CONNECTION Event Philadelphia
Keynote
Monday, May 18, 2015
Introducing the CONNECT Edition: Advancing Project Delivery
9:30 AM 10:30 AM
This presentation will highlight the business and technology drivers that are fundamental to Bentley’s next infrastructure advancement ‐ The CONNECT Edition’s Common Environment for Comprehensive Project Delivery. Presented by one of Bentley’s senior executives, this informative keynote presentation will introduce the CONNECT Edition, a new paradigm for project delivery that will redefine the way teams design, build, and collaborate on infrastructure projects of all sizes. You will hear how to increase productivity and collaboration for infrastructure projects of all sizes.
Greg Bentley, CEO, Bentley Systems
The CONNECT Edition: The Common Environment for Comprehensive Project Delivery
11:00 AM 12:30 PM
Hear about the CONNECT Edition innovations for MicroStation, ProjectWise, and Bentley Navigator. Learn how these innovations leverage the latest technology enablers, including cloud services, touch, mobile, and more.
No matter what your role is on a design or engineering project, and no matter how large or small your project is, discover how to connect your project teams in innovative ways. Hear first‐hand how to increase your individual productivity and simplify project‐wide collaboration for all project participants. Improved project execution will help increase your ability to deliver the best performing buildings, bridges, roads, power plants, utility networks, mines, and other infrastructure projects on time, on budget, and with less risk.
Robert Mankowski, VP, Simulation Product Management, Bentley Systems
Mike Schellhase, Senior Director, Product Development, Bentley Systems
Susan Brandt, VP, ProjectWise Collaboration Products, Bentley Systems
Huw Roberts, VP, Platform Marketing, Bentley Systems
Transportation Industry Forum
Monday, May 18, 2015
1:30 PM 2:15 PM
Transportation Industry Vision
Bentley has been a trusted partner in transportation for road and rail projects for over 25 years. Though industry has changed, Bentley has stood shoulder to shoulder with owner‐operators and other in the industry professionals as they have tackled some of the world’s most demanding projects. Bentley solutions encompass data acquisition, project delivery, enabling BIM beyond design and construction, into operations and maintenance of transportation infrastructure. This session will deliver Bentley’s vision for the future of our industry, expose some of the myths about BIM, and look at the journey toward its adoption around the world through real‐life projects and success stories. The session will also outline how Bentley will help existing and future users achieve even greater successes.
Ron Gant, Industry Marketing Director, Road, Bentley Systems
Capturing and Delivering 3D Data for Design
Hear from industry experts and practitioners on their successful implementations of Bentley solutions in real‐world projects.
Paul DiGiacobbe, PE, DBIA, Geospatial Department Manager, Maser Consulting, PA
2:15 PM
3:00 PM
Integrated Project Delivery for Design and Construction
3:15 PM 4:00 PM
Bentley’s technology ‐ from data acquisition to detailed engineering analysis to construction deliverables ‐ has been the standard in transportation for over 25 years delivering projects of all sizes and complexity on time and under budget. Bentley excels in federating project information, integrating project teams and enabling collaboration between offices around the world. Bentley playbooks and products combine with Bentley’s Project Delivery solution to control and distribute engineering design information and construction deliverables, to achieve 3D collaborative BIM.
Ron Gant, Industry Marketing Director, Road, Bentley Systems
Asset Information and Performance Management with AssetWise
4:00 PM 4:45 PM
Bentley’s long‐standing position as a leading provider of transportation engineering solutions evolved naturally over the years into a parallel focus on transportation asset management including industry leading products such as InspectTech, Exor, Optram, SUPERLOAD and AssetWise APM.
Jeremy Shaffer, Senior Director, Product Management, Bentley Systems
Discussion, Q & A, and Closing Comments
5:00 PM 5:30 PM
This session offers attendees the opportunity ask questions of Bentley presenters relative to topics covered above and as time permits to engage in an open discussion of current challenges and best practices.
Ron Gant, Industry Marketing Director, Road, Bentley Systems
Jeremy Shaffer, Senior Director, Product Management, Bentley Systems
CONNECTION Event Philadelphia
Utilities Industry Forum
Monday, May 18, 2015
1:30 PM 2:15 PM
Better Performing Utilities Assets from Plant to Point of Service
From plant to point of service, productivity is essential for the utilities who plan, design, construct, and operate the world’s utilities infrastructure for power, gas, water, and wastewater. What do utilities want, need, and expect to ensure efficiency across their organizations? What technologies are available today and what can we expect in the future? The Utilities Connections introduction session will address topics of relevance to all types of utilities, including the positive impact on ROI of intelligent engineering applications, the value of BIM and its role in utilities, the impact of cloud technology on utilities workflows, new developments in meeting the challenges of subsurface utilities, best practices in engineering collaboration, and how to achieve operational excellence through better‐performing assets.
Victor Alvarez, Senior Marketing Manager, Bentley Systems
Mission Critical Geospatial Technology in Utilities
2:15 PM 3:00 PM
The role geospatial technology plays in utilities has evolved over past decades from simple mapping of network locations to enabling virtually every aspect of utilities operations – from the office to the field, and in communications with the public. The technology is fully integrated with mainstream enterprise and operational systems in utilities and is absolutely mission critical. This session will present innovative solutions for utilities GIS, network planning, distribution network design, modeling and analysis, transmission corridor mapping and analysis, and geospatial mobile apps. Learn about the role reality modeling, 3D visualization, subsurface utilities engineering, and spatially enabled views of engineering records play in bringing efficiency to utilities operations.
Gregg Herrin, Director, Product Management, Bentley Systems
Achieving Operational Excellence through Better Performing Utilities Assets
3:15 PM 4:00 PM
Better performing assets are the result of a sustainable process supported by the right tools, methodology, training, measurement, and leadership. Learn how Bentley provides a cohesive and integrated approach to develop, implement, and manage a living program to manage the performance, safety, integrity, and reliability of utility assets to mitigate risk and the consequences of failure, as well as significantly lower costs.
Attendees will learn how AssetWise APM enables utilities to efficiently and effectively collect, analyze, and act on asset condition data to make timely and informed maintenance decisions. See how AssetWise Amulet enables real‐time operational predictive and prescriptive analytics facilitate mission critical operational decision‐making. Attendees will also learn how Bentley users are enabling a risk‐centric approach to asset performance management using the latest in information modeling and asset performance modeling.
Jennifer Lopez, Solution Architect, Bentley Systems
Philadelphia Water Department’s Deployment of ProjectWise Geospatial Management
4:00 PM 4:45 PM
Hear Thomas Kaufmann, PWD’s engineering plans design supervisor, explain how his department was able to improve its document management system using ProjectWise Geospatial Management.
With its ProjectWise database growing quickly, Philadelphia Water Department needed to better manage thousands of pre‐construction and construction documents. To achieve its goal, PWD deployed ProjectWise V8i Geospatial Management and created a basemap in the ProjectWise administrator, which can now be seen by the entire department.
CAD Files
With the basemap successfully created, PWD began geospatially scanning CAD files using ProjectWise Client, which allows users to select a file, group of files, query, or folder to scan. Once geocoding of the project folders was complete, the improvement in the ability to manage the documents was immediate.
PWD’s ProjectWise database is also tied to its project management system (CAPIT) database. This allows PWD to perform project folder searches based on CAPIT data and display these folders on a map. Those folders can also be color coded by additional CAPIT data.
Construction Photographs
Before digging begins on a PWD project, the contractor takes a series of pre‐construction photos using devices that can capture geospatial data. ProjectWise Geospatial Management allows the metadata from those geocoded photos to be captured by ProjectWise and displayed on a map.
Tom Kaufmann, Engineering Plans Design Supervisor, Philadelphia Water Department
Utilities Q&A
Engage our industry and product experts in discussion.
Victor Alvarez, Senior Marketing Manager, Bentley Systems
Gregg Herrin, Director, Product Management, Bentley Systems
Jennifer Lopez, Solution Architect, Bentley Systems
5:00 PM
5:30 PM
CONNECTION Event Philadelphia
SITEOPS Application Seminar
Monday, May 18, 2015
1:30 PM 2:15 PM
SITEOPS Provides Unmatched Speed in the Conceptual Design Phase
Patented generative design capabilities in SITEOPS can solve incredibly complex engineering feats, comparing millions of layout, grading, and piping combinations for a site within hours. Parametric design allows the users to quickly manipulate sites without having to redraw. Smart objects such as buildings, parking lots, ponds, and roads work intelligently with one another. This presentation will provide a real‐world example of a complex multi‐family residential site, demonstrating the efficiency of the Topo Import, Layout, and Grading and Piping modules.
David Settlemyer, Senior Product Engineer, Bentley Systems
Reduce Risk with the Ability to Cost Optimize
2:15 PM 3:00 PM
Learn how the SITEOPS Grading and Piping module provides incredible time and cost savings while reducing project risk for site planning. SITEOPS engineering decision making software identifies improved layout and grading solutions based on cost from a single‐acre parcel up to larger projects such as distribution centers, shopping centers, schools, industrial, and mixed use.
David Settlemyer, Senior Product Engineer, Bentley Systems
Explore the Power of "What If?"
3:15 PM 4:00 PM
Moving a building or adding 100 parking spaces no longer needs to be a dreaded job. With SITEOPS, users can make major revisions to a site and the entire layout will be redrawn within seconds. SITEOPS gives users the luxury of exploring numerous site options with smart objects and parametric design. Users can also draw their plans in traditional 2D and with a click of a button, they can see their design as a dynamic 3D model. See how SITEOPS is used to design a multi‐use commercial development, creating multiple layout options.
David Settlemyer, Senior Product Engineer, Bentley Systems
User Success: Evolution of CAD Technology and Value Engineering
4:00 PM 4:45 PM
Pennoni and its staff have been using SITEOPS since it was first introduced in many interesting and unique ways. These projects have included large subdivisions, recreational facilities, commercial sites, and property evaluations for condemnation.
In this presentation, Steve Lewis will demonstrate how Pennoni uses the software in the early stages of a project. Steve will explain how SITEOPS enabled the firm to complete the project in the allotted time frame.
Steve Lewis, Senior Engineering Technician, Pennoni
SITEOPS Q&A
David Settlemyer, Senior Product Engineer, Bentley Systems
5:00 PM
5:30 PM
CONNECTION Event Philadelphia
Structural Design and Analysis Application Seminar
Monday, May 18, 2015
1:30 PM 2:15 PM
Structural Market Drivers
Explore the changing drivers and opportunities in the global and local structural market landscape. Learn how owner expectations and new technology are shaping the structural engineer’s responsibilities and opportunities for the future.
Josh Taylor, Senior Product Manager, Bentley Systems
Structural Product Line Update
2:15 PM 3:00 PM
Discover how Bentley’s structural solutions address the demanding industry drivers and global opportunities. Learn about product capabilities, localization, and the new cloud‐based engineering simulation service for investigating multiple design scenarios. See how you can deliver a project faster and with greater accuracy thanks to Bentley’s software interoperability. Learn about Structural Enterprise, a special suite that makes structural products more accessible and enables greater interoperability.
Beth Suminski, Technical Director ‐ Structural, Bentley Systems
Productivity Enabled Through Information Mobility
3:15 PM 4:00 PM
Learn how Bentley’s product interoperability and information mobility can enable design team members to collaborate effectively, both internally and externally. Delve into the interoperability of structural information among different specialized applications: analysis, design, modeling, detailing, and collaboration, realizing the benefits of dynamic collaboration and increased data reuse among structural engineers, detailers, and fabricators.
Beth Suminski, Technical Director ‐ Structural, Bentley Systems
Complex Steel Truss and Super Column Design Utilizing RAM Software
4:00 PM 4:45 PM
This presentation will review the various analysis methods required to design the complex structure and the benefit of utilizing Bentley software to achieve an efficient and economical design.
RAM Structural System and RAM Elements are being utilized for the analysis of a unique three‐story building that will hover 65 feet above an existing building. The typical steel framing layout is transferred by a complex steel truss platform to six super columns, three of which will punch through the existing three‐story building below. The box trusses and super columns act together to create large moment frames that transfer the gravity and lateral forces from the building above to the foundations below. RAM Structural System is being used to design the traditional steel framing levels. The reactions from that analysis are then applied to a RAM Elements model of the truss platform and super column frame. This complicated 3D model is then subdivided into individual 2D and 3D truss models to improve analysis speed, simplify the design process, and address localized deflections on the long span infill trusses, box trusses, and truss girders.
Samantha Fioravanti PE, SE, Senior Project Designer, O’Donnell & Naccarato
Mark Orsini PE, SE, Senior Project Executive, O’Donnell & Naccarato
Structural Design and Analysis Q&A
Engage our industry and product experts in discussion.
Josh Taylor, Senior Product Manager, Bentley Systems
Beth Suminski, Technical Director ‐ Structural, Bentley Systems
Reception
5:00 PM
5:30 PM
Monday, May 18, 2015
5:30 PM
Networking Reception in Franklin Hall
Join us for a special reception at the end of day one for food, drinks and networking with infrastructure professionals and Bentley executives.
7:30 PM
CONNECTION Event Philadelphia
CONNECT Edition LEARNing
CONNECT Edition LEARNing
In this session, you will learn how to gain efficiencies in your project workflows using MicroStation, Navigator, and ProjectWise.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
9:00 AM 12:00 PM
The session will begin with an explanation of the new ribbon interface in MicroStation CONNECT to help you become comfortable navigating through the software and easily locate the tools you use every day.
You will also learn how MicroStation’s Property Driven Display, Annotation, Reports, and Sheets (part of the Documentation Center) can save you time and money when labeling, reporting, or changing the display of the elements or objects. You will also learn how reporting extracts and presents data from property‐based drawings ensuring coordinated and consistent tables, exports to Excel, Bill of Materials, and more based on your project conditions. Learn how Display Rules enable a set‐and‐forget environment where the geometry is always up to date.
Does your project have a need for design review and model collaboration across offices, sites, and the field? You will learn how the next generation of our popular Bentley Navigator application and Navigator Mobile app fulfil these project needs.
To wrap up the session, learn about improvements and new features of the ProjectWise publishing products to extend your publishing capabilities and produce purpose‐built project deliverables.
Bob Bossler, LEARNing Consultant, Bentley Systems
Robert DeFeo, Senior Application Engineer, Bentley Systems
CONNECTION Event Philadelphia
OpenRoads Application Seminar
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
1:00 PM 1:45 PM
Design, Modeling, and Information Mobility: A Look at the Impact on the Bottom Line
Design, modeling, and information mobility go hand in hand to help increase design quality, project efficiency, and overall collaboration. Intelligent 3D models are key to accelerated project delivery, and information mobility is more than simply accessing files in multiple locations. It is the ability to share information across project teams and disciplines, and through project lifecycle phases, in a controlled, secure manner. This presentation will provide real‐
world examples of successful implementations of Bentley civil design and collaboration tools as well as the resulting ROI.
Dustin Parkman, Director, Product Development, Bentley Systems
Joe Waxmonsky, Senior Product Engineer, Bentley Systems
OpenRoads: Design and Modeling
1:45 PM 2:30 PM
Discover how OpenRoads combines traditional engineering workflows of plan, profile, and cross‐sections with innovative 3D modeling technology enhanced by parametric design features. This presentation will highlight how OpenRoads improves the model’s behavior and ability to react to design changes. See how OpenRoads anticipates the engineer’s design intent with automated decisions based on parametrics, relationships, and constraints resulting in increased productivity and higher‐quality designs.
Dustin Parkman, Director, Product Development, Bentley Systems
Joe Waxmonsky, Senior Product Engineer, Bentley Systems
2:45 PM 3:30 PM
The Future of Subsurface Modeling, Design, and Analysis ‐ Bentley Subsurface Utility Engineering and OpenRoads Subsurface Design and Analysis Applications
Bentley‘s latest subsurface utility engineering application extends the power of OpenRoads technology by including a robust toolset for building intelligent 3D feature‐based models of the buried construction zone. These 3D models ensure better coordination during design and construction. Using the software’s visualization and clash detection capabilities, you can readily identify conflicts during the design phase to help mitigate risk during construction, lowering your construction costs and enhancing asset performance. In addition, the new SUDA application includes advanced 2D/3D modeling capabilities, integrating the best of OpenRoads with Bentley’s industry‐leading hydraulics and hydrology design tools.
Dustin Parkman, Director, Product Development, Bentley Systems
Joe Waxmonsky, Senior Product Engineer, Bentley Systems
Collaboration for Design and Construction ‐ Using OpenRoads, ProjectWise, and Trimble for Success
3:30 PM 4:15 PM
Ensuring information mobility and integration from design to construction has long been a challenge for the transportation industry. With an increased emphasis on virtual design and construction (VDC), integrated project delivery (IPD), intelligent 3D modeling and lifecycle management of assets, information mobility has never been more important.
Attendees will learn how Bentley and Trimble are working together to improve the integrated workflow for design to construction to maintenance. This session will highlight these latest developments in Bentley’s OpenRoads and Trimble’s Business Center and the benefits they bring to the transportation industry.
Dustin Parkman, Director, Product Development, Bentley Systems
Joe Waxmonsky, Senior Product Engineer, Bentley Systems
OpenRoads Q&A
Dustin Parkman, Director, Product Development, Bentley Systems
Joe Waxmonsky, Senior Product Engineer, Bentley Systems
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
CONNECTION Event Philadelphia
Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Modeling Application Seminar
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
1:00 PM 1:45 PM
Improved Engineering and Operations of Water Distribution and Wastewater Systems
Bentley users around the world are relying on decision‐support tools for their water distribution and wastewater networks in order to improve their knowledge of how infrastructure behaves as a system, how it reacts to operational strategies, and how it should grow as population and demands increase. In this session, specific user examples from the Be Inspired Awards will be discussed, including how their projects improved water and wastewater system reliability, efficiency, and sustainability.
Ton de Vries, Director, Global Water, Bentley Systems
Long‐Term Planning for Water and Wastewater Systems
1:45 PM 2:30 PM
Long‐term capital and master plans are essential for a well‐managed water or wastewater system. However, it can be difficult to prioritize capital improvement priorities, or even determine the size and scope of future projects. This session will introduce a series of engineering tools to help water and wastewater professionals create capital and master plans. These tools make it easy to prioritize capital improvement projects, and develop detailed and hydraulically accurate plans for future system expansion.
Mike Rosh, Sales Consultant, Bentley Systems
Complementing Your SCADA Data for Effective Forecasting and Operations
2:45 PM 3:30 PM
SCADA systems provide operators with a “live” snapshot of the water distribution system.  However, when it comes to predicting how the system will operate in the short to medium term, operators need more than just SCADA data. This session will introduce a hydraulic modeling system that helps operators ‘predict the future’ – from analyzing pump schedules to minimize energy cost, to determining if there is enough system capacity to deal with a planned shutdown during a peak day.
Mike Rosh, Sales Consultant, Bentley Systems
User Success: Practical Application of GIS to Hydraulic Modeling
3:30 PM 4:15 PM
Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. (Aqua) is an investor‐owned water company serving customers in 31 counties throughout Pennsylvania. Aqua’s operations include a large contiguous system serving four counties bordering the city of Philadelphia in southeastern Pennsylvania, along with numerous smaller water systems scattered throughout the state.
Aqua developed a steady‐state hydraulic model of the southeastern Pennsylvania system in the 1980s. This was a comprehensive model constructed using data available at the time. The model was utilized for planning purposes for several years, but its use was limited to one or two expert users who were able to overcome any shortcomings in the model using their expertise of the distribution system.
Aqua began developing a geographic information system (GIS) of its distribution system in 2005. Work processes were established such that any changes to the distribution system are incorporated into the GIS in a timely fashion. In 2007 Aqua obtained Bentley’s WaterGEMS software to construct a new and better model of its distribution system.
This presentation will describe how Aqua has integrated GIS into its hydraulic modeling effort. It will focus on practical solutions to problems most utilities would face when attempting to combine GIS and hydraulic modeling.
Frank Grablutz, Senior Project Engineer, Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc.
Al Polidori, Hydraulic Engineering Analyst, Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc.
Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Modeling Q&A
Ton de Vries, Director, Global Water, Bentley Systems
Mike Rosh, Sales Consultant, Bentley Systems
4:30 PM
5:00 PM