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I’ve been inspired by Storm Cunningham and his message that restoration and reclamation is a viable means to make a living. His books, The Restoration Economy and ReWealth outline the opportunities that are out there. According to Cunningham, there are $2Trillion dollars worth of projects ongoing right now in the fields of restoration and renovation [...]
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The infrastructure keynote at Autodesk University tackled issues of productivity with demonstrations of the different Autodesk tools that can tackle common infrastructure issues. The discussion centered on aging infrastructure and revitalization projects, because most of the developed world has problematic infrastructure. Water infrastructure is particularly vulnerable as water leaks impact multiple areas such as transportation [...]
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The game-changing impact of model-based designed for large engineering projects took the stage at Autodesk University. Seattle’s Alaska Way Viaduct replacement project took a model-based design with a focus on safety, mobility and sustainability. Creating models allowed the team to see into the future, making more informed decisions with multiple stakeholders, visualizing all alternatives while [...]
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The New Brunswick Dept. of Transportation (NBDoT) is faced yearly with a monumental infrastructure maintenance task as it works to repair the largest infrastructure inventory per-capita in Canada. There are 18,000 kilometers of roads with 2,900 bridges that need to be maintained, despite a very limited budget. In order to address this maintenance problem fairly [...]
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The second-day keynote at the BeTogether event in Philadelphia this week addressed the topic of sustaining infrastructure, with a panel of three speakers and interactive discussion. Norbert Young, the chair of Bentley’s Infrastructure Ambassador Council and director of Duck Cove Associates, put the issue of sustaining infrastructure in context of global shifts and challenges with [...]
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Update: Videos of these presentations are now available online here. The Bentley Be Together event kicked off today in Philadelphia. Greg Bentley, CEO of Bentley Systems, provided a keynote address that highlighted the company’s 2010 Annual Report. The company saw a bit of a decline last year, mirroring the 12% decline that occurred in the [...]
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With restructuring at Autodesk due to the downturn largely behind them, yesterday’s AEC Technology Day provided some insight into the morphing of geospatial under the infrastructure label, and a clearer picture of the company’s overall strategy. While the messaging from the company has dropped the term geospatial, there is still a rich toolset and a [...]
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Louisiana Senator David Vitter wants to stop the Federal Emergency Management Agency from updating flood maps in areas where levees have been found deficient. The senator would like to see a phased levee certification fix that would allow repairs prior to mapping in order to avoid steep insurance hikes that would hamper redevelopment. The sticking [...]
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I recently spoke with an engineering firm that has contracts with a number of small municipalities to manage their civil and sanitary engineering projects. They manage the mapping, planning, design and analysis for smaller cities that can’t afford their own in-house expertise. The manager that I spoke with indicated that the current focus on infrastructure [...]
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There’s a growing interest on behalf of the newspaper community to make more direct connections with their readers in order to emphasize the power of their local connections. The company SeeClickFix is helping to enable this outreach with an application that mashes up Google Maps with an interface that lets citizens comment on things that [...]
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