City of Helsinki Advances 3D City Initiative with Bentleys Reality Modeling

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City of Helsinki Advances 3D City Initiative with Bentleys Reality Modeling

The City of Helsinki is mid-way through an initiative to capture the city and create a new 3D city design that is scheduled to be finished in 2017. Helsinki has a long tradition of 3D city modeling, going back to the 1980s. Helsinki wanted to update its existing 3D city design with new, innovative applications that might provide entire city modeling capabilities in order to improve its internal solutions, advertise smart city growth, and share data with an open style for citizens and other companies. Helsinki also wished to develop a pilot portfolio to display the power of reality modeling in sychronisation with local colleges to produce rate of interest in academic organizations.

This EUR 1 million project made use of Bentley applications to motivate commercial research and development and public engagement. For example, the city made use of Bentley Map to create accurate base maps and geo-coordinate energy networks. It additionally made use of Pointools to pre-process laser scanning information, Bentley Descartes to integrate oblique, raster files, and orthophotographic photos into its framework process, and Bentley Navigator for clash discovery and design evaluations. Reality modeling applications the city used included ContextCapture for the entire city mesh design and Bentley LumenRT to enliven layouts. Lastly, the city made use of ProjectWise for collaboration and managing all the information that would be submitted to an Internet website for circulation and general access.

The unique nature of this project made ensured Helsinki would share information inside and externally. Exterior companies asking for the 3D city model included 3D Plus and 3D GPC - a flagship, low-carbon program that considers the advantages of 3D modeling rather than other methods. Helsinki is also sharing this data with the Technical University of Munich as part of its Solar Energy Potential program.

By using Bentley's reality modeling applications, the City of Helsinki has opened up its data to a host of inner and external stakeholders. This has actually guaranteed Helsinki is at the forefront of smart city initiatives, consisting of cooperation with the Open Geospatial Consortium on smart-city programs across Europe.

Jarmo Suomisto, engineer, project manager, Helsinki 3D+, stated, "The sophisticated capacities intrinsic in Bentley applications promoted our ability to promote smart city advancement and boost our inner solutions. Using this technology allowed us to create innovative city designs and make well-grounded decisions.