Bentley Ships Substation V8i for Electrical Design

• Intelligent substation information models that allow distributed users to work efficiently with federated data in a single environment;
• The most complete set of substation engineering and design tools available with a common graphical user interface, making the software easy to learn;
• Integration with the ProjectWise system for connecting people and information to facilitate engineering content management and team collaboration in support of streamlined workflows.

Bentley Substation delivers intelligent infrastructure for substations by supporting all of the key components and requirements of an electric substation – from physical layout to electrical schematics for protection and control, grounding grid, lightning protection, panel layout, and control house and lighting design. In addition, it intra-operates with Bentley’s broad portfolio of software offerings, including civil engineering for site design and selection and architectural design for building modeling.

Bentley COO Malcolm Walter said, “Our new substation product underscores Bentley’s commitment to helping our users engineer the 21st century utility. Together with our solutions for power generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure, Bentley Substation V8i completes our end-to-end solution for today’s utilities, and uniquely provides the breadth and depth of software to design, build, and operate the intelligent infrastructure that’s the foundation of the smart grid – and ultimately supports the creation of intelligent cities.”

Bentley Substation V8i combines powerful electrical design with full 3D modeling. The electrical design tools deliver integrated intelligent drawing and automatic report generation to quickly and easily create electrical schematics, cable and wiring routes, and panel layouts. The 3D modeling, coupled with the software’s built-in grounding grid layout and wire sag algorithms, empowers users to optimize substation site layout and minimize on-site problems by dealing with clearances, interferences, and other potential construction issues early in the project lifecycle.

By replacing traditional 2D CAD, paper-based workflows, and disparate collections of software with the advanced 2D and 3D integrated tools built into Bentley Substation, project teams can reduce substation electrical system design time by more than 30 percent. As a result, organizations can do more work with fewer people, all while saving money and improving project quality.

Bentley Substation also features a comprehensive database that includes more than 2 million up-to-date electrical parts. Having immediate access to this extensive repository of parts data helps engineers quickly generate accurate bills of materials for both electrical and physical design work and enables organizations to implement parts standardization, further enhancing quality and reducing costs.

To help overcome the challenges associated with locating new substations in communities, Bentley Substation also provides full 3D modeling integrated with terrain models and advanced visualization tools. This makes it easy to communicate design intent to stakeholders and expedites early acceptance, reducing business risks and speeding regulatory approvals.

Commenting on the release of Bentley Substation, Juan Torres Pozas, networks product manager at IBERDROLA Engineering and Construction, a leading energy engineering company, said, “We had been looking for a suite of software that could address our pressing need to systematize our processes for designing substations. Every substation involves a substantial amount of electrical, physical layout, and civil engineering work. There are tools for automating electrical processes and facilitating the design of cabling, wiring, and cable routing policies, but physical layout and civil engineering tasks are still largely done manually, using 2D drawings. CAD software can be used, but it is not integrated into the overall product. Bentley took one of its core products and extended it to support our key requirement – integrated electrical system design and 3D physical layout design. This will significantly increase our substation design productivity and eliminate mistakes caused by a lack of project coordination.”

For additional information about Bentley Substation V8i, visit www.bentley.com/substation.

About Bentley Systems, Incorporated

Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing architects, engineers, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 2,700 colleagues and offices in more than 45 countries, had 2008 revenues surpassing $500 million, and, since 1993, has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

For additional information about Bentley, visit www.bentley.com. To subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases, visit www.bentley.com/rss/news. To view a searchable collection of the year’s top infrastructure projects from the annual Be Awards of Excellence (which this year becomes the Be Inspired Awards), visit www.bentley.com/yearininfrastructure. For information about Be Communities, a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit http://communities.bentley.com.

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Additional News

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Dec 18 - Bentley Publishes 'Year in Infrastructure 2009' Book
Nov 24 - Bentley Seeks Nominations for 2010 Student Design Contest
Nov 18 - Bentley to Open Offices in Dublin, Ireland
Nov 13 - Bentley to Add Energy Performance Series to Academic SELECT
Nov 12 - Bentley Hevacomp V8i Aids ASHRAE Comparisons for LEED
Nov 11 - Bentley Adds Green Building XML Feature to Hevacomp
Nov 4 - City of Phoenix Acquires Bentley's SewerGEMS
Oct 23 - Dr Earl Mark Gets Bentley '2009 Be Inspired Educator' Award
Oct 22 - NJDOT to Use Bentley SUPERLOAD for Online Vehicle Permits
Oct 20 - Bentley Unveils InRoads, GEOPAK, MXROAD V8i SELECTseries 1
Oct 15 - Bentley Announces 2009 Be Inspired Award Winners
Oct 13 - Bentley Ships MicroStation V8i SELECTseries 1
Oct 13 - Bentley Ships ProjectWise Navigator V8i  SELECTseries 1
Oct 13 - Pointools Vortex API to Integrate with Bentley Apps
Oct 13 - Bentley Acquires South Korea's 9SQ, Maker of PlantWAVE
Oct 13 - Bentley Offers Country License, 'Passport' Subscriptions
Oct 13 - Bentley to Acquire KSJ Beijing, Maker of BridgeMaster
Oct 13 - Bentley Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Oct 9 - Bentley Names 2009 Be Inspired Special Recognition Winners
Oct 2 - Bentley's Hevacomp Simulator V8i Gets UK DSM Certification
Sep 11 - Bentley Names Smith, Biagi, Sanins as Solutions Executives
Aug 20 - Bentley Gets 2009 Africa Rail Award for Services
Jul 30 - Philippines' Davao City Selects Bentley WaterGEMS
Jul 28 - Bentley Ships Substation V8i for Electrical Design
Jul 15 - Bentley Building Electrical Systems V8i for AutoCAD Ships
Jun 12 - Bentley Opens 'Be Connected' Online Seminar Registration
May 28 - Bentley ProjectWise Dynamic Plot v8i Links Paper, Model
May 21 - Bentley Expert Designer V8i Updated for Water, Gas Projects
Apr 21 - Greg Bentley Named In Chester County Hall of Fame
Mar 17 - Bentley Ships Green’Building Design Series for US, Canada
Mar 6 - Bentley Cancels Annual User Meeting, Conference
Mar 5 - Bentley Motors Uses Icona Solutions' aesthetica in Crewe
Feb 24 - Bentley's 'Be Employable' Initiative Offers Free Training
Jan 21 - Bentley Names Neethling Solutions Executive, Mining/Metals
Jan 21 - Delhi School Wins 2008-09 Future Cities India 2020 Contest
Jan 29 - GHAFARI Associates Accelerates Design with Bentley
Dec 24 - Bentley Publishes 'Year in Infrastructure 2008' Book
Nov 20 - Bentley Introduces promis•e V8i for Schematics
Nov 6 - Bentley Announces V8i Portfolio
Nov 6 - Bentley Launches BE Communities for Professional Networking
Nov 4 - CPS Energy Adopts Bentley MicroStation, ProjectWise System
Oct 28 - Florida DoT Gets Bentley Enterprise License
Oct 17 - Baker Egerton Joins Bentley as VP Lead Generation
Sep 30 - Germany's EVM Gets Bentley Enterprise License
Sep 25 - Bentley Releases SewerCAD V8 XM Edition
Sep 25 - Bentley Launches 2009 BE Awards Student Design Contest
Sep 18 - Bentley Opens Building Performance Group, Names Eckhouse VP
Sep 18 - Bentley, Tsinghua University to Offer BIM Support in China
Aug 28 - Bentley Acquires North American ProSteel VAR Struc-Soft
Aug 12 - MicroStation to Incorporate Luxology Photorealistic Rendering
Aug 1 - Italy's City of Genoa Selects Bentley
Jul 8 - Bentley Releases Gas V8 XM Edition
Jul 08 - Autodesk, Bentley Announce Interoperability Agreement
Jul 1 - Bentley Expands Building Energy Analysis Product Portfolio

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