Bentley Systems - Building Design and Construction Software

Bentley delivers software for the entire lifecycle of an infrastructure asset, tailored to the needs of the various professions—the engineers, architects, planners, contractors, fabricators, IT managers, operators and maintenance engineers who will work on and work with that asset over its lifetime.

Comprised of integrated applications and services built on an open platform, each solution is designed to ensure that information flows between workflow processes and project team members to enable interoperability and collaboration.

Turnkey building project software

To unite the building project lifecycle, bringing together design and documentation information and workflows for the design, construction, and operation of all types of buildings and facilities around the world, from the conventional to some of the most inspiring projects of our time.

Building information modeling software

Building information modeling (BIM) is a new way of approaching the design and documentation of building projects. Bentley offers BIM solutions for architects, engineers, contractors, owners and operators to design, analyze, build and operate buildings and facilities.

The BIM process coinsists of three stages:

• Building - the entire lifecycle of the building is considered (design-build/operations)
• Information - all information about the building and its lifecycle is included
• Modeling - defining and simulating the building, its delivery, and operation using integrated tools

BIM provides several major advantages over CAD. BIM models and manages not just graphics, but also information – information that allows the automatic generation of drawings and reports, design analysis, schedule simulation, facilities management, and more – ultimately enabling the building team to make better-informed decisions.

BIM supports a distributed team so that people, tools, and tasks can effectively share this information throughout the building lifecycle, thus eliminating data redundancy, data re-entry, data loss, miscommunication, and translation errors.

Generative design software

GenerativeComponents™ (GC) enables architects and engineers to pursue designs and achieve results that were virtually unthinkable before. GenerativeComponents™ enables designers to explore more possibilities, in less time, create better designs and efficiently create and manage complex geometric relationships. Enabling the creativity to deliver inspired sustainable buildings that are freer in form and use innovative materials and assemblies.

This unique generative design software captures and exploits the critical relationships between design intent and geometry. Designs can be refined by either dynamically modelling and directly manipulating geometry, by applying rules and capturing relationships among building elements, or by defining complex building forms and systems through concisely expressed algorithms.

GenerativeComponents™ is already enabling leading architects and engineers around the world to deliver inspired sustainable buildings. Among them are Arup, Buro Happold, Foster + Partners, Grimshaw Architects, HOK, Kohn Pedersen Fox, Morphosis, and SHoP Architects.

Building performance simulation software

Rapidly growing worldwide demand for high-performance buildings means the ability to accurately predict energy consumption, CO2 emissions, operating costs, and occupant comfort, is now critical to the success of projects, ranging from the small and simple to the very large and highly complex.

It also means architects, building services engineers, and energy assessors need the right tools to effectively and productively design, analyze, and simulate building energy systems.

Bentley’s building performance software applications, provide the fastest, most powerful, and most accurate simulation and analysis available for building load, plant energy, passive design, and dynamic thermal simulations. Supporting ISO, CIBSE and ASHRAE standards, these industry-leading tools can be used around the world to provide required compliance checking and documentation, such as that mandated by UK part L2, Australia part J, and the US Green Building Council’s LEED program.

Bentley’s industry-leading building performance products includes:

• Bentley Building Mechanical Systems™ – Building information modelling (BIM) for the design and documentation of air-handling and plumbing systems
• Bentley Hevacomp™ – Highly productive building energy design, simulation and energy performance certification tools using the emerging industry-standard EnergyPlus analysis engine. Bentley Hevacomp EPC software™ has received full accreditation for the production of Level 3 and 4 Energy Performance Certificates
• Bentley Tas™ – Full-featured building energy design and simulation using an industry-proven custom analysis engine to provide fast and productive performance on even the largest and most complex building projects