This year attendees in London were updated on the progress. People want it easy to move data around.”Īn alliance was first announced 12 months ago at Bentley’s annual Year in Infrastructure conference. Mark Nichols, New Zealand General Manager for Trimble adds: “The construction industry is demanding much better integration between the office and the field. “They are telling us to make our products work better together.” “Users are coming to us, saying they use both Trimble and Bentley software,” says Bentley’s Harry Vitelli, vice-president for construction and field products. While they compete in a few areas (notably in structural engineering), there are many other areas in which joint customers move from using Bentley products to Trimble products in the design/construction cycle.
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Trimble has also been acquiring and building an extended software portfolio from its roots in construction and related field work, with some of it extending toward design/engineering. To see Workflow: Bentley Civil to Trimble Business Center (HCE) – Click hereīentley has assembled a large software portfolio in recent years that make it a leader for enterprise-class design and engineering projects, with some of its software being used by construction firms. As Rob Painter, general manager of Trimble Buildings, told attendees at his company’s user conference in Las Vegas, the alliance with Bentley seeks to counter the three root causes of such problems: ineffective planning, communications and collaboration.Īs defined by both companies, aspects of construction modelling include modelling of temporary works, intelligent positioning, “splitting and sequencing”, detailing for fabrication, workface planning, construction work packaging, and support for distributed construction - referencing and supplementing design modelling deliverables. Industry research quoted by Trimble claims 90 percent of vertical buildings are delivered late, with 40 percent of them over budget. The goal is straightforward interoperability of construction modelling data from design to construction. In simultaneous user conferences 5,000 miles apart, key customers of both companies were being briefed on recent advancements which allow users of Bentley design and engineering products to transfer data directly into Trimble’s construction software platform. The first week of November 2014 was a busy time for the growing relationship between Bentley Systems and Trimble.