Life on the Open Road

Posted by - July 22, 2013
Bentley Systems recently released OpenRoads, an umbrella technology that forms the backbone to its civil design tools. Greg Corke caught…

Bentley Be Inspired

Posted by - February 15, 2013
In November 2012 Bentley Systems held its annual meeting for press and customers in Amsterdam to celebrate its Be Inspired…

Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler 2012

Posted by - January 30, 2012
Autodesk’s new conceptual design tool enables planners and engineers to consider geospatial, civil and architectural data together in an interactive…

The road ahead

Posted by - July 24, 2011
With three powerful road design tools in its software portfolio, Bentley Systems has a strong foothold in highway engineering. AEC…

GEO-10 event preview

Posted by - March 19, 2010
GEO-10, the dedicated event for geospatial technology, is set to take place on the 24th and 25th March 2010 at…

Grand designs: digital cities

Posted by - September 14, 2009
There is a widespread industry move to adopt Building Information Modelling and intelligent 3D design. But, if the advantages are…

The lie of the land

Posted by - September 14, 2009
Greg Corke reports on a new 3D dataset from the creators of NextMap Britain that has the potential to bring…

Bringing design to life

Posted by - January 30, 2007
The ability to visualise 3D data is becoming increasingly important for not only architects, but engineers and planners as well.…

Adding topography to topology

Posted by - October 18, 2005
Terrain data is playing an increasingly important role in the AEC sector. James Cutler, Managing Director of eMapSite, looks at…