Brisbane Water Selects Bentley's WaterGEMS V8 XM Edition for Modeling Speed, Ease of Use, and Fire Flow Analysis.EXTON, Pa. -- 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 that Brisbane Water For the water utility in the city of Brisbane, see . Brisbane Water is the northern arm of Broken Bay on the east coast of New South Wales Australia. Brisbane Water is named after Sir Thomas Brisbane, Governor of New South Wales between 1820 and 1825. , one of the largest water utilities in Australia, has selected WaterGEMS V8 XM Edition, Bentley's water distribution modeling solution, to manage the municipality's complex water network. The network serves a population of approximately one million. WaterGEMS V8 XM, which won the 2006 AWWA AWWA American Water Works Association AWWA Army Wives Welfare Association (India) AWWA Australian Water and Wastewater Association People's Choice Award for best new product, was chosen by Brisbane Water after an extensive selection process that evaluated several competing systems. Key criteria included overall power, modeling speed, ease of use, model management, and fire flow analysis capabilities. Commenting on the utility's decision to adopt WaterGEMS V8 XM, Ben Wilson Ben Wilson may refer to:
v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. model management. WaterGEMS' new framework will increase the speed of our network simulations, and the software's highly user-friendly interface will significantly flatten the learning curve for our modelers, allowing them and their administrators to focus on their core activities." WaterGEMS V8 XM features a data-centric framework, which means utilities can leverage the benefits of ArcGIS integration without sacrificing interoperability with the AutoCAD, MicroStation, and stand-alone platforms. It also provides a new stand-alone interface that allows utilities to customize its work environment with dockable dialogs, and to take advantage of extended background image support, powerful thematic mapping features, and bidirectional The ability to move, transfer or transmit in both directions. copy/paste from external applications. The engineers at Brisbane Water also gave WaterGEMS V8 XM high marks for its ability to effectively and efficiently determine water availability for fire fighting fire fighting, the use of strategy, personnel, and apparatus to extinguish, to confine, or to escape from fire. Fire-Fighting Strategy Fire fighting strategy involves the following basic procedures: arriving at the scene of the fire as rapidly as . As Ben Wilson explained, "Fire flow investigations are traditionally one of the most labor-intensive types of water modeling analysis. WaterGEMS' Fire Flow Navigator is a powerful new feature that attracted us to the product, as it significantly reduces these overheads. In a single fire flow simulation run, WaterGEMS allowed our engineers to immediately determine not just where, but also why the water network had failed to meet the desired standards of service." With the new Fire Flow Navigator, there is no longer a need to conduct separate time-consuming investigative model runs for each failure area. This feature advances water modeling standards with systemwide fire flow analyses, enabling the modelers to navigate the entire network to evaluate flows, velocities, and pressures for every element in the specified fire event. For more information about WaterGEMS V8 XM Edition, visit www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/WaterGEMS/WaterGEMSV8. About Brisbane Water Brisbane Water is a commercialized business unit of the Brisbane City Council The Brisbane City Council is the governing council for Brisbane, which is the capital of Queensland, Australia. Unlike councils in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, where the local councils are generally responsible for relatively small areas of those cities, the Brisbane City that provides water and wastewater services to almost one million consumers. It employs about 900 staff and is one of Australia's largest water utilities. For more information, visit www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/BCC:BRISWATERL:1916526499:pc=PC_1392. 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 verticals 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 2005 revenues of $336 million and more than 2000 colleagues around the world, 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. Top 500 Design Firms and major owner-operators and was named the world's No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study. To receive Bentley press releases as they are issued, visit www.bentley.com/bentleywire. For more information, visit www.bentley.com. To view a copy of Bentley's May 2006 Annual Report online, go to www.bentley.com/May2006annualreport. Bentley, the "B" logo, MicroStation, WaterGEMS, and Fire Flow Navigator 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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