Bentley Acquires TDV GmbH, Leader in Analysis and Design Software for Bridges

EXTON, PA., May 9 /CNW/ - Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced
that it has acquired TDV GmbH of Austria, a leading provider of structural
modeling, analysis, and design software for bridge engineering serving
engineers, designers, and owners since 1970.

TDV's industry-leading RM 2006 product for static and dynamic design and
analysis of steel, concrete, and composite structures is used by hundreds of
bridge design firms worldwide. The software is applicable to the design of
virtually all bridge types - from simple segmented bridges to complex
cable-stayed and suspension bridges to long crossings - and has been proven on
thousands of projects. A number of these bridges have achieved historic
milestones and are, or will soon become, global landmarks. Examples include:

-- Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong, which has a main span of 1018
meters, making it the first cable-stayed bridge ever designed with a main span
longer than 1000 meters

-- The 8206-kilometer-long Sutong Bridge in China, which will cross the
Yangze River and include a multi-span cable-stayed section with a
world-record-setting longest span of 1088 meters

-- Hardanger Bridge in Norway, a suspension bridge that will have a main
span of approximately 1310 meters

-- The new Woodrow Wilson Bridge in the United States, which will
consist of two side-by-side bascule bridges each 1852 meters in length

"This acquisition exemplifies Bentley's strategic focus on providing
comprehensive software solutions for infrastructure projects," said Bhupinder
Singh, senior vice president, Bentley Software. "RM 2006 adds sophisticated,
advanced structural analysis capabilities to Bentley's market-leading
structural design solutions, including our RAM and STAAD product lines, and
expands our transportation design portfolio to encompass all elements of a
roadway or rail design project."

By integrating the capabilities of RM 2006 with those of Bentley's
recently acquired BridgeKey software for load analysis rating and heavy-load
permitting on existing bridges, as well as its GEOPAK Bridge, InRoads Bridge,
Bentley Rebar, Bentley PowerRebar, and other products, Bentley now provides a
true end-to-end bridge design and management solution. This opens the door to
streamlined workflows and significant productivity improvements for
organizations in the roadway and bridge sectors.

RM 2006 provides built-in time dimension, parametric geometry definition,
and integrated tendon design, allowing sophisticated calculation of
time-dependent properties for all bridge types and construction sequences. In
addition, it supports design to a full array of international design codes,
including AASHTO Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) Bridge
Specifications, and offers highly sophisticated linear and nonlinear analysis
options. These options include segmental construction loading, stage
construction and erection control, stochastic wind event design, computational
fluid dynamics (CFD), wind tunnel simulation, and more.

Said Singh, "With the software's advanced parametric modeling and
construction sequence-based analysis, bridge designers will be able to model
and analyze every stage of the bridge construction project. In addition to
staged construction analysis, the design team can now consider dynamic load
conditions from wind, water, and high-speed trains."

Said Dorian Janjic, former managing director of TDV and now vice
president of Bentley Software's bridge engineering group, "On behalf of all of
my colleagues at TDV, I want to say how pleased we are to be joining the
Bentley team. Bentley's comprehensive portfolio of fully integrated road and
railway software, coupled with its global reach, will enable us to offer our
users more complete and scalable solutions that will lead to even greater
success on their projects."

For more information about Bentley's TDV line of solutions and services,
go to www.tdv.at/wse/index.htm.

About Bentley

Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the
world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio for the
building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture,
engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With revenues now surpassing
$400 million annually, and more than 2400 colleagues globally, Bentley is the
leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top Design
Firms and major owner-operators, and was named the world's No. 2 provider of
GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study.