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 […]
Last June Airbus Defence and Space’s SPOT 7 Earth-observation satellite was launched successfully from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India. The first images from SPOT7 were released three days after the launch, Today SPOT […]
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 […]
Transforming Singapore’s construction industry: from paper drawings to smart cities Singapore has a compelling vision of where it wants to be by 2030. Since about 2003 when it first introduced e-submissions, it has moved rapidly […]
Ground-level ozone, a major contributor to smog, forms when nitrogen and volatile organic emissions from vehicles, industries, and power plants are exposed to sunlight. It affects people with respiratory diseases such as asthma and can […]
Finland has been among the earliest adopters of Building Information Modeling (BIM). A startup software company named Tekla Oy was formed in 1966 and got heavily into BIM in the 1970s. Tekla was acquired by […]
Very excited to see this course given at IIT Bombay. We need more courses on geospatial technology for engineers and architects. Title : GIS for Civil Engineers – A Short Term Course at IIT Bombay, […]
I was lucky enough to attend the High Performance Geoprocessing Symposium in Ottawa. It is amazing how far some very exciting geospatial projects focused on “big spatial data” under the LocationTech umbrella have come in […]