Bentley Announces New Electrical Engineering Design Solution for Building Industry; BIM Solution Now Complete for Architectural, Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing.BALTIMORE -- At this gathering of more than 2,000 attendees, Bentley Systems Bentley Systems, Incorporated, provides software for the "Design, construction and operation of the world's infrastructure". The company’s software serves the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets in the areas of architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) , Incorporated today announced Bentley Building Electrical Systems. Developed in partnership with elcoSystems UK, the new software will address the electrical system design and management needs of consulting engineers, contractors, owners, and facility managers in the building industry. "Bentley Building Electrical Systems is a solution that those in the building industry have long awaited," says Brad Workman WORKMAN. One who labors, one who is employed to do business for another. 2. The obligations of a workman are to perform the work he has undertaken to do; to do it in proper time; to do it well to employ the things furnished him according to his contract. , vice president of Bentley Building. "Today's sophisticated building designs demand an ever-increasing multitude of complex electrical subsystems - driven by growing market expectations as well as industry and government standards. Bentley's Building Electrical Systems has the potential to make a significant difference to users in this industry, reducing design times and improving project quality and profitability." Bentley Building Electrical Systems will meet the rapidly escalating demands of electrical installations for commercial, institutional, and industrial facilities. It provides for the design, engineering, documentation, analysis, and management of building electrical systems, including lighting, power, fire detection, security, communications, and other building subsystems. The new software completes the mechanical/electrical/plumbing (M/E/P) solution for Bentley Building and complements, and is fully integrated with, Bentley Architecture and Bentley Structural. As a result, it provides a comprehensive BIM BIM Building Information Modeling BIM Building Information Model BIM Bord Iascaigh Mhara (Irish Sea Fisheries Board) BIM Brussels Instituut voor Milieubeheer (Belgium) BIM Bharathidasan Institute of Management solution for the building industry to enable architects and engineers to build as one. Key design and document production features include automated symbol placement, circuiting, and labeling; raceway design; cable/circuit routing and management; and automated generation of riser diagrams and drawing legends. Powerful reporting capabilities include schedules, bills of materials, quantity take-offs, and cost estimation estimation In mathematics, use of a function or formula to derive a solution or make a prediction. Unlike approximation, it has precise connotations. In statistics, for example, it connotes the careful selection and testing of a function called an estimator. . Design analysis is easy using the software's bidirectional The ability to move, transfer or transmit in both directions. interfaces to a variety of industry-standard power engineering and lighting design and analysis programs. Based on MicroStation and supporting 2D and 3D workflows, step-wise refinement of the design process, and BIM methodology, Bentley Building Electrical Systems provides users with a flexible and extensible solution for building electrical systems design and documentation. Bentley Building Electrical Systems is offered as either a single-user license or as a part of the Bentley SELECT and Enterprise License Subscription (ELS) program. Commercial availability for Bentley Building Electrical Systems is scheduled for the third quarter of this year. About elcoSystems UK Ltd elcoSystems UK Ltd is a subsidiary of Hannappel SOFTWARE gmbH, which was established as Hannappel Consulting Engineers in 1961. Today, Hannappel SOFTWARE gmbH is a leading software provider for professional computer-aided engineering See CAE. Computer-aided engineering Any use of computer software to solve engineering problems. With the improvement of graphics displays, engineering workstations, and graphics standards, computer-aided engineering (CAE) has come to mean the computer and computer-aided design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive for electrical installation engineering. Its expertise has been built on the experience of more than 400 projects as consulting engineers, combined with 20 years of hands-on experience in the software market. The company is the technology and market leader in German-speaking Europe The German language (both as an official language and as a minority language) is spoken in a number of countries and territories in Central Europe. To cover this speech area they are often referred to as the German speaking countries or the German speaking area. (DACH DACH Division of Adult and Community Health (US CDC) DACH Deutschland, Austria & Switzerland DACH Darnal Army Community Hospital DACH Department of the Army Chaplains Fund DACH Department of the Army, Chief of Chaplains ). Its software is successfully used by over 700 consulting engineering companies, more than 150 electrical contractors, and some of the largest firms and projects in the area of electrical installation. About the BE Conference The BE Conference (www.be.org) is a once-a-year learning opportunity for Bentley users and their managers offering professional training, technology updates, keynotes, and best practice sharing. At these sessions, attendees better themselves, better their organizations, and better the ways they can improve the world's infrastructure. For more information on BE Conference 2005, taking place this week at the Baltimore Convention Center The Baltimore Convention Center is a convention and exhibition hall located in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. It is managed and operated by the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association, a semi-private association started in 1980 by former Baltimore mayor William Donald , go to www.be.org. About Bentley Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial Geospatial is a term widely used to describe the combination of spatial software and analytical methods with terrestrial or geographic datasets. The term is often used in conjunction with geographic information systems and geomatics. vertical markets spans architecture, engineering, construction (AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission ) and operations. With 2004 revenues exceeding $300 million, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Engineering News-Record (widely known as ENR) is a weekly magazine that provides news, analysis, data and opinion for the construction industry worldwide. It has been published since 1874. It is owned by The McGraw-Hill Companies. Design 500 and major owner-operators. To receive Bentley press releases as they are issued, visit www.bentley.com/bentleywire. For more information, visit www.bentley.com. Bentley, the "B" logo, BE, MicroStation, Building Electrical Systems, Bentley Architecture, Bentley Structural, SELECT, and Enterprise License Subscription are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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