In this issue, Ian Dowman and Richard Groom give a full report on the Geo Business conference, seminars and exhibition; Richard Groom reports on BIM at Geo Business, which had a devoted session, with some wide-ranging comments; James Crawford from Ordnance Survey describes work on creating a 3D model of Singapore; We put developments in the field of the built environment into context as reported from the RICS World Built Environment Forum; Ian Dowman reports on the trends in Earth observation that were revealed at the Engage conference; and Jason Poole reports on the recent GeoPlace conference which had a common theme of data sharing.

We also have reports on the FIG Congress 2018 and the Space Serving Humanity: Environmental Security seminar held recently in London.

Plus all the regular columns!