With its limited land area and growing population, Singapore faces some unique challenges when it comes to infrastructure. From water, to transportation, to land reclamation (and a whole lot more), Singapore is investing heavily in infrastructure research in order to stay ahead of any problems that may occur in the future.
So, given the Singaporean love of infrastructure research, it seems fitting that the 2017 Year in Infrastructure Conference by Bentley Systems has temporarily been relocated from its more typical location (London) to be hosted in Singapore.
The location change is made doubly appropriate by the choice of the conference venue. The Marina Bay Sands resort was the winner of a Bentley Systems Be Inspired Award in 2010, for Innovation in Structural Engineering. The prizes are awarded each year to companies that have made use of Bentley software to make their concepts a reality. This year’s winners will be announced over the next couple of days, and we will publish the details as soon as we have them.
Figure 1. Reclaimed land (left) before construction of the MBS resort (right). (Image courtesy of MarinaBaySands.com.)
The conference opened up with a media day, followed by the announcement of a new range of cloud services from Bentley. The new Microsoft Azure-based services, dubbed collectively as CONNECTservices, provide cloud-based capabilities to the existing SELECT program, and will be accessible to all current Bentley software users. The…