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I recently conducted an interview with Paul McRoberts, vice president of the infrastructure product line group at Autodesk. The company has steered away from using the term geospatial in their approach, although they clearly have the design and management of broader geographies within their sites. In fact, they’re taking a multi-scale approach in how they [...]
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Pat McCrory, the former seven-term mayor of Charlotte, is now working with Bentley Systems as an ambassador for the benefits of intelligent infrastructure approaches. McCrory is known for large-scale infrastructure improvements in this city, including a $500M light rail line. Selling infrastructure in his city was a sales job that he called, creating the best [...]
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This morning Bentley held a press briefing regarding the release of Bentley Map V8i product lineup with Richard Zambuni, global marketing director, and Bob Mankowski, vice president, software development. The new three-tiered offering of Bentley Map products simplifies the product offering and adds a number of new features and improved workflows from desktop to enterprise [...]
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Emma Stewart, senior program lead for the Autodesk’s Sustainability Initiative, addressed the AEC Media Day on the workflow of sustainable design with a brief presentation that took a look at different workflows within the Autodesk product suite for an urban renewal project in the City of Chicago. She took us through the different phases of [...]
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Autodesk launched their 2012 product line, including a whole new packaging of suites that offer an integrated design approach with computational and collaborative tools that extend to the cloud. The suites come in three flavors: standard, premium and ultimate, and are tailored to entertainment creation, building, infrastructure and product design. Packaging size is also new, [...]
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The U.S. General Services Administration has just launched an online Sustainable Facilities Tool that presents ways in which you can “green” your facilities projects. Outlined in the application are means to prioritize cost-effective strategies for creating green buildings as well as remodeling efforts. The site includes details on selecting sustainable materials, daylighting strategies, and water [...]
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Richard Zambuni, global marketing director-geospatial at Bentley Systems gave an address this morning at the Geospatial World Forum about the creation of intelligent cities. Getting cities right means that we achieve the best possible environments for man, with improved social interaction, better business, better education, better health, and greater cultural interaction. We’ve been through positive [...]
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Stu Rich, CTO of PenBay Solutions addressed the area of facility management at the GeoDesign Summit, with the assertion that the greenest building is the one that is never built. With that framework in mind, the problem of optimally managing our built environment is seen as a more important objective than trying to design the [...]
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While there has been some criticism about the academic and conceptual nature of many of the presentations at the GeoDesign Summit, the break out idea lab on BIM and GIS integration drew a spillover crowd of project managers across infrastructure disciplines. The focus of these discussions was on project implementation and workflow rather than the [...]
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A good portion of the morning opening to the GeoDesign Summit was devoted to new functionality within the ArcGIS toolset, and Esri’s approach to GeoDesign. Multiple scenarios were presented, with a predominant focus on redevelopment for greater livability, with new density, walkability, public transit, and the economic impacts. Scenarios for both Redlands and Philadelphia were [...]
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