Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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MHCLG Funds Open Source Digital Planning Infrastructure in Levelling Up Areas
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has awarded £2.1 million to the Open Digital Planning project…
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Passivhaus Trust Backs Open Source Energy Modelling Tool EnergyPlus for UK Retrofit Projects
The Passivhaus Trust has published guidance endorsing EnergyPlus, the open source building energy simulation engine maintained by the…
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Bromley Council Deploys ERPNext to Replace Legacy Civica Finance System
London Borough of Bromley has completed the first phase of a migration from Civica Financials to ERPNext, an…
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Linux Foundation Launches Built Environment Working Group to Standardise BIM Data Exchange
The Linux Foundation has announced a new Built Environment Working Group tasked with developing open standards and reference…
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QGIS 3.38 Adoption Grows Among UK Planning Authorities Replacing Esri Licences
A growing number of English district councils, including South Oxfordshire and Mendip, are migrating spatial planning workflows from…
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OpenStreetMap Data Powers New Street Works Coordination Tool for Highways Teams
Commonplace and the charity Turing Institute have jointly released an open source street works coordination prototype built on…
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Bracknell Forest Council Deploys OpenProject for Cross-Departmental Capital Programme Delivery
Bracknell Forest Council has gone live with OpenProject, the open source project management platform, to coordinate its £42…
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Blender Gains Traction Among UK Architects as BIM Visualisation Complement
A growing number of UK architectural practices, including Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Haworth Tompkins, are integrating Blender…
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Planning Portal Considers OpenLayers Migration as Part of Digital Planning Overhaul
The Planning Portal, operated on behalf of the UK government, is evaluating a migration from proprietary mapping components…
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PostgreSQL 17 Benchmarked as Default Database for New UK Smart City Platform Deployments
Arup’s digital cities team has published internal benchmarking results showing PostgreSQL 17 with the PostGIS extension outperforming proprietary…