AECOM and Bentley Systems announced a strategic partnership to standardize AECOM's global use of Bentley's ProjectWise collaboration platform. As part of the partnership, AECOM will have full access to Bentley's mobile apps and cloud services through Bentley's new enterprise cloud subscription program. The program allows organizations like AECOM to pay based on actual usage of cloud services. AECOM aims to virtualize its talent across client projects and Bentley has helped by virtually embedding its own talent to assist with configuration, monitoring, and sharing best practices.

1. November 4, 2015
Janice L. Tuchman
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AECOM’s Kevin Albright speaks at the Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference in London.
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AECOM and Bentley Systems announced a strategic partnership Nov. 2 at Bentley’s “Year in
Infrastructure” conference in London. The 100,000-employee engineer-constructor is a longtime user
of Bentley’s ProjectWise collaboration platform, and the formal partnership will help standardize the
firm’s global project delivery use of it.
“AECOM is an inaugural user of our Bentley Systems’ new enterprise cloud services subscription program,” said CEO Greg Bentley.
The program gives AECOM full access to all Bentley’s mobile apps and services. “It’s rather radical for us,” he added, “but we think
it’s the most fair and equitable way to introduce cloud services.” Organizations will set their subscription level to an annual budget
according to anticipated use, but only be charged for actual usage. Any balance rolls forward and never expires.
The annual Bentley event draws project teams from around the world to compete for honors in project excellence, innovation and
technology implementation, and AECOM has five projects in the field of 54 finalists. One nomination for innovation in project
delivery involved AECOM’s corporate rollout of ProjectWise to 20,000 users worldwide.
In a presentation about the work, Kevin Albright, AECOM global collaboration manager, described the multi-hub system “which
enables project data to exist in multiple locations around the world.” Users in widespread offices see the same interface, files,
folders and data, which are actually mirrored from hub to hub and change when new data is synched from cache servers. Bentley
provided the platform, and “we build what rides on top,” Albright said.
“AECOM’s objective is to virtualize its talent across its clients’ projects,” added Greg Bentley. The company has been able to
“virtually embed Bentley talent to help,” contributing assistance in configuration, monitoring and best practices, he said.

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She launched the “In Demand” series of magazines for the Dept. of Labor.
These magazines connect high schools students to careers in industries that
have a high demand for workers, such as construction.
In 2002, Tuchman became only the sixth woman to be elected to membership
in “The Moles,” a prestigious heavy­construction industry leaders
organization. She also serves on the Industry Advisory Committee of the
Department of Civil Engineering at Columbia University. She co­authored a
book on Exposed Structure in Building Design and won McGraw­Hill
Corporate Achievement Awards for Information Technology and Editorial
Excellence.
Tuchman earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from the
University of Colorado in Boulder.