Construction's Year of More BIM, Tablets and Apps
Image courtesy of Balfour Beatty Construction Related Links: How Balfour Beatty and Autodesk are Driving BIM Use How Ready Is 'BIM-?Ready'? Online Assessment Tells All Technology adoption quickened its...
View ArticleLaser Scanning for Building Documentation: Illuminating, But Not Necessarily...
(Guest column for ENR)As a surveyor working in the site/civil consulting world, I learned early on that the staying ahead of the technology curve can provide a clear market advantage, so I have been...
View ArticleAugmented Reality Platform MARS Gaining Fans, Funds
Related Links: Video Demonstration of the MARS App PARWorks Website Augmented Reality for Facilities Management Leaping Into Use Photos of construction projects are as common as hardhats and work boots...
View ArticleWhat's the Problem?
When brainstorming technology story ideas at ENR, our editors frequently start by trying to feel your pain. Our readers are the construction people who depend on technology to improve their personal...
View ArticlePredictions for the Building Industry, 2030
Over the past two decades digital technology has only just begun to permeate the processes and infrastructure of the building industry. While you may see iPads on today’s construction sites and...
View ArticleEcoDesigner STAR Will Produce Code-Compliance Reports
Courtesy of GRAPHISOFT ArchiCAD 17 + EcoDesigner STAR will enable architects to produce energy-code-compliance reports, says GRAPHISOFT. Related Links: GRAPHISOFT Autodesk More than 300 ArchiCAD 16...
View ArticleAGC's BIM Forum Draft Specification Open for Comment
The BIM Forum of the Associated General Contractors has released for public comment a draft specification for levels of development of building information models. Interested parties have until June 7...
View ArticleStandard Specification Coming to Help Drive Efficiencies into the BIM Process
Related Links: AGC Level of Development Specification AIA Contract Documents Enthusiasts of building information modeling have developed a standard specification that they say will help eliminate poor...
View ArticleSpatial Coordination With BIM: It Is Time For the Whole MEP Team to Step Up...
Any sports fan can name players who, in one magnificent game or season, put their teams on their backs and carried them to victory. For many years, an analogous phenomenon has been played out in the...
View ArticleContractors See Gains, Gaps With Growth of Mobility Tools
Related Links: Information Mobility Research Press Release Information Mobility Construction Market Research & Intelligence Mobility tools such as tablets and cloud services are yielding investment...
View ArticleSpatial Coordination Guide Is a Playbook for BIM
Related Links: Achieving Spatial Coordination Through BIM A summary of E.M. Rogers "Diffusion of Innovation" theory A publication jointly developed by three national mechanical, electrical and...
View ArticleHong Kong is a Hotbed of Construction Innovation
I have just returned from the compact, intensely urbanized city of Hong Kong. The construction industry there is a cauldron of activity simmering on the fires of competition, political change, shifting...
View Article2013: A Year of Better BIM Collaboration on Jobsites
Photo from Autodesk University Holder Construction works with Autodesk Navisworks and other modeling tools to create 3D plans for site layout and logistics planning. This example is one part of a model...
View ArticleIs Construction Ready for a Dose of (Augmented) Reality?
In 2008, I tested out an augmented reality mobile app called Nearest Tube that allowed me to use my smartphone camera to navigate my way to the nearest London Underground entrance without having to...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Broadcast Shows the Wind Courtesy of Summer Intern Experiment With...
Image courtesy of Autodesk A wind study of Heinz Field in Pittsburgh last summer showed how the 28-ft-tall by 96-ft-long jumbo screen at one end of the field plays havoc with the wind. (function(){ var...
View ArticleGeodesign Combines Strengths of BIM and GIS in New Convergence Platforms
Image courtesy of Trimble A Trimble SketchUp Pro model of a house under construction with projected shadowing, laid atop a Google Earth landscape. Related Links: Big Data, Point Clouds and GIS...
View ArticleResearchers Counter Engineering Brain Drain With Learning Software
Photo courtesy of UT Austin Ph.D. student Li Wang demonstrates the design coordination data capture prototype system in the Texas Advanced Computing Visualization Laboratory, at the University of Texas...
View ArticleBIM Adoption Spreads Globally
Related Links: Download the Free SmartMarket Report Construction Industry Learning Goes Borderless It is an exciting time in the global construction industry, and building information modeling (BIM) is...
View ArticleSoftware Vendor Claims New Offering Will Bridge a Gap in BIM
courtesy of Autodesk Pick Up Autodesk-Revit integration of detailing package is latest in BIM development. Related Links: U.K.s BIM Mandate Driving Major Shift in Digital Tools Adoption BIM Adoption...
View ArticleHow About Eliminating the Endless 3D Construction Coordination Meetings?
The AEC industry today has widely adopted 3D technologies and “building information models” to improve communication and coordination during the designing and building of projects. The models are used...
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