Frigid December or not, Berlin’s infrastructure needs no warm-up act. From the Brandenburg Gate to the glass-roofed Hauptbahnhof, the city boasts a set of landmarks that showcase its resilience, reinvention, and engineering flair. And if...
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This December, the crowds at Berlin’s Christmas markets will be admiring more than the festive stalls and delicious Glühwein. With over 500 infrastructure professionals in town for the Bentley Tech Summit 2025 (BTS25), the city’s bridges, stations, tunnels, and trams...
Frigid December or not, Berlin’s infrastructure needs no warm-up act. From the Brandenburg Gate to the glass-roofed Hauptbahnhof, the city boasts a set of landmarks that showcase its resilience, reinvention, and engineering flair. And if you’re not seeing them in...
In a room full of software engineers, Mary Bloswick always stands out. Just look for the cat ears. They’re a playful nod to the avatar she’s used for years on Bentley Systems’s community forums for users of its engineering software....
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Volaree Rendon’s career in civil engineering started with a crush. A straight-A high school student in Seattle, Rendon earned enough credits to spend part of her junior and senior years at a local vocational technical college. A love of food...
In the humming Saudi Arabian port city of Jazan, on the Red Sea, grain trucks now rumble through a huge warehouse that once seemed doomed almost from the start. Years before the building was completed, around 2017, cracks laced its...
“I feel like a proud mom!” Volaree Rendon exclaims after watching a team of software engineers—all graduates of her brainchild, the Bentley Systems Premier Scholar Program—present their work at a conference in Denver. The team had built a digital twin...
While this story is fictional, it’s inspired by real events. Cases like this can, have, and will happen. The sound of a firetruck siren woke me up around 2 a.m. Our bedroom windows had a red glow, and I knew...
Perched where the sprawling Amazon River delta empties into the Atlantic Ocean, Belém, Brazil, is both a gateway to the rainforest and a hub of global trade. When world leaders, scientists, and activists convene here for the UN Climate Change...
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