Infrastructure-excellence.com is hosting the second annual competition showcasing Excellence in Infrastructure— highlighting the best projects done in 2012/2013. The winners will be given over US$10,000 in prizes by the competition sponsors. The competition is open […]
At SPAR 2013 I had the opportunity to hear a very forward looking presentation by Ron Singh, Chief of Surveys/Geometronics Manager at the Oregon Department of Transportation. It was even more impressive because Ron’s background […]
For over half the nearly 300 people in the audience at the fourth Geodesign Summit in Redlands this was their first Summit. So there was a serious effort by several speakers including the MC Tom […]
I blogged previously about an interesting analysis of job creation by the “App Economy” has been conducted for TechNet by Dr.Michael Mandel of South Mountain Economics LLC. The Technet analysis suggests that there were 155,000 tech […]
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are intended to reduce poverty, inequality, hunger and illness. Goernments and organizations around the world pledged to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to […]
The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) conducts an annual survey of starting salaries of U.S. college graduates by compiling data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau, and a […]
Last year about this time I blogged about the Master Municipal Construction Documents Association (MMCDA) which maintains a set of templates for tendering and contract administration for municipal infrastructure projects that is geared toward government, […]
Autodesk has announced Autodesk Cloud, a collection of web-based capabilities, products and services. Autodesk began providing cloud-based applications for the design industry more than a decade ago with Autodesk Buzzsaw. Autodesk Cloud enables users to […]