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News Release from: Bentley Systems | Subject: BE Magazine
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 June 2006
Bold New Approach to Structural
Engineering
The Digital Publication Also Includes Features on Training ROI, Workforce Replenishment and Bentley User Success Stories
The newest issue of BE Magazine, which was released at the BE Conference last week, provides in-depth coverage on a bold new approach to structural engineering The approach improves efficiencies in infrastructure workflows by integrating analysis and design
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 4 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The road to these improvements begins with building information modeling (BIM), says Charles Carter, chief structural engineer of the American Institute of Steel Construction, in the first of two articles on integrated engineering.
Carter points out that in the design and documentation of building projects, BIM enables the building team to focus on information for its decisions, rather than on the documentation tools and processes.
The primary rewards are faster delivery of a better-quality project and the consequent cost savings.
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In the article "Gaining Ground," Bentley Vice President Mike Markovitz discusses Bentley's newly formed Integrated Engineering Group (IEG).
He explains that the new group is focused on integrating engineering analysis and design with CAD or BIM-based modeling, layout, and documentation systems.
IEG's goal is to enhance collaboration and thus enable design teams to increase productivity, decrease errors and constructability problems, and deliver greater value to owner-operators.
Readers interested in learning how progressive organizations distinguish themselves through their training practices won't want to miss Christopher Klein's article "How To Transform Training Into a Competitive Advantage." Klein, a principal at ZweigWhite, says his company's research shows that organizations with well-trained professionals benefit from a better work environment, increased productivity, and a higher quality of work.
All of these benefits, he explains, have a bottom-line effect on project and firm profitability.
In the article "Inspiring the Next Generation," Future City Competition National Director Carol Rieg says there is cause for alarm in the United States regarding the future of its engineering workforce.
According to Rieg, US primary and secondary schools are not producing enough potential engineering students to counterbalance the wave of engineers nearing retirement.
As she points out, "Sadly, most high school students in the United States do not even possess the prerequisites to consider an engineering career path." Rieg goes on to discuss a program that fosters an interest in math and science through hands-on, real-world applications - the National Engineers Week Future City Competition.
In the program, teams of middle school students, each working with a teacher and volunteer engineer mentor, create cities of the future, first on a computer and then in large tabletop models.
The engineering mentors engage the students to work as a team, solve problems, overcome obstacles, and achieve success - in short, the very things engineers do for a living.
In his column, "The Last Word," CEO Greg Bentley describes the supply chain of innovation that extends around the world.
"It occurs to me that our innovations are made possible by the innovations of others," says Mr Bentley, "and ours in turn empower the innovations of your organizations".
"I see this ripple of advances through technology as a 'supply chain' of innovation." He goes on to explain that the ultimate source of this supply chain is human potential, in the form of our children: the engineers of the future.
To help sustain our supply chain of innovation, Mr Bentley encourages others to support programs, such as the Future City Competition, that promote the study of the sciences and math.
As always, readers of BE Magazine will also find a variety of inspiring user success stories; how-to articles that help architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals and owner-operators become better connected and more productive; a global roundup of AEC news; practical technical notes; commentary on issues critical to the AEC community; and much more. Request a free brochure from Bentley Systems ...
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