Transmission constraints Estimates of the transmission buildout required in the US to reduce congestion and to bring renewable electric power to market have ranged from 19,000 to 50,000 miles of new transmission lines. The Brattle […]
Eleven standards have been proposed for the Catalog of Standards (CoS) managed by the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP). SGIP was set up by NIST to drive a consensus-based standards recommendation process for the smart […]
The adoption of building information models (BIM) has provided quantifiable business benefits by helping improve collaboration and reduce the risk of budget and schedule overruns during the design and construction phase of building projects. Many […]
Autodesk has made available an AutoCAD Map 3D 2013 Profile Migration Hotfix that will help you migrate settings from Map 3D 2010 or Map 3D 2011.
Productivity has become a major challenge in the $7 trillion construction industry. Recently McKinsey reported that construction productivity has stagnated in the EU, Japan, and Korea, and declined in the U.S. In the utility and […]
An estimated 2.6 billion people around the World do not have access to safe and sustainable sanitation. As part of its US$370 million Water, Sanitation and Hygiene program the Gates Foundation has announced the second […]
A massive spend on infrastructure, globally about $50 trillion, is expected over the next two decades. It is anticipated that the infrastructure spend in the developing countries market is just as large as in the […]
At Gridweek last year, a speaker from Alabama Power, which among other intelligent devices has deployed over a million smart meters, said that he is seeing a 10,000X growth in the volume of data they […]