E018 - BalticGIT Conference 2022: Organizers' Interview With Jaan Saar, Head of Digital Construction at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications for Estonia
Posted on Friday, Feb 18, 2022
Show Notes
Today, I talk with Jaan Saar, Head of Digital Construction at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications in Estonia, about Digital Twins and the Baltic Geospatial technology Conference (BalticGIT) 2022
- Estonian 3D Digital Twin - https://livekluster.ehr.ee/ui/ehr/v1/3d
- Background information on the 3D Digitial Twin project - https://eehitus.ee/e-ehituse-3d-kaksiku-arendus/
- 3D digital twin API services on the e-construction platform: https://swaggerui.ehr.ee/3_d_kaksiku_api
- E-construction platform developer portal: https://developer.e-ehitus.ee/
- Background information about BIM-based building permit development: https://eehitus.ee/bim-pohine-ehitusloa-menetlus/
Guests
Jaan Saar
Jaan has managed processes and IT in the construction industry for over 15 years. He joined the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs & Communications in 2018 with the goal to digitally transform construction in Estonia. He is currently working on developing the “e-construction platform” which will provide the backbone for data sharing throughout the building lifecycle and the national digital twin.
Hosts
Alex Kmoch
Alex is a Distributed Spatial Systems Researcher with many years of international experience in geospatial data management and web- and cloud-based geoprocessing with a particular focus on land use, soils, hydrology, and water quality. His interests include OGC standards and web-services for location-based data sharing, modelling workflows, machine learning, and interactive geo-visualisation. Alex has been involved with SDIs and the OGC for a long time and was recently elected board member of the Estonian Geoinformatics Society (EstGIS) and European Co-Chair for the OGC University Domain Working Group. He is based at the Chair of Geoinformatics and Cartography at Department of Geography of the University of Tartu.