At the Year in Infrastructure 2016 conference in London, the Be Inspired Awards attracted over 300 submissions. Many of these were impressive in how they applied digital technology to designing, constructing and maintaining buildings and […]
In a recent report, Imagining construction’s digital future, McKinsey & Company suggests that the construction industry is ripe for disruption and two of the technologies that it believes will be key in that anticipated transformation […]
At the Year in Infrastructure 2016 conference in London the Be Inspired Awards set some new records. There were 311 submissions from 22 countries. Of these 110 were completed and operational projects and 120 were under […]
Introduction Building Information Models are comprehensive digital representations of buildings which include 3D geometry and associated data. They are widely used for designing, engineering, and constructing buildings (vertical BIM) and infrastructure (horizontal BIM). Owners are […]
Last week I had the opportunity to present at the annual Hexagon conference HxGN Live in Anaheim. Hexagon is a rapidly growing company with broad technology reach with core strengths in geospatial surveying and laser […]
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 […]
Reality modeling In the future, the deliverables at the end of a construction project will not only include the completed building itself, but also a digital “reality model” of the structure. The digital model will […]