Case Study: Tower Engineering Professionals, Inc. achieves up to 60% time savings and streamlined tower-analysis workflows with Bentley OpenTower

Tower Engineering Professionals, Inc. Optimize Workflows with OpenTower®

Tower Engineering Professionals, Inc. faced a surge in communications-tower modification requests and complex loading scenarios driven by 4G/5G densification and carrier co‑location. The volume of code and load-case combinations made modeling slow, error-prone, and costly, so TEP adopted Bentley’s OpenTower to streamline shape creation, manage multiple modification layers and scenario analyses, and simplify code/version conversions.

Using Bentley’s OpenTower, TEP now draws built-up shapes in 2–3 minutes versus 10–12 minutes with previous tools, enabling about a 10‑minute per‑project savings on shape work, a 20% time savings on repeatedly analyzed sites, and an estimated 30–60 minutes saved per applicable site by keeping all modifications in one file. OpenTower’s scenario and layer tools let engineers set up dozens of scenarios, update loadings once, reduce rework, improve QA, and deliver faster, more accurate feedback to clients.

Tower Engineering Professionals, Inc.

Matthew K. Lackey

Charlotte Structural Division Manager