Infrastructure software specialist Bentley Systems has announced the winners of its annual year in infrastructure awards for 2025. Held at an event in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the event brought together industry professionals from around the world.
Panels of experts, including industry professionals and journalists, whittled down the entries and selected the winners across a range of categories. For the roads and highways section and bridges and tunnels section, the jurors were asked to select the best from three contenders in each group.
In Roads and Highways, the three contenders came from Australia, China and Malaysia. The Australian project was for revamp work to the congested Warringah Freeway on the north side of Sydney, New South Wales. The Chinese project was for a scenic stretch of road running along the border with Vietnam and linking the Dentian waterfall with Shuolong in GuangXi Province. The Malaysian project was for the construction of the Sabah-Sarawak link road.
Meanwhile in the Bridges and Tunnels category, the contenders were from Brazil, Italy and the US. The Brazilian project was for the construction of the 12.4km Itaparica bridge linking Salvador with Itaparica Island. The Italian project was for the development of a digital solution for remote identification of construction problems with tunnel structures. The US project was for the redevelopment of the waterfront area of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, with the construction of a new bridge connection and a new park on a deck above the I-95 highway.
The winner in the Roads and Highway category was Indonesia’s Sabaha-Sarawak Highway. The winner in the Bridges and Tunnels category was Italferr’s innovative remote tunnel inspection technology.
