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Benefits of Smart Street Lighting
There are over 300 million street lights globally. Obsolete street lighting can account for more than 40% of the total energy consumed by a ...
BIM CREA 2021 Review
The AEC professionals who participated in the BIM CREA 2021 event, held in Florianópolis - the Brazilian Magic Island - were finally able to...
ConceptStation in the Airport Infrastructure Projects
OpenRoads ConceptStation software has a lot of tools to facilitate the development of a concept design for roads and bridges. However, as Fe...
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BrIM (Bridge Information Modeling): Six uses and practical applications
Although the application of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the construction sector is expanding every day, its use in transport infrastructure has still...
To what extent is your city smart? – Smart Cities Maturity Models
One of the first steps in formulating a Smart City strategy is to know the city's level of maturity in order to determine the next steps to be taken. In this co...
How smart interventions can address multiple urban challenges at once
This is a long form version of the introductory talk I gave for our panel discussion during the Zigurat Innovation Week at the end of June. The session focused ...
What is Unreal Engine and why it is revolutionizing ArchVIZ (Architectural Visualization)
What is Unreal Engine? If you work in the Engineering & Construction (E&C) sector, you are probably starting to hear more and more about this video game...
Seminole Hard Rock Guitar Hotel: a construction superstar
This article showcases one of those buildings that leaves no one indifferent: the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel is a guitar-shaped hotel inaugurated in October 2019 ...
Exploring form through computational architecture
In the following article, Andreas Kopřiva Lernis, Architect Engineer and Alumni of the Postgraduate Program in Parametric Design with Visual Programming in BIM,...
Women in Construction: Interview to Claire Rutkowski, CIO of Bentley Systems
The number of women in positions of responsibility in the construction industry remains low today. However, although there is still work to be done, it is not a...
National Infrastructure Assessment paves the way for the Canada of future
It was in March 2021 that the Government of Canada launched its Engagement Paper on Canada’s first National Infrastructure Assessment: “Building the Canada We W...
Smart Logistics in Saudi Arabia
The launch of the "National Transport and Logistics Strategy" by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the 29th of July 2021 as a comprehensive program backed up ...
Why we are failing in BIM and Lean deployments
Studies highlighting how lean and BIM techniques could be applied to architectural and engineering design offices, and how it could generate quality improvement...
Predicting the future path of construction and project management technologies
Predicting the future is difficult. Many have tried. Many have failed. Yet if you look in the right places, we can get an idea of what our digital enabled world...
Public procurement: boosting innovation and introducing new ideas
A huge flow of public funds is channelled through public procurement: a splendid opportunity to shape the market and offer the private sector a positive role in...