Urban Planning

Augmented Reality, Autodesk, B4itsBuilt, BIM, Buildings, Case Study, Digital, Future Cities, Future of Planning, GIality, Planning, Urban Planning

#PlanTech and The Future of Planning


Last week was the inaugural PlanTech Week in London, hosted at the The Urban Innovation Centre, part of the Future Cities Catapult in Clerkenwell. PlanTech #PlanTech follows in the footsteps of #PropTech and #FinTech as the technology discussion arm of the planning & development community.  PlanTech, best described in the words of the FCC founders

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Android, Apple, Augmented Reality, Buildings, Cross Platform, Digital, Planning, Uncategorized, Urban Planning

Future Cities :: Future of Planning


We are delighted to confirm that we have been selected as one of the shortlisted 10 projects in the Future Cities Catapult “Future of Planning” initiative.           https://smartcitiesworld.net/governance/smes-help-to-overhaul-uk-planning-1473 Our solution B4itsBuilt, mobilises citizen engagement through true visualisation. This project will extend professional, accurate, real-world AR experiences into the public domain for

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Customer, Urban Planning, UrbanPlanAR, VentusAR

Happy New Year: Top five posts from 2016


Happy New Year from everyone at Linknode. We thought this would be a good time to review the top five most popular posts of 2016. Videomontage In June we created video montages for community engagement on Orkney with Hoolan Energy. http://blog.linknode.co.uk/2016/06/23/community-engagement-for-a-hoolan-energy-wind-development-in-orkney/ Buildings We launched the buildings domain to allow our users to quickly assess buildings in

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BIM, Collaboration, Digital, GIality, GIS, Heriot-Watt, Planning, Urban Planning, UrbanPlanAR

Invitation to Participate in the Innovate UK Visualisation Project :: UrbanPlanAR


UrbanPlanAR is designed to enhance the value of BIM information by enabling in-field visualisation from any location, in real-time – creating more engaging and accessible understanding, integrated with current processes, software and formats. The project is a development collaboration between Linknode Ltd and Heriot-Watt University, supported by Innovate UK (grant #102040). The solution is a disruptive

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Apple, Business Development, Conferences and Exhibitions, Cross Platform, Digital, Heriot-Watt, iOS, Staff, Team Spotlight, Urban Planning, UrbanPlanAR, Xamarin

Staff Spotlight – Rufus Mall


Our latest team spotlight is our iOS guru, senior software engineer, Rufus Mall. Who are you and what is your role at Linknode? My name is Rufus Mall. I’ve been working as a Software Engineer at Linknode for around three and a half years now. The main skills I use of at Linknode are Graphics Programming and

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Android, Apple, Buildings, Business Development, Customer, Grid, Rural Planning, Solar, Urban Planning, UrbanPlanAR, VentusAR

Assessing buildings onsite


Since 2012, VentusAR has enabled users to conduct onsite visualisations and assessments of onshore wind, solar and grid connections. Our latest buildings feature will provide users with the ability to assess the developments of buildings and houses. We describe this as assessing the impact of rural developments. (We have another product we are building to

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Business Development, Collaboration, GIality, Heriot-Watt, Planning, Positioning Systems, Urban Planning, UrbanPlanAR

Linknode and Heriot-Watt University collaboration to visualise urban developments


Linknode Ltd in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Engineering Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design at Heriot-Watt University have commenced a two-year long research and development project. UrbanPlanAR will create a “Mobile Architectural Visualisation Platform for Planners and Communities”. The project received funding from the InnovateUK funding board, following a successful bid in

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