Bentley Systems Announces the Availability of OpenBuildings Station Designer

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EXTON, Pennsylvania, May 14, 2019 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

        - Uniquely integrates multidisciplinary design and pedestrian

                     simulation for rail and transit stations

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive

software and digital twins services for advancing the design, construction, and

operations of infrastructure, today announced the general availability of

OpenBuildings Station Designer, a new multidisciplinary application for the

design, analysis, visualization, and simulation of new or operating rail, metro

or other transit stations. Advancing beyond generic BIM applications,

OpenBuildings Station Designer was developed specifically for rail and transit

station modeling, with asset-specific content and workflows. OpenBuildings

Station Designer streamlines and automates design collaboration design between

architectural, mechanical, electrical, and structural disciplines sharing

modeling, clash resolution, and documentation capabilities.

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OpenBuildings Station Designer incorporates LEGION, the industry-leading

simulation software, acquired by Bentley late in 2018, for fully modeling

pedestrian traffic to optimize footfall, wayfinding, crowd management, safety,

and security. With the integrated capability to model and simulate pedestrian

scenarios, OpenBuildings Station Designer helps designers to improve the

functional use of space, passenger throughput, and the pedestrian experience.

By virtue of Bentley's open modeling environment, OpenBuildings Station

Designer enables iterative digital workflows spanning OpenRail and OpenRoads to

assure comprehensive and coordinated engineering modeling of transportation

assets and modes. Within Bentley's OpenRail Connected Data Environment (CDE),

the Components Center cloud service contributes to station project quality and

integrity through pre-populated digital components which include signaling equipment,

escalators, turnstiles, public address systems, signage, kiosks, and more.

OpenBuildings Station Designer breaks down barriers among stakeholders and

increases the value and fitness-for-purpose of design deliverables through its:

    - included LEGION pedestrian simulation;

    - integration with OpenRail for rail design;

    - integration with OpenRoads for roads design;

    - clash resolution;

    - multi-discipline documentation;

    - ready-to-use catalogs for functional spaces and equipment; and

    - enlivened visualizations.

Santanu Das, SVP for Bentley's design integration business unit, said,

"OpenBuildings Station Designer reflects our goal of advancing BIM through

digital twins, by including within its multi-discipline design scope the

integral simulation of pedestrian traffic outcomes. With such insight, the

designer can anticipate pedestrian bottlenecks and modify the layout to improve

the station efficiency and safety, ultimately improving the passenger

experience. Accordingly, we expect OpenBuildings Station Designer to also

benefit existing rail and transit stations for renovations and upgrades,

increasing their capacity and throughput."

Mike Nicholson, associate for Steer Group

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said, "For over a decade Steer has successfully been delivering a wide

range of pedestrian modeling studies around the world utilizing LEGION.

We are now looking forward to using the full BIM capabilities of OpenBuildings

Station Designer."

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OpenBuildings Station Designer streamlines multidisciplinary design between

architects and mechanical, electrical, and structural engineers with a shared

set of modeling, clash resolution, and documentation capabilities

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OpenBuildings Station Designer incorporates LEGION Model Builder, Bentley's

leading application for fully modeling pedestrian traffic

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OpenBuildings Station Designer helps designers improve the quality of station

and facility design and optimize the functional use of space and the pedestrian experience

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OpenBuildings Station Designer was developed specifically for rail and transit

station design, with asset-specific content and workflows

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About Bentley's Open Modeling Environment

Sharing digital components through Components Center and connecting automated

and iterative digital workflows across disciplines for design integration are

the foundation of Bentley's open modeling environment. Bentley's open modeling

applications are also "open" to analytics and simulation from among Bentley's

portfolio of analysis tools including RAM, STAAD, PLAXIS, LEGION, LEAP,

SITEOPS, and AutoPIPE.

Comprising MicroStation-based engineering and BIM applications specialized for

asset types and solutions, the open modeling environment advances

collaboration, enabling clash resolution and production of multidiscipline

deliverables from any application. Bentley's growing list of open modeling

applications include OpenBuildings, OpenPlant, OpenRoads, OpenRail, OpenBridge,

OpenSite, OpenFlows, and OpenUtilities.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is the leading global provider of software solutions to

engineers, architects, geospatial professionals, constructors, and

owner-operators for the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure.

Bentley's MicroStation-based engineering and BIM applications, and its digital

twin cloud services, advance the project delivery (ProjectWise) and the asset

performance (AssetWise) of transportation and other public works, utilities,

industrial and resources plants, and commercial and institutional facilities.

Bentley Systems employs more than 3,500 colleagues, generates annual revenues

of over $700 million in 170 countries, and has invested more than $1 billion in

research, development, and acquisitions since 2014. From inception in 1984, the

company has remained majority-owned by its five founding Bentley brothers.

Bentley shares transact by invitation on the NASDAQ Private Market.

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Bentley, the Bentley logo, AssetWise, AutoPIPE, LEGION, RAM, STAAD, PLAXIS,

LEAP, SITEOPS, MicroStation, OpenBuildings Station Designer, OpenBuildings,

OpenPlant, OpenRoads, OpenRail, OpenBridge, OpenSite, OpenFlows, OpenUtilities,

and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service

marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly

owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their

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