Bentley Systems, the infrastructure engineering software company, has announced the winners of the 2024 Going Digital Awards. The annual awards honour the extraordinary work of infrastructure professionals and their innovative use of Bentley software to improve the way infrastructure is designed, built, and operated.

This year, 250 projects were nominated by organisations in 36 countries. Winners were selected from among 36 finalists in 12 categories by a panel of independent judges during Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure event, held October 8 and 9 in Vancouver, Canada.

“This year, we received an impressive variety of submissions for the Going Digital Awards from users across the globe, showcasing groundbreaking projects that exemplify the future of infrastructure,” Kristin Fallon, chief marketing officer at Bentley Systems, said at the awards ceremony. “Today, we celebrate the extraordinary achievements of our finalists and winners. These visionary teams demonstrate the power of going digital across the infrastructure lifecycle to improve project delivery and asset performance.”

2024 Going Digital Awards Winners

Bridges and Tunnels:

•             JMT – Digital Experience for I-95 Rappahannock River Crossing Construction Project.

Construction:

•             Proicere Ltd – SPRS Retreatment (SRP) Sellafield.

Enterprise Engineering:

•             Mott MacDonald and HDR – Ontario Line.

Facilities, Campuses, and Cities:

•             China ENFI Engineering Co – Digital Construction Project of Comprehensive Waste Management Facilities in Xiong’an New Area.

Process and Power Generation:

•             PowerChina Zhongnan Engineering Corporation – Shandong Energy Group Bozhong Offshore Wind Farm Site A Project.

Rail and Transit:

•             SPL Powerlines UK – Midland Main Line Electrification.

Roads and Highways:

•             Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) – Digital Twin Implementation for NLEX-SLEX Connector Road Project.

Structural Engineering:

•             Hyundai Engineering – New Physical Modeling Method for Plant Steel Structures Using STAAD API.

Surveying and Monitoring:

•             Water Supplies Department – Digital Twin of the Ex-Sham Shui Po Service Reservoir.

Subsurface Modeling and Analysis:

•             Spark and WSP – North East Link Central Package.

Transmission and Distribution:

•             Southwest Electric Power Design Institute Co of China Power Engineering Consulting Group – Butuo ±800-kV Converter Station.

Water and Wastewater:

•             Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo – Sabesp – Integra 4.0.

Founders’ Honors

During the event, Bentley also recognised 16 projects with Founders’ Honors. Chosen individually by Bentley Systems’ founders, Founders’ Honors are presented to a small number of exemplary projects, individuals, and organisations that reflect the company’s mission of advancing the world’s infrastructure for better quality of life.

The 2024 Founders’ Honors recipients are:

•             Qk4, Inc. – Going Digital Survey with Bridging Kentucky.

•             Tecne Systra-Sws Advanced Tunneling – Digital Implementation in Tunnel Assessment and Rehabilitation.

•             Guangdong Airport Authority – Digital Innovation Application of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Phase III Expansion Project.

•             MCC Capital Engineering & Research Incorporation Limited – Integrated Application of BIM Technology in the Design, Construction, Operation and Maintenance of the World’s First Hydrogen Metallurgy Engineering Demonstration Project.

•             Monir Precision Monitoring – 31 Parliament Street Urban Infrastructure and Excavation Shoring Monitoring.

•             Greenman-Pedersen – Brooklyn Bridge - Montgomery Coastal Resilience.

•             Arcadis – Cambridge South Infrastructure Enhancements.

•             Communaute d’Agglomeration Pau Bearn Pyrenees (CAPBP) – The Multipurpose Urban Digital Twin of Communaute d’Agglomeration de Pau Bearn Pyrenees.

•             PT Wijaya Karya – Nusantara Road and Highway Connectivity, New Capital City of Indonesia.

•             PT SMG Consultants Indonesia – Transformative Innovations in Southeast Sulawesi Nickel-Cobalt Exploration.

•             University of Canterbury – Incorporating Visible Geology and Leapfrog into undergraduate university courses.

•             Macquarie Geotechnical – Subsurface reality modelling for enhanced insight.

•             Exo Inc – Evergy Power Transmission Structure Stabilisation.

•             PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency – High Fidelity Digital Twin-Enabled Anomaly Detection and Localization in Singapore.

•             Maynilad Water Services Inc. – Network Design using OpenFlows WaterGEMS for Distribution of Direct Potable Reused Water at Parañaque City, Philippines.

•             Dublin Fire Brigade – Digital Twins for Emergency Response (DTER).-TradeArabia News Service.