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At Esri’s Infrastructure Management and GIS conference, held in Palm Springs, Calif., Oct. 28-30, large utilities such as PG&E showed off how they were using geographic information systems when working with contractors and design firms as consultants to help them manage maintenance and asset needs.

During the American Institute of Architects’ 2025 Conference held in Boston June 3, Autodesk released ArcGIS for Forma, a public beta for a cloud-based connection that links up Esri’s ArcGIS and Autodesk’s Forma design environment.

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. 

A "smart infrastructure" approach demands that utility and IoT data inform major infrastructure programs from a database such as that in a geographical information system.

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.

Chris Andrews has been working with computer-aided drafting and geographic information systems data nearly as long as they’ve been used in construction, “including mapping indoor facilities on the web, starting from work in startups in the late 90’s,” he says. 

Bringing everything from utilities information to site conditions out of a GIS map into a BIM usually requires cumbersome rework. That's now changing.

Mapping and geomapping giant Esri acquired nFrames, a photogrammetry software company based in Stuttgart, Germany, that automates the process of creating 3D maps from photos and LiDAR data.

Getting a bird’s eye view of the jobsite is often delegated to drone flights and satellites.