Houseal Lavigne is an urban planning and geospatial design firm that using cutting edge technologies including procedural and detailed 3D modeling, visualization and simulation, and publishing its designs as playable games that can be interactively explored. This article captures the details of its methodologies and toolset as well as several case studies highlighting its technology implementation, with projects range from …
Graphisoft continued its 2024 series of Building Together events with an Innovate event held last month that was specifically focused on how architectural firms were making innovative use of its technologies for extending their design capabilities on many fronts, including parametric design, sustainable architecture, open collaboration, cloud platforms, and managing extremely large projects. These were demonstrated by the firms themselves, …
In this article, Dr Avgousta Stanitsa, Associate Design Researcher, and Sukhmit Singh, Digital Solutions Lead at AtkinsRéalis, show how, at the Building Design Research and Innovation (R&I) unit at AtkinsRéalis, they are generating impactful, emergent insight from data connectivity, dynamic technology ecosystems and continuous knowledge capture — and using it to enhance their design processes. URL: https://www.aecbytes.com/feature/2024/AtkinsRealis.html
A couple of months ago, I attended an online webinar in which ES Global and Laing O’Rourke, two leading UK construction companies, shared how they were using cutting-edge technologies on their projects. It was part of the “Digital Building Week” event put together by the organization, Building Design. In addition to discussing the technologies, the firms also presented case studies …
Last month, Graphisoft held the first of its Building Together events for 2024, one that was focused specifically on collaboration in AEC. In addition to highlighting Graphisoft’s solutions for collaboration, the Collaborate event provided an in-depth look at a customer case study showcasing this collaboration in action: the Nivy Centrum project in Bratislava, Slovakia by the firm SIEBERT + TALAŠ …
Last week, Nemetschek’s leading AEC technology brand, ALLPLAN, held a virtual event to provide an overview of its growing technology stack, which now includes the structural engineering solutions, SCIA Engineer and FRILO, in addition to its flagship BIM application, Allplan, the steel detailing and fabrication solution, SDS2, and the collaboration platform, Bimplus. In addition to showcasing its products and their …
Similar to last year when I attended and wrote about a World Architecture 100 (WA100) Live webinar focused on technology, I attended a similar webinar this year which discussed how AI (Artificial Intelligence) was impacting the architecture sector. While it is still relatively early days for AI in design, it was very interesting and insightful to hear the perspectives of …
Towards the end of last year, I had the opportunity to visit a construction site that was using technology from a company called Dusty Robotics. As the name suggests, the company makes robots, not for tasks that we typically associate with robots such as manufacturing prefabricated components or even for automating tasks for onsite construction such as rebar tying, but …
Last month, I provided an overview of the latest technology developments of the Speckle platform that were shared by the Speckle team at the recently held SpeckleCon 2023 online event. Speckle is an open-source AEC technology cloud platform that uses cutting-edge database technology — instead of a file format — to create an open central repository for AEC project data, …
This article captures the highlights of the customer presentations from Graphisoft’s recent Building Together Learn event that focused on three critical areas of AEC technology: data-driven design, design collaboration, and the use of VR for design and visualization. The firms sharing their stories came from different parts of the world and were therefore able to provide a fascinating glimpse at …
