civil Visualization and Simulation: Mott MacDonald Ltd - East
London Line Project
-- Civil Structural Analysis, Design, and Documentation: Arup -
Marina Bayfront Pedestrian Bridge
-- Civil Distributed Enterprise: The Banks Group - Centralized
Data Storage Using StartPoint and Riverbed WAN Optimization
Geospatial
-- Geospatial Communications: Nacap Telecom BV - Fibre Optics
'Zuid-Limburg' -Isilinx
-- Geospatial Government: Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Ruimtelijke
Ordening - IJburg
-- Geospatial Mapping and Cadastre: Petrobras SA - SGO Project -
Petrobras Subsea Assets Tracking
-- Geospatial 3D GIS: AAMHatch - True Orthophotography and 3D
Model of the City of Melbourne
-- Geospatial Water Resource Management: ISKI Genel Mudurlugu -
Infrastructure Integration of Mega City - Istanbul
-- Geospatial Utilities: Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. - The BGE
Bentley Project
-- Geospatial Innovation: Dutch Ministry of Finance -
Geospatially Enabling the Dutch Ministry of Finance; Putting
'Where' into SAP
-- Geospatial Distributed Enterprise: Sandia National
Laboratories - Power Through Integration
Plant
-- Plant Multi-Discipline Design: BSPiR Energoprojekt-Katowice
S.A. - The Coke Plant "Przyjazn"
-- Plant Lifecycle Information Management: North China Power
Engineering (Beijing) Co. Ltd - Building Up NCPE Content
Management Platform With ProjectWise as the Core
-- Plant Structural Analysis, Design, and Documentation: Southern
Co. Services - Plant Wansley Units 1-2 FGD Addition
-- Plant Visualization and Simulation: Atkins Water - Bolton
Wastewater Treatment Works
-- Plant Innovation: VECO Alaska Inc. - Conoco Phillips Drill
Site Technologies
-- Plant Rookie of the Year: Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles
County - San Jose Creek Central Plant Modification
-- Plant Distributed Enterprise: Bechtel - Jamnagar Export
Refinery Project
Special Awards
-- Best Overall IT Strategy: VECO Alaska Inc. - Bentley
Enterprise Implementation and Management
-- Well-Trained Organization: Halff Associates, Inc.
Academic Awards
-- Educator of the Year: Dr. Howard Turner - California State
Polytechnic University
-- Middle School/High School - MicroStation: Steffan Egger - The
Ultimate Bar (BRG 4/Waltergasse VIENNA)
-- Middle School/High School - MicroStation PowerDraft: Anthony
Apostolou, Meghan Goff, and Christine Lupton - Pelican Bay
Elementary School (Eastern Technical High School)
-- University/Collegiate, Architecture/Building: Lim Yu Tian
(Johathan) - ARCHinteractive (Singapore Polytechnic)
-- University/Collegiate, Engineering: Piotr Lukasz Czerski- An
Interchange 'Przyczolkowa' in Wilanow District Warsaw (Warsaw
University of Technology)
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, taking place this week
at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California, visit 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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