A highlight of the SA Geotech conference in Johannesburg was a presentation by Ryno Goosen of Suritec Geospatial. Ryno, who was awarded the Best Paper prize at SA Geotec, gave a fascinating presentation about how he […]
At GeoBusiness 2017 in London, Hugh Boyes, a Cyber Security specialist outlined some of the security risks of digital engineering and the importance of cybersecurity for engineering projects. BIM models, floorplans and 3D LiDAR scans […]
The construction industry in the UK, as in many of the world’s advanced economies, suffers from low productivity compared to other industries, a situation which hasn’t improved in 25 years according to Simon Rawlinson of […]
Software comes and goes, but a utility’s data model persists. A shared electric power data model enables electric power utilities to move away from incompatible point solutions toward tightly integrated solutions which are essential for […]
Currently geospatial data and technology are used tactically by electric power utilities for many purposes including outage management, vegetation management, disaster management, renewable energy facility siting, universal electrification planning, asset management, and energy density mapping, […]
At the Spar 3D Expo and Conference in Houston Greg Bentley gave a keynote in the morning in which he especially focused on reality modeling and how this technology had been applied to model in […]
At the Spar 3D Expo and Conference in Houston The Woodlands, Texas, Avideh Zakhor from the University of California Berkeley was onsite with some remarkable products from her new startup Indoor Reality. I blogged previously […]
We are seeing the convergence of engineering and architecture with 3D technology and this is enabling a full lifecycle perspective in designing and constructing infrastructure where we not only aim at better project delivery, but […]