EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: In a conversation with Mr. Ian Rosam, Director of Product Management at Bentley Systems

Mr. Narendra Shah, Managing Editor of Metro Rail News, conducted a one-on-one interview during his visit to London for Bentley System’s Year in Infrastructure Awards 2022 with Ian Rosam, Director of Project Management, Bentley Systems. In the interview, Ian Rosam talked about the latest technology and software of Bentley Systems.

- Mr. Narendra Shah

Ian Rosam completed his graduation in Civil Engineering from Brighton Polytechnic in the year of 1991. After his graduation, he worked as a Graduate Civil Engineer in Norfolk County Council, Norwich, United Kingdom, for 5 yrs 10 months (Sep 1991 - Jun 1997) · And after that, he joined as an Application Support Engineer in MOSS / Infrasoft Ltd and worked five years nine months (Jun 1997 -Dec 2002). He then joined Bentley Systems as an MX CAD Product Manager in December 2002 and currently works as a Director of Management at Bentley Systems. He had completed his two decades in Bentley System.

Here are the edited excerpts: –

Q.1. Our first question is, What is Bentley’s OpenRoads Technology? In what ways is it different from other technologies in a similar capacity?

Mr. Ian Rosam: I need to take a step back and think about how we’ve approached our modelling in the past and how we’ve come to be where we stand today. We approached three sources of modelling in different locations around the world that Bentley acquired. So, as part of Bentley’s growth, we acquired units. Then, in the later part of the century, we looked at the consolidations, listening to what the industry wanted in terms of a more intelligent design system.

An intelligent design system that carries more information and provides more value to the designers through the life cycle is what we have set out to try and achieve with the open roads technology, and the underpins open site, open road, open rail and open bridge. We have tried to incorporate a rule-based system that allows a designer to capture design intent (a phrase we use). Still, building rules allow intelligent, updated, and predictable updating that allows propagation of change in the model predictably, with efficiency and design.