One of the major hazards of all construction activity is inadvertently hitting underground infrastructure. To give some idea of how frequent this occurs, in the US in 2010 there were 112,917 incidents where underground utility […]
Autodesk has released a new service as part of Autodesk 360, called Autodesk BIM 360. One of the new tools in BIM 360 is a Conceptual Design and Feasibility Evaluation service, which enables users of […]
I heard a very interesting presentation on energy modeling for buildings with a focus on reducing electrical load at the GORUG meeting here in Ottawa. Energy efficient building are becoming a priority for many utilities […]
Apple has announced their new Maps application as part of iOS 6. Peter Batty has given a very interesting assessment of what’s there and what isn’t, compared to Google, and what the future looks like […]
Last week I blogged about an extension to the OGC CityGML standard for utilities. Today at the Oracle Spatial User Conference the Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformationstechnik – Technische Universität Berlin, where Thomas Kolbe and […]
In a paper Semantic 3D Modeling of Multi-utility networks in Cities presented at GSDI 2012 in Quebec City, Thomas Becker; Claus Nagel and Thomas H. Kolbe have outlined how they are translating a vision of […]
At the GSDI 13 conference in Quebec City, Serene Ho and Abbas Rajabifard from Australia delivered a paper on the benefits of a 3D land and property information system (3D-LPIS) to an increasingly urbanized society. […]
I blogged previously about an Autodesk Labs project Photofly, at that time a technology preview of a cloud service that allows you to convert digital photographs taken with a consumer digital camera into a 3D […]