Vendor says new SaaS platform will allow better decision-making early on

If contractors knew the best way to capture site data for each kind of job, whether it was using laser scans, drones or their own smartphones, it would certainly solve some problems up front.

Lori Hufford, Bentley Systems vice president of engineering collaboration, recently spoke about the metaverse and its potential uses for infrastructure design at NVIDIA’s GTC developer conference March 23, offering some insights on where its potential lies.

Ground Penetrating Radar Systems, based in Toledo, Ohio, provides services that include utility locating, 3D laser scanning, acoustic leak detection, video pipe inspection, underground storage tank locating, concrete scanning and drone imaging.

Esri has expanded its reality capture data management platform to a suite of services that promise to move drone, satellite, site, mesh and point-cloud data into its ArcGIS platform.

With its facility monitoring beta program, Autodesk says it's unlocked the power of BIM to facilities management without contractors having to perform labor-intensive recreation of BIM data.

Getting the digital twin workflow into the typical design, construction, operations cycle has been a thorny problem for digital twin advocates.

Project documentation app has launched Impulse, a tool that gives managers insights about projects based on 360° scan information combined with schedule and documents or 3D models.