I am going to be attending the National Institute of Building Sciences 2009 Annual meeting beginning early tomorrow morning. One of the meetings that is co-located with this event is the buildingSMART alliance International Conference. I will be interviewing Deke Smith, the Executive Director of the US chapter on Wednesday. If you have any questions [...]

Unfortunately I don’t have any hands on experience with machine control and guidance. I have spent a lot of time on “dirt” projects, but I have been out of the field too long to have worked with this increasingly important 3D AEC technology.
That’s not the case for Randy Nolan, Editor of Machine Control Online. I [...]

The AEC (UK) Standards Committee appears to be a model organization doing some very important grassroots, standards development work. Being involved with the development of a LiDAR data interoperability standard I know how challenging a task that can be. As the Committee notes, with respect to their recently published Phase 1 BIM Standard, this isn’t [...]