Infrastructure is the backbone of our world, shaping how we live, move, and connect. But as climate change accelerates, it’s clear that infrastructure is not just part of the challenge—it’s central to the solution.
Addressing infrastructure challenges, like making roads, water systems, and power grids more resilient, requires more than innovation—it demands collaboration. Taking advantage of the recently published Bentley Ecosystem Catalog, we now have a platform to connect infrastructure professionals with companies offering solutions that decarbonize projects, improve resilience, and enhance environmental outcomes.
These solutions include applications, plugins, data, data capture tools, and services that complement Bentley Systems software—expanding what’s possible across the entire infrastructure lifecycle.
Infrastructure: The Matrix of the Physical Goal
Infrastructure is the matrix of the physical world. Not the movie, but an invisible system of systems—built, natural, and digital—where every road, pipe, and wire is a line of code shaping how our societies function. Everything is deeply interconnected, and current challenges like climate impacts and urban population growth ripple across sectors and communities, creating cascading risks. Cracking the Matrix of infrastructure means seeing beyond individual assets to understand the system that connects them—and building resilience not by isolating weaknesses, but by strengthening the intelligence, adaptability, and interdependence that keep the whole network alive.
Solving these challenges means thinking holistically: environmental, social, and economic dimensions must be considered together. That’s where the Bentley Ecosystem Catalog comes in. The easy-to-search resource features companies that provide solutions for designing, building, and operating resilient infrastructure—advancing carbon reduction, climate adaptation, resource efficiency, reliable performance, and improved quality of life across the asset lifecycle.
Bentley announced its first cohort of sustainability impact solutions at COP30, featuring One Click LCA, ClimaTwin, 2050 Materials, EarthSense, OptimiseAI, and Cerclos. Their forward-thinking services aim to shape a more resilient, sustainable future. (Learn more about each of them below.)
A Collective Effort for Climate Action
A heatmap showing the nitrogen dioxide concentrations for the UK mapped with MappAir® by EarthSense.No single organization can tackle climate change alone. It takes a community—a vibrant ecosystem of infrastructure experts, software developers, and visionaries working together to accelerate progress.
Bentley is fostering this collaboration through platforms like iTwin and by featuring sustainability-focused partners in the Ecosystem Catalog. We know our users benefit from easy access to a growing offering of sustainability-focused solutions. That’s why the goal of our catalog is simple: Help users deliver better outcomes faster, whether they’re designing infrastructure to adapt to climate impacts, optimizing energy use, or reducing environmental impact.
For organizations developing sustainability solutions, services, or data that support infrastructure engineering—the Bentley Ecosystem Catalog is the place to be. With over 40 years of experience and a global user base with over 42,000 accounts, Bentley tapped its deep knowledge to compile the catalog as a powerful, one-stop platform to reach professionals shaping the future of infrastructure.
Together, We Can Crack the Matrix
Our mission is to advance infrastructure for better quality of life. Achieving that mission means empowering our ecosystem to make infrastructure more resilient, sustainable, and intelligent.
Are you a provider with a solution that empowers this vision? Join our ecosystem and help us transform the way the world builds, connects, and thrives. Together, we can crack the Matrix.
Explore Sustainable Solutions
Innovators highlighted in the catalog are all within the Bentley ecosystem—and they’re already making a difference and driving real-world results. Meet the first cohort:
One Click LCA enables carbon assessments across the entire project lifecycle. By integrating accurate 3D modeling from digital twins, users can calculate optimal material usage and feed this data into carbon analysis tools. The results are smarter decisions that improve both project performance and sustainability. Read more about the One Click LCA and Bentley integration.
ClimaTwin provides a climate business intelligence platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that helps infrastructure owners, operators, and engineers assess and report risks from extreme weather and long-term climate change. It’s a powerful tool for building resilience in the face of growing climate threats.
ClimaTwin’s threat modeling and risk scoring dashboard.2050 Materials offers a digital platform and API that bring together the world’s largest database of construction material sustainability data. The company’s tools enable architects, engineers, and developers to compare materials, run whole-life carbon assessments, and integrate standardized data directly into workflows—making data-driven, low-carbon design decisions easier and faster.
EarthSense provides advanced air quality monitoring and modeling solutions that help cities, planners, and businesses understand and manage pollution in real time. Through its MappAir modeling suite and Zephyr air quality monitors, EarthSense delivers high-resolution data, predictive insights, and visualizations to assess exposure, guide investments, and improve environmental health outcomes.
OptimiseAI is an award-winning energy and water management system that harnesses AI and digital twin technology to reduce infrastructure’s energy and water costs, and carbon emissions, from the first day of implementation. Positioned at the forefront of sustainable building innovation, OptimiseAI provides comprehensive solutions that revolutionize how both commercial and residential buildings operate within a system of systems with infrastructure and electric vehicles (EVs).
Cerclos provides robust life cycle assessment (LCA) tools and expertise to help achieve sustainable outcomes for building and infrastructure projects. Its flagship software, eTool, offers a fast, cloud-based alternative to spreadsheets and costly consulting—supported by a team of sustainability specialists who deliver design verification and insights to meet the highest standards.
To learn more about our growing ecosystem of innovation and collaboration, explore the Bentley Ecosystem Catalog.
