The City of Rotterdam is developing a digital twin of the city. 3D vector and image data of the above- and underground infrastructure, zoning regulations and city by-laws, data streams from real-time sensors, applications and […]
Unforeseen ground conditions are a major cause of delays in construction projects. This year at the Year in Infrastructure event Bentley announced OpenGround a collection of applications for collecting, sharing, visualizing, analyzing, and accessing geotechnical […]
In 2017, the Singapore Land Authority (SLA), Singapore-ETH Centre, and the Geomatics Department of the City of Zürich started the Digital Underground project as a first step toward achieving an accurate, current, and complete map […]
I thought it would be worthwhile to include here an expanded version of my contribution to a webinar that IQGeo presented last week with a provocative title that I think goes right to the nub […]
NEDO estimates that about 50% of time over-runs on commercial building projects are caused by unforeseen ground conditions.* There are two aspects to the problems associated with the subsurface. One is geotechnics, soil, ground water, […]
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 […]
We are beginning to see data from real world projects that offer tangible evidence of the benefits of an integrated BIM+geospatial full lifecycle approach for construction projects. A few firms such as Parsons Brinckerhoff, Atkins Global, […]
This year’s winner of a special recognition award at Year in Infrastructure was Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Ltd for its Nagpur Metro Asset Information Management System which implemented a digital twin and a tagging scheme […]