奔特力工程软件系统有限公司（Bentley Systems, Incorporated）今天宣布，奔特力收购了混凝土桥梁分析与设计工具的领先提供商——LEAP软件公司（LEAP Software, Inc.）。LEAP桥梁解决方案堪称整个北美地区的行业标准，用户包括37个美国州级交通部、美国联邦公路局（FHWA）、众多市县政府机构、以及一流的桥梁工程顾问。旗舰产品LEAP Bridge是一款用于桥梁的分析、设计和额定载荷分析的应用软件，其将桥梁设计的各个组件集成到采用统一用户接口的单一应用程序。。LEAP产品使奔特力的端到端桥梁设计和管理解决方案内容更全面，功能更强，其中包括：用于斜拉桥、悬索桥、节段拼装桥的Bentley Bridge RM；用于桥梁额定载荷计算、分析和分析建模的Bentley BridgeModeler和Bentley LARS；GEOPAK Bridge；InRoads Bridge；Bentley Rebar；Bentley PowerRebar；以及其它众多产品

奔特力公司高级副总裁Gabriel Norona评论奔特力这次最新的收购项目时说，“我们把重点放在桥梁信息建模（BrIM）上面，在这样的情况下，LEAP软件加入奔特力桥梁产品组合非常重要。通过BrIM协作计划，我们将充分利用这些业界一流解决方案的内部运作，以交付更安全、设计更精良的桥梁，并可以为桥梁施工、维护、运营和修复的部署更优化的模型。”

奔特力软件高级副总裁Bhupinder Singh补充说，“市场需要一套更完备、更系统化的方法，来进行桥梁规划、设计、施工、运营、维护，这种需求的重要程度是前所未有的。我们的世界面临巨大的挑战，既要修缮发达交通网内年久的基础设施，还要满足发展中经济体对新的交通网络的超常需求。

奔特力承诺帮助用户更经济有效地创造新型桥梁，维护升级现有桥梁。奔特力在发展迅速的集成桥梁产品组合之中引入LEAP分析与设计软件，进一步彰显了奔特力的这一承诺。我代表奔特力全体同仁，欢迎LEAP 软件公司的全球用户加入到奔特力用户群，也欢迎LEAP 软件公司的诸位同事加入奔特力团队。”

之前担任LEAP软件公司总裁兼首席执行官，现在担任奔特力公司副总裁的Lee Tanase说，“奔特力团队担负了开发创新解决方案的责任，利用这些方案提供的功能，满足基础设施专业人士的需求，为全世界的桥梁提供长久支持。能加入奔特力团队，LEAP软件公司全体员工感到非常高兴。以齐全的集成型桥梁产品组合来应对桥梁基础设施的整个生命周期——奔特力的这一愿景正是我们的用户和整个世界所需要的。”

关于LEAP 产品和服务

用于结构工程领域的LEAP软件提供了全面易用的分析和设计特色功能，能够产生准确的结果。该系列之中包括用于混凝土桥梁及建筑分析和设计的集成产品。

LEAP Bridge把桥梁设计的各个组件整合到一个产品之中，并采用统一的用户接口。桥梁几何形状、下部结构和上部结构的各项分析、设计和额定载荷分析都可以在一个强大的应用软件中完成，该软件还有用于参数设计的集中式项目数据库。组件设计模块用于：

——简单和多跨度预浇制/预应力桥梁的设计、分析和额定载荷分析

——利用脚手架施工的后张和现浇钢筋混凝土箱梁桥和板桥的分析与设计

——使用拼接预制梁的较长预应力/后张桥跨的设计

——钢筋混凝土桥墩和桥基的分析与设计

如需了解奔特力公司LEAP 系列产品和服务的详细情况，请访问：www.bentley.com/LEAPsoft。

关于奔特力公司

奔特力工程软件系统有限公司为全球基础设施的整个生命周期提供软件。公司为建筑工程、工厂设计、土木工程和地理信息垂直市场提供综合性解决方案，涵盖建筑、工程、施工（AEC）和营运领域。奔特力公司年收入现已超过4亿美元，全球已有2400多名员工，是为《工程新闻记录》评出的一流设计企业以及各大业主运营商提供建筑、工程、施工（ AEC）软件的领先供货商，在Daratech公司一项研究中被评为全球第二大GIS/地理信息软件解决方案供货商。

如需实时获得奔特力公司新闻，请访问 www.bentley.com/bentleywire。如需了解更多信息，请访问：www.bentley.com。如需在线查看奔特力公司2007年4月发布的年度报告副本，请访问：www.bentley.com/April2007annualreport。

Bentley（奔特力）、“B”标志、LEAP、Bentley Bridge RM、Bentley BridgeModeler、Bentley LARS、GEOPAK Bridge、InRoads Bridge、Bentley Rebar、Bentley PowerRebar是奔特力工程软件系统有限公司（Bentley Systems, Incorporated）或其直接或间接拥有的全资子公司的注册商标、未注册商标或服务商标。所有其它品牌和产品名称是其各自所有人的商标。

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( BW)(PA-BENTLEY-SYSTEMS) Bentley Acquires LEAP Software, Inc., Expanding Portfolio of Software for Analysis and Design of Concrete Bridges

   Acquisition Will Facilitate Design of New Bridges and Maintenance and Repair of Aging Bridges as Part of Bentley's Ongoing Commitment to Sustaining Infrastructure

    Business Editors/Architecture Writers/Technology Writers

    EXTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2008--Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that it has acquired LEAP Software, Inc., a leading provider of analysis and design products for concrete bridges. The LEAP bridge solutions are the industry standard across North America, used by 37 U.S. state departments of transportation, the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, a large number of city and county agencies, and top bridge engineering consultants. The flagship product, LEAP Bridge, is an analysis, design, and load-rating application that integrates all bridge design components into one application with a single user interface. The LEAP products complement and strengthen Bentley's end-to-end bridge design and management solution, which includes Bentley Bridge RM for cable-stayed, suspension, and segmental bridges; Bentley BridgeModeler and Bentley LARS for bridge load-rating calculation, analysis, and analytical modeling; GEOPAK Bridge; InRoads Bridge; Bentley Rebar; Bentley PowerRebar; and many other products.

    Commenting on this latest Bentley acquisition, Gabriel Norona, Bentley senior vice president, said, "LEAP software is a critical addition to Bentley's bridge portfolio as we focus our efforts on bridge information modeling (BrIM). Through a concerted BrIMinitiative, we will leverage intra-operations across these industry-leading solutions, enabling delivery of safer, better-engineered bridges and opening a door to improved deployment models for bridge construction, maintenance, operation, and rehabilitation."

    Added Bhupinder Singh, senior vice president, Bentley Software, "The need for a more comprehensive and systematic approach to bridge planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance has never been more critical. Our world faces the incredible challenge of repairing aging infrastructure in developed transportation networks and meeting the extraordinary demand for new transportation networks in developing economies.

    "By adding the LEAP analysis and design software to our rapidly growing portfolio of integrated bridge products, Bentley advances its commitment to helping users create new bridges and maintain and upgrade existing bridges more efficiently and cost-effectively. On behalf of all Bentley colleagues, I welcome LEAP Software users around the world to the Bentley user community and LEAP Software colleagues to the Bentley team."

    Lee Tanase, former president and CEO of LEAP Software, now a Bentley vice president, said, "All of us at LEAP Software are pleased to join the Bentley team charged with developing innovative solutions that provide the functionality infrastructure professionals need to sustain the world's bridges. Bentley's vision of providing a comprehensive and integrated portfolio of bridge products to address the lifecycle of bridge infrastructure is exactly what our users – and the world - need."

    About LEAP Products and Services

    LEAP software for the structural engineering community features a comprehensive range of easy-to-use analysis and design capabilities that deliver accurate results. The line includes integrated analysis and design products for concrete bridges and buildings.

    LEAP Bridge integrates all bridge design components into one product with a single user interface. All bridge geometry, substructure, and superstructure analysis, design, and load rating are completed in one powerful application with a central project database for parametric design. Component design modules address:

    --  Design, analysis, and load-rating for simple- and multi-span precast/prestressed bridge beams

    --  Analysis and design of post-tensioned and cast-in-place  reinforced concrete box girder and slab bridges constructed on
        falsework

    --  Design of longer prestressed/post-tensioned bridge spans using spliced prefabricated girders

    --  Analysis and design of reinforced concrete bridge piers and foundations

    For more information about Bentley's LEAP line of products and services, visit www.bentley.com/LEAPsoft.

    About Bentley

    Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2400 colleagues globally, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms and major owner-operators and was named the world's No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a Daratech research study.

    To receive Bentley press releases as they are issued, visit www.bentley.com/bentleywire. For more information, visit www.bentley.com. To view a copy of Bentley's April 2007 Annual Report online, go to www.bentley.com/April2007annualreport.

    Bentley, the "B" logo, LEAP, Bentley Bridge RM, Bentley BridgeModeler, Bentley LARS, GEOPAK Bridge, InRoads Bridge, Bentley Rebar, and Bentley PowerRebar are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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