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...
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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...
State of BIM adoption across Europe (Maps)
Here is shot at illustrating the degree of state of BIM maturity across European countries.A simple question. A tough answer.Answering the question “What does t...
Smart City Series: the Smart City initiatives transforming the cityscape of South America
When speaking about smart cities, we often focus on examples from Europe or North America. As they often offer more complete vision and better execution of smar...
CIVIL 3D TUTORIAL: MEASUREMENT OF EARTHWORK FROM THE CORRIDOR AS 3D OBJECTS
1. Introduction
In Autodesk Civil 3D, sometimes, the designer sends us a corridor as a 3D Object. Extracting certain information on the corridor might prove t...
Successful Project Management – the Starting Point of the Journey to Effective Design
"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." The saying of Arthur Robert Ashe Jr., a well-known American ten...
Multidisciplinary, International and Linked to the Industry – Presenting the Teaching Team of Zigurat
When we talk about BIM, we also talk about collaboration. When we think about BIM, we always think globally. When we work in a BIM environment, we are prone to ...
