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Bentley Software Selected for Three Gorges Dam ProjectExton, PA - July 11, 2000 - Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a world leader in project-oriented engineering software, announced today that the Chanjiang Institute of Survey, Planning, Design, and Research, purchased 200 licenses of Bentley software. This will bring the total to 800 licenses that currently in use on the Three Gorges Dam Project. The Three Gorges Dam Project is building a hydroelectric dam on China's Yangtze River - the largest hydroelectric project in history. The dam will create a reservoir some 400 miles long, permanently submerging about 150,000 acres. It is designed to generate over 18,000 megawatts of electricity, providing electricity to rural Chinese provinces, and to provide flood management and improved navigation for the upper Yangtze River. Mr. Niu XinQian, Deputy President of the ChangJiang Institute says, "This is an immense engineering project. Many groups are working to together to make it succeed. We need software that lets the many engineers, architects and other specialists collaborate closely. They must work as a tight-knit team, regardless of the geographical location of their offices." Mach Dinh-Vu, Vice President of Bentley Asia Pacific adds, "The Changjiang Institute has shown its commitment to Bentley’s technology by choosing MicroStation/J and the engineering configurations as the tool for completing such a monumental and historically significant project." Mr. DeWen Zhang, Director of IT at the Changjiang Institute comments, "We are very pleased that Bentley’s Internet-based engineering software fits very well into our information technology infrastructure. It is hard to imagine how we could otherwise coordinate a project of this size." More on the Changjiang Water Resources Center Founded in 1950, the CWRC is an organization dispatched by the Ministry of Water Resources in the Changjiang Valley and the southwest river valleys of China. It is authorized by the State to exercise water administrative management and to provide overall management of water resources in the valley in accordance with the Water Law of the People's Republic of China. The CWRC takes charge of the comprehensive, planning, harnessing, development, management and protection of the water resources in the entire valley; and instructs, examines, coordinates and supervises all regional water resources facilities. For additional information, visit http://www.bsos.umd.edu/mwr/cwrc/index.html. More on Bentley Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides robust and comprehensive technologies to improve the process of creating and operating constructed assets such as buildings, roadways, manufacturing facilities, and utility and telecommunications networks. The professionals who use Bentley technology include architects, engineers, constructors and owner/operators. Bentley's MicroStation®, ProjectBank and Viecon technology and services make Bentley the leader in the E/C/O (engineering, construction and operations) market. Bentley's annual revenues exceed $190 million, and its reach spans the globe, serving more than 300,000 professionals and over 20,000 companies. Bentley is the second-largest privately held PC software company in the United States. More than 200,000 Bentley users participate in the Bentley SELECT technology and service subscription program. For more information on Bentley, please contact the company at 1-800-BENTLEY, +1 610-458-5000 (Americas), +31 23-556-0560 (Europe, Middle East, Africa), +61 3-9699-8699 (Asia/Pacific), through E-mail at Rachael.Schroeder@Bentley.com or through www.bentley.com. Bentley, MicroStation, MicroStation/J, ModelServer and ProjectWise are registered trademarks; ProjectBank is a trademark; Bentley Continuum and Bentley SELECT are service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or Bentley Software, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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