Tuesday, May 20. 2008

Bentley Wants Leadership Role in Energy Analysis Solutions

Citing several acquisitions made by the company within the last year, Greg Bentley, CEO of Bentley Systems, illustrated for attendees at this year's BE Conference in Baltimore how he wants his company to lead the way in providing solutions for energy consumption, analysis and conservation. 2007 was a record year for technology acquisitions for the company to support this vision:

• LEAP Software - analysis and design for concrete bridges; ProConcrete will be available at the end of 2009.
• ECT International Inc - electrical control systems for reducing electrical design time.
• Hevacomp Ltd. - virtual energy models and software tools for electrical design and to promote low energy solutions; it is the largest UK building services provider which also provides HVAC solutions; Hevacomp's software was originally designed used to increase productivity for design tasks and is used to improve energy efficiency of buildings with an energy analysis package.
• Environmental Design Solutions Ltd. and Bentley have agreed to a worldwide distribution of EDSL’s Tas software – an easy to use fluid dynamic software modeling solution.

But Mr. Bentley didn't stop at making acquistions. He has challenged his company to reduce its carbon footprint by 15% by 2009, starting with reducing the amount of travel his company undertakes.