Bentley Systems announces advancements to its construction management solution

 

With improvements to SYNCHRO 4D and the addition of the SYNCHRO Cost and SYNCHRO Perform applications, Bentley Systems has announced improvements to its SYNCHRO construction management solution.

Construction companies can change how they plan, manage, and carry out their projects thanks to the new improvements to the SYNCHRO construction management solution and portfolio extension.

The Lane Construction Corporation's former vice president of bid development, Andy Kaiyala, said: "SYNCHRO makes it possible for The Lane Construction Corporation to access all of our project-level data. Through SYNCHRO, our corporate and field managers, as well as the executives who oversee them, now have quick access to crucial business information.

"Having access to this data makes it easier to make decisions with the future in mind. Our industry has relied far too heavily on reports and analysis that look backward. It's time to start setting goals and making forward plans. We can build a reliable plan with the aid of SYNCHRO.

Platform SYNCHRO improvements

In order to improve team collaboration, status updates, and progress reporting from the field, SYNCHRO 4D now offers advanced 4D/5D model authoring with cutting-edge model-splitting tools to create constructible components, assignment of construction attributes to the model, mixed reality modeling, construction geometry placement, and web and mobile access.

With support for multi-contract capture, payment application tracking, and change order administration, SYNCHRO Cost's inclusion aids project teams in controlling budgets and monitoring financial progress throughout the contract, minimizing financial risk and maximizing project profits.

In order to give the quickest cycle time for project feedback and productivity insights, SYNCHRO Perform enables construction performance management, including the ability to capture daily progress quantities, diaries, unplanned events, timesheets, tickets, and predicted field costs.

Modifying the way projects are designed and carried out

In order to obtain more work, manage risk, and produce profitability, construction companies work to deliver more complex projects, address resource shortages and supply chain disruptions, and manage data transparency challenges.

The way projects are planned and delivered will change thanks to SYNCHRO's advancements in leveraging 4D/5D models with web access for team collaboration, performance management for progress tracking and reporting, and cost management to minimize risk and maximize profits. These challenges will be addressed through digitized workflows.

Modern construction companies use 4D models to create and improve timetables as well as discuss sequencing and staging in a virtual setting.

In order to maximize resources, decrease rework, and improve safety, digital rehearsals are a crucial component of their planning process. More project stakeholders can now access and benefit from the 4D model thanks to SYNCHRO 4D's improvements.

By enabling real-time collaboration and model-based field data collection, the new capabilities enhance communication and coordination of optimized plans and ensure that projects stay on schedule.

4D scheduling and project management tools that are at the forefront of the industry

The timetable and budget of their projects must be under the control of the construction teams, according to Rich Humphrey, vice president of construction at Bentley Systems.

"With the inclusion of SYNCHRO Cost and SYNCHRO Perform, SYNCHRO's market-leading 4D scheduling and project management solutions now offer a wider range of capabilities that may better support contractors in managing their costs and bridging the gap between schedule planning and cost tracking. With SYNCHRO, we want project teams to save more time and money.

In order for estimators to provide estimates fast and accurately, SYNCHRO Cost integrates with SYNCHRO 4D's model-based quantity take-off, which incorporates model splitting to produce constructible components complete with work breakdown structure and cost codes. SYNCHRO Cost also manages contract modifications and streamlines payment requests by monitoring line items and percentage completion against a set of values.

SYNCHRO Cost makes use of the performance data in SYNCHRO Perform so that project teams can manage and make use of field performance data to get an accurate picture of the costs incurred in the field and compare them to the budgeted costs and schedule, providing a comprehensive picture of the project's performance.

SYNCHRO supports the entire heavy civil construction project lifecycle, empowering firms going digital with real-time insight into the performance, productivity, and financial health of their projects to make more informed, data-driven decisions. Project teams stay connected and become collaborative with simple mobile and web interfaces for office-to-field workflows.

Bentley Systems announces integration of EC3 for embodied carbon calculation with iTwin Platform

 

Expanded integrated workflows for embodied carbon computation in the Bentley iTwin platform have been announced by Bentley Systems. With the help of the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator, the new integration enables carbon assessment in digital twin solutions for infrastructure (EC3).

Building Transparency offers the knowledge, materials, and techniques - such as EC3 - to address the role of embodied carbon in climate change. Construction material suppliers and manufacturers are being encouraged to invest in disclosure, transparency, and material innovations that lower the carbon emissions of their products as a result of the EC3 tool and its subsequent impact on the industry. These actions are driving demand for low-carbon solutions.

EC3, a free, open-access tool created by the nonprofit Building Transparency, enables benchmarking, assessment, and embodied carbon reductions with a focus on the initial supply chain emissions of construction materials. Building Transparency offers the knowledge, materials, and techniques - such as EC3 - to address the role of embodied carbon in climate change. Construction material suppliers and manufacturers are being encouraged to invest in disclosure, transparency, and material innovations that lower the carbon emissions of their products as a result of the EC3 tool and its subsequent impact on the industry. These actions are driving demand for low-carbon solutions.

The EC3 integration enables the free, open-source EC3 carbon database and calculator, Bentley's infrastructure digital twin solutions powered by iTwin, and third-party applications built on the Bentley iTwin platform, to simplify and accelerate the generation of carbon reporting and insights. The Bentley iTwin platform is an open, scalable platform-as-a-service that gives developers the tools they need to build and market products that use digital twins to address actual infrastructure issues.

Designers and sustainability engineers in the architectural, engineering, and construction sectors devote a significant amount of time to manually exporting and compiling data from quantity counts and bills of materials in order to evaluate or report on the environmental impact of infrastructure projects. It may also be prone to errors, necessitating further assurance of successful carbon tool intake. Additionally, AEC professionals don't want to be restricted to using a single carbon calculator because different calculators may produce different results (for example, due to uncertainties in environmental product declarations), and the requirements for carbon reporting and certification vary depending on the project, the country, or the owner of the infrastructure.

Due to Building Transparency's open-source/open-access approach, the additional integration with EC3 not only improves accuracy while reducing time, but also offers uncertainty assessments of the EPD data and raises carbon transparency. Using the Bentley iTwin platform, users may combine engineering data produced by diverse design programs into a single perspective, produce a uniform report of materials and quantities, and share it via cloud synchronization with various carbon analysis systems, including now EC3.

WSP, which uses both the Bentley iTwin platform and the EC3 database on infrastructure projects like as the Interstate Bridge Replacement program, is one of the shared users with an interest in this new connection. According to Thomas Coleman, vice president of WSP USA, "for WSP, carbon footprint analysis and reduction are crucial in planning, designing, building, and running an infrastructure project from beginning to end." Better iTwin interaction with EC3 is a game-changer for us on a number of infrastructure projects, according to the author. The time and money required to provide detailed embodied carbon analyses and reports along the design and construction stages will be greatly decreased by implementing this relationship. In the long run, we see this collaboration as another step toward open, always-updatable digital twins of infrastructure, where carbon calculation and optimization are inherent and transparent in all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle across the entire value chain.