HONOLULU – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that Ghafari Associates, a leading full-service architecture and engineering organization with offices in the U.S., the Middle East, and India, has standardized on ProjectWise for collaborating on all of its Building Information Modeling (BIM)-enabled design/build and integrated project delivery (IPD) workflows.

BOSTON and BUDAPEST, Hungary – buildingSMART® International, members of the Nemetschek Group, Tekla® and other leading software vendors joined forces to launch a global program to help promote Open BIM collaboration workflows throughout the AEC industry.

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has named 4th Dimensional Facade Solutions, the New Zealand-based design and build company, as the Autodesk Inventor of the Month for February 2012. The company was recognized for its use of Autodesk Inventor software to create stunning facades for a series of projects with unique physical and environmental challenges, as well as highly complex design and build procedures.

FRAMINGHAM, MA – Rand Worldwide (OTCBB: RWWI), a global leader in providing technology solutions to organizations with engineering design and information technology requirements, announced its IMAGINiT Technologies division has released IMAGINiT Clarity. This web-based solution from the same IMAGINiT software development team who created Scan to BIM was built specifically to enhance the Autodesk Revit Server platform. It allows team members and external partners to share one centrally located BIM model securely from multiple locations.

LONDON – Bentley Systems today announced two key initiatives to support the construction phase of Crossrail – Europe’s largest construction project.

  RALEIGH, N.C. — Productivity in the nonresidential construction sector continues to improve, but the rate of improvement is slowing, according to FMI (www.fminet.com), a provider of management consulting and investment banking to the engineering and construction industry. However, integrated project delivery (IPD) can have a significant impact on productivity, FMI recently reported in its newest survey, “The 2012 U.S. Construction Industry FMI Productivity Report.”