AU 2006

The Land Planning SIG luncheon is scheduled for Tuesday November 28 at Autodesk University. I will be reporting the results as well as the other planning related discussions which I hope to have next week in Las Vegas. Please look me up if you are going to be there.

I had a very interesting land planning conversation with an architect last week. She has been doing a lot of thinking about the need for a much more comprehensive approach to land planning. One that not only includes the integration of planning and civil/site, but also buildings, or perhaps more accurately BIM - building information modeling.

BIM is hot right now, and Autodesk's ADT and Revit are leading the way. Integrating large digital terrain models into Revit is not something that Revit was designed to handle, but the need is there, and Autodesk intends to address it. A comprehensive solution that would include the land planning function is also on the radar.

Hope to see you at AU.