Bentley Opens Building Performance Group, Names Eckhouse VP
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PA, Sep 18, 2008 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced the launch
of a new group dedicated to helping architects, engineers, construction
professionals, and owner-operators design, build, and operate
better-performing, more sustainable buildings.Bentley’s new Building
Performance Group will focus on software solutions and products that address
the immediate global need to create and maintain energy-efficient,
environmentally friendly, safer buildings that also set the benchmark for
occupant comfort.
Among the new group’s current offerings are Bentley’s recently acquired
Hevacomp line of leading building services design software that includes
products for energy analysis, heating and cooling load calculations, pipe
and duct sizing, and electrical system design, and Tas software for fast,
in-depth energy analysis and simulation of demanding and challenging
large-scale building environments.
Together, these products make Bentley the clear global leader in building
analysis and simulation products for improved building performance.
The Building Performance Group will be headed by Noah Eckhouse, former
director of business development supporting Bentley’s portfolio development
function and recently named vice president of the new group. Eckhouse will
lead a team of highly skilled business developers, industry experts, and
sales and support professionals with specialized knowledge and broad
experience in building performance issues. He reports to John Riddle,
Bentley senior vice president, Global Plant and Building.
Commenting on the launch of the new group, CEO Greg Bentley said, “The
creation of our new Building Performance Group underscores Bentley System’s
long-term commitment to providing comprehensive software solutions for
sustaining infrastructure. It will make available a growing number of highly
integrated, advanced software tools that architects, engineers, and
low-carbon consultants can deploy to address the increasing demand for
buildings designed with lifecycle performance in mind. These
better-performing buildings will be more energy- and water-efficient, will
emit less carbon waste, and will be safer to operate and work or live in.”
Mr. Bentley continued, “Setting the course for this important new
initiative is a senior Bentley executive with the vision and experience to
ensure its success and future growth. Noah Eckhouse’s expertise in the
emerging building performance sector, coupled with the sincere passion he
brings to this field, uniquely qualifies him. We welcome him to his new role
at Bentley.”
Added Tony Baxter, Bentley director of Product Management, Building
Performance, “I am delighted that, through Bentley’s new Building
Performance Group, we are gaining extensive new global resources to help
accelerate the international propagation of our Hevacomp and Tas products.
This localization process has already begun for our Hevacomp product line,
as evidenced by our new Australia and New Zealand release and our
soon-to-be-announced U.S. release.”
Said Eckhouse, "I am excited to launch Bentley’s new Building Performance
Group and have an opportunity to meaningfully improve the global built
environment. Sustaining infrastructure is what we focus on at Bentley, and
building performance is emblematic of our purpose. We will bring the best of
the world’s building-performance tools to current and new Bentley users
worldwide."
“The software tools the Building Performance Group offers enable those
who design, build, and operate buildings, stadiums, plants, and other
structures to fulfill three vital aspirations: first, to fully comply with
existing and emerging government regulations around the world associated
with energy efficiency, carbon emissions, water consumption, earthquake,
wind, and flood resistance, and other performance-related parameters;
second, to timely consider and compare design alternatives with early-stage
conceptual design software; and third, to reliably calculate, with
engineering precision, the impact of design and design changes on building
performance.”
Prior to joining Bentley in 2005, Eckhouse was president of Optram, Inc.,
chief executive officer of TrailBreaker.com, an e-commerce analytics
software firm, and vice president of Player Systems Corp. He was also a
research specialist in the department of ocean engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Eckhouse graduated from Tufts
University with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering.
About Bentley’s Hevacomp Software
Bentley’s Hevacomp line is the leading software for energy analysis,
heating and cooling load calculations, pipe and duct sizing, electrical
system design, and product catalogs. The software is at the forefront of
simulation for building energy analyses, incorporates the EnergyPlus engine
developed by the U.S. Department of Energy, and is certified to perform CO2
emissions calculations required under Part L of the U.K. building
regulations.
For more information, visit
www.bentley.com/hevacomp.
About Tas Software
The Tas suite of software products simulates the dynamic thermal
performance of buildings and their systems. Tas Building Designer performs
dynamic building simulation with integrated natural and forced airflow. Tas
Ambiens is a robust and easy-to-use computational fluid dynamics package
that produces a cross section of microclimate variations within a space.
For more information, visit
www.bentley.com/tas.
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 profession 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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