Construction & Real Estate

Dubai Municipality launches new project to boost 3D infrastructure

Dubai Municipality has launched the '3D Infrastructure and Service Lines Map' project, aimed at positioning the emirate as a fully smart model that provides best cutting edge services in line with various international and innovative standards across all sectors.
 
Several contemporary technologies will be used to provide a 3D scan of underground service lines, guaranteeing delivery of all relevant data and the accuracy of the geospatial database, reported Wam.
 
The data includes details on all services, such as the irrigation, sewage, and rainwater lines maintained by Dubai Municipality, along with road lighting lines as well as power and water lines data, by the Roads and Transport Authority, it stated.
 
These underground service lines will be further scanned, processed, and delivered to the data-owning organisations to update them. 
 
These data are essential to achieving the Municipality's goals of digital twinning, which include facilitating and speeding up operations that use 3D infrastructure data, including NOCs and infrastructure projects for relevant buildings, it added.
 
Dawoud Al Hajri, Director-General of Dubai Municipality, said the project will undertake a comprehensive study on choosing advanced technologies to build a 3D model and an inclusive map of geospatial data on infrastructure and service lines below the ground, integrating all the precise details within a single source of information.
 
"The study will further explore recent technological innovations in preparing underground infrastructure maps, including the ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology, and choose the best to guarantee sustainable viability of data collection all over Dubai that keeps up with the latest information," observed Al Hajri.
 
Acting CEO of Buildings Regulation and Permits Agency Mariam Al Muhairi said this project will be carried out in two phases, with the first phase involving analysis of available technology across the globe, assuring its quality, efficacy, and availability in order to provide it to the specialised team and training them on utilising it. 
 
"Moreover, the second phase involves examining all infrastructure service lines through the technology to update all the data," he noted.
 
Several contemporary technologies will be used to provide a 3D scan of underground service lines, guaranteeing delivery of all relevant data and the accuracy of the geospatial database, said the Wam report. 
 
The data includes details on all services, such as the irrigation, sewage, and rainwater lines maintained by Dubai Municipality, along with road lighting lines as well as power and water lines data, by the Roads and Transport Authority, it added.