The International Energy Agency (IEA) has issued its annual World Energy Outlook 2016. The IEA has examined several scenarios. All the Paris COP21 climate pledges from 190 countries have been incorporated into its main scenario. […]
A Report by the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate has recommended that since more than 60% of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are sourced from the world’s existing stock of infrastructure, ensuring infrastructure […]
At the Smart Gird Interoperability Panel 2016 Grid Modernization Summit in Washington DC the elephant in the room was whether utilities should be excluded from owning renewable power generation. It seemed the topic was so […]
Anne Pramaggiore, President and CEO of ComEd of Chicago, was the first at the Smart Gird Interoperability Panel 2016 Grid Modernization Summit in Washington DC to call the current business transformation that the electric power […]
Important new research on the reliability of the generally available technology for detecting and gelocating underground utility infrastructure and the costs of hitting utilities during excavation (known as strikes in the UK) was presented at […]
At the Year in Infrastructure 2016 conference in London the Be Inspired Awards set some new records. There were 311 submissions from 22 countries. Of these 110 were completed and operational projects and 120 were under […]
Introduction Building Information Models are comprehensive digital representations of buildings which include 3D geometry and associated data. They are widely used for designing, engineering, and constructing buildings (vertical BIM) and infrastructure (horizontal BIM). Owners are […]
2 November 14:30 – 15:30 Dr. Anne Kemp Atkins Fellow and Director, Atkins Dr. Nicole Metje Reader in Infrastructure Monitoring, University of Birmingham (UK) “Out of site and out of mind.” Many of the […]