Sunday, July 12th, 2009
The development of digitally enabled cities is receiving a great deal of attention in the geospatial and design communities and the creation of building information models (BIM) is harnessing the ideas, creativity and needs of architects and engineers. To accelerate the take-up of 3D design in support of digital cities the software LandXplorer combines CAD
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
Complex problems need integrated and coordinated solutions. Globalisation and sustainable development are the biggest challenges that we need to face and solve. Territories, regions, cities and towns with different levels of development have similar problems, especially when policies and strategies are converging. However, small and medium size cities do not have similar avenues for comunicating
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Building design can significantly impact energy efficiency and can result in substantial reductions in operating costs over the lifecycle of a building. To achieve these benefits, new software tools are being developed that help designers and building architects to model building performance at the critical design stage. Design changes can be readily evaluated prior to
Friday, June 19th, 2009
The high severity and increasing frequency of major flood events worldwide has driven flooding up the political and risk management agenda. David Martin, Technical Manager of flood risk assessment and modelling consultants Ambiental discusses the development of a new flood modelling system that is being in the UK and how it can be deployed through
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
The Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration (ISKI) provides potable water to a city with a population of more than 11 million. ISKI manages all types of groundwater and surface water resources to provide a domestic potable water supply, which it distributes to demand centers within the city, and conducts studies necessary to design and build
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
With the increased rate of rural-urban migration and population growth in the present years, study of urban development has gained a lot of momentum. As a result of these two basic phenomena the city tends to expand outwards to accommodate the ever increasing population pressure on the confined land resources. This process is termed as
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Engineering contractors and consultants involved in a recent series of “mega projects” have been subjected to a torrent of accusations in the Danish media. The issue flared up when an academic from Aalborg University, Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, defended his doctoral thesis. He provided scientific evidence to support what we already suspected; that 9 out of
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Delhi, an emerging global city and capital of the largest democracy, is in processing of developing state of the art transport infrastructure. The development of new urban transport infrastructure and services to urban economy and mobility, are supported by planning process, governance and management. It needs coordinated and integrated approach amongst several agencies involved with
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
The use of robotics can be of great benefit for many industries, and for various reasons. For example, robotics can be used for tasks when there are concerns over human safety, or when the task is repetitive and can be done more productively by a robot working much longer hours than humans. And then there
Monday, May 4th, 2009
Determining where potentially contaminated land is can be tricky as the source of contamination may no longer exist. Devoid of the advent of time-travel, gaining insight into the past can only really be achieved through the analysis of historical data or, of course, personal knowledge. It is well accepted that most contamination arises from past
