Over 50% of the cost of maintaining a building is what is called operations and maintenance which is comprised of administration, maintenance and repairs, and restoration projects. In most building construction projects, even if BIM […]
In June 2014, Sylvia Pinel, the Minister of Logement et de l’Égalité des territoires (Ministry of Housing), announced the intention to put in place a “French numerical strategy” with the possibility of making BIM mandatory […]
At the ISO/TC 59 Plenary Week in Toronto this week, a day long collaboration session was organized by ISO/TC 59, buildingSMART, and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). This is a major milestone for the development […]
The European Union has set itself aggressive goals to reduce GHG emissions by 20%, increase renewables share of energy generation to 20%, and to reduce energy consumption by 20% by 2020. The EU seems to […]
At Geospatial World Forum 2014 in Geneva this year the GeoBuild track, which was very well attended, included 15 presentations followed by a panel discussion. The presentations covered a broad range of topics, but all […]
At Geospatial World Forum 2014 in Geneva this year Leif Granhom, Senior Vice President at Tekla Finland gave an insightful presentation about the integration of building information modeling (BIM) and geospatial information. An important part of […]
GEO Business 2014 is the newest major geospatial event in the UK. And it is unique in being the result of a collaboration between the British geographic information organization Association for Geographic Information (AGI) and three […]
Locating underground infrastructure in Bahrain Bahrain is one of the few places in the world which attempts to maintain the location of all underground infrastructure in a single database. As I blogged in 2009, the […]