Civil Engineers Form MicroStation Special Interest Group; Geoengineering/Civil SIG Joins TMC to Influence GEOPAK/Bentley Technology Development.PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 1998--GEOPAK, a Bentley Strategic Affiliate, today announced the formation of a new Special Interest Group (SIG) for the civil engineering discipline. Spearheaded by Dean Bowman and Barbara Day of GEOPAK and Chairman Bill Guthrie, the Geoengineering/Civil SIG held its first meeting at Bentley's Proactive Engineering Symposium. "With the large number of civil engineers using MicroStation(R) software and the tremendous momentum within the GEOPAK User Group, we felt it was time to establish this Special Interest Group within The MicroStation Community (TMC TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) TMC Texas Medical Center (Houston, TX) TMC Traffic Message Channel TMC The Movie Channel TMC Traffic Management Center (R))," says Guthrie, Engineering Systems Analyst at Parsons Parsons, city (1990 pop. 11,924), Labette co., SE Kans.; inc. 1871. It is a shipping point for dairy products, grain, and livestock. Manufactures include ammunition, wire and paper products, plastics, and appliances. Transportation Group in Washington, D.C. "This formation also comes at a critical time, with the inherent potential of MicroStation/J(TM) and GEOPAK(R) '98 before us." The Geoengineering/Civil SIG is part of The MicroStation Community, providing an educational forum for the professional development and advancement of GEOPAK and MicroStation users. SIGs stimulate the community of users to open dialog, sharing ideas and experiences and driving new directions for industry-specific technology development. This first meeting was held to formulate the group's mission, establish ground rules, and gather direction from the user base. Nominations for group officers were accepted at the meeting. The group plans to hold meetings twice yearly, in fall and summer, in concert with Bentley FORUMs. Users interested in joining the Geoengineering/Civil SIG may contact Bill Guthrie by mail at Parsons Transportation Group, 1133 15th Street NW, Washington, D.C., 20005; FAX at 202/775-3422; e-mail to william_guthrie@parsons.comp comp See comparison. ; or telephone at 202/775-6082. For more information on TMC, visit online at www.tmc.org. The formation of this SIG provides GEOPAK users with two venues for sharing information in addition to the two yearly GEOPAK User Group meetings, held in December and July. GEOPAK Winter 1998 Users Group will be held December 14-16, at the Marriott Marina Hotel in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. More information on this and other GEOPAK activities can be found on the company's website at www.geopak.com. About GEOPAK, a Bentley Strategic Affiliate GEOPAK, a Bentley Strategic Affiliate, provides civil engineering software and advanced traffic management systems for worldwide transportation projects. GEOPAK, more than any other civil engineering software, is developed and supported by practicing civil engineers and land surveyors; GEOPAK software has been in service commercially since 1984. The software is used by thousands of engineering consultants worldwide, the Federal Highway Administration The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation. The agency's major activities are grouped into two "programs," The Federal-aid Highway Program and the Federal Lands Highway of the U.S. Government, the United States Army Corps of Engineers The United States Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, is a federal agency made up of some 34,600 civilian and 650 military men and women. The Corps's mission is to provide military and civil works engineering services to the United States, including: GEOPAK can be reached -- By telephone at 305/944-5151 (toll free: 888-GEOPAK1) -- By FAX at 305/948-6290 -- By email at sales@geopak.com -- On the World Wide Web at www.geopak.com About Bentley and Bentley Strategic Affiliates 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, is a worldwide leader in engineering software and user services. The Bentley Continuum(TM) is the company's comprehensive engineering IT strategy comprising products, services, and strategic affiliations. The company now serves over a quarter million professionals in building/plant engineering, geoengineering, and manufacturing engineering Manufacturing engineering Engineering activities involved in the creation and operation of the technical and economic processes that convert raw materials, energy, and purchased items into components for sale to other manufacturers or into end products for . With revenues now over $150M annually, Bentley was listed as the largest privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. on the 1998 Softletter 100 and named to the 1998 Upside Upside The potential dollar amount by which the market or a stock could rise. Notes: This is basically an educated guess on how high a stock could go in the near future. See also: Bull, Downside Hot 100. Bentley's MicroStation desktop and ModelServer(TM) Internet/intranet/extranet-based products are used at over 70% of the largest U.S. engineering firms. They form the software foundation of well-known buildings, roadways, machines, and industrial plants around the world. The Bentley SELECT(SM) technology and service subscription program now reaches over 150,000 users. Bentley Strategic Affiliates provide project services and the world's best and most interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. engineering applications to Bentley users. Bentley's Strategic Affiliate program involves an intense technical and business collaboration with, as well as corporate investment in, a select number of focused, luminary developers. Bentley Strategic Affiliates include GEOPAK, providing civil engineering software and advanced traffic management systems for worldwide transportation projects; HMR HMR Hazardous Materials Regulations HMR Human Resources HMR Home Meal Replacement HMR Hamrun (postal locality, Malta) HMR Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (Montréal, Canada) , developing advanced imaging for engineering and geoengineering; Jacobus Technology, offering products and services for plant engineering and design; NetSpace Systems, providing solutions to utility and telecommunications companies See telecom company. managing distributed engineered assets and municipal geoengineering solutions; and WorkPlace System Solutions, providing asset-centric engineering information management. More information about Bentley and Bentley Strategic Affiliates is available at www.bentley.com. --------- GEOPAK is a registered trademark of GEOPAK Corporation. Bentley, MicroStation, and TMC-The MicroStation Community are registered trademarks; Bentley Continuum, MicroStation/J, and ModelServer are trademarks; and Bentley SELECT is a service mark of Bentley Systems, Incorporated. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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