Bentley Systems announces Winners of Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards

Bentley Systems announces Winners of Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards

Bentley Systems, the infrastructure engineering software company, has announced the winners of the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards. The annual awards program honours the extraordinary work of Bentley users advancing design, construction, and operations of infrastructure throughout the world.

Sixteen independent jury panels selected the 57 finalists from over 400 nominations submitted by more than 330 organizations from more than 60 countries.

Bentley Systems acknowledged 19 Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards winners and 14 Special Recognition awardees on October 21 during the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Conference, held virtually for the first time. To see the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards finalists present their projects, click here.

The Year in Infrastructure 2020 Special Recognition awardees are:

Advancing Project and Asset Longevity

• HDR
  • Marc Basnight Bridge,
  • Dare County, North Carolina, United States

Advancing Bridge Asset Performance Modelling

• Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
  • A Smartwatch on the Bridge
  • Ulsan, Ulju-gun, South Korea

Advancing Industrial Asset Performance Modelling

• The Institute of Engineering and Ocean Technology/Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited
  • Challenges in Addressing Life Extension of Ageing Platforms in Western Offshore of India
  • Mumbai, India

Comprehensiveness in Industrial Digital Twins

• Volgogradnefteproekt, LLC
  • Ethane-Containing Gas Processing Complex Construction Support
  • Ust-Luga, St. Petersburg, Russia

Comprehensiveness in Transportation Digital Twins

• PT. WASKITA Karya (Persero) Tbk
  • Railway Facility for Manggarai to Jatinegara: Package A – Phase II ( Main Line II )
  • South Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia

Comprehensiveness in Urban Digital Twins

• JSTI Group Co., Ltd.
  • Hengjiang Avenue Rapid Transformation Project
  • Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Comprehensiveness in a Connected Data Environment

• Roads & Transport Authority (RTA)
  • Collaborative Information System Implementation – Whole Lifecycle Common Data Environment
  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Advancing Virtualization through Digital Twins

• Network Rail
  • Overcoming Challenges Under COVID-19 Lockdown
  • Wales and Western Region, United Kingdom

Advancing Model-based Delivery through Digital Twins

• NYS Department of Transportation
  • Model Based Contracting – NYS RT 28 over the Esopus
  • Mount Tremper, New York, United States

Advancing Mixed-Reality Workflows

• Liaoning Water Conservancy and Hydropower Survey and Design Research Institute Co., Ltd.
  • Chaoyang Underground Pumping Station Project of the LXB Water Supply Project Phase II
  • Chaoyang, Liaoning, China

Advancing Sustainability Digital Twins

• Shanghai Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.
  • Shanghai Electric Environmental Protection Group Technology Renovation and Expansion Project for Nantong Thermoelectric Waste Incineration
  • Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Advancing Sustainable Architecture

• Swatch Ltd., Shigeru Ban, Itten+Brechbühl AG
  • Swatch Headquarters
  • Biel, Bern, Switzerland

Advancing Sustainable Energy

• Guangdong Hydropower Planning & Design Institute
  • Guangdong Yangjiang Pumped Storage Power Station
  • Yangjiang, Guangdong, China

Advancing Sustainable Water

• Jacobs
  • San Jose Headworks
  • San Jose, California, United States

The winners of the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards for going digital advancements in infrastructure are:

4D Digital Construction

• DPR Construction
  • 2019 LSM DS Tech Upgrade, Durham, North Carolina, United States

Bridges

• Chongqing Communications Planning, Survey & Design Institute Co., Ltd.,
• Guizhou Communications Construction Group Co., Ltd.,
• Guizhou Bridge Construction Group Co., Ltd.
  • Digital Design and Construction of Taihong Yangtze River Bridge, Chongqing, China

Buildings and Campuses

• Voyants Solutions Private Limited
  • Bangladesh Regional Waterway Transport Project 1 – Shasanghat (New Dhaka) IWT Terminal
  • Dhaka-Shasanghat, Narayanganj, Chandpur, and Barisal; Bangladesh

Digital Cities

• City of Helsinki
  • Digital City of Synergy
  • Helsinki, Finland

Geotechnical Engineering

• Golder Associates Hong Kong Ltd.
  • Tuen Mun-Chek Lap Kok Link Tunnel, Southern Landfall
  • Hong Kong

Land and Site Development

• AAEngineering Group
  • Dzhamgyr Mine – Project Implementation in Extreme Conditions
  • Talas Region, Kyrgyzstan

Manufacturing

• MCC Capital Engineering & Research Incorporation Ltd.
  • BIM Technology-Based Construction of Digital Plant for Iron & Steel Base in Lingang, Laoting of HBIS Group Co., Ltd.
  • Tangshan, Hebei, China

Mining and Offshore Engineering

• AAEngineering Group
  • Digital Twin of AKSU Plant: From Concept to Startup
  • Aksu, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan

Power Generation

• • Shanghai Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Shanghai Electric Environmental Protection Group Technology Renovation and Expansion Project for Nantong Thermoelectric Waste Incineration
  • Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Project Delivery

• Sweco
  • Sweco | Digitalisation with BIM
  • United Kingdom

Rail and Transit

• POWERCHINA Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited
  • Innovative Application of Digital Engineering Technology in Shaoxing Rail and Transit Construction
  • Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China

Reality Modelling

• Khatib & Alami
  • Geo-enabling Reality Model Tips and Tricks
  • Muscat, Oman

Road and Rail Asset Performance

• Roads and Transport Authority (RTA)
  • Collaborative Information System Implementation – Whole Lifecycle Common Data Environment
  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Roads and Highways

• Sichuan Road & Bridge (Group) Co., Ltd.
  • BIM Technology Application on Chengdu-Yibin Expressway
  • Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Structural Engineering

• WSP
  • WSP Overcomes Complex Challenges with Bentley’s Technology to Deliver Principal Tower
  • London, England, United Kingdom

Utilities and Communications

• Sterlite Power Transmission Limited
  • Sterlite BIM
  • Tripura, India

Utilities and Industrial Asset Performance

• Shell’s QGC business
  • Evolution of Engineering Data, Documents and Information Management
  • Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants

• Hatch
  • Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant Outfall
  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Networks

• DTK Hydronet Solutions
  • Digital Water Network Engineering & Asset Management of Dibrugarh Water Supply Project
  • Dibrugarh, Assam, India

Detailed descriptions of all nominated projects are in the print and digital versions of Bentley’s 2020 Infrastructure Yearbook, which will be published in early 2021.

To review the past editions of this publication, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks.