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Bentley Systems, Incorporated

Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software company.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Martine Kemp (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

22 Jan 2026 · Connecting Europe Facility

Meeting with Paulo Cunha (Member of the European Parliament) and NOVE

2 Dec 2025 · Roundtable on Connecting Europe Facility and MFF

Meeting with Bruno Tobback (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Dec 2025 · Smarter Energy Infrastructure for Europe: Optimising the next EU MFF

Meeting with Radan Kanev (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Dec 2025 · Energy infrastructure in the next MFF

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

2 Dec 2025 · Technologies for climate resilience and decarbonisation

Response to Roadmap for artificial intelligence and digitalisation for energy (RAID-E)

5 Nov 2025

Bentley Systems welcomes the European Commissions initiative to leverage the potential of digital technologies in the energy sector. As a provider of advanced digital twins and infrastructure engineering solutions, we share the Commissions vision to unlock innovation, improve system reliability, and accelerate decarbonization through responsible and sustainable digitalization. A more detailed submission is provided as an attachment to this response.
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Response to European climate resilience and risk management law

3 Sept 2025

[A more detailed submission is provided as an attachment to this response.] Bentley Systems welcomes the European Commissions initiative to establish a more ambitious, comprehensive, and coherent EU approach to climate resilience and preparedness. The proposed European Climate Resilience and Risk Management Framework offers an opportunity to strengthen Europes capacity to anticipate, assess, and address the risks associated with a changing climateacross infrastructure, ecosystems, and communities. Bentley is the infrastructure engineering software company. Our solutionssuch as infrastructure digital twins and geospatial analyticsare already helping cities, utilities, and project teams across Europe and globally to design and deliver more resilient infrastructure. These technologies enable public authorities and asset owners to simulate extreme scenarios, assess vulnerabilities, optimise planning, and ensure that investments result in long-term, climate-proof outcomes. In our response to this consultation, we make four core recommendations to support the effective implementation of the Framework: 1. Accelerate the uptake of digital solutions for resilience. EU policy should explicitly promote the use of market-ready toolssuch as digital twins, climate scenario modelling, and AI-enabled analyticsin adaptation planning and infrastructure delivery. These tools help improve risk assessments and strengthen infrastructure resilience over its full lifecycle. 2. Align EU funding with resilience outcomes. Instruments such as the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) should incentivise the adoption of digital and data-centric methods in infrastructure projects. Funding criteria should prioritise long-term performance, climate adaptation, and improved operational outcomes. 3. Modernise public procurement for digital and climate-smart infrastructure. Procurement rules should move beyond the lowest bid wins approach and reward bids that demonstrate resilience, sustainability, and digital innovation. This includes recognising digital twins as an evolution of BIM, encouraging total expenditure (TOTEX)-based evaluations, and supporting the use of open, interoperable standards to avoid vendor lock-in. 4. Integrate planning for resilience across sectors. The Framework should embed a requirement for energy, water, transport, and urban systems to use shared risk scenarios and assessment tools, ensuring that adaptation actions are coordinated rather than fragmented. To support these recommendations, we have included two case studies as annexes to this submission: Juprelle (Belgium): La Société Wallonne des Eaux (SWDE) developed an AI-enabled 3D model of a deteriorating water tower using Bentleys ContextCapture platform. The automated crack detection process was 600% faster than manual inspections and twice as reliabledetecting defects as small as 0.1 mm and generating over 2 million in savings. New York City (USA): The JacobsGreenman-Pedersen joint venture used Bentleys SYNCHRO 4D to manage construction of the Brooklyn BridgeMontgomery Coastal Resilience Project. This innovative initiative combines hidden deployable barriers with urban amenities to protect against future storm surges. The use of 4D modelling allowed the team to simulate construction phasing, identify risks, and reduce coordination issues with other developmentscutting issue resolution time by more than 50% and improving construction sequence planning. These case studies demonstrate how the adoption of digital engineering toolsalready in usecan directly improve project delivery, optimise public investment, and support the EUs long-term climate resilience objectives.
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Response to European grid package

4 Aug 2025

Bentley Systems welcomes the European Commissions initiative to develop a European Grids Package and strongly supports its objective to accelerate the deployment of resilient, interconnected, and secure energy networks across the EU. Digitalisation will be essential to achieving these goals, enabling efficient and effective planning, faster and transparent permitting, stronger resilience, and more efficient long-term performance. As the infrastructure engineering software company, Bentley supports the full lifecycle of grid infrastructure, from early planning to long-term maintenance, through digital tools such as infrastructure digital twins, subsurface and geotechnical modelling, and interoperable data environments. These capabilities are already being used across Europe. As an example, a municipal utility in Germany, used a digital twina detailed digital model of their grid infrastructureto bring together network maps and operational data in one place. This helped them plan upgrades more efficiently, better explain projects to local communities, and test how future energy demands would affect their grid. To ensure the Grids Package delivers on its objectives, we encourage the Commission to consider the following: Make digitalisation a central pillar of grid policy, promoting the uptake of existing, market-ready tools (such as digital twins, asset analytics, and planning platforms) throughout the project lifecycle. This includes encouraging Member States and system operators to embed digital workflows in grid planning, permitting, and operations from the outset. Incentivise the use of digital tools through EU funding frameworks. Projects that demonstrate how digital technologies reduce risk, improve coordination, or enhance long-term asset value should benefit from more favourable terms, such as advantageous co-financing rates and pre-financing optionsparticularly where digitalisation improves early-phase certainty and de-risks delivery. Accelerate permitting through the adoption of digital workflows. The Commission should promote the use of digital twins that build on BIM and other technologies to support faster reviews and clearer decision-making. Open, interoperable formats should be encouraged to ensure digital submissions can be reused across planning and permitting systems. Solutions that foster transparency and cross-sector coordination, rather than locking data into closed environments, should be prioritised. Support grid flexibility by promoting digital tools that help manage more complex, decentralised, and variable energy systems. Digital planning and modelling tools can simulate the integration of distributed energy resources (DER), assess grid capacity under different scenarios, and guide smarter reinforcement decisions, ensuring that new infrastructure is technically sound and future-ready. Embed digital tools in early planning phases to improve site selection, reduce uncertainty, and support community engagement. Technologies such as 3D geospatial modelling and subsurface analysis help identify terrain constraints, improve infrastructure placement, and allow project promoters to better communicate potential impacts, building trust and accelerating approvals. The technologies required to support these actions are already available and deployed across the EU. The Grids Package should focus on helping authorities and system operators apply proven, market-ready solutions at scale. Bentley Systems stands ready to support this process and contribute to further technical discussions. We look forward to the publication of the Package and to continued engagement during its implementation. A more detailed submission is provided as an attachment to this response.
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Response to EU Ports Strategy

28 Jul 2025

EU ports are at a crossroads, facing a wide range of challenges from climate adaptation and military mobility, to driving the energy transition and securing financing for port investments. The modernisation and adaptation of ports is therefore crucial to safeguard their role as key strategic assets, underpinning the EUs economy, security and long-term competitiveness. This submission provides Bentleys views on how digitalisation and data-driven solutions can support the modernisation and adaptation of port assets, as well as ways the EU Ports Strategy can promote the adoption of digital technologies to drive better, more efficient infrastructure outcomes for EU ports ultimately delivering on the EUs objectives of competitiveness, security, resilience and sustainability.
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Meeting with Kamil Talbi (Cabinet of Commissioner Dan Jørgensen), Stella Kaltsouni (Cabinet of Commissioner Dan Jørgensen)

19 Jun 2025 · Digitalisation

Meeting with Arthur Corbin (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné), Laia Pinos Mataro (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné) and

12 Jun 2025 · Challenges and opportunities in Europe’s Water Sector

Response to Connecting Europe through high-speed rail

29 Apr 2025

Bentley thanks the European Commission for the opportunity to provide feedback on its upcoming Communication on Connecting Europe through High-Speed Rail. This submission provides Bentleys views on how digitalisation and data-driven solutions can support the deployment of Europes high-speed rail network, and ways the Communication can promote the adoption of digital technologies to drive better, more efficient infrastructure outcomes for high-speed rail ultimately delivering on the EUs objectives of competitiveness, sustainability and resilience.
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Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall) and SUEZ Group and

27 Mar 2025 · Meeting with Digital Water Coalition on Water Resilience Strategy

Response to Evaluation of the Public Procurement Directives

7 Mar 2025

Bentley thanks the European Commission for the opportunity to provide feedback on its evaluation of the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and relevance of the EU Public Procurement Directives. As the infrastructure engineering software company, we strongly believe that digital tools and technologies can support the European Commissions objective to deliver on the twin green and digital transition, as well as increase the public utility and resilience of EU infrastructure. As large infrastructure projects are inexorably linked to public procurement rules, a revision of these to improve project delivery is timely and can - if a bold and forward-looking approach is implemented - have a long-lasting positive impact on the EU and its ability to navigate a future of climate and geopolitical uncertainty. This feedback provides Bentley's views on the topic.
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Response to European Water Resilience Strategy

3 Mar 2025

Bentley Systems thanks the European Commission for the opportunity to provide input to the call for evidence on the European Water Resilience Strategy. The attached submission offers Bentleys views on why digitalisation and data-driven solutions should be an integral part of this EU initiative, and how close alignment is needed between the Water Resilience Strategy and other (non-water specific) policy frameworks, in particular the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). We substantiate our reply by offering specific case studies illustrating how going digital is already leading to better outcomes in European water infrastructure projects.
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Meeting with Claudia Olazabal (Head of Unit Environment) and Siemens AG and

25 Feb 2025 · Exchange of views on digitalisation in the water sector

Meeting with Thomas Bajada (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and ECOLAB and

5 Feb 2025 · Meeting on Water Resilience Strategy

Response to Interim evaluation of the Connecting Europe Facility 2021-2027

23 Sept 2024

Bentley Systems thanks the European Commission for the opportunity to provide feedback on its evaluation of the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance and EU added value of the CEF programme. The CEF has been a key EU funding instrument to support the development of high performing, sustainable and efficiently interconnected Trans-European Networks in the fields of transport, energy and digital services, ultimately delivering on the EUs decarbonisation targets. As the infrastructure engineering software company, we strongly believe that digital tools and technologies can support the European Commissions objective to deliver on the twin green and digital transition, as well as increase the public utility and resilience of critical infrastructure. The attached submission provides Bentleys views on why digitalisation and data-driven solutions should be at the forefront of the European Commissions revision of the CEF, as well as preparatory work for other infrastructure funding instruments under the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF).
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Response to Ex-post evaluation of the Connecting Europe Facility 2014-2020

23 Sept 2024

Bentley Systems thanks the European Commission for the opportunity to provide feedback on its evaluation of the effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, relevance and EU added value of the CEF programme. The CEF has been a key EU funding instrument to support the development of high performing, sustainable and efficiently interconnected Trans-European Networks in the fields of transport, energy and digital services, ultimately delivering on the EUs decarbonisation targets. As the infrastructure engineering software company, we strongly believe that digital tools and technologies can support the European Commissions objective to deliver on the twin green and digital transition, as well as increase the public utility and resilience of critical infrastructure. The attached submission provides Bentley's views on why digitalisation and data-driven solutions should be at the forefront of the European Commissions revision of the CEF, as well as preparatory work for other infrastructure funding instruments under the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF).
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Meeting with Beatrice Covassi (Member of the European Parliament) and Water Europe and Danfoss A/S

7 Nov 2023 · Digitalisation of Water Infrastructures

Meeting with Tom Berendsen (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

6 Jul 2023 · Port strategy - meeting with APA

Meeting with Beatrice Covassi (Member of the European Parliament) and European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity and EU DSO Entity

26 Apr 2023 · Digitalisation of Energy Infrastructures

Meeting with Jan Huitema (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion)

20 Feb 2023 · Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive

Meeting with Margrete Auken (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and SUEZ Group and

7 Feb 2023 · Recast of the UWWTD