Autodesk has announced the release of Autodesk Topobase 2010, which extends AutoCAD to support geospatial infrastructure management in addition to design. Topobase includes water, wastewater, gas and electric data models and applications as well as […]
Blaine Leonard, of the Utah Department of Transportation and the President-elect of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), gave the opening keynote at GITA 2009 today. His talk focussed on the 2009 ASCE Scorecard […]
I and probably many others were very surprised to hear today that Oracle intends to buy Sun Microsystems. This means that Oracle is now a hardware (Sparc/Ultrasparc) and operating system (Solaris) company as well as […]
Autodesk has announced the release of Autodesk LandXplorer Server 2010. LandXplorer Server allows 3D city models prepared using LandXplorer Studio Professional to be exposed over the Web to any client with a browser. Users can […]
A report by the “Global Forest Expert Panels” initiative, which is led by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) has been released. It forecasts what the impact of global warming might be on the […]
Autodesk University 2009 (AU 2009) will be held from December 1-4 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. If you are interested in speaking at AU 2009, you’re invited to submit a proposal […]
Autodesk has announced that AutoCAD 2010 software will be available for free to members of the worldwide Student Engineering and Design Community. The Student Community was created three years ago to help architecture, engineering and […]
There’s an interesting article by Rob Colman in Green Business who chatted with Dan Campbell of the City of Vancouver and myself about digital cities and how by enabling interoperability between architecture, engineering and construction design […]