Last week GITA Ontario Chapter held a Spring Educational Session with a focus on asset management. One of the presentations was given by John Murray, who is responsible for asset management in the public works […]
The Autodesk Solar Radiation Technology Preview is available on Autodesk Labs. It allows you while you are designing a building to use the geometry of massing elements from your BIM model to calculate the amount […]
Last May the City of Vancouver passed a motion endorsing open data, open standards, and leveling the playing field for open source software procurement. In January the City of Edmonton opened Edmonton’s open data catalogue, […]
Wednesday I had the opportunity to speak at a unique seminar organized by Consortech in Montreal which brought together civil and structural engineers and GIS folks in the same room. Pierre Genest, the president of […]
I just came across an interesting blog post by Jagan Nemani about the State of Green Business Forum 2010 organized by Greenbiz.com. Zero Waste Upgrade of Empire State Building Windows First of all, Jagan outlined […]
The venues, road network, and the torch route for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Vancouver starting February 11 and 12 with the Olympic Torch Relay routes are on VanMap. The opening ceremonies are […]
I blogged previously about Vancouver’s ground breaking decision to open the city’s data to public access. Vancouver has just launched a new version of the City’s Open Data web site. Compared with the initial launch […]
Today at MEST 2009, I had the opportunity to see a system for maintaining a single database containing all underground infrastructure in Bahrain. A single repository for all underground facilities is something that is only […]