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Show me the Money! - Australia's Need for Spatial Data

Details: 13 February 2011 | By David Hocking | 5629

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Some time ago I wrote about the impending Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) in Australia and its potential opportunities for the spatial industries. The CPRS was the brainchild of then Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, who was subsequently unceremoniously dumped. With the Greens now in control, the pressure is on to have a carbon price.

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David, Good commentary. The issue of how carbon will be sequestrated in land is ...

David, Nicely said. Politicians of all political persuasions are only intere...

Applying Mathematical Programming to Facility Management

Details: 01 October 2010 | By Karl Waters | 8257

Walters_Karl_thumb One of the most powerful tools in the analytics toolkit for decision making is the development of mathematical models, also known as mathematical programming (MP). Mathematical programming encompasses a wide-range of techniques including linear programming (LP), dynamic programming (DP), simulation and others. In most applications of mathematical programming models, there is an overriding objective that represents a business outcome that managers would like to maximize (profit) or minimize (cost). Depending on the problem at hand, the model may incorporate resource limits or other constraints as well.

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Full-Scale Analysis Improves the Art of Design

Details: 27 September 2010 | By David Fuller | 7597

Real time, full-scale analysis immediately and positively impacts all stakeholders in slightly different ways. Architects and engineers rush to validate their designs naturally looking for opportunities to improve their product. Owners experience a sense of relief and tend to take immediate ownership of their prior decisions and look forward to future input and final product expectations.

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Infrastructure Planning: Complex Problems Deserve New Solutions

Details: 08 September 2010 | By Chris Andrews | 5747

The phases of planning for infrastructure change have not varied much since humans began coordinating the construction of more than one building, road, or bridge simultaneously. Planners need to understand the current environment and conditions, conceive and compare alternatives, and confidently select a particular alternative to move forward into detailed design, construction, and operation. A few decades ago, planners based their proposals and decisions on little more than sketches, photographs, and imprecise maps that offered no more than qualitative impressions of the status of extant infrastructure.

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Why Conservatives Are Bad on Energy: It's All About the Costs

Details: 26 August 2010 | By Tom Rooney | 1878

Tom_Rooney_thumb Conservatives, let's talk about energy. And why so many conservatives are so wrong -- so liberal, even -- on wind and solar energy. Let's start with a recent editorial from the home of 'free markets and free people,"the Wall Street Journal." Photovoltaic solar energy, quoth the mavens, is a "speculative and immature technology that costs far more than ordinary power."