Bentley Systems announces infrastructure awards finalists

A wide range of projects from 4D planning in Melbourne and an urban data platform in Madinah to flood control in Northwest China and digital transformation of railways in Jakarta, are among the finalists in infrastructure engineering software company Bentley Systems’ 2025 Going Digital Awards.

The awards celebrate the achievements of engineers and project teams in advancing infrastructure for better quality of life through digital innovation.  

The 2025 Going Digital Awards finalists demonstrate how infrastructure engineering and construction companies and owner-operators are transforming project delivery and asset performance. Finalists across 12 categories were selected by independent panels of global industry experts from among nearly 250 nominations submitted by organisations in 47 countries.

“This year’s Going Digital Awards finalists demonstrate the tangible impact advances in AI, digital twins, and more are having in driving greater productivity and resilience across the infrastructure lifecycle” 

 “We are inspired by the ways infrastructure professionals continue to deliver better, more resilient infrastructure, despite so many global challenges, from climate change to infrastructure workforce shortages,” said Chris Bradshaw, chief sustainability and education officer, Bentley Systems.

“This year’s Going Digital Awards finalists demonstrate the tangible impact advances in AI, digital twins, and more are having in driving greater productivity and resilience across the infrastructure lifecycle.” 

Finalists will present their projects at Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure conference in Amsterdam with the winners announced on 16 October. SmartCitiesWorld’s senior editor, Luke Antoniou, is one of the judges in the cities category. This global gathering of infrastructure leaders also highlights the trends and technologies shaping infrastructure sectors.

 The 2025 Going Digital Awards finalists are: 

Bridges and tunnels

• Italferr SpA (Italy): leveraging digital for improved infrastructure management 

• Pennoni (USA): I-95 Penn’s Landing CAP Project 

• Sener (Brazil): Salvador-Ilha de Itaparica Bridge. 

Cities, campuses and facilities

• Adax Consultoria em Tecnologia da Informação on behalf of Unidade Gestora de Projetos Especiais (Brazil): social and environmental programme for Manaus and the interior (Prosamin+) 

• MMI Planning & Engineering Institute IX (China): Stamping Workshop of the Prosperity Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park Project in Changchun Automobile Economic and Technological Development Zone 

• Voyants Solutions Private (India): preparation of masterplan, detailed design and project management of Atal Puram Township, Agra, India.

Construction

• Acciona (Australia): transforming infrastructure 4D planning through iModel on Melbourne’s M80 Ring Road 

• Deloitte and Vale (Brazil): Synchro 4D powering the world’s first iron ore briquetting plant 

• Italferr (Italy): Digital Construction Site 4.0: innovation and monitoring of work progress 

• Mortenson/McCarthy joint venture (USA): Gaylord Pacific Resort & Convention Centre.

Energy production

• Baosteel Engineering & Technology Group Co (China): digital intelligent construction project for a steel plant based on Bentley Technology 

• PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk (Indonesia): refuse-derived fuel (RDF) Rorotan – pioneering sustainable waste to energy solution 

• Shanghai Investigation, Design & Research Institute Co (China): survey and design of China’s first pumped-storage power station in a Complex Karst Area – Caiziba Pumped-Storage Power Station in Fengjie, Chongqing.