Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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Lichfield District Council Migrates Planning Portal to Open Source Stack
Lichfield District Council has completed a migration of its development management system to an open source stack built…
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Blender Gains Ground in UK Architectural Visualisation Studios
A growing number of UK architectural practices, including Allies and Morrison and Hawkins Brown, are reporting a shift…
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NHS Property Services Deploys OpenNMS for Estates Infrastructure Monitoring Across 2,400 Sites
NHS Property Services has completed deployment of OpenNMS Horizon across its managed estates portfolio, covering network and building…
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OpenProject Gains Traction Among UK Construction Firms Seeking Collaboration Tools
OpenProject, the open source project management platform, has seen a 40% increase in UK construction sector uptake over…
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Homes England Trials OpenStreetMap Data Pipeline for Land Availability Assessment
Homes England has begun a structured trial using OpenStreetMap data feeds integrated with a custom Python-based pipeline to…
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LibreOffice Migration Saves London Borough of Lewisham £280,000 Over Three Years
London Borough of Lewisham has completed a full migration of 1,800 staff to LibreOffice 24.x, concluding a phased…
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Blender Foundation Releases Architecture-Focused BIM Addon Targeting IFC Workflows
The Blender Foundation has released a significant update to the BlenderBIM addon, now supporting full IFC 4.3 schema…
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QGIS 3.38 Adopted by Bristol City Council for Strategic Planning Work
Bristol City Council has migrated its spatial planning team to QGIS 3.38, replacing an aging Esri ArcGIS Desktop…
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FreeCAD Foundation Launches Built Environment Working Group With Arup Involvement
The FreeCAD project has established a new Built Environment Working Group, with engineering consultancy Arup confirmed as a…
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Nextcloud Deployment Saves Leeds City Council £400k in Microsoft Licensing Fees
Leeds City Council has reported savings of over £400,000 in its first full financial year following the deployment…