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Monday, June 14th, 2010

New Wildlife and Natural Environment Bill for Scotland

A Bill to make provision in connection with wildlife and the natural environment; and for connected purposes. Read More

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Federal Agencies Introduce Online Mapping Tool to Track Gulf Response

The dynamic nature of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill has been a challenge for a range of communities — from hotel operators to fishermen to local community leaders. And the American people have questions about the response to this crisis. Today, NOAA launches a new federal Web site meant to answer those questions with

Monday, June 14th, 2010

ArchiCAD 14 Has Started Shipping

The International and German versions are the first two of 26 local versions in ArchiCAD 14’s global release schedule. Next up in the release queue are the Australian, US, and New Zealand versions.  All local versions are planned to reach the market by the end of Q3 2010. Read More

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Autodesk Seek Gains Ground with Building Product Manufacturers, Design Professionals

Autodesk, Inc. announced that the company’s Autodesk Seek web service is averaging more than 900,000 searches per month, while providing nearly 300,000 downloads of building product information and models to architects, engineers and other design professionals per month. This represents a year-over-year increase of over 165 percent. Read More

Monday, June 14th, 2010

DesignGroup Earns Autodesk BIM Experience Award for Extending Use of Building Information Modeling to Sustainable Design

Autodesk, Inc. announced that DesignGroup has received an Autodesk BIM Experience Award for extending the use of building information modeling (BIM) to sustainable design, and for the application of a BIM process on more than 40 building projects to date, representing over 4.2-million square feet. The award further recognizes the firm’s efforts to promote BIM through presentations,

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Bureau of Reclamation Takes a Laser Look at Hoover Dam’s Monument Plaza

In a first of its kind effort, the Bureau of Reclamation’s Engineering Services Office in Boulder City, NV, built a detailed, highly accurate, as-built model of Hoover Dam’s 75-year-old Monument Plaza using high-definition surveying technology from Leica Geosystems. The  terrazzo floor is cracking and showing weather damage as are some of the bronze features on

Monday, June 14th, 2010

PCI Geomatics Advances Efforts in Brazil Market

PCI Geomatics has returned from a business development mission to Brazil, expanding and promoting its geo-imaging software and solutions offerings to this marketplace. In addition to key meetings with stakeholders and customers, PCI Geomatics co-hosted two seminars with its reseller partner Threetek, one in Rio de Janeiro and a second with the Consulate General of

Monday, June 14th, 2010

NOAA Announces Funding to Support Ocean and Coastal Observation Technologies

A $4 million NOAA grant will help a university consortium evaluate the readiness of marine forecasts, such as flooding from storm surge or seasonal dead zones, along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts and improve those forecasts for use by emergency managers, scientific researchers and the general public. The competitive grant, from NOAA’s Integrated

Monday, June 14th, 2010

South Korea, Russia Start Joint Investigation of KSLV-1 Abortive Launch

South Korean and Russian experts will start investigating the abortive launch of the KSLV-1 (Naro) delivery vehicle of June 10 in the beginning of next week. The rocket was due to position a research satellite, a representative of the South Korean Education, Science and Technology Ministry said on Sunday. According to South Korea, the two-stage

Monday, June 14th, 2010

New GLONASS’ed Buses are Delivered to Vladikavkaz

19 new buses delivered to the capital of South Ossetia are equipped with GLONASS. The vehicles are purchased under the city’s budget. According to Vladikavkaz mayor Sergey Dzantiev, 30 more buses are to arrive at the city soon, GPSearch.Org informs. Read More