Will expand digital twin advisory services
globally and across infrastructure sectors
The Cohesive Companies, a digital
integrator investment of the Acceleration Fund of Bentley Systems,
Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software
company, today announced its acquisition of Professional
Construction Strategies Group Ltd, (PCSG). Founded in 2000 by
Katherine Bew, chaired by Dr. Mark Bew MBE, and headquartered in
Croydon, UK, PCSG has developed world-leading methodologies,
talent, and experience in advisory services to built-environment
owners for transformative benefits in going digital, advancing BIM
and GIS through infrastructure digital twins. Now within The
Cohesive Companies, the organization can dramatically grow its
advisory scope (already at over 50 professionals), both in global
scale and to reach all infrastructure sectors.
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Dr. Mark Bew MBE, Chairman of PCSG
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Greg Bentley, Bentley Systems’ CEO, said, “Mark Bew’s visionary
thinking about the potential of BIM advancement through digital
twins has spearheaded the UK’s world leadership in digital
ambitions for infrastructure, and has also inspired us at Bentley
Systems. We recognize that owner-operators need advisory services
to guide their transformations to digital workflows – and that all
of us in their ecosystem benefit from expert consultancy services
propagating best practices in digital twin adoption.
“Accordingly, we’re determined to catalyze the market
development of digital integrators through our Cohesive portfolio
developments. As so many sector-leading infrastructure owners have
strongly endorsed the PCSG team and their results, the opportunity
for Cohesive to join forces with Mark and Katherine Bew to
globalize their work is fortuitous.”
Noah Eckhouse, The Cohesive Companies’ CEO, said, “We are
pleased to welcome Mark and Katherine and the entire PCSG team into
The Cohesive Companies. Our sole mission as an autonomous digital
integrator consultancy is to support owner-operators and their
supply chains in going digital, contributing to great outcomes for
our clients independent of their investment choices among
technology vendors. From iTwins to Maximo, from cloud to mobile,
this leverages our uniquely cohesive digital twin expertise, beyond
resourceful technology implementation, in change management,
business process redesign, and – now expanded through PCSG’s
leading advisory services – strategy consulting.”
Dr. Mark Bew MBE, Chairman of PCSG, said, “Katherine and I are
delighted to be joining The Cohesive Companies. Deepening what we
can offer to existing clients, while at the same time broadening
our scope through this comprehensively global organization, is a
very exciting opportunity for us, our clients and our partners.
“Our vision is one of infinitely smarter futures where a
digitally engineered built environment supports the delivery of
infinitely better social, environmental and financial outcomes. I
particularly want to thank our world-class PCSG team and our
farsighted clients for enabling and embracing this tremendous
opportunity to accelerate the realization of this vision.”
Image: Mark Bew headshot
About The Cohesive Companies
A digital integrator investment of Bentley Systems’ Acceleration
Fund, The Cohesive Companies provide advisory, systems integration,
and cloud services to help infrastructure asset owner-operators
advance their BIM, enterprise asset management (EAM), and asset
lifecycle information (ALIM) environments to infrastructure asset
performance digital twins. Uniquely combining domain expertise in
BIM, EAM and ALIM, The Cohesive Companies’ charter is the
convergence, through digital twin cloud services, of digital
engineering models (ET), with IT and OT, for infrastructure and
facilities assets. The Cohesive Companies comprise PCSG (leading
provider of digital advisory services for built-environment
owners), Cohesive Solutions (the largest North American reseller of
IBM’s Maximo EAM software), and Cohesive Asset Performance (leading
global integrator for Asset Performance Modeling).
www.cohesivecompanies.com
About Bentley Systems’ Acceleration Fund
Bentley Systems’ Acceleration Fund was founded in 2020 to invest
in new and incremental participants in open ecosystems to advance
infrastructure digital twins. The Bentley Systems Acceleration Fund
is chartered to accelerate the creation and curation of digital
twins, and to foster technologies and innovations so enabled, by
nurturing new ventures, making minority investments, and acquiring
and expanding digital integrators. Investments to date include
Digital Water Works, Digital Construction Works, Virtuosity, and
The Cohesive Companies. Chief Acceleration Officer Santanu Das
welcomes queries from potential ecosystem participants at
www.bentleyaccelerationfund.com.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering
software company. We provide innovative software to advance the
world’s infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and
environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by
professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design,
construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and
transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities,
buildings and campuses, and industrial facilities. Our offerings
include MicroStation-based applications for modeling and
simulation, ProjectWise for project delivery, AssetWise for asset
and network performance, and the iTwin platform for infrastructure
digital twins. Bentley Systems employs more than 4,000 colleagues
and generates annual revenues of more than $700 million, in 172
countries. www.bentley.com
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