Italy's City of Genoa Selects Bentley
 EXTON,
PA, Aug 1, 2008 – The city of Genoa, Italy, has selected Bentley Systems,
Incorporated, to be the exclusive technology sponsor of the new Genoa Urban
Lab. The announcement was made today during a ceremony at Galata Museo del
Mare, Genoa.
The mission of the new lab, which was designed by 1998 Pritzker
Architecture Prize laureate Renzo Piano, is to create a sustainable
development plan for the city. Bentley will provide the Urban Lab project
team with MicroStation, Bentley Map, Bentley Descartes, Bentley
Architecture, GenerativeComponents, Bentley Structural, and GEOPAK Site
software to help it prepare new urban planning regulations and create an
integrated development plan that will encompass Genoa’s strategic city
projects; infrastructure; seaport; surrounding natural environment; and
cultural and historical asset improvements.
The company will also provide software training through its Bentley LEARN
program – which gives organizations unlimited access to OnDemand eLearning
from the Bentley Institute – and will help furnish the lab. The Urban Lab is
located on the 28-meter-long Studio-Ship created for the project and docked
at Port Antico.
Commenting on this strategic initiative, Genoa Mayor Marta Vincenzi said,
“Municipalities large and small need to think differently in the face of
challenges such as global warming, shrinking supplies of natural resources,
rapidly accelerating demand for infrastructure in developing nations, and
growing shortages of new talent entering the engineering professions. Today,
the goal must always be to design and build sustainable infrastructure that
sustains society and the environment.
“In establishing the Genoa Urban Lab we have gathered some of the top
design and urban planning minds from around the world. Their keen insight
and vision, coupled with the advanced capabilities of Bentley’s solutions
for the lifecycle of infrastructure, will enable us to create an innovative
and effective plan that respects the city’s different environments by
establishing firm boundaries between built areas, green areas, and blue or
seaside areas. Quality growth will replace quantity growth, and our design
philosophy will be to ‘build on built’ rather than to encroach further on
our precious natural environments.”
Said Bentley COO Malcolm Walter, “The mission of the Urban Lab is very
much in alignment with our own mission at Bentley: to provide solutions to
design, build, and operate the world’s infrastructure with the goals of
sustaining our society, sustaining our environment, and sustaining the
infrastructure professions – the architects and engineers, the surveyors and
planners, and the contractors and operators who play a key role in
sustaining infrastructure.
“Almost 516 years ago, Christopher Columbus, Genoa’s most famous son, set
forth on a voyage of discovery that changed the way we view the world. So it
is fitting that the Urban Lab is on a ship in Genoa – ready for its own
voyage of discovery. But unlike Columbus and his small crew, the project
team setting the stage for Genoa’s future will not be sailing alone. It will
share this journey with the many architects and engineers around the globe
who are working to find more sustainable solutions for infrastructure.”
The Urban Lab project team is comprised of highly experienced members of
Genoa’s mapping department as well as some of the brightest young architects
and engineers from leading universities. The team is guided by a small group
of renowned architectural and urban planning experts called the “Table of
Ideas.” The group is led by Piano and also includes Oriol Bohigas, an
award-winning architect widely recognized for his work on the Barcelona
Olympics; Amanda Burden, chair of the New York City Planning Commission and
director of the Department of City Planning; and 2007 Pritzker Architecture
Prize laureate Richard Rogers, former chief advisor on architecture and
urbanism to the mayor of London.
Among those participating in today’s Urban Lab ceremony were Renzo Piano,
renowned French architect Jean Nouvel, Mayor Vincenzi, and Malcolm Walter.
About Bentley Systems, Inc.
Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing comprehensive
software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Architects, engineers,
constructors, and owner-operators are indispensable in improving our world
and our quality of life; the company’s mission is to improve the performance
of their projects and of the assets they design, build, and operate. Bentley
sustains the infrastructure professions by helping to leverage information
technology, learning, best practices, and global collaboration – and by
promoting careers devoted to this crucial work.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 2,800 colleagues, offices in more
than 50 countries, annual revenues surpassing $500 million, and since 1993,
has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and
acquisitions. Nearly 90 percent of the Engineering News-Record Top Design
Firms are Bentley subscribers, and a 2008 Daratech study ranked Bentley as
the world’s #2 provider of geospatial software solutions.
For more information visit
www.bentley.com.
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