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...
Mirjam Johannes
Reading the Minds of the Citizens: Ferrovial’s Methodology to Map the Hidden Needs
Wouldn’t we all like that the environment we live in would magically evolve and change for the better according to our needs? That’s exactly what the concept of...
Keeping Track of Metro Tracks: European Transit Hubs at a Glance
In only one day, millions of people all over the world pass through a subway station to grab a train that carries them to their destination. Either it’s just fo...
Brisbane’s Urban Forest Tower Aspires to Set the Benchmark for Green Urban Centers
A new wave of transformation is reinventing the cityscape. In densely populated and continuously expanding cities, space is in short supply and making way to gr...
Lund Smart Road – The Next-Generation Solution for the Electrification of Transport
Today, we explore an interesting project from the South of Sweden, from the city of Lund, that is looking into building a visionary electric road to move past t...
Smart City and Urbanization Challenges
As we are standing before the phenomenon of worldwide urbanization, we might ask ourselves if the urban areas really have space for an additional 2.5 billion ...
10 Questions to a Civil Engineer
Issam El-Absi is a Civil Engineer with a vision, a BIM expert and the director of Zigurat’s Master’s in Global BIM Management for Infrastructure Projects. He wa...
Smart City Series: Smart City Hamburg — A Look Inside the Visionary Bottom-up Initiative
Nowadays, cities don’t develop at the same pace as the challenges of urban life do. According to many experts, smart cities are the best strategy we have to com...
BIM and CDE in the Design and Construction of London Crossrail
London Crossrail will go down in history as Europe’s biggest infrastructure project of the hour. In February we introduced London Crossrail in our blog and resu...
BIM Software Tools for all Occasions
When speaking about BIM software, it is important to keep in mind that we are not discussing any particular computer program. BIM - Building Information Modelli...
Architectural Professionals in the UK: Job Roles Explained
Architect, architectural technologist, architectural technician - when browsing the job offers in the UK we often come along those titles. For foreigners, it mi...
Smart City Series: Mexican Smart Cities
The concept of smart city has ceased to be a technological fantasy and has evolved from fancy buzzword to our hope for a better future as the implementation of ...
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