Urban Planning and Development

Population growth and demographic change is altering our environment into an increasingly urban one. Today, in Europe, around 80% of citizens now live in what can be described as an urban environment. This inward migration creates a number of challenges, including competition for suitable land, balancing urban sprawl with historic conservation, improving energy efficiency, and providing social stability by reducing urban poverty and crime.

CityGRID gets right to the heart of the value created with 3D digital cities.

With its core function to manage large scale coherent 3D data sets fully integrated with municipal GIS our clients are using CityGRID to enhance the understanding of the built environment and overcome the limitations of 2D drawings by maintaining 3D digital environments of some of the largest cities in Europe. They are reaping the benefits of:

• Seamless integration with the widest range of input data sources.
• Showing the design intent in the context of the environment (avoiding costly mistakes thereby maximising time in design and less in re-working).
• Integration with existing GIS and corporate workflows.
• Easy and efficient simulation, update and change management of vast urban models.
• 3D modelling and management of subways and other subterranean objects. Please click here for example of Wiener Linien >
  
• Visibility mapping / analysis in GIS.
• Efficient improvement of LoD 1 (Level of Detail) models by adding roof structure (LoD3).
• Intuitive, powerful tools for visualisation, 3D web-delivery, interactive rework and automated import / export of numerous data standards and formats, inc CityGML.
• Aiding planners to monitor compliance with planning statutes and providing evidence for enforcement action when necessary.
• Promoting cities and attracting inward investment.
• A collaborative and interactive 3D environment that allows stakeholders, investors, architects and design and construction partners to communicate, collaborate, and deliver projects more effectively.
• Licensing the data associated to the model to reinvest the revenue generated in the maintenance of the model, therefore guaranteeing its currency over time.
• Waterproof ‘solid models’.