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Try The Visualization The American story is, at heart, a building story. It’s 250 years of believing that what looked impossible was merely difficult. Crews strung bridges across straits deemed uncrossable, raised towers that shattered...
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Try The Visualization The American story is, at heart, a building story. It’s 250 years of believing that what looked impossible was merely difficult. Crews strung bridges across straits deemed uncrossable, raised towers that shattered records year after year, and...
Before the London office tower had a name, it had a shape. Rising 41 stories, wrapped in a steel lattice, and clad in shaded glass that tapered to a point at the top, it looked like a futuristic Easter egg....
Explore The Visualization The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be contested in 16 stadiums across North America, making it the most geographically expansive tournament in the competition’s history. To help showcase the event, Bentley Systems built an interactive 3D experience...
On the night of October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy roared ashore in New Jersey, driving a wall of water toward one of the most densely populated coastlines in the world. New York City had braced for a flood, but what...
At the Bentley Systems Illuminate Berlin 2026 conference, infrastructure engineers and technology leaders met to confront a massive infrastructure challenge already visible in the numbers: Europe faces €12 trillion in infrastructure investment needs by 2040. Independent research and advisory firm...
In 2032, Poland will open Port Polska, a single multimodal transit hub that neatly ties together a massive infrastructure package, including an airport that will ultimately handle 60 million passengers per year; roughly 500 kilometers of new high-speed rail linking...
A Warning From 20 Feet Below In 2010, workers rebuilding the World Trade Center in New York City uncovered an unexpected piece of the past. About 20 feet below ground, excavation machinery struck weathered timber buried at the edge of...
Sydney is famous for the billowing roof of its Opera House and the graceful curve of the Harbour Bridge. Less visible, but no less essential, is the infrastructure that keeps cities like it running: the tunnels, ports, water mains, and...
Brett Taig has found a way to stabilize the fault lines where infrastructure megaprojects so often start to unravel. His weapon of choice? Data moving like clockwork between teams. Taig is the digital engineering manager on the North East Link...
In Colombia, geography can be destiny. Steep ridgelines, dense jungle, and narrow valleys carve parts of the South American country into isolated pockets of civilization where roads can’t always follow. In many communities, a town’s main street doubles as its...