PR - The
city of Genoa, Italy, has selected Bentley Systems, Incorporated, to
be the exclusive technology sponsor of the new Genoa Urban Lab. The
announcement was made today during a ceremony at Galata Museo del
Mare, Genoa.
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The mission of the new lab, which was designed by 1998
Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate Renzo Piano, is to create a
sustainable development plan for the city. Bentley will provide the
Urban Lab project team with MicroStation, Bentley Map, Bentley
Descartes, Bentley Architecture, GenerativeComponents, Bentley
Structural, and Bentley GEOPAK Site software to help it prepare new
urban planning regulations and create an integrated development plan
that will encompass Genoa’s strategic city projects;
infrastructure; seaport; surrounding natural environment; and
cultural and historical asset improvements. The company will also
provide software training through its Bentley LEARN program
– which gives organizations unlimited access to OnDemand
eLearning
from the Bentley Institute – and will help furnish the lab.
The Urban Lab is located on the 28-meter-long Studio-Ship created for
the project and docked at Port Antico.
Commenting
on this strategic initiative, Genoa Mayor Marta Vincenzi said,
“Municipalities large and small need to think differently in the
face of challenges such as global warming, shrinking supplies of
natural resources, rapidly accelerating demand for infrastructure in
developing nations, and growing shortages of new talent entering the
engineering professions. Today, the goal must always be to design and
build sustainable infrastructure that sustains society and the
environment.
“In
establishing the Genoa Urban Lab we have gathered some of the top
design and urban planning minds from around the world. Their keen
insight and vision, coupled with the advanced capabilities of
Bentley’s solutions for the lifecycle of infrastructure, will
enable us to create an innovative and effective plan that respects
the city’s different environments by establishing firm boundaries
between built areas, green areas, and blue or seaside areas. Quality
growth will replace quantity growth, and our design philosophy will
be to ‘build on built’ rather than to encroach further on our
precious natural environments.”
Said
Bentley COO Malcolm Walter, “The mission of the Urban Lab is very
much in alignment with our own mission at Bentley: to provide
solutions to design, build, and operate the world’s infrastructure
with the goals of sustaining our society, sustaining our environment,
and sustaining the infrastructure professions – the architects and
engineers, the surveyors and planners, and the contractors and
operators who play a key role in sustaining infrastructure.
“Almost
516 years ago, Christopher Columbus, Genoa’s most famous son, set
forth on a voyage of discovery that changed the way we view the
world. So it is fitting that the Urban Lab is on a ship in Genoa –
ready for its own voyage of discovery. But unlike Columbus and his
small crew, the project team setting the stage for Genoa’s future
will not be sailing alone. It will share this journey with the many
architects and engineers around the globe who are working to find
more sustainable solutions for infrastructure.”
The
Urban Lab project team is comprised of highly experienced members of
Genoa’s mapping department as well as some of the brightest young
architects and engineers from leading universities. The team is
guided by a small group of renowned architectural and urban planning
experts called the “Table of Ideas.” The group is led by Piano
and also includes Oriol Bohigas, an award-winning architect widely
recognized for his work on the Barcelona Olympics; Amanda Burden,
chair of the New York City Planning Commission and director of the
Department of City Planning; and 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize
laureate Richard Rogers, former chief advisor on architecture and
urbanism to the mayor of London.
Among
those participating in today’s Urban Lab ceremony were Renzo Piano,
renowned French architect Jean Nouvel, Mayor Vincenzi, and Malcolm
Walter.
About
Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Bentley
is the global leader dedicated to providing comprehensive software
solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Architects, engineers,
constructors, and owner-operators are indispensable in improving our
world and our quality of life; the company’s mission is to improve
the performance of their projects and of the assets they design,
build, and operate. Bentley sustains the infrastructure professions
by helping to leverage information technology, learning, best
practices, and global collaboration – and by promoting careers
devoted to this crucial work.
Founded
in 1984, Bentley has more than 2,800 colleagues, offices in more than
50 countries, annual revenues surpassing $500 million, and since
1993, has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and
acquisitions. Nearly 90 percent of the Engineering News-Record Top
Design Firms are Bentley subscribers, and a 2008 Daratech study
ranked Bentley as the world’s #2 provider of geospatial software
solutions. For additional information about Bentley, visit
www.bentley.com.
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