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As per a very recent report released by Navigant Research, the cumulative investment in smart city technology in the Asia Pacific region will total 63.4 Billion USD during the period of 2014 to 2023. With rapid economic growth and ever increasing levels of urbanization, this region is definitely leading the overall global urban development trends. It is also the home of some of the most ambitious attempts to direct and channel those trends to national development goals, such as India’s immense Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, China’s 104 nationally selected smart city demonstration projects, and South Korea’s pioneering Songdo smart city development. Unfortunately, as we are all aware of a very fundamental principle of life that there are follow-up implications for every action, this rapid urbanization and developmental drive has brought with it a number of serious challenges that the concerned national governments are facing and having to deal with while sustaining this development push. Inadequate infrastructure, competition to attract global investments, sustaining upcoming pool of skilled professionals, traffic congestion, utilities management (such as water and electricity), etc. are all contributing towards this chaos contributing to this list of impending challenges that national governments across this region are facing today. However, on a positive note, the region has wholeheartedly opened its arms towards adopting emerging technological solutions that promises to provide effective solutions towards curbing these aforementioned challenges in the march towards a smart and sustainable infrastructure development. Talking about technology adoption in the Asia pacific region, Singapore leads the race by a long margin largely, because its architectural BIM e-submissions programme is one of the strongest BIM mandates in the world with well defined objectives and planning. Australia is taking a giant leap towards that direction by planning to setup a 15 million USD (per year) Global Infrastructure Hub based out of Sydney. Hong Kong is now trying to move beyond the traditional tools and processes as its national government is incentivise owner-driven BIM adoption. Even India is gearing up to walk the road of a ‘Smart City’ driven nation backed by whole-hearted adoption of cutting-edge ICT solutions complementing the modern business processes for infrastructure development. Pressure on existing infrastructure, push for productivity in construction sector and environmental concerns, all are driving the convergence of technologies like Geospatial and BIM. Because the construction industry is traditionally organised in a segregated way, information is lost at the handover from one phase to the next. This is where this proposed integration of Geospatial and BIM will ensure a fluent flow of information throughout the entire project life cycle of an infrastructure. Complementing ICT solutions (tools and techniques) such as mobile, wireless devices, cloud computing will further empower the stakeholders to have better control at various levels of a project. |
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GeoBuild Smart Infrastructure 2015 Platform |
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Geospatial Media and Communications brings to you a high level discussion forum, GeoBuild Smart Infrastructure during the GeoSMART Asia 2015 in KL on 30 Sep, 2015. The Summit will be held during 30th September as a full day programme and a concurrent event with GeoSMART Asia conference. Carrying the theme – ‘Geo-Building’ Smart Cities in Asia, this day long dedicated program on the infrastructure construction sector aims to bring together experts from the Geospatial, ICT, AEC and Infrastructure industry face to face with the Representatives of various National Governments within the region. It will be focused on showcasing the importance of BIM adoption as a centrifugal force behind creation and maintenance of infrastructure that is also sustainable with Geospatial Information and Technology acting as ‘force-enabler’ in extracting optimal ROI out of this initiation. It will also focus on addressing various challenges and opportunities of the Infrastructure sector through judicious adoption of right technological solutions and business practices and processes. In addition, it will showcase solutions by who's who of the industry that can help you gain more accurate, accessible, and actionable insight, which will apparently help you throughout the execution and lifecycle of your infrastructure construction projects. |
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30 September, 2015 Session 1 ‘GeoBuild-ing’ Smart Cities in Asia There is a common ‘tag’ that binds the cities of Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Auckland, Melbourne, Osaka, Kobe and GIFT City....’Smart City’. The Asia Pacific region is systematically embracing and adding smartness to its cities through a focus on adopting modern technologies to shore-up the overall economic infrastructure. The very basis of a smart city revolves around intelligence which is location based as that forms the basis of designing any infrastructure in a systematic and planned manner. This session will throw light from a policy advocating perspective, wherein, the speakers to be featured will talk about the importance of imbibing an integrated Geospatial with BIM approach for development and maintenance of sustainable infrastructure. Session 2 G-IT+BIM: The ‘Winning’ Formula for Sustainable Infrastructure Development BIM is a process that involves creating and using an intelligent 3D model to inform and communicate project decisions. Design, visualization, simulation, and collaboration enabled by BIM solutions provide greater clarity for all stakeholders across the project lifecycle. BIM makes it easier to achieve project and business goals. This process of analysis gains its optimal potency when it gets integrated with Geospatial Information and Technology which facilitates the development and maintenance of infrastructure assets by eliminating data redundancy, miscommunication, and costly conversion when moving through the entire project life cycle of an infrastructure including planning, design, construction, and operation. This integration gets further steam when allied technologies like mobile, cloud computing, etc., are thrown into the mix. This session will trace the importance of this proposed integration and showcase as to how it can help in getting better control on an infrastructure’s project life-cycle. Session 3 ‘GeoBuild-ing’ Intelligent Automated Infrastructure Urbanization, population growth, climate change and dwindling resources put increasing pressure on infrastructure systems worldwide. Infrastructure operators are looking for intelligent solutions to respond to these challenges. Through intelligent automated infrastructure, a smart city looks for ways to optimize its infrastructure. This session will focus on smart solutions such as smart grid technologies, intelligent traffic management, building automation systems, intelligent security solutions and transportation management systems that help optimize existing infrastructure, increase efficiency, reduce operation costs, improve safety and resiliency, and reduce environmental burdens. |
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