Leading Geospatial Innovation at Bentley and WGIC
See how Brazil’s COPEL cut substation design time by 50% and saved USD 630,000 annually using Bentley’s OpenUtilities Substation BIM workflows.
A New Era of Greener Urban Living: How Xiong’an Is Shaping Tomorrow’s Cities
Designing a Hidden Waste Treatment Facility to Power a Sustainable City In the quest for sustainable and resilient urban infrastructure, cities around the world are exploring innovative solutions to manage waste and reduce environmental impact. One such example is the Xiong’an New Area in China, which aims to become a model “waste-free city.” This project not only showcases engineering ingenuity but also highlights how digital twin technologies and sustainable design can work together to build cities that are cleaner, greener, and more resilient. Sustainable Success: The Waste Facility’s Measurable Impact Accelerated Delivery: Achieved a 130% boost in design efficiency, saving 30 days in design and 50 days in construction. Significant Cost Savings: Reduced project costs by CNY 13.7 million through optimized planning and execution. Sustainable Performance: Processes 3,060 tons of waste daily with a 50% to 80% reduction in emissions, depending on type of waste. Managing Waste for Millions Xiong’an New Area, a state-level development zone in the Hebei province, was envisioned as a smart, green, and livable city. However, with a projected population of over 6 million, the city faced a significant challenge: how to manage the enormous volume of waste generated daily without compromising the environment or the
Smarter Piping Design Starts Here: Unlock Efficiency and Precision with OpenBuildings Designer
See how the enhanced Pipe System Sizing tool in OpenBuildings Designer streamlines design for water, heating, cooling, and gas systems. This update introduces easier transitions from single-line to 3D layouts, helping improve accuracy and workflow efficiency.
Powering the Future: COPEL’s Digital Transformation for Substation Design
See how Brazil’s COPEL cut substation design time by 50% and saved USD 630,000 annually using Bentley’s OpenUtilities Substation BIM workflows.
Tomorrow’s Roads Today: Why Digital Delivery Matters
Have you ever stopped to think about how much you rely on roads to stay connected to people and places, and how crucial they are for the success of our economy? Or how we expect roads to handle heavy traffic, severe weather, and natural disasters while remaining reliable and operational? Honestly, before I joined Bentley a few years ago, I rarely considered these things. But now, as an industry marketing manager, I see roads and highways from a completely different perspective, and I truly appreciate and understand just how valuable they are to our communities. Plus, why making them more sustainable and resilient is so important. In fact, every time I dodge or hit a pothole, sit in a traffic jam (patiently or not), or navigate a flooded street after a torrential downpour, I think about the infrastructure professionals like you who design, build, and maintain our roadways. Even though I’m not an engineer by trade and I didn’t inherit my dad’s knack for building and fixing things, I still know that your job is not easy. With most of the infrastructure needed for 2030 already in place, the urgency to modernize, maintain, and optimize the roads we do have—while
Powering a Sustainable Future: How Nippoh Engineering is Innovating Carbon-Neutral Design
In the pursuit of a more sustainable world, companies are innovating ways to reduce environmental impact while delivering essential services. Nippoh Engineering Co., Ltd., located in Yokohama, Japan, is at the forefront of this movement with a visionary project aimed at achieving affordable and clean energy with a steam turbine piping design. Aligned with Japan’s goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, they are delivering a new thermal power plant designed to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to the revitalization of their region. In this blog, you will learn what Nippoh achieved utilizing Bentley software, including: 50% reduction in resource hours 10% material cost savings 20% productivity improvement 2,000-3,000 new jobs created For over 50 years, Nippoh Engineering Co., Ltd. has been designing plants that power communities in Japan and around the world. Today, they are taking that expertise further by creating cleaner, greener energy solutions. As part of their commitment to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals—especially Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy—they’re developing next-generation plants that use innovative technologies such as ammonia and biomass co-firing, as well as methanation, to reduce environmental impact and build a more sustainable future. Their basic design concept is ambitious: ensuring allowable stress ratios
AutoPIPE Vessel 2025: Transforming Pressure Vessel Design
Too often, pressure vessel design involves tedious, slow manual work. As technology evolves and demands continue to rise, the old methods can’t keep up. That’s why we’re continuing to advance AutoPIPE Vessel to keep you ahead of the curve. In this blog, we’ll dig into three new features that will transform your engineering: Nozzle Input Interface enhancements Component Thickness Comparison Table and Advanced Analysis Settings Appendix Y Flange Design enhancements Our newest release, AutoPIPE Vessel 2025, brings powerful enhancements that will streamline your workflows, empower your designers, and expand your design capabilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOLjbhuX-1w Nozzle input interface enhancements Working with multiple nozzles at the same time can be a pain—making individual or batch changes often requires making tedious edits to each nozzle in separate windows. With AutoPIPE Vessel 2025’s enhanced nozzle input interface, you can quickly design and adjust numerous nozzles at once in a single, intuitive interface, saving you time and money. New component thickness comparison table and advanced analysis settings Vessels must be strong enough to function safely, but ensuring components are sturdy enough can require repeated flipping between design and the listed thickness requirement. Now, you can use AutoPIPE’s Vessel’s new thickness verification table to simultaneously view the
Seven Ways AutoPIPE Vessel Helps You Design Smarter
Modeling and analyzing pressure vessels to be accurate and safe enough to withstand high temperatures and pressure processes can be expensive and time-consuming. With advanced capabilities and comprehensive databases, AutoPIPE Vessel has been proven to enable engineers to deliver greater productivity, cost-effective manufacturing, improved project collaboration, and truly optimized pressure vessel designs. Here are seven AutoPIPE Vessel features that can help you and your team produce your most accurate and reliable vessel designs: 01. Automation and design check Manual calculations can be extremely time consuming, which can lead to project delays. AutoPIPE Vessel’s advanced automation and design check capabilities can give you the solution to maximize your productivity and minimize errors by eliminating guesswork and filling in the gaps for you. Feel confident that your designs are accurate, cost-effective, and code compliant. Color-coded data sets let you see what information is required and what can be generated by the software. For example, input your available information into the required fields (red), and, from that information, other values (green) can be calculated for you. If you are in a pre-dimensioning or cost estimation phase, speed and simplicity is a must. AutoPIPE Vessel guides you through the design process by suggesting solutions
How Does Your Pipe Stress Software Access ASME B31J i-Factors and k-Factors?
In the 2020 updates, both the ASME B31.1 Power Piping code and ASME B31.3 Process Piping code have mandated the use of ASME B31J, Stress Intensification Factors (i-Factors), Flexibility Factors (k-Factors) and their determination for Metallic Piping Components, removing the traditional Appendix D, Flexibility, and Stress Intensification Factors (SIF) from the codes.