Bentley announces finalists for the 2017 Be Inspired Awards

1397 AECOM, Arcadis-2782 WSP/PB, 2874 CH2M-Fairhurst and 8100 Highways England are among the finalists for this year’s Bentley awards for outstanding use of BIM – building information modelling.

4019 Bentley Systems, a provider of infrastructure software solutions, said that the winners will be announced at The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference to be held in Singapore this year, October 10-12.

“The annual awards honour the extraordinary work of Bentley users advancing infrastructure design, construction, and operations throughout the world,” the company said.

Ten independent jury panels of industry experts selected the 51 finalists from more than 400 nominations submitted by organisations in more than 50 countries.

Finalists will present their innovative projects to their peers, the jurors, industry thought leaders and more than 120 members of the media as part of related infrastructure forums at the conference to take place at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre. The structural design of Marina Bay Sands was done by 1419 Arup and was Bentley’s 2010 Be Inspired Award winner for Innovation in Structural Engineering.

Highways and road infrastructure projects and companies feature in many of the categories:

BIM Advancements in Bridges:

•  AECOM – Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge – (New Haven, Connecticut, United States)
•  Arcadis-WSP/PB Joint Venture– Citylink Tulla Widening– (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
• Long Jian Road & Bridge Co., Ltd. – Heihe - Blagoveshchensk Heilongjiang River (Amur River) Road Bridge Project– (Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province, China)

BIM Advancements in Construction: among the finalists is…

• Leighton Asia – Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge – (Hong Kong)

BIM Advancements in Reality Modeling: among the finalists are…

• CEDD-AECOM-The Earth Solutions – Development of Anderson Road Quarry Site – (Hong Kong)
• The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. – Sanborn3D HD Maps for Autonomous Driving: Santa Clara – (Santa Clara County, California, United States)

BIM Advancements in Roads:

• AECOM (Poland) – Road Design and Interdisciplinary Coordination of the E10 Avvakko-Lappeasuando Project – (Gällivare kommun, Norrbottens län, Sweden)
• CCCC First Highway Consultants Co., Ltd. – Application of BIM Strategy on the Transformation of Meiguan Expressway to Urban Road Design Project – (Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China)
• CH2M Fairhurst JV – A9 Dualling - Glen Garry to Dalraddy – (Dalwhinnie, Highlands, United Kingdom)

BIM Advancements in Road and Rail Asset Performance:

• 2555 New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) – NJDOT / Public Private Partnership of a Bentley-Hosted SUPERLOAD System for Oversize / Overweight Vehicle Permitting and Routing – (Trenton, New Jersey, United States)
• 2648 Oregon Department of Transportation – TransInfo – A Connected Data Environment for Transportation – (Salem, Oregon, United States)
• Highways England – Network Occupancy Management System (NOMS) – (Strategic Road Network, England, United Kingdom)

In 2014, the Advancing Comprehensive BIM award was taken by engineering design firm 2418 HDR for its Tappan Zee Hudson River Crossing, the New NY Bridge in the US. It was renamed this summer the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, of which the first span will open to westbound traffic later this month.
The original bridge is in Westchester across the Hudson River at one of its widest points. But the 27m-wide cantilever structure is pushing 60 years old, well past its 50-year expectancy and carrying around 138,000 vehicles daily.

In 2013, the New York State Thruway Authority and Tappan Zee Constructors started the US$3.9 billion eight-lane bridge, a double-span design of four lanes per span in opposite directions. It’s also designed to take a rapid transit rail line between the two road decks in future without major reinforcing or widening.

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