Bentley infrastructure awards highlight AI delivery and operational digital twins

Bentley named its 2026 award winners across 12 infrastructure categories and recognized 16 additional projects through Founders’ Honors. The selections include operational digital twins and AI-enabled workflows alongside design and construction applications.

Infrastructure managers can use the recognized projects to identify relevant applications in water operations, energy delivery and engineering coordination. The release does not establish costs, implementation requirements or measured benefits, limiting its value for procurement or investment decisions.

Bentley Systems’ 2026 Year in Infrastructure Awards recognized projects across 12 categories, with independent judges selecting winners during its October 6–7 event in Singapore. The project list points to applications of digital engineering beyond design models: Evides N.V. won for water distribution operational digital twins, while APD Global was recognized for AI-driven digital delivery supporting renewables. Separate Founders’ Honors included project lifecycle intelligence, intelligent leak management and system-wide leak detection. Bentley frames these projects as evidence of a shift toward connected lifecycle data and AI-enabled engineering. The announcement, however, provides project titles rather than technical evaluations, deployment details or measured results. For infrastructure owners and engineering teams, it offers examples of workflows to investigate—not proof of their effectiveness. The practical question is whether these approaches improve delivery and operations under comparable asset, data and organizational conditions.

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