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Bentley Systems’ New ProjectWise 365 and Comprehensive SYNCHRO Offerings Advance 4D Digital Twins for Project Delivery

ARC Advisory Group names Bentley Systems’ ProjectWise #1 for Collaborative BIM

SINGAPORE – The Year in Infrastructure 2019 Conference – 21 October 2019 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twin cloud services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, today announced new capabilities for its industry-leading ProjectWise collaboration platform and comprehensive expansion of its SYNCHRO 4D construction environment. Together, these robust offerings extend the value of project digital twins across the entire project delivery ecosystem, improving design and constructability coordination workflows. New ProjectWise 365 cloud services, leveraging Microsoft 365 technology and office productivity tools, extend the reach, affordability, and accessibility of BIM and infrastructure design data for organizations of all sizes. In addition, with Bentley’s new SYNCHRO cloud services, contractors can 4D-visualize design data and construction models for project and field management, advanced work packaging, and Microsoft HoloLens 2 augmented reality solutions.

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Bentley Systems and Topcon Positioning Systems Launch their Digital Construction Works Joint Venture, to Close the Constructioneering Advancement Gap

New global company introduces digital integration services, advancing constructors’ innovative digital workflows

SINGAPORE — The Year in Infrastructure Conference, October 21, 2019 — Bentley Systems, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twin cloud services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, and Topcon Positioning Systems, a world leader in positioning technology for the survey and construction industries, today announced that its new, jointly owned company – Digital Construction Works – is open for business, with a full global staff of digital construction experts who have been contributed by Bentley Systems and Topcon, respectively. Digital Construction Works provides digital automation, integration, and “twinning” services around a portfolio of fit-for-purpose software and cloud services, from Topcon, Bentley, and other software vendors, to realize the breakthrough potential of constructioneering, for industrializing construction. (more…)

Advancing mobility digital twins through Orbit GT’s automated mobile mapping workflows (digital context) and Citilabs’ CUBE simulations (digital components)  for predictive transportation scenarios (digital chronology)

SINGAPORE – The Year in Infrastructure 2019 Conference – 21 October 2019 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twin cloud services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, today announced the acquisitions of global mobility simulation (CUBE) and analytics (Streetlytics) software provider Citilabs, and global provider of 3D and mobile mapping software, Orbit Geospatial Technologies (Orbit GT). The newly acquired technologies, in conjunction with Bentley’s existing design integration and digital cities offerings, enable engineering-based mobility digital twins. Road mobility digital twins converge cities’ digital context (including 4D surveying facilitated by Orbit GT for drone-and vehicle-mounted mobile mapping), and digital components (including from Bentley’s OpenRoads engineering applications) with CUBE simulations—to model and assure real-world throughput capacity for proposed and existing roadway assets. Streetlytics traffic data will become increasingly available through Bentley’s cloud services to calibrate and validate mobility digital twins. (more…)

The Next Leader’s Asia Summit 2019 is a three day conference that will focus on building young leaders to tackle sustainability challenges entrepreneurially.

                     Smart-Tinting Glass technology – an innovative “green solution” for the tropics

Extensive study by ERI@N validates the performance of Halio smart-tinting glass in thermal comfort, glare and lighting energy savings

The study on Halio’s electrochromic technology at BCA SkyLab showed that smart-tinting glass could effectively improve occupant comfort and save lighting energy while keeping the natural view. 

SINGAPORE, 26 September 2019 – Halio International today has released the results of a full-scale real-world laboratory test on Halio® electrochromic glazing (EC) technology or known as smart-tinting glass, conducted by the Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N) at BCA SkyLab in 2018. The test aimed to understand Halio’s impact on glare control, occupant comfort and energy consumption in comparison with traditional high-grade low-E coated glass and shut blinds, and was part of a larger study on air-conditioning systems and auto-dimming LED lights.

The test results showed that Halio’s EC technology, as a façade, outperformed traditional low-E coated glass with indoor blinds in three areas: avoiding glare, improving thermal comfort and achieving energy savings from lighting. The test benefitted from the advanced testing capabilities offered by SkyLab, such as its rotatable platform, integrated plug-n-play function, and its dual-chamber design with a test room and reference room for comparison testing. (more…)

Now in its 14th edition, the Middle East’s leading facilities management event has been officially opened.

• H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum President, Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Chairman & Chief Executive Emirates Airline & Group, and Chairman Dubai Airports, officially opened the 14th edition of FM EXPO at the Dubai World Trade Centre today.
• FM EXPO hosts 50 exhibiting companies, 20+ CPD certified workshops and the Waste & Recycling Summit until 19 September 2019 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

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“The State of Kuwait officially adopted the Sustainable Development Goals in September of 2015, with the government of Kuwait who took a decision to achieve the countries Sustainable Development Goals through various Sustainable development strategies and projects as per the Kuwait Vision 2035. The Government of Kuwait have significantly invested into national awareness raising on a transformative scope of the Agenda 2030 and its ultimate purpose of “leaving no one behind”. While setting up strategic paths to overcome various obstacles, including strengthening the role of private sector, reducing dominance of oil sector on the country’s economy, balancing public sector spending, creating conditions for reinvigorated direct foreign investments and improving infrastructure, the State of Kuwait haveimplemented many strategic development projects for achieving their SDGs and their targets. (more…)