IMPROVING INFORMATION FLOW
George Floros
JV . “ Everyone has a ‘ shop window ’ to browse all the data available to them .”
IMPROVING INFORMATION FLOW
Before they can begin construction , the design plans must be thoroughly vetted and approved . Right now , planning for construction is well under way . New applications for GeoBIM are constantly being introduced by multiple teams in the project , well beyond the use cases imagined before the release of this environment . Just the other day , a colleague from the construction team remarked that the environment really helped them to understand where they should place a crane , based on the surrounding context .
In addition , everyone involved in planning can see individual designs for the entire project . This level of awareness is exciting . On such a large project , it ’ s very hard to understand all the individual elements you ’ re going to build from the aggregate of spreadsheets and documents . Seeing designs placed together within the context of the city of London
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George Floros
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Floros is a GIS Data Specialist in the Skanska-Costain- STRABAG Joint Venture working on behalf of HS2 in the United Kingdom . Floros holds a MEng . in Surveying , a MSc . in Environment & Development , a MSc . in GIS and he is currently a PhD Candidate at University College London ( UCL ) in the field of GIS-BIM Integration . His dominant source of motivation is the generation of a more sustainable and ultimately smarter built environment by integrating Geographic Information Systems and Building Information Modelling ( BIM ) to accurately pinpoint current and future issues of the urban environment .
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