Winners of 2009 Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards

Attaining Return on Innovation - KBR/EOS Oil & Gas Services Joint Venture, the North Rankin Redevelopment Project. This project best represents innovation in the use of technology and creative workflows to create value and deliver better-performing infrastructure with quantifiable results. Its goal is the recovery of low-pressure gas from the North Rankin and Perseus fields off Karratha, Western Australia. The project scope includes the design and construction of a second platform with gas compression facilities, low-pressure separators, utilities, and accommodations. The project team's use of Bentley's ProjectWise Lifecycle Server provided all stakeholders with access to real-time information via a portal dashboard, allowing enhanced decision-making and transparency between client and contractor. For additional information, visit http://www.bentley.com/Return-on-Innovation.

Sustaining Our Society - Hatch Associates Pty Ltd, Adelaide Desalination Project. This project best demonstrates the power of infrastructure to benefit society by improving quality of life, promoting economic development, and increasing resilience against natural disasters or climate change. Its primary objective is the design and development of a 100-gigaliter-capacity desalination plant urgently commissioned by South Australia Water following a long drought. The new plant will help the region supplement its fresh water supply, relieve the current burden on the existing rain-water catchment system, and allow water levels to regenerate. The project team employed Bentley's advanced 3D modeling applications to achieve an optimal and highly accurate plant layout and material take-off, as well as to visualize the plant's impact on the environment and local communities. For additional information, visit http://www.bentley.com/Sustaining-Our-Society.

Sustaining Our Environment - Olsson Associates, Antelope Valley. This project best illustrates how an infrastructure project can help reduce ecological footprint, increase biocapacity, and facilitate the wise use of nonrenewable resources. The City of Lincoln, Nebraska, the University of Nebraska, and the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District had identified three goals for Antelope Valley: community revitalization, storm water management, and transportation improvements. The project has created new and improved housing, parks, and recreation facilities; storm sewer improvements; and a roadway system designed for 2025 traffic volumes. In addition, by removing 50 acres of the university campus from the 100-year flood plain, a flood event will be contained to the banks of the new channel. Moreover, various low-impact development concepts were used throughout the project. The innovative use of Bentley's interoperable software resulted in enhanced data sharing and increased workflow efficiencies among design teams, clients, and other stakeholders. For additional information, visit http://www.bentley.com/Sustaining-Our-Environment.

Sustaining the Professions - Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB). This organization has demonstrated an exemplary commitment to sustaining the infrastructure professions through continuous learning, professional development, mentoring the next generation of infrastructure professionals, and providing an exceptional environment for learning. Its Professional Growth Network - an industry first - allows the firm's emerging professionals to directly shape the future of PB by enabling direct communication among peers and senior management. To date, it has yielded recommendations for PB's corporate strategy as well as improvements to the mentoring and new employee programs. PB also maximizes the value it creates from its Bentley training subscription by earning 50 percent of its Bentley Institute learning units online and using a virtual classroom for more than 80 percent of its live training. For additional information, visit http://www.bentley.com/Sustaining-the-Professions.