At last year’s Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) BIM National Conference 2014, RICS sponsored a BIM Vendor Showcase in which a BIM model derived from scanning the RICS headquarters building in Parliament Sq in […]
Looking for a way to get through these last weeks of winter blues? Flex your coding muscles and take part in this year’s Canadian Open Data Experience (CODE)! CODE is a 48-hour hackathon challenge to […]
I work for Sight Surveillance. My day begins bright and early in the morning. After a hearty meal, I set out for a daily safety meeting. Each person in the room has a very different […]
OTTAWA, ON – Sudbury-born Alex Trebek, celebrity host of the long-running TV quiz show Jeopardy!, has donated US$100,000 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Canadian Geographic (CG) Challenge. Since 2003, Canada’s geography whiz kids have […]
At DistribuTECH 2015, Duke Energy held a session about their Phase 2 project (COW II) of the Coalition of the Willing initiative. Stuart Laval, Smart Grid Technology Manager at Duke, presented an overview of the COW II […]
At DistribuTECH 2015, if there was one technology that seemed to be ubiquitous and on almost every utility’s radar, it is microgrids. For example, Duke Energy is seriously considering offering microgrids as a service and […]
At DistribuTECH 2015, Lockheed Martin and Dominion Resources, Inc. announced a new smart grid location-aware technology, which they co-developed. VirtuGrid enables data, including voltage, power, energy readings, GPS location, phase and circuit connectivity, to be sent […]
In April 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not have the authority to impose net neutrality regulations on Internet providers. The decision was […]