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June 2004 |
BE Conference 2004: Report
Vertical Sessions
The sessions in BE Conference were running parallel in four main groups: Bentley Buildings, Bentley Civil, Bentley Geospatial and Bentley Plant. Around 700 attendees gathered in parallel in the geospatial sessions. The Geospatial Track provided professionals with insight into the tools to design, build and manage cities, and the infrastructure that supports them, taking cases from across the globe. The 'Focused User Seminar Tracks' touched on various critical areas of Utilities, Cadastre, Interoperability, Geospatial Managed Environment, Public Works, Municipal Publishing, 3D City, and Communications. Presenters included EPCOR, the US Army Corps of Engineers, United States Geographical Society (USGS), city departments of Helsinki (Finland), Toronto (Canada), Copenhagen (Denmark), and Genova (Italy), the Cadastres of the countries of Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lebanon and Honduras, Water Departments of Philadelphia (USA) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands), etc.
Carey Mann, Vice President, Marketing, Bentley Geospatial, spoke on the various descriptions used to describe the geospatial industry. He mentioned that geo-technologies encompass a wide range of tools and the industry is a conglomeration of all that broadly address the AEC. "Bentley looks at a 'New Geospatial Paradigm'. This paradigm shall allow one to create a Spatially Enabled Managed Environment that includes the 5 pillars of Production mapping, Geospatial Engineering, Integrated AEC, Geospatial Content Management and Interoperability," he exclaimed.
Styli Camateros, Vice President, Bentley, spoke on translating the mission of creating a Spatially Enabled Managed Environment. He took up each of the five pillars mentioned by Carey Mann and went into graphic details of each. Various presentations by senior personnel followed him, stating the key 2004 updates of each of the five pillars and the ongoing work for the future. Some important mentions were -
- Concept of 'propagation' in the geospatial tools
- Concept of 'feature collection'
- Intended launch of Bentley Electric and Bentley Work Print and Bentley PowerField
- XML based feature modeling
- Intended launch of Bentley Coax, Fiber and Inside Plant from C.I.S (all probable in Q3)
Finally, Styli mentioned about 2005 agenda of Bentley and gave glimpses of the imminent plans on Oracle 10g and Integrated AEC. He also mentioned that Bentley would soon develop a connector with Oracle 10g and a specific XFM environment for editing the associated topology model.
BE Awards Ceremony and Dinner
"The skill, innovation, and leadership demonstrated by the BE Award winners, and by all the nominees, raises the standard for all of us who are dedicated to improving the world's infrastructure", said Greg Bentley. Twenty-one projects received BE Awards in Florida from 164 nominees. These projects are supposed to be chosen by the jury because they have set benchmarks and they showcase imagination and technical mastery of the organizations that created them. The winners were:
Plant
- RAFAKO S.A. - Flue Gas Desulphurisation Plant
- Hatch Associates Pty. Ltd - OneSteel Whyalla Blast Furnace Reline
- Utility Engineering Corporation - MEAG Plant Wansley/JEA Brandy Branch
- INVAP - Replacement Research Reactor Project
- Energoprojekt-Katowice S.A. - Patnow Power Plant
The BE Conference 2004 - Bentley's
premier annual professional training and conference event - included more than
400 training courses and technology updates, and presentations by Bentley executives and users
Geospatial
- Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council - Environmental Protection Management
- City of Toronto - 3D Topographic Mapping
- Gdansk Development Agency
- City of Helsinki - 3D Helsinki
- Proyecto de Administracion de Tierras de Honduras - SURE
Building
- NBBJ - Moscow Medical Center
- Arup - Beijing National Swimming Centre
- M C Dean - The Pentagon Renovation Project
- Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates, Inc. - University of Connecticut, Information Technology Building
- Dallas-Fort Worth Airport - Capital Development Project
Civil
- Minnesota DOT - P069 - Road Design/Project Delivery
- Rail Link Engineering - Channel Tunnel Rail Link
- Vela VKE Consulting Engineers (PTY) LTD - Rock Fall Protection for Chapman's Peak
- Utah DOT - Virgin Arch Bridge, State Route 9
- New York State DOT - Designing a Managed Environment
Special Award
- McCormick Taylor, Inc. - Virtual Signalized Intersection
Technology Exhibition
32 exhibitors displayed their products and services along with four main sponsors for the event. The exhibition area saw intense interaction as the 1500 plus crowd thronged the area in the timeslots kept specifically the exhibition. In brief, the conference portrayed a focused and dedicated group with a mission to address, empower and solve problems of our day-to-day functioning with minimum platforms and tools.
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