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Richard Zambuni, global marketing director-geospatial at Bentley Systems gave an address this morning at the Geospatial World Forum about the creation of intelligent cities. Getting cities right means that we achieve the best possible environments for man, with improved social interaction, better business, better education, better health, and greater cultural interaction. We’ve been through positive [...]
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Stu Rich, CTO of PenBay Solutions addressed the area of facility management at the GeoDesign Summit, with the assertion that the greenest building is the one that is never built. With that framework in mind, the problem of optimally managing our built environment is seen as a more important objective than trying to design the [...]
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While there has been some criticism about the academic and conceptual nature of many of the presentations at the GeoDesign Summit, the break out idea lab on BIM and GIS integration drew a spillover crowd of project managers across infrastructure disciplines. The focus of these discussions was on project implementation and workflow rather than the [...]
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Five years ago, in an interview with a leading CAD software executive, the distinction was made that CAD dealt with the firm realities of our built environment down to engineering-grade detail, and that GIS dealt with fuzzy issues such as wildlife migration. While pains were made to acknowledge the utility of both toolsets, the distinction [...]
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Jeff Kowalski, VP and CTO at Autodesk shared some interesting ideas related to infinite computing and the capture of digital reality at Autodesk University last week. Video of his and other mainstage keynotes are now available online, and I encourage you to check it out. If you don’t have time for the full hour of [...]
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The infrastructure keynote at Autodesk University tackled issues of productivity with demonstrations of the different Autodesk tools that can tackle common infrastructure issues. The discussion centered on aging infrastructure and revitalization projects, because most of the developed world has problematic infrastructure. Water infrastructure is particularly vulnerable as water leaks impact multiple areas such as transportation [...]
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Sitting in on the packed CAD/BIM Integration workshop facilitated by Michael Schlosser (@engis on Twitter) at AU 2010, the second of two with full enrollment. The unconference format provided good interaction on the ‘billion dollar’ opportunity of integration for better planning, stronger visualization, and stronger management of projects. The tools that we use (CAD, GIS, [...]
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A joint presentation by Tekla and Trimble at this week’s Trimble Dimensions conference continues to provide inspiration. The Tekla Building Information Modeling software provides a rich and highly detailed modeling environment, with extremely detailed features and a very small and manageable file size. With Tekla, the model becomes the basis for all 2D drawings, with [...]
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The theme for the 2010 Trimble Dimensions event of Converge, Connect, Collaborate was the focus of the welcoming address by Steve Berglund, president and CEO of Trimble. When addressing connection, he took a look at the progression of the speed of travel and communication, where we’ve reached the upper limits of communication at the speed [...]
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The model building power of LiDAR is still in its infancy, but judging by the explosion of hardware adoption, that won’t be the case for long. Today’s hardware does a good job of capturing a precise 3D reality from the air, from mobile platforms, and from stationary tripods from different perspectives and for different purposes, [...]
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