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The Open Geospatial Consortium and the buildingSMART alliance have just completed a report regarding the software interoperability issues that are faced in the architecture, engineering, construction, and owner operator community. The AECOO Testbed looked at methods to increase efficiency and provide cost savings by more streamlined project processes. Sponsors for the testbed included the architectural [...]
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It’s always good fun to talk to Don Murray and Dale Lutz of Safe Software. Their company continues to improve their spatial extract, transform and load software, and they’ve further extended the functionality into 3D with their latest FME 2010 release. I interviewed the two recently, and we touched on a large number of improvements [...]
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The plight of the land developer is tough right now, given the housing bubble and the long-lasting impact of available credit due to the global recession. This downturn has had it’s Darwinian moments though, because the developers that took a more irresponsible tact with cheaper and more homes as fast as they could be built [...]
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I’m working to synthesize all the ideas that were shared this past week in Redlands, Calif. at the first GeoDesign Summit. One pervading feeling that I have is that this new term, and definition of practice, provides an opportunity to be more inclusive. Currently, the term GIS is largely owned by one company, and the [...]
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The community of architecture/engineering/construction (AEC) specialists is undergoing a dramatic evolution toward model-based design. The concept and tools of Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a paradigm shift for the AEC community as it breaks free of the drawing-oriented design process toward an intelligent model that informs all phases of a building’s life and is acted [...]
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I recently spoke to Ken Greenberg, architect and urban designer at Greenberg Associates about his work on large-scale urban design projects with a sustainability bent. His most recent project is the Lower Don Lands in Toronto that’s working to reclaim wetlands into a vibrant shoreside community in the Toronto Harbour. He did a nice job [...]
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One of the more compelling new technologies at the SPAR 2009 conference is software from ClearEdge3D called EdgeWise that automatically extracts planar surfaces from point clouds to create a 3D CAD model. The software harnesses computer vision algorithms to pull coplanar points from point cloud clusters to create surfaces that can then be exported in [...]
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Lisa Campbell, VP, Geospatial, for Autodesk introduced a new term this morning that will guide the vision for her division. Infrastructure modeling encompasses the vision of engineering-grade models for large geographies that facilitates visualization, simulation and analysis that’s much more than the “empty images of Google.” The primary markets for Autodesk geospatial solutions are telecommunications, [...]
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Given these tough economic times, I see a great focus on interoperability in the coming months. I met a functional test engineer from Boeing today at AU. His job is to make sure that any new design of the Boeing 737 works properly. He shared some interesting information regarding the production of Boeing’s most popular [...]
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The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) just released an in-depth report titled, “Government Issues R&D Agenda for “Net-Zero” Energy Green Buildings” (PDF). The primary objective of the report is to spur technology development to reduce consumption of energy, water and other natural resources while improving building performance. This is a high-level R&D outline that [...]
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