Bentley's Manoj Dharwadkar, Rahul Patil Gets FIATECH Award
 EXTON,
PA, May 16, 2008 – Dr. Manoj Dharwadkar, Bentley director, technology
management, and Rahul Patil, Bentley software engineer, have each received a
FIATECH 2007 Superior Technical Achievement (STAR) Award. The award, which
was presented at FIATECH’s annual Technology Conference and Showcase in New
Orleans, is given annually in recognition of outstanding achievement by
individuals working on behalf of FIATECH. Dr. Dharwadkar and Patil were both
honored for their special contributions in support of FIATECH’s
“Accelerating the Deployment of the ISO 15926” (ADI) project, and for
playing a leading role in Bentley’s extensive work this past year on the ISO
15926 international standard for process plant information. A direct result
of this work was Bentley’s introduction of OpenPlant, the first range of
software products for the creation and management of plant infrastructure
inherently based on the ISO 15926 standard. Dr. Dharwadkar and Patil also
accepted, on behalf of Bentley, a FIATECH Celebration of Engineering &
Technology Innovation (CETI) Award in the Lifecycle Data Management &
Information Integration category, which the company won for its
collaboration on the ADI project.
“Manoj and Rahul have demonstrated outstanding leadership and dedication
to our organization at the expense and sacrifice of their valuable personal
time,” said Dr. Richard H.F. Jackson, director of FIATECH. “The
beneficiaries of that resolve are the many capital projects we initiated
over the past year. Their contribution to the ADI project, for one, is
magnified by the portions of the ISO 15926 façade Web services they
provided, which Rahul developed as open source software, and the continued
leadership on ADI subprojects by Manoj, who co-founded the ADI project.”
Jackson continued, “Our success is a testament to their hard work, and
that effort has not gone unnoticed by their peers, who have nominated them
for their superior technical achievements and invaluable contribution to
accelerating standardization activities around ISO 15926.”
Dr. Dharwadkar joined Bentley in 1995 and has provided key leadership for
architecting data integration and interoperable solutions based on industry
standards. He has been involved with ISO 15926-related industry efforts for
the past 11 years. Dr. Dharwadkar was the first software developer to create
the new interface application with the WIP reference data system. He is
currently on the Steering Committee of both FIATECH ADI and POSC Caesar
Association Intelligent Data Sheets (IDS) projects. Dr. Dharwadkar earned
his Ph.D. in Construction Engineering and Project Management from the
University of Texas.
Patil joined Bentley’s Platform Technology Group as a software engineer
in 2003. He has been an active member of the ISO 15926 industry group and
has been involved in a wide range of ISO 15926 initiatives within Bentley.
Patil has written interoperable software for the Reference Data System/WIP
project and Bentley Class Editor. His leadership within RDS/WIP has been
critical to its success. Patil holds a Master of Science degree from the
University of Buffalo.
This marks the second year running that Bentley colleagues have been
honored with a FIATECH STAR Award. At the 2007 FIATECH conference, Francis
Rabuck, Bentley director, product research, received a STAR Award for his
work leading the Capital Projects Technology Roadmap Element 4 area focused
on achieving an Intelligent & Automated Construction Job Site. Additionally,
Rabuck was recognized for leading the resurgence of FIATECH’s Smart Chips
project, drawing on his vast experience and networks in the emerging
technologies industry.
About OpenPlant
OpenPlant is a set of products completely built on the ISO 15926 data
model that signals the next step in Bentley’s development history. By
enabling this next phase of interoperability, OpenPlant helps organizations
develop more sustainable designs and support innovation. OpenPlant products
are open and deliver full collaboration between disparate systems; support
distributed teams in single locations or spread over multiple offices; and
enhance productivity by deploying the latest user interfaces and empowering
engineers to share work seamlessly regardless of where they are located or
what systems they are using.
Bentley’s first ISO 15926-compliant offering was its ProjectWise
Lifecycle Server. At daratechPLANT2008, Bentley introduced OpenPlant
PowerPID, the only commercial P&ID solution to be based on a completely open
data model.
For more information about OpenPlant PowerPID, visit
www.bentley.com/PowerPID.
About the STAR Award
The STAR Award recognizes the Superior Technical Achievements of
individuals who, working on behalf of FIATECH, have given “above and
beyond.” Each year FIATECH honors those individuals through whose
leadership, commitment, participation, and sacrifice of personal time, the
capital projects industry has benefited. Without these individuals, FIATECH
would not be the internationally recognized and respected organization that
it is today.
About FIATECH
FIATECH is an industry consortium that provides global leadership in
identifying and accelerating the development, demonstration and deployment
of fully integrated and automated technologies to deliver the highest
business value throughout the lifecycle of all types of capital projects.
For more information about FIATECH, visit
www.fiatech.org.
About ADI
More than 30 FIATECH owners, contractors, equipment suppliers, and
software providers are working together in the jointly funded ADI project,
along with the POSC Caesar Association and DNV, to create a WIP ISO 15926
online reference data library. This library includes lifecycle information
models as well as software interface tools for process industry lifecycle
information integration.
About Bentley
Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the
world’s infrastructure. The company’s comprehensive portfolio for the
building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture,
engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With revenues now surpassing
$400 million annually, and more than 2,400 colleagues globally, Bentley is
the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top
Design Firms and major owner-operators and was named the world’s No. 2
provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a Daratech research study.
For more information, visit
www.bentley.com.
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