One of the largest municipal bond-financed construction projects in the United States has mandated building information modeling (BIM), targetting not only design and construction, but as a permanent record of college assets for use during […]
Press Release: Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), Canada’s independent, not-for-profit leader in mobilizing science-based knowledge, and the Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG), the not-for-profit association that represents the interests of the geomatics community, announced today that […]
The Master of Geomatics for Environmental Management (MGEM) program is hosting a Geomatics Networking Event on Friday March 2 from 1:00-3:30 pm in the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre – Jack Poole Hall. We will […]
Press release: The global geographic information system (GIS) market is anticipated to reach USD 11.2 billion by 2025 The rising adoption of GIS in infrastructure development, urban planning, and smart cities coupled with increasing location-based […]
There is a general consensus that the development of BIM in Canada lags many other developed countries around the globe. This is partly due to little encouragement from government procurement at the federal and provincial […]
At the CanBIM Regional Session in Vancouver, Mark Cichy, Associate, Director of Computational Design and Research, at DIALOG, gave a fascinating talk about automating the process of designing sustainable buildings. Specifically the talk focussed on […]
A surveyor and a platypus walk into a bar…. All right, I made that up, but did you hear the story of the surveyor that crashed through the ice in sub zero temperatures, had to […]
New buildings in Vancouver will be zero-emissions or zero-emissions ready by 2030 or earlier. Vancouver will achieve this by a combination of energy usage reporting, incentives to the private sector, regulation including rezoning and building […]