In July 2022, Ben Shinabery watched the news with growing unease as a deluge of rain—up to 16 inches in some areas—drenched eastern Kentucky and unleashed catastrophic flooding. Swollen creeks and rivers surged through narrow...
Some of the most famous inventions were happy accidents. In 1827, English pharmacist John Walker was puttering around at home when he clumsily scraped a chemical-coated stick across his hearth, which burst into flames, sparking the idea for the friction...
Five brothers enamored with computers and their potential pursued a bold idea to create software that could revolutionize how engineers design and build things. They spent the last four decades developing engineering software that has helped shape infrastructure around the...
The London skyline is hard to pin down. Turn your back on it even briefly and another skyscraper seems to pop up. It’s not an illusion. The Standard newspaper reports that every 10 days, on average, another 20-story-plus building gets...
If you haven’t heard the news yet, Bentley Systems has acquired Cesium, the foundational open platform for creating powerful 3D geospatial applications. The acquisition brings together the leading open platforms and developer communities for the built and natural environment. However,...
Bentley Systems set out on a mission four decades ago to change the way we build things. Since then, Bentley software has helped unlock the power of data for architects, engineers, builders and operators in nearly 200 countries. Our software...
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) recently toasted Bentley Systems’ upcoming 40th anniversary during on-the-record remarks on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. The congresswoman serving Pennsylvania District 6, home to Bentley’s headquarters in Exton, applauded the company’s four-decade track...
Paris shines in the popular imagination as the City of Light. But its allure also flickers deep underground. There are the sewers made immortal by Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables and by Éléonore, an 8-foot Nile crocodile caught living there in...
The northern hemisphere slogged through its hottest summer in 2,000 years last year, and 2024 could be even warmer. This week, we look at how digital twins are helping communities adjust to rising temperatures, fight wildfires, forecast and prevent flooding,...
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the U.S. Congress were looking for ways to fight the Great Depression, they drafted the Rural Electrification Act. Passed in 1936, the bill brought electricity to rural America and helped spark an economic recovery....
