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1. Welcome to Belém From floating markets to flood-resilient neighborhoods, Cesium’s interactive 3D experience immerses users in the host city of this year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP30)—revealing how Belém, Brazil, is balancing climate adaptation,...
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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...
1. Welcome to Belém From floating markets to flood-resilient neighborhoods, Cesium’s interactive 3D experience immerses users in the host city of this year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP30)—revealing how Belém, Brazil, is balancing climate adaptation, cultural heritage, and economic future...
You know that something extraordinary is happening on the outskirts of Abilene, in the Big Country part of Texas, even before you arrive. By 6 a.m., a line of cars stretches a mile from the highway to where thousands of...
It’s Day Two at Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards in Amsterdam — where innovation meets resilience and real-world impact. Across 12 categories, independent juries selected finalists who are not just pushing infrastructure forward, but making it...
Amsterdam — a city engineered from the water up — sets the stage for the 2025 Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards. From Bentley Infrastructure Cloud to OpenSite+ and other open applications, we explore how AI, open data, and...
When Bentley Systems launched the Going Digital Awards more than two decades ago, the goal was straightforward: Let independent juries around the world recognize the most accomplished digital infrastructure projects, from rail to energy to water. As the awards grew...
At the heart of the bustling stock exchange district in Ramat Gan, construction on Israel’s tallest building is underway. Part of the “Vertical City” mega-development, the 450-meter tower will be packed with commercial, residential, and hospitality space. Yet the project’s...
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the data centers that power artificial intelligence (AI). One of the largest such centers in the U.S., and possibly the world, is now under construction in the West Texas city of Abilene—and the numbers...
Late in August, around 60 Bentley Systems engineers, designers, product managers, and experts from around the world gathered at the company’s headquarters in Exton, Pennsylvania, to put the finishing touches on OpenSite+, an engineering software solution that brings generative AI...
Engineers are paid to design roads and bridges. To help them expedite other tasks, Kyle Rosenmeyer, a superuser of Bentley Systems engineering software at VHB, built a custom artificial intelligence (AI) agent using Microsoft’s Copilot Studio. The agent helps engineers...