The Convergence of

GIS, CAD, BIM

Promises New Insight

Matt Ball, Vector1 Media @spatialsustain

mattball@vector1media.com

Overview • Model-based Design

• 3D Benefits

• Tool Maker Approaches

• Living Laboratory

• Urban Challenges

• Thinking Differently

• Thought Leaders

• Global Examples

Credit: MITHUN

Model-Based Design • Models not drawings

• More than points to

pin information on

• Coordination and

clash detection

• Understanding

interactions Credit: Buildipedia

The Bigger BIM

• Going beyond

prototypes

• Integrating

conceptual design

• Extending to the city

scale

• Navigating virtual

environments

Integrated Analysis

• Improving design

• Direct input on

impacts

• Parameters guiding

design and

interaction

• Simulation

Interior Insights

• Interior mapping as a

great frontier

• Navigation and

response

• Facility management

• GSA BIM for Buildings

3D Advantage

• Quick

communication

• Convey complex

inter-relationships

• Stimulates better

design

Rapid Data Collection

• More affordable

• Improved automatic

object extraction

• Ability to “rip” reality

New Analysis

• Shadow analysis

• Noise pollution

• Viewshed

• Wind modeling

• Disaster mitigation

Tool Maker

Approaches

• Efficiency

gains

• Large markets

at stake

• Inevitable

convergence

CommunityViz

• GIS-based

analysis

• Scenario-based

land-use planning

• Oriented toward

interaction Placeways

Esri GeoDesign

• Form-based

design

• Rapid city

modeling

• Tying to

database

• Full asset

information

CityEngine - Smart 3D Cities

Autodesk Digital Cities

• Ecotect Analysis -

online energy,

water, and

carbon-emission

analysis

• Infrastructure

Modeler

Infrastructure Modeler

Autodesk and Pitney

Bowes

• Quadstone

Paramics - traffic

simulation

• Confirm - asset

management

• Geosk - Cloud

Delivery

• Geospatial data

Bentley Systems 3D City Models

• Map, Geospatial

Server

• Pointools lidar

extraction

• Analytical pieces

Hexagon Companies Intergraph, ERDAS, Leica

Geosystems • Intergraph -

GeoMedia

• ERDAS - imagery

analysis and

distribution

• Leica Geosystems -

precision

measurement and

monitoring

Trimble

• Measurement

• Sensing

• Tekla -

construction-

oriented BIM

• Connected

worksite

Other Locals • Visual Nature Studio

• Google (SketchUp)

• Microsoft

(Geosynth)

• Critigen

• Parsons

Brinckerhoff

Living Laboratory

• Global Network

• Mobile Connectivity

• Data quantity and

access

Quantified Life • Sensing and

monitoring

• Programming our

lives

• Ingestible sensors

• Uncovering

anomalies

Internet of Things

• Net-connected

everything

• Ongoing monitoring

• Status alerts

• Automated actions

Crowdsourcing

• A new data source

• Proven accuracy

• More dynamic

landscapes

• Empowered

citizens

• Two-way

communication

Collective Intelligence

• Transdisciplinary

teams

• Open and transparent

• Group memory and

problem solving

• Predictive

Big Data

• Analytics - key to

future

• Job security

• Information into

insight McKinsey Global Institute

Big Data Report

Urban Challenges • Efficient form

• China to add

350M to cities by

2050

• New levels of

planning

• Inclusive,

Sustainable,

Competitive

Smart City / City 2.0

• Smarter Planet

• TED Prize Winner - City

2.0

• Cities as Systems of

Systems

• Instrumented Landscapes

IBM - Smarter Planet

Intelligent

Infrastructure

• Asset management

• Utilities - Smart Grid

• Water/wastewater

• Transportation

New Opportunities

• $35 trillion in global infrastructure

spending over the next two decades

• New possibilities for systems and design

• Holistic approach

• Next wave of computing demand

Quantifying ‘ability’

• Walkability

• Livability

• Sustainability

Planning for Health

• Poorly planned

built environments

have adverse

effects on air

quality, physical

activity, and public

safety

• PBS this week http://designinghealthycommunities.org

Demographic Shifts

• Aging population

• Stratification

• 3 billion more

middle class

consumers

Denver 2010 Population Growth and Transit

Aging Infrastructure

• Public / private

partnerships

• Maintenance in Mind

• Asset lifecycle

optimization (Remsoft)

Adaptation /

Resilience

• Capacity to meet

coming

challenges

• Adaptation

• Contingency

planning

Water / Food /

Energy • Policy and

regulation outside

single issues

• Supply chain

thinking

• Resource

efficiency gains Andy Wales, Head of Sustainable Dev., SAB

Miller

New Mobility • Intelligent

Transportation

• Autonomous

vehicles by

2020

• Copenhagen

saves $43M

yearly with

bicycles

Full Cost Accounting

• Ecosystem Services

• Natural Capital

• Prices that factor

resource scarcity

Green Economy

• People, Profit, Planet

• Benefits, advantages,

savings

• Technological and

economic

transformation

Thought Leaders

MIT Senseable City

Lab http://senseable.mit.edu/ • The Connected States

of America

• Open Source

Architecture

• Urban Anthologies -

communities

overcoming

challenges

European Environment

Agency Eye on Earth

• App-based approach

• Engaging citizen

science

• Sensor development

• Eye on Earth Network

Congress for the New

Urbanism http://www.cnu.org

• Sustainable Street

Network Principles

• LEED for

Neighborhood

Development

• Rainwater in Context

Eurocities http://www.eurocities.eu

• Priorities: climate,

economy, inclusion

• Sustainable energy

• Social Innovation

Global Examples

U-City Model

• U-Services

• U-Traffic

• U-Parking

• U-Crime

Prevention

• U-Health

• U-Environment

Live Singapore

• Real-time

data

• Interactions

• Events

• Mobility

Impacts

Freiburg Eco-District

• Military

redevelopment

• Sustainable energy

• Carbon reduction

• Like-minded

community

Cheng Du

• 100K people in 1 sq.

km.

• Agriculture and open

space

• Layout and design to

meet sustainability

goals.

Thank you!

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mattball@vector1media.com