Category: Urban Development
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Australia’s way to better plan, design and manage its cities
The last couple of weeks have been very significant for Digital Built Australia. On the 24th of February, Minister for Customer Service Victor Dominello launched the New South Wales Spatial Digital Twin (NSW SDT). It’s a virtual 4D (3D + time) model of the Western Sydney area’s built and natural environment. The government has worked…
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Australia’s way to better plan, design and manage its cities
The last couple of weeks have been very significant for Digital Built Australia. On the 24th of February, Minister for Customer Service Victor Dominello launched the New South Wales Spatial Digital Twin (NSW SDT). It’s a virtual 4D (3D + time) model of the Western Sydney area’s built and natural environment. The government has worked…
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The Road to a 3D Digital World in Australia
In the last six months have been spending a lot of my time down-under, thanks to my lovely partner who decided to improve my air mile elite status by accepting a job in Melbourne. Even though I have been visiting Australia for almost ten years, I must admit I have never been involved much with…
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Classification is the Bedrock to a Digital Built Environment
It seems we all agree the digitisation of construction and real estate is an imperative for buildings to be designed, constructed and operated more cost-effectively and deliver the changing needs of the building’s occupants. There is much discussion about the benefits of AI, MI, Digital Twins and not forgetting BIM to support the digital transformation…
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7 Days of News – Week 43
Cooper Carry recently secured a Radical innovation Award (2019) for their modular hotel design. This deploys modular construction techniques to build ‘pop up’ hotels in interstitial spaces between buildings and allow them to ‘collapse’ once completed – unlocking new opportunities in crowded urban areas. The UK-based Additive Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) have raised $5.2m to commercialize…
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From Linear to Circular in Construction: An Interview with Lu Ying
Lu Ying recently co-founded Future Urban Living to explore sustainable solutions for businesses and cities in the Circular Economy through design thinking. Lu gave a great keynote speech at WDBE 2019 in Helsinki. We continue the discussion in this interview. AH: Can you say a few words about your background, what you do, and what…
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InfraBIM Open Speaker: The Submission Deadline is on October 1
The first InfraBIM Open in 2018 brought together 400 participants, followed by 530 participants in 2019 from over 25 different countries. In February 2020, the organizers promise to deliver an even bigger and higher quality event. They just announced an extension to the presentation submission time. The final deadline for submissions is October 1, 2019. Join…
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Five Reasons Why You Should Attend WDBE 2019
The World Summit on Digital Built Environment WDBE 2019 takes place on September 24-25, 2019, in Helsinki, Finland. Here are five reasons why you should attend: Meet top talent from the public and private sector: decision-makers, researchers, influencers, legislators, etc. WDBE is a place of discussion and a place of action! The keynotes: speakers coming…
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Simulation on the Web with SimScale – an Interview with David Heiny
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation requires extensive computational power. Cloud-based services allow architects and engineers to do simulations without investing in high-end hardware. In this podcast interview, David Heiny, the CEO and Co-Founder of SimScale, explains how AEC firms can run simulations in a web browser. David Heiny David is Co-Founder and CEO of SimScale.…
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The Future of High-Rise is Localized and Responsive
By 2050, 70 percent of world’s population of almost 10 billion people will live in urban areas. The presenters at the High Rise – Northern Exposure seminar envisioned how high-rise construction will meet the requirements of urbanization, and what technologies have to offer to builders and users today. Lintula and Smithson A line-up of high-rise…