Bentley Systems acquired on Sept. 6 geographic information and 3D Tiles provider Cesium, with terms not disclosed for the deal set to close by the end of 2024. 

Esri President Jack Dangermond and Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost promise new GIS-to-BIM workflows as Esri and Autodesk's partnership works to bring planners and designers closer together. 

Ground Penetrating Radar Systems recently released a mobile app for SiteMap, its cloud platform that can bring GIS and BIM project data together in one workflow.

We recently spoke with construction and utility leaders who are uniting digital inspection technology with GIS data to create more informed, accurate, and collaborative digital inspection workflows.

GIS data capture needs to start during the construction and inspection phases to be truly effective during the infrastructure asset maintenance stage of a project.

Integrating spatial data into asset management systems helps organizations to gain better insights into the geographic context of their assets.

Today’s construction industry is in an interesting time with a landscape that seems hardly untouched by tech in any area, unlike never before.

Since the 2021 passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, states have been prepping middle-mile broadband construction projects to help numerous communities with poor or little internet access get connected into expanding national and regional broadband networks.

Using geographic information systems to add quantities of materials and placement of coordinates can help contractors achieve they and their clients' sustainability goals.

It’s now on owners to raise the bar and change their specifications to require better data and reporting on their projects.