Over the past five years the processes and technologies of building information modeling (BIM) have been transforming the construction industry. First architects and to a lesser extent engineers, and now increasingly contractors are adopting BIM […]
There’s a very interesting comparison from the NASA Earth Obervatory of Landat 8 imagery showing flooding on the Elbe in Germany. Image 1 is a natural-color, pan-sharpened image of the Elbe River near Wittenberg, Germany, […]
I blogged recently about a report from Memoori, a UK research firm, called “The Smart Grid Business 2012 to 2017”, which analyzes global smart grid-related sales. Its research has identified some interesting trends in the […]
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The end is near, and that realization is beginning to creep up as fast as a debris flow. For those who haven’t been keeping up-to-date with my entries, I’m an Algonquin College student completing my […]
Horizontal BIM, heavy BIM, VDC, civil information modeling, BIM on its side, or BIM for infrastructure are terms used in the construction industry for the application of model-based technologies and processes to non-building projects. This […]
The Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee was names the fastest computer on Earth in November 2012, according to the Top500 list. Most of Titan’s computing capacity comes from its NVIDIA Tesla […]
The Global Tracking Framework, an effort led by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the World Bank, tracks progress which the Sustainable Energy for All initiative (SE4ALL) has made towards three objectives by 2030, achieving […]