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Five Powerful Lessons Shaping the Future of AEC
June 23, 2022Credit: Original article published here. The past few years have been challenging for the AEC industry, as architecture firm owners worked to maintain business continuity amidst an unfolding pandemic and economic disruptions while simult...
A Digital Twin for a Health Care Facility using IoT and Edge Computing Devices
June 16, 2022Credit: Original article published here. This research paper by Ashit Harode and Walid Thabet of Virginia Tech and Michael B. DuLaney of UCHealth describes the creation of a low-level Digital Twin that allows visualizing and monitoring f...
ALLPLAN Infrastructure Day 2022
June 9, 2022Credit: Original article published here. Last month, the leading AEC technology vendor, ALLPLAN, had its annual Infrastructure Day event, in which the company showcased the latest developments in its solutions and highlighted how they we...
CellBIM: BIM Inside Excel
May 18, 2022Credit: Original article published here. The use of Excel is pretty much ubiquitous in most industries including AEC, and the idea of being able to open up a BIM model inside Excel and work with its data is brilliant in its simplicity. T...
Qatar Foundation Stadium for the 2022 FIFA World Cup: FineHVAC Case Study
May 11, 2022Credit: Original article published here. This article describes how the BIM application for HVAC, FineHVAC, was used by the firm, GKA Engineers, for the design of the HVAC network installations in the Qatar Foundation Stadium, a host ven...
ThinkBIM Spring 2022 Webinar: UK’s AEC Technology Updates and the Golden Thread
May 5, 2022Credit: Original article published here. A few weeks ago, I attended a webinar by a UK-based organization called thinkBIM on the topic of the “Golden Thread,” which was something that I had been increasingly hearing about in the cont...
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Gilbane
April 21, 2022Credit: Original article published here. In the course of researching the article, “AI in AEC Updates, 2022,” published in February, I found that the construction stage of AEC had the largest number of applications using AI (Artifici...
How Point Cloud Meshing Software Benefits the AEC Industry
April 14, 2022Credit: Original article published here. As reality capture technologies have advanced in AEC, users have been able to generate increasingly detailed and accurate surveys, each image formed from millions of data points. However, this dep...
AEC at NVIDIA GTC 2022
March 31, 2022Credit: Original article published here. This year’s annual NVIDIA GTC conference, which was held last week, had its Omniverse technology even more front and center than it did last year. And because AEC is one of the key target indust...
SmartBRIDGE Hamburg: A Digital Twin in Action
March 25, 2022Credit: Original article published here. While digital twin technology — used to create the digital replica of a physical object that is always in sync with it — promises to be the next big thing in AEC technology, it is still early ...
Spaces: iPad App for Conceptual Design
March 10, 2022Credit: Original article published here. As far back as in 2015 in the article, “Why Isn’t There a Smarter BIM Tool for Building Design, Yet?,” I had bemoaned the lack of a smart conceptual design tool for architecture, asking: Is th...
AI in AEC Updates, 2022
February 24, 2022Credit: Original article published here. This is a follow-up to my first look at the application of AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology to the AEC industry that was published in February 2019 — the article, “AI in AEC: An Introdu...
LeChase Construction: Firm Profile
February 10, 2022Credit: Original article published here. Chris Preston, BIM Manager at LeChase, a construction company with annual revenues approaching $1 billion and 11 regional offices across the east coast, describes its implementation of AEC technol...
Speckle and IFC.js: Open Source Tools for BIM
February 3, 2022Credit: Original article published here. Towards the end of December, I had the opportunity to attend a webinar on two open source tools I knew almost nothing about: Speckle and IFC.js. The webinar was put together by a community called ...
Enscape: Real-Time Design Visualization
January 27, 2022Credit: Original article published here. This review explores Enscape, a real-time photorealistic rendering application that connects directly to Revit, Archicad, SketchUp, Rhino, and Vectorworks, allowing designers to see their models...
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