Category Archives: Construction/BIM
Field Report From Concordia: Inside Topcon’s PNT Field of Dreams
A first-person visit to Topcon’s Concordia Training Center near Modena, Italy, reveals a purpose-built center of excellence where place, precision and trust come together. Near Modena, in northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, it is impossible to separate technology from place. This is Italy’s high-performance automotive heartland, home to Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Bugatti and Pagani — some...
The Unity Thesis: Trimble’s Case for One Connected Asset Lifecycle
From GIS context and survey-grade positioning to asset management and field capture, Trimble is making the case for one connected asset lifecycle — a system in which precise location, operational software and shared data reinforce one another, and where the AI layered on top is valued less for novelty than for producing consistent, trustworthy results....
Esri User Conference 2026: What the Sessions Add Up To
More than fifteen thousand people filled the San Diego Convention Center for Esri’s 46th annual User Conference this year, with roughly that many more watching by livestream from 117 countries. Taken session by session, the program is a wide survey of a mapping platform still expanding in every direction. Taken together, it resolves into a...
The Image as Evidence
Time-stamped, location-aware imagery has quietly crossed a threshold from documentation to trusted record. The geospatial profession is now in the business of producing evidence — and the standards have not caught up to the stakes. A surveyor flying a bridge deck, a GIS technician cataloging post-storm damage, a mapping firm delivering obliques to an insurer:...
Leave No Fingerprints: Survey-Grade Accuracy in an Era of Zero Disruption
There is a version of a great survey that nobody even notices happened. No lane closures. No overnight crews in reflective vests. No targets bolted to deck surfaces. No personnel standing on live structures. No disruption to the vessels passing underneath or the aircraft taxiing overhead. The infrastructure keeps operating exactly as it did before...
Since Precision Exists: How Topcon Is Reframing Construction Through Geospatial Intelligence
At ConExpo, some booths display products. Others project momentum. Topcon did both. From the aisle, the scene was hard to miss. The booth was busy almost constantly, each kiosk crowded with a rotating mix of current customers, future customers, partners, dealers, and industry observers and media. Demonstrations ran continuously. Conversations layered over one another. Specialists...