Innovative methods in BIM implementation for construction: City Center Al Zahia Mall
In today’s post, Anastasia Tsagka, senior BIM Coordinator at CCC and lecturer in Zigurat’s Master’s in Global BIM Management for Infrastrucutre Projects, discus...
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BIM in Healthcare: Built Asset Management of Hospitals
With the efficiency of hospitals other healthcare centers in the spotlight, in this blog article, we ask how can the use of BIM methodology streamline the build...
COVID-19, the example that reflects the need to invest in Smart Cities
On a battlefield, it’s not always the one who strikes first, who wins. You can start with loose fists, maintain resistance, and finally counterattack. And at th...
Interview with a woman engineer: Dora Horvath
To celebrate the International Women’s Day this month we have published interviews with our professors, collaborators and students. In today’s article we interv...
Structural BIM: Concepts, Software & Standards
In today’s post, we go over a masterclass in which BIM engineer José Carlos Lino gave us the fundamentals of structural BIM, the software and some existing stan...
What Makes an Innovation District Flourish?
For today’s post we found inspiration in a TEDx Talk by Ramon Gras, a researcher at Harvard and an expert in urban innovation. In what follows, we take a look i...
Infraworks – When and Where to Use It?
Overview of the Program
Infraworks is one of the most used software in a BIM environment for the planning and design of infrastructure projects. This Autodesk ...
Internet of Things – One of the Building Blocks of a Smart City
Today we turn to the Internet of Things (IoT) and its thousand and one applications in the realm of smart cities. As it happens, smart cities hold some of the p...
Smart City Series: Tampere Aspires to Be the Smartest of Them All
In today’s post, on our world tour of smart cities we disembark in Tampere, a city of approximately 235 000 inhabitants in Southern Finland, that has set an obj...
Keys to Handling Infrastructure Projects using the BIM Methodology
More and more governments around the world have started to recognize the efficiencies that can be obtained with the implementation and use of BIM in Infrastruct...
10 Questions for a Maritime and Ports Engineer
Douwe Hoornstra is a Civil Engineer who specializes in marine works design and is a professor of our Global Master’s in Structural Projects. As a marine works d...
Shedding Some Light on the Importance of BIM in the Lighting Industry
José Manuel Ostos Espadero who perfectioned his BIM training with Zigurat and is currently working for Regent Beleuchtungskörper AG lets us peek into the work h...
