Underground utility damage during construction is a major safety problem and drag on economies in many countries. The technologies that are currently considered best practices for detecting underground utilities have been used for decades and […]
In its 2017 Infrastructure Report Card, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) assigned an overall grade of D+ to U.S. infrastructure. Addressing the problem of bringing national infrastructure up to a standard where it […]
The 2017 ASCE Infrastructure Scorecard has been released this morning. Grades for seven categories of infrastructure – Hazardous Waste, Inland Waterways, Levees, Ports, Rail, Schools, and Wastewater – improved slightly. The grades for three categories […]
At SPAR 2013 Dennis Rodriguez, Project Manager at Denver International Airport (DIA), and Daniel Stonecipher of Immersiv, gave a fascinating presentation on how they combined a BIM-based design and construction process with GIS to create […]
Airports are like cities. They have all the infrastructure that cities have plus some. Heathrow is the busiest airport in Europe with on average 181,000 passengers passing through it each day. Heathrow has 13 different […]