Tag: built environment
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OpenStreetMap Data Powers New National Highways Asset Inspection Tool
National Highways has launched a pilot inspection management tool built on OpenStreetMap and PostGIS, developed in collaboration with…
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Homes England Adopts OpenProject for Major Infrastructure Programme Management
Homes England has migrated its programme delivery teams to OpenProject, the open source project management platform, replacing a…
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OpenTopoMap Integration Lands in FreeCAD BIM Workbench for Site Modelling
The FreeCAD development community has merged a new plugin into the BIM Workbench that pulls topographic data directly…
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Homes England Pilots OpenBIM Workflows Using FreeCAD and IFC Standards
Homes England has announced a pilot programme exploring open-source BIM tooling, centred on FreeCAD and the open IFC…
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OpenProject Gains Traction Among UK Architecture Practices as Asana Alternative
A growing number of mid-sized UK architecture practices, including Perkins&Will’s London office and Bennetts Associates, are reported to…
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Autodesk Rival Opens Revit-Compatible BIM Format Under Apache 2.0 Licence
Berlin-based AEC software startup BuildOS has released its core BIM file format specification and reference parser under the…
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Open Source BIM Platform BlenderBIM Gains IFC4.3 Compliance Certification
The BlenderBIM Add-on, developed by the OSArch community, has achieved buildingSMART IFC4.3 compliance certification, making it one of…
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UK Government Mandates Open Standards for BIM Data on Public Projects
The Cabinet Office has issued updated procurement guidance requiring all centrally funded construction projects above £2 million to…
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Autodesk Rival OpeningDesign Gains Traction Among UK Architecture Practices
Cloud-based open source architectural platform OpeningDesign has reported a 40 percent increase in UK registered practices over the…
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IfcOpenShell 0.8 Release Boosts IFC Geometry Processing for BIM Workflows
The IfcOpenShell project has released version 0.8, introducing substantially improved support for IFC4 geometry processing and a new…