At the Fall BIMForum/BuildCon conference in Dallas two presentations about actual prefabrication experience – for data centres and for large automotive plants – both mentioned shortage of skilled labour as an important motivation for turning […]
At the Fall BIMForum/BuildCon conference in Dallas, an entralling presentation about how HD BIM was used to build five buildings of the Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada in record time was given by Greg Luth of […]
At the Fall BIMForum/BuildCon conference in Dallas, BIMForum announced the 2017 release of the Level of Development (LOD) specification. The Level of Development (LOD) Specification is a reference that enables practitioners in the AEC Industry […]
Images from DigitalGlobe were used to track illegal fishing and provided evidence in court to support the seizure of a Thai vessel suspected of illegal fishing and labour abuses by the Indonesian Navy. Indonesia has […]
Integrated BIM and geospatial modeling provide greater value to projects that involve not just design and construction but also operations and maintenance for an extended period after construction. At the Year in Infrastructure 2017 (YII2017) […]
Software tools have become the standard for detailed design. Software has also made significant inroads into many aspects of construction. In contrast conceptual design still relies for the most part on “pencil and back of […]
Point clouds are fine for visualization to provide context, but to be really useful they need to be classified. Feature extraction, as the process is often referred to, is currently a mostly manual process that […]
One of the challenges to the full expression of collaboration on construction projects is sharing information including geometry, properties, scans in the form of reality meshes, descriptions and status of equipment, and other information. In […]