Innovating Reality Models

INDONESIAN OIL, GAS & POWER
35,000 MW PROJECT REACH MILESTONE
VOLUME 58 | JANUARY 27 - FEBRUARY 27, 2016
TECHNOLOGY
Bentley’s top executives and participans of the Year in infrastructure 2015
Bentley System:
Innovating reality models
By: Benget Besalicto ST
“W
e connect reality
and virtual
reality,” said
Greg Bentley,
the Chief Operating Officer (CEO) of
Bentley System, when addressing
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the opening ceremony of the annual
event of Year in Infrastructure
Conference organized by Bentley
System, the world’s leading provider
of software solutions, in London from
Nov. 3 to 5, 2015.
The 3-day international event,
which has been organized by Bentley
System since 2004, was attended by
hundreds of companies’ executives,
government officials, technological
observers and experts, as well as
media from around the world. It was
dedicated for discussions on how
to provide accurate data through
the software solutions that will help
users to better manage their assets,
projects and infrastructure units.
Greg Bentley said that
engineering data and information
are increasingly connected with the
virtual technologies like augmented
reality and high quality visualization
systems. Such connection will allow
users to see their assets or projects
better and enable them to make any
necessary decision for approvals,
corrections, or improvements
without having to visit the real
assets or projects on site. They
can just see them through a reality
modeling system in a laptop
while having a discussion with
other colleagues in a meeting
room far away from the projects or
infrastructure units.
Greg Bentley mentioned his
companies’ acquisitions, integrations
and improvements of several
software products during 2015 as
part of its efforts to provide better
software solutions for companies
in designing, constructing, and
managing their infrastructure units
and assets, Prominent among them
was its new ContextCapture, which
was Bentley’s first product release
of the Acute3D software technology
acquired earlier last year. The
software can be adjusted to meet
the need of any organization which
can apply 3D models of real-world
context.
The ContextCapture, and
digital photography including from
unmanned aerial vehicles ( UAVs),
can produce a detailed reality mesh
with a combination of the referenced
photography. It will enable users to
easily produce high resolution 3D
models of any existing condition by
using photos taken with any digital
camera. That means users can use the
software to produce a navigable 3D
model with fine and photorealistic
detail, sharp edges, and precise
geometric accuracy. These highly
detailed models can be made of any
size or resolution, from the size of a
gate up to a city scale, much faster
than with other technologies.
Greg Bentley cited the detailed
reality model of Philadelphia city
provided for all decision makers
and organizations which involved
in preparations of the visit by Pope
Francis to the city in September
2015. Such detailed reality model
had provided all necessary data, and
had helped them in making virtual
simulations of everything they want
before making any decision regarding
the preparations and implementation
of the Papal visit.
During the Year in Infrastructure
2015 Conference, Bentley also
announced General Access to
ContextCapture Center for “grid
computing” power to dramatically
expedite processing time for very
large models.
Taking Acute3D technology
to the next level, Bentley’s new
ContextCapture offers significant
new advantages to users, including a
new multi-platform browser plug-in
and desktop viewer that supports
multitouch and allows users to easily
and consistently share reality meshes
on desktop and mobile devices, even
for models of entire cities.
“ContextCapture offers a new and
versatile way of capturing reality
to serve as context for design,
monitoring, inspection, and surveying
processes, complementing Bentley
Pointools and Bentley Descartes. I’m
pleased to say that reality meshes
produced by ContextCapture can
now be intrinsically integrated
throughout Bentley’s common
modeling environment, by way of
native support within MicroStation
CONNECT Edition,” Pascal Martinez,
Bentley Systems’ Director of Business
Development, said during the
conference,
David Byrne, technical director,
AEROmetrex, confirmed that the
ContextCapture has enabled his
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company to construct highly detailed
3D models of virtually any size
for clients, faster and at much less
cost than with traditional methods.
“But what’s most powerful is the
amazing context that it provides to
facilitate better decisions throughout
design, construction, and operations.
ContextCapture allows you to create
a fully photo-textured, geographically
located 3D model, all derived directly
from digital photography. And, once
the models have been built, they
can be quickly and easily viewed
on any desktop or mobile device.
We think ContextCapture is going
to revolutionize the geospatial
industry,” he said.
To further improve and integrate
its software solutions, during 2015
Bentley had acquired UK.-based
C3global, which is the provider of
web-based Amulet software for
operational analytics; the Francebased Acute3D, which is the provider
of Smart3DCapture software for
reality modeling; California-based
EADOC LLC, which is the provider
of construction management
cloud services; and e-on software,
which is a leader in the creation,
simulation, and integration of natural
3D environments, with software
development based in Paris, France,
A day before the infrastructure
conference 2015, Bentley Systems
and AECOM jointly announced
that AECOM, which has named
Bentley as a strategic partner for
project delivery technologies, has
extended its ProjectWise corporate
commitment to fully include the new
Bentley Cloud Services Subscription
Program.
Another prominent software
product is its asset performance
management software called
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the AssetWise APM. The Asset
performance management helps
owner-operators to sustain their
infrastructure assets and maximize
their returns on investment over the
operating life of the assets. Improving
the reliability and performance of
an organization’s assets reduces
risk and has a direct positive effect
on safety, operational efficiency,
production predictability, and overall
profitability. It serves as a single
source of truth for asset information,
inspection, performance, reliability,
and maintenance of infrastructure
assets. It includes 3D and 2D visual
navigation of assets with links to
engineering information, and ensures
change management and document
control.
The system can provide users
a dashboard view of the current
health of their assets, infrastructure
units, and projects and allow them
to predict any potential failure and,
therefore, mitigate the consequences
of asset failure. Risk-based strategies
provide the technical basis for an
asset’s inspection and reliability
and integrity management program.
Strategies include reliability-centered
maintenance (RCM2), risk-based
inspection (RBI) analysis in particular
for structural, piping, pressure
vessels, maintenance task analysis
(MTA), and current practices review
(CPR) as a quick start in automating
existing paper check sheets.
A subset of the software runs on
mobile and remote devices so that
inspectors in the field can monitor
assets and have ready access to asset
and work history. Real-time condition
data is collected, consolidated,
and analyzed in AssetWise APM’s
inspection data management system.
The system recommends corrective
work that needs to be done to
ensure asset integrity, reliability, and
performance.
Simulation and optimization
techniques include reliabilitycentered design analysis,
maintenance plan optimization,
availability simulation, failure data
analysis, and lifecycle cost analysis
to generate data-driven insights
towards replacement strategies.
i-model planning packages support
decisions on where to inspect by
integrating quantitative risk-based
inspection calculations with 2D and
3D models to help the engineers
better visualize and understand,
for example, where corrosion
loops are, which specific corrosion
measurement locations are required,
how to access hard-to-reach areas.
Greg Bentley also mentioned a
new, comprehensive subscription
program for cloud-based access to
collaboration services and apps,
managed services, administration of
term licenses, professional services,
Bentley Institute LEARNservices,
and new CONNECT Edition Cloud
Services. With the new Bentley Cloud
Services Subscription program, user
organizations can subscribe to any
or all of these offerings within the
framework of a predictable annual
budget.
“Connecting through cloud
services is so fundamentally valuable
to our users, their projects, and their
enterprises that we want to eliminate
any commercial deterrent to user
organizations’ taking full advantage.
As an enterprise user of many cloud
services, I think we have worked
out how to improve on the vendors’
business models we’ve seen to date.
We’re introducing all the benefits
of being connected, but with full
visibility and accountability for costs,
and without headaches or risks to
budget. We believe that our Cloud
Services Subscription program, like
our many commercial innovations
that have preceded it, provides our
users with the simplest and fairest
approach possible,” he said.
Awards
Along with its annual
Infrastructure conference, Bentley
also invited all of users companies
to participate in its yearly held
unique competition called Be
Inspired Awards. During the Year
in Infrastructure 2015 conference,
Bentley Systems Inc announced 18
winners of the 2015 Be Inspired
Awards, and five winners of the 2015
Be Inspired Special Recognition
Awards. They were awarded for their
extraordinary work in creatively
applying the software solutions in
managing infrastructure units.
The winners were selected by
10 independent panels of jurors,
comprising distinguished industry
experts, from 54 project finalists,
who had been previously shortlisted
from over 360 submissions by
organizations in 66 countries. The
candidates for the Be Inspired
Special Recognition Awards were
selected by the jurors from the top
finalist projects as well as other
exemplary nominations. This
selection was based on the projects’
uniquely innovative and visionary
achievements that transcend the
narrower focus of the standing Be
Inspired Awards categories. The
nominees were then reviewed by
a panel of Bentley executives, who
evaluated them based on the criteria
established for each award.
“This has been a year of major
achievements for Bentley Systems
that include the introduction of our
CONNECT Edition infrastructure
engineering software, providing
a common environment for
comprehensive project delivery. But
the achievements that my colleagues
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and I are most proud of are those of
our users. For while our goal at Bentley
is advancing infrastructure, we can
only accomplish it through the vision,
talent, and dedication of the architects,
engineers, constructors, and operations
professionals who creatively apply
our technology in pursuit of effective
strategies for achieving new levels
of project or infrastructure asset
performance,” he said.
“Such achievements are
exemplified by the extraordinary Be
Inspired Award-winning projects we
celebrated. I heartily congratulate the
organizations that were instrumental
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in the delivery or operations of these
truly inspiring projects. Moreover, I
applaud all of the project nominees in
this year’s awards program for their
contributions to improving quality of
life around the globe,” he said.
The Be Inspired Special
Recognition Awards winners for 2015
are as follows:
1. Morphosis Architects – Bill &
Melinda Gates Hall from Ithaca,
New York, the US, for advancing
collaborative BIM.
2. Hatch Ltd – Keeyask
Hydroelectric Generating
Station Project in Nelson River,
Manitoba, Canada, for advancing
comprehensive BIM Playbooks.
3. Jacobs – NAG Project in Baytown,
Texas, the US for advancing
construction modeling.
4. Western Power Distribution, EMU
for iPad, from Exeter, the UK, for
advancing information mobility in
operations.
5. HDR, Union Station to Oak Cliff
Streetcar TIGER Design-Build
Project in Dallas, Texas, the US, for
advancing the integrated projects.
Among the winners of the Be
Inspired Awards 2015 are as
follows:
1. MWH Global, Tyseley Resource
Recovery Centre in Birmingham,
West Midland, the UK, for
innovation in power generation.
2. Keystone Engineering Inc, Block
Island Wind Farm in Block
Island, Rhode Island, the US for
innovation in offshore.
3. Tetra Tech Proteus, Kvanefjeld
Rare Earth, Uranium Project in
Narsaq, Kujalleq of Greenland for
innovation in mining.
4. AECOM, Global Project
Collaboration in a Design-buildfinance-operate (DBFO) for
innovation in project delivery.
5. Pacific Gas and Electric
Company, Engineering Contractor
Collaboration Solution Using
ProjectWise and Bentley
Substation in San Ramon,
California, the US for innovation in
utilities and communications.
6. SA Water, Predictive and
Operational Analytics Tools,
Adelaide Metro Water
Distribution Network in Adelaide,
South Australia, for innovation in
asset performance management.
7. Singapore Land Authority,
Mapping Singapore in 3D in
Singapore for innovation in
government.
8. Tata Consulting Engineers
Ltd, detailed design of utility
infrastructure in Dharampur,
Gujarat, India for innovation in
land development.
Challenges
During panel discussions,
Amanda Clack, Partner EY and
Head of Infrastructure (Advisory)
of RICS highlighted the growingly
convergence between the IT and
technology. “The Information
Technology (IT) and the technology
are getting more integrated. A
convergence of the two is under way,”
she said.
But Ed Morrow, the Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of
Independent Project Analysis (IPA)
suggested, “We’re over-engineering
and really need more standardization.
Standards lead to standard
performance expectations,” he said.
According to him, adoption of
technology has been slow among
industries. “The public sector has
embraced technology better than the
industry,” he said.
Rowan Steele, Network
Operations Modelling Engineer, South
Australia Water concurred with
Morrow, saying that “most of clients
are ambivalent about using new
technologies in operations.”
David Coplin, Chief Envisioning
Officer of Microsoft also confirmed
about the slow adoption of new
technologies among industries. “ Most
people have better technology at
home than they do at work. We’ve got
technology the wrong way around.
We need to unbox our inbox,” he said.
He mentioned the fact that human
being is the huge data creator but
do not use it all, or know how to
use it. “In practice we have the data,
but do we know our infrastructure
operations better?,” he asked.
Clack suggested that critical
thinking skills are the key factor to
understanding data and analyzing
assets’ performance. “More
awareness and improved education
would go a long way to improving the
situation,” she said. Apparently, the annual
infrastructure conference has become
the right forum to increase such
awareness and educate the industries
on the software solutions they need
to enable them to better manage their
assets and infrastructure projects.
Through the annual conference,
participants have the chances to
follow presentations of Bentley’s
users and panel discussions on how
they will be empowered in their
respective business operations
through the applications of the
software solutions.
Greg Bentley noted that his
company will continue to better
connecting the reality and virtuality,
by continually pursuing the
improvement and integration of its
software solutions. Greg Bentley’s
statement reflected his company’s
commitment since its establishment
in 1984, to better bridge between
the reality of assets, infrastructure,
or projects and virtual reality
through the improvement of its
continual and integrated software
solutions. The company has
expanded its software business in
over 50 countries with more than
3,000 workers. Having an annual
income of US$ 600 million, the
company has invested more than
US$ 1 billion since 2006 for research
and development, and acquisitions.
During last year alone, the company
managed to integrate a number
of products, through acquisitions,
which are expected to better serve
the needs of users in designing,
constructing, and managing their
assets and infrastructure projects.
“We are providing better
depth of modeling with greater
mobility of information. Key to
these advancements is the ability to
provide “advancement in analytical
modeling, through to visualization
and simulation,” Greg Bentley
concluded.
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