Open standards are the invisible glue that hold the digital world together. They are everywhere—Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and HTML have become household names—and they enable software, hardware and data to seamlessly work together, ensuring that innovation...
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The winners have been announced for Bentley Education’s first-ever Digital Twin Design Challenge! The contest invited students—aged 12 to 25 years old—to reimagine a real-world location using the popular Minecraft videogame and Bentley’s iTwin technology. Specifically, students were asked to:...
Aerial view of the Diablo Dam in Washington. It’s one of the three facilities located on the Skagit River listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Courtesy of HDRWe love epic engineering sagas. TV shows like Modern Marvels, Impossible...
While the rise in energy prices worldwide, as well as the prices at the pumps, is receiving a significant amount of attention, there is little affection for the global operators. They are certainly making the most of a high-demand market,...
In the 3rd century, the Greek mathematician and physicist Archimedes discovered that the volume of water he displaced in the bathtub must equal the volume of his submerged body. This was a true breakthrough in scientific understanding at the time....
Today’s construction landscape is being greatly impacted by skilled labor shortages and the rising cost of materials, all chipping away at profit margins. Digital tools are helping to offset this impact by improving productivity and controlling costs to help companies...
Stepping onto the career ladder can be both exciting and challenging at the same time, especially if it’s your first time working for a technology company. For women pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), navigating that landscape...
If you receive any water-oriented professional magazines or go through the innumerable marketing material that fills your inbox every day, you’ll see that Artificial Intelligence and its subset machine learning (ML) are going to solve all of our problems. Just...
One of the most challenging issues for departments of transportation is ensuring you have enough civil engineers for projects. In addition to a competitive job market for engineers, the retirement of experienced personnel sometimes called the “silver tsunami,” could leave...
The opportunity now is to institutionalize going digital not only within our organizations, but also towards “future-proofing” our world’s assets with respect to economic and environmental dependencies. As we look forward at the outset of 2022, having endured an unanticipated...
