Bentley Systems announced the acquisition of leading pedestrian simulation software provider LEGION, based in London and supporting more than half of the world’s 40 largest transit agencies. The acquisition augments Bentley’s comprehensive modeling environment with collaborative digital workflows to explore and validate comparative simulations of pedestrian traffic scenarios.

Offshore drillers Ensco and Rowan have announced an all-stock merger agreement creating an offshore drilling company with 82 offshore rigs in its fleet.  The two drillers have said that the merger will create a driller with the broadest geographic presence of any offshore driller in the market.  Rowan CEO will serve as the chief executive of the combined company.

The consortium of TRIL Urban Transport (a Tata Group Company), and Siemens Project Ventures GmbH (subsidiary of Siemens Financial Services), has been awarded the contract by the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority to develop the metro corridor from Hinjewadi to Shivajinagar in Pune, Maharashtra.