Friday, September 10th, 2010
In Part 3 – Manual Reset, SmartGeometry 2010, Barcelona, Working Prototypes, architect Don Chong explains more of his observations at the event. He describes some of the presentations and people present as well as their presentations.
Monday, September 6th, 2010
R. Halsey Wise, chairman, president and CEO of Intergraph kicked off the company’s weather-delayed user conference last week in Las Vegas with an emphasis on turning their innovations into opportunities for economic success during challenging times. Wise drove home a presentation of customers “that see no limitations” to the audience of more than 2,000 people
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
In Part 2 – Manual Reset, SmartGeometry 2010, Barcelona, Working Prototypes, architect Don Chong provides additional coverage of the event. He discusses industrial design, the details of sandstone and begins to lay out the concept of ‘Manual Reset’.
Friday, August 27th, 2010
You know something’s right when an international conference ostensibly about computing advances in the AEC sector begins in a Barcelona converted factory space with dozens of participants furiously designing, testing and building. You know something’s just clicking when the ‘manual’ supports the ‘digital’.
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Two events took place in Nessebar, Bulgaria recently. These were organized by the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG) under the patronage of the Kristalina Geoggieva, Member of the European Commission. The events were the 3rd ISDE Digital Earth Summit, with co-organizer International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) and The 3rd International Conference
Monday, July 19th, 2010
The 2010 Esri International User Conference took place in San Diego, Calif., from July 12-16. This year’s event attracted more than 14,000 people, with the theme, “Geography: Opening the World to Everyone.” The open access to tools, and the encouragement of crowd-sourced data collection, were recurring themes throughout the event.
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
The Winner of the 2010 Buckminster Fuller ChallengeRichard Buckminster Fuller (1895 – 1983), engineer, architect, designer, philosopher and inventor, is prominently known for the famous lightweight and stable geodesic domes he constructed, such as the US Pavilion of the EXPO 1967 in Montreal, now housing the eco-watch centre Biosphère. The domes reflect his continuous efforts
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
The 4th annual Central Asia GIS Conference at the Austria-Central Asia Centre for GIScience (http://www.aca-giscience.org/) was opened on May 27 by Rector Abdykalykov from the Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transportation and Architecture in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. He was assisted by the Austrian ambassador to Central Asia, HE Ursula Fahringer and the representative of the
Monday, May 24th, 2010
Bentley drew more than 1,000 people to their Be Together Conference in Philadelphia from May 17 to 20. The event was billed as a hands-on training conference that responded to the interestes of users in the Be Community, offering a mix of targeted lectures, hands-on workshops, and executive keynotes. It has been a few years
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Real Corp 2010 opened in Vienna, Austria last week at the Messe Vienna under the theme Cities for Everyone: Liveable, Healthy, ProsperousPromising Vision or Unrealistic Fantasy? With 500 urban planners, transport, design an sustainable planning individuals in attendance, the presentations covered a wide variety of topics ranging from technologies to social planning issues and environmental
