DRCOG Keynote on GIS, BIM, CAD Convergence and 3D Cities

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

EsriGeoDesign

•Form-based design

•Rapid city modeling

•Tying to database

•Full asset information

CityEngine - Smart 3D Cities

AutodeskDigital 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 Systems3D 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 weekhttp://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

Eurocitieshttp://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!

V1 Magazine - www.v1magazine.com

mattball@vector1media.com