OS Model Builder is a recently launched visualisation tool that can support projects, including Level 2 BIM activities, and was developed to save the construction industry and its clients’ time and money when...

Giving the annual UKGEOforum Lecture at the RICS last month, Ordnance Survey’s new director general and CEO Nigel Clifford said that rather like the late David Bowie, Ordnance Survey has...

Trimble has acquired Vianova Systems, a Norwegian company specialising in Building Information Modelling (BIM) software for infrastructure design software solutions across the European region. Vianova Systems is regarded as a...

It seems that our QS colleagues are waking up to the potential that BIM has to offer, as Professor Ian Dowman discovered at the RICS’s 2015 BIM Conference. But data...

One of the UK’s leading survey firms has produced a client ready specification for BIM surveys and deliverables. Richard Groom runs his eye over the content. Who better to write...

IBKS is a digital solutions and management consulting firm offering built-environment services in the healthcare space. The firm recently tested its innovative NavVis and PointFuse workflow in a huge, complex...

In November, Mark Coombes and Mark King gave the first in the winter series of RICS evening lectures to a packed lecture hall at Great George Street. This fascinating talk...

Autodesk has unveiled several highly interesting new technologies for Building Information Modelling (BIM) at its annual user conference, Autodesk University. With these announcements and numerous other recent innovations, Autodesk continues...

ClearEdge3D has announced the release of its newest software platform, EdgeWise BIM Suite, which can make the process of creating Revit building models considerably faster than traditional workflows. The platform,...

Why base the terrain model in infrastructure projects on 'old' contour maps when you can get a fresh and more accurate representation of the terrain based on laser scanning? That's...