Over 75 participants joined the 3D modelling for Intelligent Cities during Bentley’s Be Inspired conference in Amsterdam on Wednesday October 20th. Lead with passion by Pat McCrory, 7 time Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, the round table facilitated participants from around the world to share best practices and discuss opportunities around 3D City modelling. Pat set the pace by stating that -as a Mayor of the 16th largest city in the USA- he would have loved to see 3D Models to support the engineering process as well as the communication process concerning new infrastructure projects. According to former mayor Pat McCrory: ‘Political and practical problems never happen in your city, but only in your neighbours’. Basically stating that every major project we initiate and execute faces issues.
3D modelling can overcome a lot of the issues and reduce risks, increase quality and increase efficiency, helping cities to improve their planning, engineering, construction and operations.
Sisi Zlatanova, Associate professor, GISt, OTB Delft University of Technology, explained the audience about the need for intelligent features, semantics, and intelligent geometry, topology. She focused on explaining that a 3D City model is more than just a nice picture for communication purposes, but can be used as a view on the real world, providing it has been created in 3D from the start. She also spend some time on the need for a holistic 3D City Model, including above ground infrastructure, below ground (utility and metro line) infrastructure and geological and hydrogeological (3D) models.
After a brief overview of Bentley’s position in the 3D City world, which we can best described by ‘The world is 3D, so our applications are 3D’ and ‘Infrastructure projects and operations are cross-discipline, so our applications are based on a common platform managed by a federated server environment’, Pat started the discussion with the audience.
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