Cityworks, a Trimble solution, has historically built tools for project management, contract management and activity-based solutions.

Geospatial is one of the most critical elements for infrastructure improvement projects in that it provides the full context of where the infrastructure is placed, the attributes of the infrastructure, the topography that affects its performance and its proximity to other assets. Cityworks adds to this context by providing historical activity of when and how the infrastructure was placed, what type of work has performed and encompassing business risk should that infrastructure fail. These sources of data inform organizations and assist with smart and efficient planning as stewards within their communities.

The Cityworks solution is focused on full lifecycle Asset Management. The company considers full lifecycle asset management the origin of the concept of infrastructure. The process may look like: when a permitting process first begins within a municipality and a contractor or a resident submits an application for a permit with designs that come from an engineering firm, and those come into the city, that process initiates the plan review, the fee, the inspections and all the scheduling that takes place around that activity and the approval for the construction process. Then the construction process takes place, the infrastructure is now live and operational, and Cityworks then picks up again in terms of the operations and maintenance of the infrastructure.

3D Tiles enables sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile, and metaverse applications.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on version 1.1 of the 3D Tiles Community Standard, which is used for sharing, visualizing, fusing, and interacting with massive heterogenous 3D geospatial content across desktop, web, mobile – and now metaverse – applications. Comments are due by September 23, 2022.