Bentley Systems, a leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twin services for advancing the design, construction and operation of infrastructure, has acquired GroupBC, a leading UK SaaS software innovator. For over 20 years, GroupBC’s and Bentley’s software solutions have been deployed for complementary purposes to improve project and asset information management. The transaction results from GroupBC’s expansion agenda and Bentley’s investment appetite for international growth opportunities stemming from the UK’s national initiatives for major infrastructure investment and towards infrastructure digital twins.
GroupBC’s common data environment (CDE) solutions, BC Projects and BC Enterprise+, have been widely applied in the UK for information management respectively across construction and asset estates. Largely due to the country’s substantiated return on investment experience and its global thought leadership, CDEs have become increasingly availed globally in “going digital” for capital projects and resulting assets. In 2019, the UK’s (BS 1192) construction project information management guidelines were adopted within the global standard ISO 19650.