Category Archives: Construction/BIM
Mars Colonization: Mars Need Surveyors, Part Two
This is Part 2 of our Mars Needs Surveyors series from the Pangaea newsletter. Part 1 is here. As the dream of Mars colonization comes to fruition, what would surveyors be tasked with? Habitat construction SpaceX’s Elon Musk’s vision is to build a city on Mars (appropriately named SpaceX City) that would eventually be inhabited...
A New High-rise Squeezes in, Thanks to a Total Station
A Hilton complex requires survey technology to ensure its place among historic buildings in Norfolk, Virginia. Norfolk, Virginia, has a history of adapting to change. (Above: Norfolk’s newest high-rise was engineered to fit into its urban footprint.) With beginnings in 1636, the city has undergone war, epidemics, fires, and economic depression to grow into the...
HxGN LIVE 2016 Unscripted
We’re shaking things up By trying a different way to convey the latest news and views from Hexagon Geosystems (aka Leica Geosystems–we’ll get used to the new name); we put some of the experts at HxGN LIVE 2016 in front of a camera for unscripted Q&A. Follow the embedded links to open the videos in...
UAS: It’s Unstoppable and Headed Your Way
From time to time I like to stop and think about the mission of Pangaea and explain that mission to you. My task is exposing you to new, emerging geospatial technologies. But why bother? Here’s a little analogy I thought of to help explain why keeping abreast of new geospatial tech is critical. Imagine emerging...
Autodesk Launches AEC Excellence Awards
AEC Excellence Awards Expands Competition from Infrastructure to Embrace All of AEC Since 2012 Autodesk has sponsored the “Excellence in Infrastructure” competition, recognizing the world’s best examples of the application of BIM for infrastructure projects large and small. Based on the success of that effort, they’re pleased to announce the new AEC Excellence Awards, an expanded...
3D Cadastre
How to promote 3D land administration for a 3D world. We live in a 3D world, so shouldn’t we be basing decisions on 3D data? When people think about the word “cadastre,” they might envision a two-dimensional map of boundaries, but there is more to the concept of a cadastre than who owns what. There...