OpenBuildings Designer
Multidisciplinary BIM Platform
Complete with all the tools for architectural, structural, plant and electrical design
OpenBuildings Designer 2024.2 (24.00.02.xx) updates your previously installed version of OpenBuildings 2024.
MicroStation 2024.2 integrated
Includes MicroStation 2024.2 updates.
Security improvements
This release also includes the latest security enhancements for OpenBuildings Designer™ and MicroStation. Details are available on the advisories page, accessible from the Trust Center at: https://www.bentley.com/trust-center.
Enhanced tool for sizing piping systems
OpenBuildings Designer’s piping system sizing tool offers professionals a revolutionary approach to designing efficient piping systems across a wide range of applications. Designed to meet the needs of modern construction and infrastructure projects, it is now fully integrated with advanced features that ensure accuracy, ease, and flexibility at every stage of the project.
The tool has been specifically designed for five basic piping systems:
Cold water system
Hot water system
Heating system
Cooling system
Gas system
Each discipline uses sizing algorithms based on the authoritative CIBSE standards, ensuring that every calculation complies with best practices and technical guidelines. With these predefined capabilities, the OpenBuildings Designer solution simplifies the complexity of pipe sizing in building services, allowing professionals to focus on design quality rather than manual calculations.
The sizing tool is based on the reliable Hevacomp application, used for years. Now, thanks to the innovations of OpenBuildings Designer, it offers both single-line and 3D pipe placement capabilities:
Single-line positioning: Ideal for preliminary designs and conceptual planning. It allows for quick and precise positioning. After calculations, the single-line model can be converted to 3D with a single click using the “Promote to 3D” function.
3D Positioning: Enables an immersive design experience, with a more realistic representation of the layout. It allows you to visualize spatial relationships, identify conflicts, and optimize the system with greater precision.
With these features, OpenBuildings Designer allows you to access and edit every phase of your project in the same tool, offering an unparalleled level of control and flexibility.
Efficiency and speed: Significantly reduce design time by performing all calculations within a single application, without external tools.
Accuracy and compliance: All calculations are performed according to CIBSE standards.
Integrated design capabilities: Easily switch between single-line and 3D representations, identifying potential problems early.
Cost and resource optimization: Reduce errors and waste with precise sizing, keeping your project on schedule and on budget.
As part of our ongoing security enhancements, an optional feature has been added that allows you to re-enable power tools. This feature can be enabled during OpenBuildings installation. Once enabled, power tools will be available as in previous versions.
Usability and overall user experience in OpenBuildings are a priority. The following improvements have been implemented in version 2024.2:
Production of drawings:
Improved results in Print Organizer for resymbolizing structural elements in dynamic and cached drawings.
Improvements to PDF printing using Pen Tables.
Improved annotation placement and fidelity.
Improved consistency in the visibility of visible edges, saved layers, and views in drawings.
General improvements:
Improvements in the management of Families and Parts when editing solids, smart solids and parametric cells.
Improved integration of parametric cells with the Datagroup system.
Support for 64-bit and 32-bit Office for generating structural quantity reports using spreadsheets.
Offshore structures can be imported into OpenBuildings Designer via ISM import/export.
Improvements to DWG export.
Category/BIM
Bentley Systems’ OpenBuildings Designer (formerly AECOSim) is a Building Information Modeling (BIM) platform that allows you to easily and efficiently address any type of project. From buildings to infrastructure, OpenBuildings supports architectural, structural, HVAC, and piping design.
OpenBuildings Designer is a software suite that includes Generative Components, a generative design application for creating infinite design solutions from predefined nodes, and Energy Simulator for simulating building energy performance.
OpenBuildings Designer is highly interoperable with all Bentley applications as well as Revit, ArchiCAD, and Allplan thanks to its seamless data integration in *.RFA and *.IFC formats.
Design and visualize buildings of any size, shape, and complexity, and evaluate various design alternatives.
Detail and document your projects, produce reliable reports, and easily share information.
Make informed design decisions by simulating and evaluating the performance of real-world building systems.
Vue render, georeferencing, parametric modeling and all the other MicroStation features.
SMART INFO (Video 0:39)
OpenBuildings provides a vast library of intelligent elements, capable of adapting based on sizing and placement parameters, with catalog-driven presets for project and organizational standards.
QUICK MODEL EDIT (Video 0:37)
Implicit and explicit relationships integrated between elements: intelligent elements also relate to each other if required. In the case of a window, this creates a hole in the wall that houses it. Two walls connected to each other will adapt based on the movements or extensions made to one or the other element.
COORDINATION (Video 0:31)
The Clash Detection and Automatic Openings features allow you to analyze the model, highlight the individual conflict and resolve it by making changes to the model based on pre-established rules.
CUSTOMIZABLE CATALOG (Video 1:17)
In the video, you’ll see an example of interior design created directly from custom catalog items, returned in a detailed report.
PLANTS (Video 0:34)
OpenBuildings offers systems for preliminary sizing, analysis, and post-modeling corrections.
Its libraries comply with major international standards, so the reporting also meets these requirements.
IFC INTEROPERABILITY (Video 0:48)
Bentley has developed new standards for sharing BIM, but has also paid particular attention to the IFC classification data flow.
OpenBuildings Designer supports all current IFC standards.
Bangladesh Regional Waterway Transport Project 1 – Shasanghat (New Dhaka) IWT Terminal
Voyants Solutions Private Limited | Dhaka-Shasanghat, Narayanganj, Chandpur, and Barisal; Bangladesh
While Bangladesh has seen growth in passenger transport, its inland waterway transportation (IWT) system needed improvements to efficiently transport 157 million passengers annually and reduce traffic bottlenecks.
The organization also wanted to improve its infrastructure to meet international standards. Therefore, Voyants Solutions was tasked with developing four major IWT terminals to provide a low-cost, environmentally friendly transportation system. The project scope included traffic assessments for the next 20 years, feasibility studies, design, and construction management. With the major terminals incorporating both land and sea elements planned for cities across the country, they needed to improve collaboration to achieve the client’s 30-day project completion goal.
Using ProjectWise, Voyants Solutions monitored topographic surveys, traffic surveys, and geotechnical analyses and transferred them into the design platform. OpenBuildings Designer and STAAD helped develop the architectural and structural design, with interoperability between the two applications facilitating the creation of a strong visual design that helped all collaborators understand the project scope. They completed the initial design formulation in about a week, leaving only 21 days for the detailed design. Using Bentley applications, they delivered the completed project in 18 days, three days ahead of schedule, with a team of eight people instead of the usual 15. The applications increased ROI by 50%. The 3D models used for design will be converted to 4D models to streamline and manage construction.
Playbook: OpenBuildings, ProjectWise, STAAD.
Swatch Headquarters
Swatch Ltd (building owner), Shigeru Ban (architect), Itten+Brechbühl AG (local architect) | Biel, Bern, Switzerland
Swatch created its headquarters with a stellar design that reflects
the company’s innovation, while maintaining sustainability and meeting environmental requirements. They commissioned Itten+Brechbühl to oversee the overall construction and construction management of the complex office building. Numerous CAD applications were considered and tested during the project. Ultimately, the project was implemented within the budget and quality targets, enabling close collaboration with the architect.
Using MicroStation, the team was able to manage the coordination of the entire 3D façade design, which included 4,600 individual load-bearing timber elements and 2,800 individual façade elements in a 300-gigabyte file. Bentley software provided full compatibility with other CAD applications for easier coordination, which improved visualization, quality, and decision-making. They were also able to effectively design the proposed exterior shell of wood, glass, and air cushions. The low-energy building will reduce Swatch’s carbon footprint.
Playbook: MicroStation, OpenBuildings
Shanghai Electric Environmental Protection Group Technology Renovation and Expansion Project for Nantong Thermoelectric Waste Incineration
Shanghai Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd. | Nantong, Jiangsu, China
The Shanghai Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering needed to build three new mechanical screen processing lines for waste incineration without interrupting plant processes. Because construction was to take place in the original facility, space was limited. Therefore, the layout of equipment, piping, and the overall structure needed to be compact and free of interference. However, traditional methods would have required on-site reworking of such a complicated project, so the Shanghai Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering realized the need to adopt 3D BIM processes.
The team collaboratively designed the project with over 10 disciplines to reduce the size of the facility while improving its quality, using Bentley software.
The Shanghai Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering saved CNY 2.4 million in labor and piping material costs by avoiding more than 600 clashes with OpenPlant Modeler. They implemented digital twin technology to improve management, facilitate information sharing, and save time and money.
Playbook: AssetWise, AutoPIPE, iModelHub, OpenBuildings, OpenPlant, ProSteel
HS2 Main Works Civils Contract
Skanska-Costain-STRABAG Joint Venture | London, England, United Kingdom
High Speed 2 (HS2) is the UK’s £100 billion high-speed rail project. Skanska, Costain, and STRABAG JV (SCS) were tasked with providing civil elements, including tunnels, ventilation shafts, portals, and bridges, for the first 26 kilometers of the project. They realized that the complex design, combined with the amount of data and the multiple organizations and team members involved in this complex project, required comprehensive technology to integrate team members and automate and integrate the GIS and BIM domains.
Recognizing the interoperability issues involved, they chose OpenBuildings Designer for 3D model input, ProjectWise as a common platform for storing and extracting models for conversion to a 3D GIS format, and iModelHub to provide a first step in bridging the gap between these two domains. A digital twin automates and connects data from disparate sources to improve workflow efficiency up to eightfold and form the foundation for full-lifecycle asset operations and maintenance management using data from smart sensors and Internet of Things technology.
Playbook: iModelHub, OpenBuildings Designer, SINCRO 4D
CAD CONNECT
Blumenau, SC, Brasil
CAD Connect was tasked with designing a BRL 1.25 million residential building in Santa Catarina, Brazil. The site, however, presented numerous technical challenges due to steep slopes in multiple directions and dense vegetation. They wanted to use reality meshes to overcome the challenges, but for their initial reality meshes, they used other applications that proved to be unreliable. CAD Connect realized that more powerful applications were needed to succeed.
CAD Connect turned to OpenBuildings to position the building model using precise geographic coordinates. Using the application allowed them to complete modeling reviews to the highest standards, as well as produce high-quality static renderings. With the project complete, they significantly limited earthmoving operations and preserved as much of the land as possible. CAD Connect avoided surprise construction costs and saved the client BRL 39,000 in containment costs and BRL 30,000 in earthmoving costs.
Playbook: ContextCapture, OpenBuildings
Bentley Cloud for project sharing with the work team
Included with the purchase of a perpetual license in SELECT.
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