Bentley announces 2025 Going Digital award winners

Bentley Systems Inc. announced the winners of its 2025 Going Digital awards on at its recent Year in Infrastructure (YII) conference in Amsterdam. Nearly 250 projects were nominated this year by organizations in 47 countries, and winners in 12 categories were selected by a panel of independent judges. The annual awards honor the extraordinary work of infrastructure professionals and their innovative use of Bentley software to improve the way infrastructures are designed, built and operated.

“Congratulations to this year’s Going Digital Award winners,” said Chris Bradshaw, chief sustainability and education officer at Bentley. “These groundbreaking projects demonstrate how leading infrastructure engineering and construction companies, together with innovative owner-operators, are harnessing digital advances from connected data to AI to transform project delivery and elevate asset performance. Their achievements are setting the standard for resilience, sustainability, and impact across infrastructure sectors.”

By category, the 2025 Going Digital awards winners are:

• Bridges and tunnels—Italferr S.p.A. (Italy)—Leveraging digital technologies for improved infrastructure management
• Cities, campuses and facilities—Voyants Solutions Private Ltd. (India)—Preparation of masterplan, detailed design and project management of Atal Puram Township, Agra, India
• Construction—Deloitte and Vale (Brazil) – Synchro 4D powering the world’s first, iron ore briquetting plant
• Energy production—Baosteel Engineering & Technology Group Co. (China)—Digital, intelligent construction project for a steel plant based on Bentley technology
• Geospatial and reality modeling—Al Madinah Region Development Authority (MDA) (Saudi Arabia)—Manarah urban data platform
• Project delivery—Egis (France)—Canal Seine Nord Europe
• Rail and transit—PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) (Indonesia)—Smart infrastructure by KAI & AssetWise linear analytics
• Roads and highways—Jabatan Kerja Raya Sarawak (JKRS) (Malaysia)—Sarawak Sabah Link Road Phase 2
• Structural engineering—AVS Engineers (India)—Fairmont Udaipur palace
• Subsurface modeling and analysis—Fervo Energy (U.S.)—Cape Station
• Transmission and distribution—China Energy Engineering Group Guangxi Electric Power Design Institute Co. (China)—Application of GIS+BIM digital intelligence technology to southern China power grid’s Guangxi Nanning 500-kV power transmission and transformation project
• Water and wastewater—PT Wika Tirta Jaya Jatiluhur (WTJJ) (Indonesia)—SPAM Regional Jatiluhur I: transforming water for a better tomorrow

Find more information about the winners and finalists’ project presentations here.

Founders’ Honors

Bentley also recognized 18 projects with Founders’ Honors during YII 2025. Chosen individually by Bentley’s founders, they’re presented to a few exemplary projects, individuals, and organizations that reflect the company’s mission of advancing the world’s infrastructure for better quality of life.

The 2025 Founders’ Honors recipients are:

• AECOM (U.K.)—Old Oak Common Great Western Railway station rail systems
• Ansys RF Channel Modeler—NASA lunar mission planning for ground subscribers on the moon
• Aquawolf (U.S.)—From fire zones to storms: a case for efficient and smart pole modeling
• Arcadis (Australia)—Coffs Harbour bypass
• Aurecon (New Zealand)—Digitizing urban ground: transforming subsurface engineering
• citiME Consultancy LLC (United Arab Emirates)—Micromobility modeling in Abu Dhabi’s strategic transport model
• DC Water (U.S.)—From blueprint to reality: DC Water’s digital twin implementation
• DPR Construction (U.S.)—Building with care: lean 4D planning for children’s hospital
• Environmental Systems Lab, Cornell University (U.S.)—Energy atlas: a digital twin for decarbonizing Ithaca’s building stock
• Forte and Tablada Inc. (U.S.)—17th Street canal pump station digital twin
• Geoambiente S/A (Brazil)—High-resolution modeling for groundwater remediation using Leapfrog
• Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) (Lithuania)—Digital twin for buildings operational carbon evaluation
• Leviatan Group (Romania)—Optimized 4D planning for military educational campus
• Ormat Technologies Inc. (Dominica)—Roseau Valley geothermal project
• PowerChina Henan Electric Power Survey & Design Institute Co. (China)—Substation flood risk assessment, monitoring and early warning system
• PT Hutama Karya (Indonesia)—Trans Papua Road, Mamberamo-Elelim section
• PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy (Indonesia)—Lumut Balai Unit-3
• Shanghai Investigation, Design & Research Institute Co. (China)—Digital innovation in the full lifecycle of offshore wind power

Find more information about the Founders’ Honors recipients here.

Sustainability and education awards

In addition, the Bentley-Envision award for sustainable infrastructure was presented to GeoStruXer (Saudi Arabia) for its seismic rehabilitation of creeping ground using sustainable Micropiled PTRaft project.

The Bentley-Envision award recognizes a pioneering Going Digital project that went beyond technical excellence and economic value to deliver exceptional and measurable environmental and social impact. All submissions were reviewed by the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) nonprofit organization that develops and manages the Envision sustainable infrastructure framework in partnership with Bentley’s sustainability team.

Also, Bentley’s Educator of the Year award went to Irfaan Peerun of Griffith University in Australia. It honors an academic professional, who has made outstanding contributions to infrastructure education. Selected by a panel of independent judges, the winner is recognized for innovative teaching methods, impactful student engagement, and the integration of cutting-edge engineering software and technology into the curriculum.