Bentley Systems Announces Integration of EC3 with the Bentley iTwin Platform for Infrastructure Carbon Calculation

Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software program firm, introduced as we speak at COP27 expanded built-in workflows for embodied carbon calculation in the Bentley iTwin platform. The new integration allows carbon evaluation in infrastructure digital twin options, empowered by the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3). Developed by the nonprofit Building Transparency, EC3 is a no-cost, open-access software that permits benchmarking, evaluation, and reductions in embodied carbon, targeted on the upfront provide chain emissions of development supplies. Building Transparency offers the training, sources, and instruments – together with EC3 – to deal with embodied carbon’s function in local weather change. The EC3 software and its subsequent impact on the {industry} are driving demand for low-carbon options and incentivizing development materials producers and suppliers to put money into disclosure, transparency, and materials improvements that scale back the carbon emissions of their merchandise.

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Mapping/Grouping; Exporting portions to EC3 from an infrastructure digital twin (through the Bentley iTwin platform). Image courtesy of Bentley Systems.

Rodrigo Fernandes, Bentley’s director of ES(D)G – empowering sustainable improvement objectives, mentioned, “This new integration in Bentley’s infrastructure digital twin platform exemplifies our strategy for empowering our users to achieve sustainable development goals. EC3 from Building Transparency is a perfect example of purpose-driven open, ecosystem collaboration, by which the private sector can come together to support and accelerate climate action.”

Stacy Smedley, government director of Building Transparency, mentioned, “We are excited to now be part of the Bentley iTwin platform ecosystem. It is great that the integration is built upon an open-source framework – foundational for both EC3 and the iTwin platform. We see this integrated workflow as a significant opportunity for AEC companies, ISVs, and digital integrators to link carbon analysis to infrastructure digital twins while ensuring complete control of their data, applications, and IP.”

The EC3 integration permits Bentley’s infrastructure digital twin options, powered by iTwin, and third-party purposes constructed on the Bentley iTwin platform, to simplify and speed up the era of carbon reporting and insights based mostly on the no-cost, open-source EC3 carbon database and calculator. The Bentley iTwin platform is an open, scalable, platform-as-a-service providing that allows builders to create and convey to market options that clear up actual infrastructure issues by leveraging digital twins.

Kaustubh Page, director of product administration, iTwin platform for Bentley Systems, mentioned, “We see the EC3 integration as a critical feature for the Bentley iTwin platform, further driving us toward the sustainability vision for the platform. We are delighted to see our users taking advantage of our Carbon Calculation Service on the Bentley iTwin platform to achieve carbon workflows such as reporting, project optioneering, and optimizing material selection. We are glad to integrate an additional lifecycle assessment tool to unlock decarbonization workflows.”

“Microsoft was the first large corporate user of the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator and is piloting the tool (hosted in Microsoft Azure) on its 17-building redevelopment project at its headquarters in Redmond, Wash., targeting an embodied carbon reduction of 30%. We are proud to be one of the early supporters of EC3, and, simultaneously, strategic partners of Bentley Systems,” mentioned Katie Ross, international sustainability lead for actual property and services at Microsoft. “Seeing the EC3 tool and the Bentley iTwin platform converging is a great example of how we aim to accelerate sustainability through collaboration and demonstrates the power of data democratization.”

Designers and sustainability engineers in the architectural, engineering, and development {industry} spend a major quantity of time assessing or reporting on the environmental footprint of infrastructure tasks, primarily when manually exporting and aggregating information from amount counts and payments of supplies. It will also be error-prone, requiring extra verification of profitable ingestion by carbon instruments. Moreover, AEC professionals don’t need to be locked into one single carbon calculator as completely different calculators could present completely different outcomes (for occasion, because of uncertainties in environmental product declarations), and carbon reporting and certification necessities differ as a operate of the venture, nation, or infrastructure proprietor.

The added integration with EC3 not solely creates time financial savings with improved accuracy but additionally offers uncertainty estimations of the EPD information and will increase carbon transparency because of Building Transparency’s open-source/open-access technique. Users can incorporate engineering information created by varied design instruments right into a single view utilizing the Bentley iTwin platform, generate a unified report of supplies and portions, and share it with completely different carbon evaluation instruments – now additionally with EC3 – through cloud synchronization.

One of the mutual customers on this new integration is WSP, making use of each the EC3 database and the Bentley iTwin platform on infrastructure tasks akin to the Interstate Bridge Replacement program. “For WSP, carbon footprint analysis and reduction are imperative in planning, designing, building, and operating an infrastructure project from beginning to end,” mentioned Thomas Coleman, vp of WSP USA. “Enabling better iTwin integration with EC3 is game-changing for us on multiple infrastructure projects. Implementing this link will significantly reduce the time and cost of generating EC3-based detailed embodied carbon analysis and reports along the design and construction stages. Ultimately, in the long run, we see this collaboration as one more step toward open, evergreen infrastructure digital twins, where carbon calculation and optimization are intrinsic and transparent in all infrastructure lifecycle stages across the entire value chain.”

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Caption: Mapping/Grouping; Exporting portions to EC3 from an infrastructure digital twin (through the Bentley iTwin platform). Image courtesy of Bentley Systems.

Video: Carbon Calculation Example

Caption: Demonstration of carbon calculation with EC3 iTwin platform integration. Video courtesy of Bentley Systems.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software program firm. We present revolutionary software program to advance the world’s infrastructure – sustaining each the international economy and setting. Our industry-leading software program options are utilized by professionals, and organizations of each measurement, for the design, development, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial services. Our choices embody MicroStation-based purposes for modeling and simulation, ProjectWise for venture supply, AssetWise for asset and community efficiency, Seequent’s main geoprofessional software program portfolio, and the iTwin platform for infrastructure digital twins. Bentley Systems employs greater than 4,500 colleagues and generates annual revenues of roughly $1 billion in 186 international locations.

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About Building Transparency

Building Transparency is a 501(c)3 nonprofit group that gives open-access information and instruments that assist broad and swift motion throughout the constructing {industry} in addressing embodied carbon’s function in local weather change. Formed in 2020, Building Transparency hosts, manages, and maintains the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) software, which offers hundreds of digitized EPDs in a free, open-source database, and tallyLCA, the nonprofit’s life cycle evaluation software. Building Transparency strives to supply the sources and training essential to form a greater constructing future by selling the adoption of the EC3 software and tallyLCA, establishing the official materialsCAN and ownersCAN packages, and dealing with international policymakers.

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