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Monday, November 8th, 2010

Trimble Spearheads ‘BIM to Field’ Initiative

Trimble announced today it is spearheading a “BIM to Field” initiative that will focus on helping building owners, contractors, and engineers better understand the potential of solutions that allow the transfer of BIM data to field level systems for increased productivity and cost savings. The first step in the initiative is the launch of BIMtoField.com,

Monday, November 8th, 2010

European LiDAR Conference on Track for Sell Out

In just under three weeks the newly launched European LiDAR Mapping Forum opens its doors in The Hague, Netherlands to an expected 500+ delegates and over 50 exhibiting companies. The demand has been so great that the organizers have had to expand the exhibit area three times and it is now completely sold out.

Monday, November 8th, 2010

IBM Develops South Korea’s First Renewable Energy Management System

IBM announced its collaboration with POSCO ICT to develop South Korea’s first renewable energy management system for a smart grid. As part of South Korea’s national Smart Grid initiative to achieve the vision of “Low carbon, Green growth,” the intelligent renewable energy management system will be installed as a showcase at the Smart Grid Demonstration

Monday, November 8th, 2010

AECOM advances Building Information Modeling (BIM)

AECOM’s technical leadership has adopted the Building Information Modeling method as the global standard for technical delivery and is developing processes that will significantly increase its usage in delivering services to its clients. “BIM-based design and project implementation results in higher quality work, greater efficiency and lower costs to the client,” said Jim Walsh, AECOM chief

Monday, November 8th, 2010

Autodesk and Tekla Collaborate to Enable Better BIM Workflow

Tekla and Autodesk work together to enable better compatibility between Tekla and Autodesk’s respective building information modeling (BIM) software platforms. As a first step, the companies have collaborated to introduce new features that allow for the exchange of structural data between Revit and Tekla software. Read More

Monday, November 8th, 2010

Mapping Solutions Announces MapperD, the Next Generation of Demographic Reporting

Mapping Solutions, LLC is proud to announce its newest product, MapperD, a low cost demographic report generator for MapInfo Professional 9.5 or newer. Reports are sold on a per report basis.You only pay for reports you actually need and generate, and not for data you may never use. Read More

Monday, November 8th, 2010

New Technology Means Design Clients Have 3D

Technology is enabling architecture and interiors to be much better. Once you get into a space, it speaks to you in a different way than on drawings – even 3D drawings. So with computer-aided design you can invite your clients to look at images on a computer screen and create the feeling that they are actually walking

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

Global Fire Information Management System (GFIMS)

The Global Fire Information Management System (GFIMS) integrates remote sensing and GIS technologies to deliver MODIS hotspot/fire locations to natural resource managers and other stakeholders around the World. GFIMS is a monitoring system hosted at the Department of Natural Resources (NRD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This product derives from the

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

Fugro Starts Major Multi-client Survey in the Netherlands

Fugro Multi Client Services has started the NL-DEF-3d multi-client survey in the Netherlands. This major multi-client 3D survey, is designed to provide modern 3D long offset seismic data to boost exploration in the Dutch D, E and F blocks of the North Sea. The survey is covering over 6,000 sq.km extending from the UK until

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

Training course on Interferometric Point Target Analysis

GAMMA organizes a new course on theory and practice of Interferometric Point Target Analysis (IPTA). The training course will last 3 ½ days, between the 22nd and the 25th of November 2010. To download the announcement and the application form (pdf format) click link below. Read More