On the first day of the Geospatial World Forum 2021, special focus was laid on building digital cities through digital construction. Simply put, digital construction implies the use and application of digital tools to improve the delivery and operation of the built environment. These tools include geospatial technologies, Building Information Modeling, and a connected data environment that employs cloud computing, reality modeling, Artificial Intelligence, among others.
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“It is crucial to device an effective asset management plan for public utilities and infrastructure like water supply, transportation, etc. This can help us assess the performance of the infrastructure and streamline the broad stimulus spending through efficient governance,” said Kasirajan Mahalingam, Industry Manager, AEC at Geospatial World. He was moderating the session on “Digital Construction & Digital Cities: Advancing the Next-Gen Geospatial Content Platform”. The session had Chris Tucker, Cesium Board of Advisers, Chairman, American Geographical Society, and Jochen Eid, Head of Planning and Construction, Autobahn, Germany as the key speakers.
Integrated visualization solutions
According to recent studies, integrated visualization solutions enable solid project delivery. They also help in reducing project cost and duration by around 30-50%, which basically doubles project returns, and cuts energy consumption. “A real evolution in our industry with 3D tiles is the ability to not only track site changes which you can do in many pieces of software, but also live stream out all of those changes all the way to the mobile devices that the engineers and architects have in the headquarter,” said. Tucker. He added that we require the next-gen geospatial platforms for managing the full lifecycle of city development.
Geospatial data underpins almost every aspect of digital city development and aids in the planning and decision-making process for delivering services in a dynamic environment. Since running a smart city requires turning the “silo-based” management models into a “shared system” involving all stakeholders, the use of geospatial technology helps in integrating those models into a comprehensive system. “Today, data from kinematic laser scans are manually processed to generate CAD files. The question is: can the existing point clouds and CAD files be used to develop and train as algorithm for pattern recognition and automatically extract the CAD features,” said Eid.
The adoption of geospatial technology also helps in increasing speed, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness related to a wide range of administrative priorities, such as crime prevention, emergency management, disaster recovery, social services, among many others. Perhaps that is why, cities around the world have been relying on geospatial data and technology to make better decisions.
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