{"id":119563,"date":"2020-10-19T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=439543"},"modified":"2020-10-19T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T17:00:22","slug":"bentley-systems-expands-alliance-with-microsoft-to-accelerate-infrastructure-digital-twin-innovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/19\/bentley-systems-expands-alliance-with-microsoft-to-accelerate-infrastructure-digital-twin-innovations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentley Systems expands alliance with Microsoft to accelerate infrastructure digital twin innovations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Companies will deliver and scale advancements for urban planning and smart cities<\/i><\/h3>\n

REDMOND, Wash., and EXTON, Penn. \u2014 Oct. 19, 2020 \u2014<\/strong> Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) on Monday announced an expansion of a strategic alliance focused on advancing infrastructure for smart city urban planning and smart construction. The alliance will combine Microsoft\u2019s Azure IoT Digital Twins and Azure Maps with Bentley Systems\u2019 iTwins platform, enabling engineers, architects, constructors and city planners to work within a comprehensive city-scale digital twin, empowering better decision-making, optimizing operational efficiency, reducing costs and improving collaboration.<\/p>\n

\"Bentley<\/a>Microsoft and Bentley Systems, a leader in engineering software for professionals to design, build, operate and maintain critical infrastructure such as road and rail networks, and public works and utilities, will collaborate to develop new smart city solutions. The companies will explore opportunities for digital twins in urban planning and citizen engagement for cities around the world. The collaboration will enable improved decision-making and increased productivity through Microsoft Teams for infrastructure engineers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Bentley we believe that infrastructure digital twins can empower engineers, constructors and owner-operators to design, build and operate infrastructure assets that are more cost-effective, more resilient and more sustainable,\u201d said Greg Bentley, CEO, Bentley Systems. \u201cWith Azure as the foundation of our cloud services, our offerings are more broadly scaled and differentiated by the further integrations of Microsoft technologies. We are excited to extend our partnership to bring new digital twin advances to infrastructure engineering organizations and their constituents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Azure IoT, Azure Digital Twins and Bentley\u2019s iTwins platform, the world\u2019s infrastructure \u2014 vital to our economies and environment \u2014 stands to gain so much by enabling people to create comprehensive digital models of an entire environment,\u201d said Casey McGee, vice president, Global ISV Sales, Microsoft. \u201cOur expanded strategic alliance with Bentley Systems opens up new opportunities for innovation and will accelerate the benefits of digital twins for infrastructure engineering organizations and, more broadly, society at large.\u201d<\/p>\n

City planning and managing professional football club complex projects<\/strong><\/p>\n

The capital city of Dublin, Ireland, with a population of more than 1.2 million, is working with Bentley Systems to develop a large-scale digital twin as part of the city\u2019s planning efforts. \u201cTo overcome the challenges of getting public review and comment for new development projects in Dublin during the pandemic, we turned to Microsoft and Bentley to create an interactive virtual environment to ensure our citizens could provide their input from the safety of their homes and keep the development projects on track,\u201d said Jamie Cudden, smart city program manager at Dublin City Council. \u201cThe impact of the pandemic has forced cities like Dublin to accelerate their digital transformation journeys. Working with Microsoft and Bentley we are reimagining how interactive virtual environments and digital twins can support citizens to engage from the safety of their own home on new development projects in their local communities. Working with these technology partners, we are building an adaptable and scalable solution based on Microsoft Teams and Bentley\u2019s OpenCities Planner that will set the standard for the future of planning and public engagement in cities.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to sustaining infrastructure development in smart cities, project digital twins are facilitating industrial construction. Bentley Systems was recognized by Microsoft as the 2020 MSUS Partner Award winner for the Industry-Automotive category, in which an automotive  factory uses the HoloLens 2 with Bentley\u2019s SYNCHRO 4D construction-modeling software.<\/p>\n

Similarly, FC Barcelona, one of the oldest football clubs in Europe, is partnering with Bentley as part of the club\u2019s renovation of Barcelona\u2019s Camp Nou stadium, the largest in Europe, currently under construction amid the pandemic. The project will upgrade streets in the neighborhood and increase capacity at the stadium to revitalize an aging stadium and for the club to compete with other top European cities.<\/p>\n

\u201cBentley has been working with FC Barcelona on the Espai Bar\u00e7a Project for over three years, helping the architects, the construction team and the club complete an extraordinary challenge \u2014 delivering a major renovation of the stadium while it continues to host matches,\u201d said William T. Mannarelli, director of Real Estate & Espai Bar\u00e7a. \u201cWith Bentley\u2019s SYNCHRO 4D construction-modeling software running on the Azure cloud, we can apply cutting-edge techniques to manage the complex and precise scheduling required to keep the stadium open during construction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bentley\u2019s ProjectWise, in conjunction with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Teams, has empowered Bentley\u2019s users to work from home safely while collaborating virtually on projects anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n

The companies will further combine Bentley\u2019s infrastructure digital twins expertise with Microsoft\u2019s cloud technologies for:<\/p>\n