I am pleased to announce the release of Bentley® Substation™ V8 i SELECTseries 4. Bentley Substation V8 i Version 08.11.09.23 is now available for download from SELECTservices. This release includes a number of design, user interface, performance and output enhancements: The Insert Substation Object user interface was redesigned and enhanced. It now features enhanced filtering features such as filtering from a user definable tree view, filter...

I am thrilled to invite you to participate in the Be Connected Seminar, Hydrologic and Hydraulic Network Modeling for Sustainability .This session will consists of two presentations that describe ways that network modeling can be used to address sustainability. The first presentation, by Walter Grayman will summarize ways in which hydrologic and hydraulic models can be used to anticipate how global climate change will impact our climate, alter some...

I want to invite everyone in the Water and Wastewater Community to attend this Be Connected Water and Wastewater Solution track keynote on Thursday, June 25 at 10:00 AM EDT. It will be an excellent presentation, and the topic is highly relevant to our members. Mary Ann Dickinson, Executive Director of the Alliance for Water Efficiency, will describe the latest developments in water supply in our increasingly water scarce world, including the challenges...

Bentley users who have visited the Haestad Methods Solution Center in Watertown, CT for training are surely impressed by the extensive collection of commissioned Robert Tinney artwork that adorns the walls of the office. We have over 20 original framed paintings that, for well over a decade, decorated Haestad Methods' direct mail pieces, web pages and user documentation. Anyone who participated in the PC revolution during the 1980's must recall the...

If you're an engineer, I know that you remember your seventh and eighth grade science fair projects. I still break out in a cold sweat when I think about them -- the research, the deliverables, the presentations, and the judging inquisition. All these memories came flooding back to me as I reviewed the project summaries for 38 state finalists on an airplane bound for Washington DC. I was doing my homework in preparation for judging the Best Water...

Today the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) released guidance documents on securing funding available under the portions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) that includes the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) programs. Of the $6 Billion authorized by ARRA, fully 20% of the appropriation is reserved for the Green Project Reserve to fund activities such as water efficiency...

When Todd Rothermel, Director of Solutions Engineering sent this Wall Street Journal link around to the Bentley Solutions Executives, Getting to the $787 Billion , I pounced on it expected to see billions listed for water projects. It took me a while before I found them described under the "outdoors" category. "Outdoors"? In spite of the Wall Street Analyst best attempts at shading the news, it's becoming clear, that there is a...

At Bentley, I'm a corporate officer with high-level input into the innovation and direction that Bentley takes toward fulfilling its deliverable to the water and wastewater industry, This is a technical and business development role that I'm reasonably good at. I've found an important niche at a large company. However, one role that I've missed since the 2004 acquisition of Haestad Methods is participation in some of the C-level decisions that impact...

Wow, its time to take a breath and write more here...Over the past few months the Haestad Content Team has been working hard, cracking the whip to get a ton of products out and ready for you the users. As much I would enjoy writing about some of the really outstanding progress that has been made, I would rather point you to a great article in the latest Be Magazine, The latest edition of the Be Magazine, Learning Paths Map Skill Development for Infrastructure...

A phrase that has been coined by many - Learning is like drinking from a fire hose ... Some introductions....My name is Martin Pflanz, and I am the Haestad Learning Product Manager - In short, it is the responsibility our Haestad Content Team, the Bentley Institute and the many qualified instructors to give you the user the best quality learning experience- be it sitting down with in instructor going over a focused session thousands of miles away...

Over the past few weeks we have had a few users contact their Bentley account managers asking that we re-confirm our commitment to supporting the non-MicroStation platforms on our Haestad products. This is not new. We've fielded such concerns since Bentley acquired Haestad four years ago, but the recent instances, and the availability of this community site prompted me to write about it. It's understandable that loyal users, aware of the intensely...