Main street, highway or freeway, designing, building, and maintaining roadways requires a team of skilled engineers. And with constant changes, tight deadlines, and budgets, the job isn't easy. Whether you're responsible for corridor, interchange, roundabout, sanitary or stormwater network design, or the design of subsurface utilities; Bentley's OpenRoads Designer is a versatile application with all the tools needed to deliver projects from st...

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The Administration’s Executive Order on tackling the climate crisis has placed concern for the environment front and center in government policy, programs and missions. The government-wide approach to climate change has had a widespread impact as agencies marshal resources to make our Nation resilient in the face of this threat. Together, agencies are fulfilling their missions with climate change in mind as they reduce pollution; increas...

Traditionally, drainage design for roadway projects has been carried out by multiple teams using different software for the design of the roadway alignment. This approach risks miscommunication between disciplines working with an outdated layout file and having to redo the calculations and design of catchments, flows, and consequently, ditches, manholes, drains, and cross drainage culverts. There is a better way. Bentley's OpenRoads Designer...

Here in the United States, one of the most visible actions taken to address climate change is the federal government’s focus on zero-emission vehicles and the supporting infrastructure. This is an area where the government plans to lead by example. Listen as experts from both the public and private sectors discuss the concept of Future Histories, Laws of Zero in planning for an electric vehicle future. Topics covered include: electrifyin...

Climate change has already had a major impact across the United States. The Biden administration recently unveiled a 10-year plan to spend billions of dollars to combat destructive wildfires on roughly 50 million acres of land. Both operationally and to inform public policy, we need physical spread models and the assessment models built on them. Why? Because size matters. Conventional models treat all people as identical and fail to map areas...

As short-term rentals (STRs) continue to gain popularity among travelers and remote workers, communities across North America are feeling the effects. Experiencing an uptick in parking complaints and trash issues? Are essential workers struggling to find local housing? Now might be the right time to investigate ways the STR industry has impacted your community. With the sheer number of STR listing platforms available, it's nearly impossible to...

In the last two years, agencies have taken a hard look in the mirror. And while some process and workforce improvements necessitated by the pandemic have certainly created change, not all agencies were well positioned to make those transformations. Join us online Wednesday, Feb. 9 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT as we speak directly with your government peers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the state of Washington a...

Traditionally, working with geospatial data in real-time has proven to be very difficult, even for geospatial experts. These limitations are more challenging for first responders and those in the field who must respond to potential life-threatening scenarios in a matter of minutes. Fortunately, Geosite has cracked the code by fusing multiple streams of geospatial data into a single, easy-to-use environment that leverages time-saving productiv...

With sustainability gaining increasing attention in the global market, climate change and the transition to a low-carbon economy have become increasingly important for financial services companies, which provide much of the financing needed for the transition. This is motivating more financial services firms to commit to Net Zero — often without clear visibility into their existing carbon emissions. Without a single source of truth to tr...