Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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Odoo ERP Adopted by Wates Group to Streamline Subcontractor Financial Management
Construction and property services firm Wates Group has selected Odoo, the open source ERP platform, to manage subcontractor…
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Lichfield District Council Deploys OpenProject for Capital Works Planning
Lichfield District Council has gone live with OpenProject, the open source project management platform, to coordinate its multi-year…
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QGIS 3.38 Released With Improved 3D Map View and Temporal Controls
The QGIS project has released version 3.38, introducing significant improvements to 3D map rendering and enhanced temporal animation…
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Southwark Council Trials Open Source Digital Planning Tool Built on DLUHC Stack
Southwark Council is piloting an open source planning application portal developed on the DLUHC-backed PlanX framework, aiming to…
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Autodesk Rival OpenBIM Platform BlenderBIM Gains Traction Among UK Contractors
BlenderBIM, the open source IFC-native BIM authoring tool built on Blender, is seeing growing adoption among small and…
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LibreOffice Deployment Saves Lancashire County Council £1.2 Million Over Three Years
Lancashire County Council has published a cost-benefit review confirming that its 2022 migration to LibreOffice across 6,500 desktop…
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PostgreSQL and PostGIS Power New National Underground Asset Register Platform
The joint venture delivering the UK’s National Underground Asset Register (NUAR) has confirmed that its core geospatial data…
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Homes England Adopts OpenProject for Infrastructure Programme Management
Homes England has confirmed a migration to OpenProject, the open source project management platform, to oversee its £4.5…
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West Midlands Combined Authority Pilots Overture Maps for Urban Analytics
West Midlands Combined Authority is piloting the Linux Foundation’s Overture Maps Foundation dataset as a base layer for…
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Arup Adopts Speckle Open Source BIM Platform for Cross-Discipline Data Exchange
Global engineering consultancy Arup has announced a strategic adoption of Speckle, the open source BIM data platform, across…