Bentley Acquires LEAP for Concrete Bridges Design, Analysis
 EXTON,
PA, Jan 25, 2008 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that it has
acquired LEAP Software, Inc., a leading provider of analysis and design
products for concrete bridges. The LEAP bridge solutions are the industry
standard across North America, used by 37 U.S. state departments of
transportation, the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, a large number of
city and county agencies, and top bridge engineering consultants. The
flagship product, LEAP Bridge, is an analysis, design, and load-rating
application that integrates all bridge design components into one
application with a single user interface. The LEAP products complement and
strengthen Bentley’s end-to-end bridge design and management solution, which
includes Bentley Bridge RM for cable-stayed, suspension, and segmental
bridges; Bentley BridgeModeler and Bentley LARS for bridge load-rating
calculation, analysis, and analytical modeling; GEOPAK Bridge; InRoads
Bridge; Bentley Rebar; Bentley PowerRebar; and many other products.
Commenting on this latest Bentley acquisition, Gabriel Norona, Bentley
senior vice president, said, “LEAP software is a critical addition to
Bentley’s bridge portfolio as we focus our efforts on bridge information
modeling (BrIM). Through a concerted BrIM initiative, we will leverage
intra-operations across these industry-leading solutions, enabling delivery
of safer, better-engineered bridges and opening a door to improved
deployment models for bridge construction, maintenance, operation, and
rehabilitation.”
Added Bhupinder Singh, senior vice president, Bentley Software, “The need
for a more comprehensive and systematic approach to bridge planning, design,
construction, operations, and maintenance has never been more critical. Our
world faces the incredible challenge of repairing aging infrastructure in
developed transportation networks and meeting the extraordinary demand for
new transportation networks in developing economies.
“By adding the LEAP analysis and design software to our rapidly growing
portfolio of integrated bridge products, Bentley advances its commitment to
helping users create new bridges and maintain and upgrade existing bridges
more efficiently and cost-effectively. On behalf of all Bentley colleagues,
I welcome LEAP Software users around the world to the Bentley user community
and LEAP Software colleagues to the Bentley team.”
Lee Tanase, former president and CEO of LEAP Software, now a Bentley vice
president, said, “All of us at LEAP Software are pleased to join the Bentley
team charged with developing innovative solutions that provide the
functionality infrastructure professionals need to sustain the world’s
bridges. Bentley’s vision of providing a comprehensive and integrated
portfolio of bridge products to address the lifecycle of bridge
infrastructure is exactly what our users – and the world – need.”
About LEAP Products and Services
LEAP software for the structural engineering community features a
comprehensive range of easy-to-use analysis and design capabilities that
deliver accurate results. The line includes integrated analysis and design
products for concrete bridges and buildings.
LEAP Bridge integrates all bridge design components into one product with
a single user interface. All bridge geometry, substructure, and
superstructure analysis, design, and load rating are completed in one
powerful application with a central project database for parametric design.
Component design modules address:
- Design, analysis, and load-rating for simple- and multi-span pre-
cast/pre-stressed bridge beams
- Analysis and design of post-tensioned and cast-in-place reinforced
concrete box girder and slab bridges constructed on false work
- Design of longer pre-stressed/post-tensioned bridge spans using
spliced prefabricated girders
- Analysis and design of reinforced concrete bridge piers and
foundations
For more information about Bentley’s LEAP line of products and services,
visit www.bentley.com/LEAPsoft.
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 2400 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 at
www.bentley.com.
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