As I have blogged previously, a difficult challenge in many parts of the world is to find a single database which records where all underground assets, such as water and waste water, power, gas, oil, […]
There has been widespread awareness in the US about what is popularly referred to as crumbling infrastructure. In the presidential election campaign the issue came up repeatedly. One of the reasons, perhaps the most important […]
Autodesk announced it is working with the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) and theIncheon Urban Development Corporation (IUDC) to cooperate in the creation of Asia’s first Digital City for Incheon, Korea — the ‘Tomorrow City’ […]
This past week Precision Design Solution (M) SDN BHD based in Kuala Lumpur hosted an Autodesk National Geospatial Conference in Penang which attracted major players in the Malaysian telecommunications, oil and gas, power, water, government, […]
Last week I had the opportunity to present at GITA Japan’s 19th annual conference, held this year at Tokyu University. I found it very well attended both vendors and service providers and utility and telecommunications […]
One of the most interesting presentations I have seen in the last year is one by Bradley Williams, a utility Research Director at Gartner. Brad has many many years experience in the West Coast electric […]
Last week I had the opportunity to present a keynote at the Sitewell VIP Conference on Land and Infrastructure Management. Sitewell are the developers of the Czech Ministry of Agriculture’s LPIS System that is used […]
In 2003 and 2005 the American Society of Civil Engineers prepared a report card on the state of US infrastructure. This scorecard has attracted a lot of attention especially the estimate of the US$1.6 trillion […]