One day a decade ago, when Mark Pittman was a student at The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, he got caught in a snarl of traffic caused by a broken traffic light. The...
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...
The question ‘Does the world have more wheels or doors?’ has led to more lively debate and banter than many topics recently. The ‘wheels’ advocates claim gears, cogs, and toy cars. The ‘doors’ advocates cite houses, office blocks, and that...
Groundwater quenches the thirst of over 2,500,000,000 humans every day. In addition to home use, more than 40% of the world’s agriculture is irrigated by groundwater. Generations of water diviners, geologists, and thirsty humans have sought this valuable natural resource....
Bentley Systems joins the many companies and leaders in our industry who condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and we add our voice to the urgent calls for peace. We deplore the destruction and tragic loss of life and extend our...
A digital twin is best described as a living representation of something. If the something was me, it would have my dimensions, eye color, standing heart rate, medical history, and importantly it would look like me. As it’s living –...
Globally, we continue to witness the increasingly destructive impacts of climate change on human and natural systems. The increased frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events such as wildfires, floods, and droughts are costing lives, disrupting infrastructure, economies, and setting...
The water and wastewater industry is very conservative and, in developed countries, utilities are willing to spend a great deal of money on backup equipment, spare parts, communications, mutual aid agreements and other hardware and software to ensure that customers...
As was the case with BIM nearly 20 years ago, digital twins are now reshaping the built world in terms of how infrastructure is designed, constructed, and operated. The industry has always faced challenges managing the volume and variety of...
