Tag: news
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Suffolk County Council Deploys LibreOffice Enterprise Across 6,000 Staff Desktops
Suffolk County Council has completed a full rollout of LibreOffice 24.8, supported by Collabora Productivity, replacing Microsoft Office…
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OSArch Community Launches Open Source Toolkit for UK Planning Application Drawings
The OSArch open source architecture community has published a new toolkit built on top of FreeCAD and BlenderBIM…
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Buckinghamshire Council Launches Open Source Digital Planning Portal Built on DLUHC Framework
Buckinghamshire Council has gone live with a new digital planning portal built on the open source PlanX platform,…
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OpenStreetMap Data Powers New Flood Risk Tool for Scottish Local Authorities
SEPA and Improvement Service Scotland have jointly released an open source flood risk visualisation tool built on OpenStreetMap…
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Homes England Pilots OpenBIM Workflows Using IFC and Blender for Housing Delivery
Homes England has announced a pilot programme exploring open BIM workflows using IFC-compliant file formats and Blender with…
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ERPNext Deployment Cuts Costs at Mid-Sized UK Construction Firm Bowman & Pryce
Bristol-based contractor Bowman & Pryce has completed an eighteen-month migration to ERPNext, replacing a customised SAP Business One…
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Leeds City Council Adopts Nextcloud to Replace Microsoft 365 for Planning Teams
Leeds City Council has deployed a self-hosted Nextcloud instance for its development management and planning policy teams as…
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QGIS 3.36 Adopted by Highways England for National Road Network Mapping
National Highways has completed a phased rollout of QGIS 3.36 across its asset management teams, replacing a legacy…
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PostgreSQL Chosen as Core Database for DLUHC’s New Digital Planning Infrastructure
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has confirmed that PostgreSQL will underpin the database infrastructure of…
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Arup Adopts Open Source IfcOpenShell for Automated Building Regulation Compliance Checks
Engineering consultancy Arup has integrated IfcOpenShell into its internal compliance checking pipeline, enabling automated validation of IFC building…