Creation of Immersive 3D/4D Experiences
Enhances Visualization and Simulation of Infrastructure Digital
Twins for Improvements in Communication and Collaboration
Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure
engineering software company, today announced how infrastructure
organizations across industries and around the globe are leveraging
the power of LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse, powered by iTwin, a
solution enabling infrastructure organizations to create compelling
visualizations and project deliverables with unprecedented speed
and quality, make better-informed decisions, and win more
projects.
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The International Thermonuclear Reactor.
Image courtesy of Brigantium Engineering.
LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse is the first engineering software
application in the market built on Omniverse, a platform for
creating and operating industrial metaverse applications. The
integration of NVIDIA Omniverse and Bentley iTwin enables
real-time, immersive 3D/4D experiences to enhance the visualization
and simulation of infrastructure digital twins. The combined
capabilities are delivering new possibilities and incredible
results for some of the world’s largest and most complex
infrastructure projects.
An early adopter of LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse is Brigantium
Engineering, an engineering and consulting services contractor
working on the ITER project in southern France, where 35 nations
are collaborating to build the world’s largest tokamak and the
first fusion device to produce net positive energy output across
the plasma. Although the official language on the ITER project is
English, there are more than 45 native languages spoken in the head
office. Further complicating coordination, not all participants are
accustomed to interpreting 2D drawings and Gantt charts.
To overcome these language and communication barriers,
Brigantium is leveraging LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse to provide an
interactive 4D model that is intuitively understood by everyone,
vastly improving and streamlining communication. Brigantium expects
that this increase in user engagement and improved feedback will
result in profoundly improved cross-departmental communications,
quicker execution times, reduced errors, and less lost time,
amounting to overall team efficiency gains of up to 80%.
“The power of LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse, combined with the
iTwin Platform, will allow our project teams to effortlessly
combine models from multiple design tools and instantly create
high-fidelity, engineering-accurate visualizations that communicate
the design intent of the project. These kinds of visualizations are
critical to project communications,” said Lynton Sutton, Managing
Director, Brigantium Engineering. “In the past we relied on
specialists devoting valuable time and effort toward creating these
essential project deliverables. It was inefficient, but necessary.
Now, with LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse, everyone on the project can
create compelling visualizations in less time and of higher quality
than previously possible.”
LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse is also bringing innovation to the
Tuas Water Reclamation Plant (TWRP) being built by PUB, Singapore’s
National Water Agency. A giant step toward closing the water loop
for Singapore, the TWRP is a one-of-a-kind, multidiscipline mega
project to build a treatment facility for industrial and household
wastewater. A project of this scope and complexity presents major
challenges in coordination and communication across 16 different
contractors on designs and construction representing 3,500 separate
BIM models. “Preparing for monthly stakeholder review sessions with
our client used to be quite time consuming – to assemble and align
all the model data and to create renderings and videos to share
with the client. With the BIM model management of ProjectWise
powered by iTwin, assembling the data is effortless,” said OhSung
Kwan, TWRP BIM Manager, with Jacobs. “With LumenRT for NVIDIA
Omniverse, preparing renderings and videos takes much less time and
we can explore more options with immersive VR. With these solutions
together, we have reduced our preparation time for model review
sessions, saving project costs and allowing more time to focus on
collaboration with our client.”
By leveraging the iTwin federated model for visualization,
LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse enables rapid change propagation that
simplifies visualization workflows by linking directly to a single
federated infrastructure digital twin so when changes occur, they
are synchronized automatically, which allows the project
stakeholders to review safety, quality, and design changes. Project
teams can also create immersive virtual-reality and
augmented-reality design experiences for stakeholders, a capability
that has become increasingly sought after for visualizing
industrial-scale projects. As projects become larger and more
complex, such virtual-reality and augmented-reality design
experiences offer a more compelling way to engage customers in
order to win new work, and then to sustain the win by keeping
stakeholders informed and engaged.
While Brigantium and PUB are benefiting from improved
communication and collaboration, engineering professional services
firm WSP finds LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse and the iTwin Platform
instrumental for winning new projects and maintaining stakeholder
engagement. WSP is utilizing LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse to
produce compelling visualizations for the multibillion-dollar I-5
Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) Project between Oregon and
Washington in the United States. The existing Interstate Bridge
serves as a vital trade route for regional, national, and
international economies, but the aging infrastructure is inadequate
for modern traffic and is also at risk of collapse in the event of
a major earthquake.
Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and Oregon
Department of Transportation (ODOT) are supporting the use of a
digital twin developed on the iTwin Platform throughout the full
program cycle, from public outreach with conceptual design, through
detailed design, into construction, and eventually for continuous
operations and asset management. One of the many advantages to this
approach is that it enables WSP to sync change sets and seamlessly
and rapidly generate updated visualizations without time-consuming
imports and exports.
“WSP has committed to using infrastructure digital twins for all
the benefits they provide, not the least of which is being able to
create compelling visualizations quickly and easily, first to win
the work and then sustain the win by keeping stakeholders informed
and engaged throughout the project,” said Tom Coleman, Vice
President, WSP USA. “Bentley’s workflows in the conceptual phase
allowed us to engage stakeholders sooner and more effectively. We
were able to produce many times more conceptual designs than we
ever could in traditional methods. The team produced well over 30
conceptual designs for the client to evaluate.”
These are only the first of many success stories likely to come
from the now public availability of LumenRT for NVIDIA
Omniverse.
“The results being achieved by the early adopter users of
LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse demonstrate a unique advantage for
project teams working with infrastructure digital twins by
providing powerful new digital twin-native workflows that make
visualization advantageous to apply on projects of every scale,”
said Lori Hufford, Vice President, engineering collaboration, with
Bentley.
The combination of iTwin and NVIDIA Omniverse provides an
unmatched, high-performance user experience for infrastructure
organizations at a scale that has previously not been possible.
ProjectWise, powered by iTwin, leverages Bentley’s infrastructure
schemas to semantically align design file data across multiple
disciplines, mapping the information to a common schema that is
open and extensible. The result is that all data is retained and
not lost along the way as an asset moves from one phase to the
next.
“Creating project visualizations during work-in-progress can be
extremely time consuming, particularly as we need to combine or
isolate different disciplines, assemblies, or specific parts of the
model, which has meant a lot of juggling of files and separate,
manual partitioning of models and one-off visualizations,” said
Jarred Myburg, Development Manager – design tools &
visualization, Hatch Ltd, another early adopter. “The alignment of
model data by iTwin made it easy to employ LumenRT for NVIDIA
Omniverse to streamline creation of visualizations of various parts
of the model at different stages and tell a compelling story much
more quickly, making visualizations much more effective to employ
throughout projects.”
“The scale and complexity of the infrastructure projects
described here demonstrate the need for AI-enhanced real-time
visualizations to support the successful execution and delivery of
these projects through improved communication across multiple
stakeholders — iTwin and NVIDIA Omniverse help to solve these
problems,” said Richard Kerris, Vice President of the Omniverse
developer ecosystem, with NVIDIA.
NVIDIA Omniverse provides a graphics pipeline for AI-enhanced,
real-time visualization, and simulation of infrastructure digital
twins, allowing engineering-grade, millimeter-accurate digital
content to be visualized with photorealistic lighting and
environmental effects on multiple devices, including web browsers,
workstations, tablets, and virtual-reality and augmented-reality
headsets, from anywhere in the world.
Image The International Thermonuclear Reactor. Image courtesy of
Brigantium Engineering.
Video The International Thermonuclear Reactor. Video courtesy of
Brigantium Engineering.
Image Tuas Water Reclamation Project. Image courtesy of PUB,
Singapore’s National Water Agency, and Jacobs.
Image Process plant rendered in LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse.
Image courtesy of Hatch.
Video Process plant rendered in LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse.
Video courtesy of Hatch.
Video Introducing Bentley’s LumenRT for NVIDIA Omniverse. Video
courtesy of Bentley Systems.
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About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering
software company. We provide innovative software to advance the
world’s infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and
environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by
professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design,
construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and
transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities,
buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial facilities. Our
offerings, powered by the iTwin Platform for infrastructure digital
twins, include MicroStation and Bentley Open applications for
modeling and simulation, Seequent’s software for geoprofessionals,
and Bentley Infrastructure Cloud encompassing ProjectWise for
project delivery, SYNCHRO for construction management, and
AssetWise for asset operations. Bentley Systems’ 5,000 colleagues
generate annual revenues of more than $1 billion in 194 countries.
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