Proposed West Link tunnel under central Gothenburg More and more cities are recognizing the tremendous benefits that a digital twin provides to its planners, private architects and engineers striving for compliance with city ordinances and […]
Many see handheld scanners as revolutionizing the construction sector. Portable and handheld laser scanners offer millimeter accuracy and can be used for engineering purposes. Cameras with less precision are being used for rapidly documenting a […]
At the Spar 3D Expo and Conference 2016 in Houston, Texas, Avideh Zakhor from the University of California Berkeley showed remarkable products from her startup Indoor Reality. I blogged previously about the technology when it […]
The BS 1192 suite of guidelines and best practices developed under the auspices of the BSI, the national standards body of the UK, are designed to help the UK construction industry adopt BIM Level 2 […]
The games industry is ahead of everyone in creating a 2D or 3D interactive experience with high fidelity graphics deployable on desktops, laptops, or mobile phones. Unity and Unreal engines are the leaders in providing […]
Drones are very efficient at capturing a large volume of data that often requires hours of post-processing in the cloud to create 3D reconstructions that can be used for 3D visualization and other applications. In […]
BIM+geospatial integration is being driven by a trend toward infrastructure construction projects that require maintenance and/or operations during an extended period post-construction. At the GEO|Design+BIM conference in Amsterdam, Sanghee Shin, CEO of Gaia3D Inc., gave […]
At HxGNLive Juergen Dold, President of Hexagon Geosystems which is responsible for the Leica Geosystems brand, gave a talk about perception and reality. Perception is how we see the world, but perceptions are subjective and […]