Bentley awarded North Dakota DOT contract; state becomes 40th to select MicroStation as CAD standard for DOT.EXTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 1995--Bentley Systems, Inc., the leader in professional 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 products and services to engineers, architects, drafters, and organizations whose overall success relies on computer-aided design, today announced that it has been awarded the North Dakota Department of Transportation The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) is a part of the government of the U.S. state of North Dakota. NDDOT oversees the state's transportation system. (DOT) contract to supply the CAD systems to all of the department's civil engineering sites. The selection of Bentley and its MicroStation(R) product comes after several months of intense evaluation alongside other systems, including AutoCAD from Autodesk. North Dakota North Dakota, state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Minnesota, across the Red River of the North (E), South Dakota (S), Montana (W), and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba (N). thus becomes the 40th state DOT to adopt MicroStation as its standard CAD environment. Greg Bentley Gregory "Greg" Bentley (born 9 April 1987) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Recruited from Rosebud/Dandenong U18 in Victoria, he was placed on the Port Adelaide Football Club's rookie list but was upgraded to the senior list during 2006. , president of Bentley, comments, "This win adds to our strong 1995 business and product momentum. North Dakota DOT put all contestants through rigorous paces and, like 39 other DOTs before them, selected MicroStation as the best-engineered CAD environment for their future." Bentley adds, "Our team looks forward to serving the North Dakota DOT and making them very successful in their engineering efforts." In its winning proposal for the three-year contract, which includes software, training, maintenance, and support to nine North Dakota sites, Bentley presented the DOT with an integrated, multi-tiered solution based on MicroStation. The company successfully showed that, because MicroStation is now a range of focused drafting and design products, its multi-tiered solution was most cost-effective. Also, the company demonstrated that MicroStation and its MicroStation Development Language (MDL MDL - (Originally "Muddle"). C. Reeve, Carl Hewitt and Gerald Sussman, Dynamic Modeling Group, MIT ca. 1971. Intended as a successor to Lisp, and a possible base for Planner-70. Basically LISP 1.5 with data types and arrays. (TM)) were best able to integrate the various engineering functions of the department, which include roadway and bridge design, geographic information systems (GIS) and planning, and construction supervision. Bentley teamed with GEOPAK Corporation of North Miami Beach North Miami Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 35,359), Dade co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; inc. 1931. It is a major office and retail area. and Itasca Group of Fridley, Minnesota Fridley is a city in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 27,449 at the 2000 census. It was incorporated in 1949 as a village and became a city in 1957. It is part of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. in its winning proposal. GEOPAK will therefore provide their comprehensive MicroStation-based roadway design system to users at the North Dakota DOT. The popular GEOPAK system is itself becoming an industry-wide standard. It has been selected as the roadway design software of choice at eleven state DOTs as well as the Federal Highway Department, multiple sites of the Army Corps of Engineers, and hundreds of consulting firms. Itasca will provide installation and local services as a part of the total civil engineering solution. More on Bentley 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) , Inc. is the leader in professional computer-aided design products and services to engineering organizations where CAD is mission-critical. The company's MicroStation product range is relied upon by over 200,000 professional users and over 600 commercial application developers worldwide in the 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 ), geographic information systems (GIS), and increasingly in mechanical design markets. Founded in 1984, Bentley has now become one of the world's fastest growing software companies. For more information on MicroStation 95 and the MicroStation range of products, please contact Bentley at 800/BENTLEY, at 610/458-5000, via the Internet at jen.mcwilliams@bentley.com, or on the World Wide Web at http://www.bentley.com/. -0- MicroStation is a registered trademark and MDL is a trademark of Bentley Systems, Inc. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Boston Communications Michelle Allard, 617/247-1112 E-mail: mallard mallard: see duck. mallard Abundant “wild duck” (Anas platyrhynchos, family Anatidae) of the Northern Hemisphere, ancestor of most domestic ducks. 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