For organizations managing a campus such as educational facilities, healthcare facilities, commercial real estate, utilities, and municipalities managing public works, storm sewer systems, and parks which are characterized by having many different utilities and and […]
A proof-of-concept project to develop a National Energy Systems Map (NESM) has been launched by the UK’s electricity and gas networks. The pilot project will give customers information about energy network assets, where those assets […]
Many jurisidictions are recognizing the human and economic cost of not knowing the location of underground utilities and other infrastructure and are looking at legislative, regulatory, technological, business practice and other measures to find ways […]
The UK Government as part of its building information modeling (BIM) initiative has said repeatedly that it expects the big payoff of a digital model will be during operations and maintenance, which typically represents 80% […]
Without accurate maps of underground infrastructure, every construction project has the potential to become a disaster site. Unlike the aviation industry where reliable data is collected and is accessible to investigators to prevent disasters from […]
Typically at BIMForum events, the audience is composed of architects, engineers and construction contractors, with the odd owner, but rarely facilities management (FM) folks. At this year’s BIMForum 2019 conference in St Louis several talks […]
Every construction project devotes significant efforts to locating underground utilities prior to and during construction. But this information is rarely shared and the location of underground infrastructure is recaptured over and over again. To begin […]
Workflows for ensuring utility GIS quality are fundamentally broken and have been for decades. Integrating CAD and GIS into an efficient workflow has been a challenge and it has simply not been a priority in […]