Bentley Systems makes strategic investment to advance

Bentley Systems, Incorporated has acquired a minority interest in Charlotte, N.C.-based BLUERIDGE Analytics , Inc., provider of SITEOPS, site-design-optimization technology that utilizes cloud computing to save substantial time and cost while improving land development outcomes. SITEOPS, a patented web-based application, empowers civil engineering professionals, real estate developers and land planners to quickly perform site configuration simulations, produce preliminary cost estimates, optimize site designs, and reduce overall costs.

The conceptual designs
are compatible with DGN, DWG, LandXML and other file formats so they can be
easily exported into software such as Bentley’s MicroStation, Power InRoads and
Power GEOPAK for final design work.

Joseph Viscuso, vice
president, Stantec, a provider of professional consulting services for
infrastructure and facilities projects, said, "We were introduced to SITEOPS by
some of our commercial clients, including Lowe’s Companies, and a number of
them now mandate its use on their projects.  SITEOPS provides a much more reliable starting point for
site design – one that allows you to consider grading options in the early
stages of a project rather than six months or even a year or two out, which is
the norm with traditional approaches. It also gives you early cost-estimating
data, along with the ability to look at five, 10 even 20 design alternatives.
This means you can work with a client in making some really good siting and
grading choices up front that can both shorten development time and reduce
development costs."

SITEOPS addresses the
challenges associated with conventional land development processes by
systematically considering millions of layout, grading and drainage options for
a site within hours instead of months. Engineers are thus empowered to produce
conceptual designs faster and present more options to land developers. 

Products  include SITEOPS Multi Pad for
conceptual site design and SITEOPS Design for rapid site selection assessments
and conceptual layouts.