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Towards Digital Communities: The case of integrated BIM + GIS Environment
Dr. Georgios Kapogiannis
Assistant Professor in Building Information Modelling
Email: Georgios.Kapogiannis@nottingham.edu.cn
Abstract: Integrating BIM and GIS is the first step towards digitalization of the communities. In The University of Nottingham Ningbo China the innovation was awarded a grant of 6M RMB in GIS-BIM Based Green Smart Building (grant no. 2015B11011). The results shown that integration is applicable despite technical and other challenges. HTML, SQL, Cloud Services, UML, Java, C# and other technologies were used in order to develop the integrated digital (information) model. In addition to this data from suppliers and environmental data were integrated too.
Short Bio Dr Georgios Kapogiannis is a Faculty of Science and Engineering Research Officer, an Assistant Professor in Building Information Modelling and is the founder and leader of the GeoBIM Theme in the Geospatial and Hazard Research Group in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He completed his PhD in Construction and Project Management from the University of Salford – School of the Built Environment (THINKlab). He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Business and Technology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a member of the peer review college of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) since 2015 (after invitation). He served as the Chairman for the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) for Coventry and Warwickshire, committee member of the West Midlands branch between 2013 and 2015. Also, he was a co – founder and member of the UK BIM Alliance – BIM Region East between 2016 and 2108. Currently he is a core member of the Digital Construction Working Group of the Chartered Institute of Building in the UK representing China and Committee Member of the Association of Committee Member of the Smart Construction Group of the China Technology Entrepreneurship Association under the Ministry of Science and Technology.
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