Infrastructure Planning Articles and Insights

Rehearsing work digitally spends carbon on servers instead of on trucks, plant and travel. Five examples where interactive systems cut cost, risk and emissions together.

Real-time 3D looks straightforward from the outside, so clients often ask whether they should build the scenes themselves. What that decision actually involves, and where a collaborative model works better.

Optioneering, approvals and engagement absorb most of the cost of carrying an infrastructure project to a decision. Twenty places where simulation in an urban BIM context takes time and rework out of that process.

Gordon Cullen described the city as a sequence of revealed views rather than a plan seen from above. His concept of serial vision, with historic and contemporary examples.