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Towards the end of last month, I had the opportunity to attend this year’s SmartGeometry conference, which was held at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY. The conference is typically focused on innovative architectural and structural design tools, technologies, and methods, and the theme of the conference this year was “Material Intensities.” This article provides an overview of the conference …
AECbytes Blog 2012-04-11 21:27:42
It is that time of the year that Autodesk typically launches its next release of products, and this year was no exception?Autodesk has just released its 2013 product portfolio. This includes new releases of applications across all the three main industries it serves, including AEC (which includes buildings as well as infrastructure), manufacturing, and M&E (media and entertainment). This AECbytes article …
AECbytes Blog 2012-04-11 21:27:42
It is that time of the year that Autodesk typically launches its next release of products, and this year was no exception?Autodesk has just released its 2013 product portfolio. This includes new releases of applications across all the three main industries it serves, including AEC (which includes buildings as well as infrastructure), manufacturing, and M&E (media and entertainment). This AECbytes article …
AECbytes Blog 2012-03-15 18:50:53
In this Viewpoint article, Ray Crotty, who is the founder of the UK-based C3 Systems and the author of the recent book “The Impact of Building Information Modelling,” contrasts drawings with models, asserting that with drawings, no matter how detailed you get, you can only say approximately what you mean or intend, whereas there is no such ambiguity in models. He …
AECbytes Blog 2012-03-08 20:57:43
Up until now, Newforma Project Center has been Newforma?s flagship application for project information management (PIM) and collaboration. However, the company has slowly but surely been expanding its client base to cover all disciplines in the building industry, including architecture, engineering and construction firms, and the owners they serve. A few weeks ago, Newforma officially re-branded itself as a multi-product company, launching a …
AECbytes Blog 2012-02-23 18:22:27
This article looks at some of the recent key technology updates from AEC vendors, including the release of DProfiler 2012 from Beck Technology; the new version of Tekla’s BIM collaboration solution, Tekla BIMsight 1.4; a new project scheduling tool in Axium’s latest Ajera 7 release; and an Education Partner program recently announced by EADOC, which develops a collaborative construction project management application. …
AECbytes Blog 2012-02-09 17:51:15
A couple of weeks ago, Graphisoft, developer of ArchiCAD, released a new white paper called ?Get There Faster with ArchiCAD,? which attempts to identify the most important criteria that architects should be looking at when selecting which BIM tools they should work with, as well as clarify the advantages of ArchiCAD over other BIM tools. While Revit is not specifically mentioned, …
AECbytes Blog 2012-01-26 23:04:58
This article takes a look at the projects selected as the finalists in HOK’s 2nd Annual BIM Awards competition. This is an internal competition to evaluate and award projects within HOK that have exhibited exemplary use of BIM technology in one of four major categories; Design, Delivery, Collaboration, and Visualization. I was invited to serve on the jury of the competition and …
AECbytes Blog 2012-01-19 21:43:36
Lean Business Practices have been adopted in many industries such as automotive design and build, aircraft design and build, and ever increasingly by leading construction companies. What are the best practices the Architecture/Engineering (A/E) design industries can adopt and utilize? David Haynes, Director of Consulting for Ideate Inc., sheds more light on these issues in this Viewpoint artcle. URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2012/issue_63.html
AECbytes Blog 2011-12-16 02:08:47
This article captures the highlights of those products that were exhibited at the recent Autodesk University which are relevant to the AEC industry, including Revit-integrated applications such as Trelligence Affinity, FM:Interact which now provides mobile access, e-SPECS, CodeBook, an interesting new tool called VIMtrek which allows game-like navigation of a Revit model, ClearEdge3D, which develops software for automatically extracting 3D geometry …
AECbytes Blog 2011-12-12 22:10:48
This article on the recent Autodesk University 2011 captures the highlights of the general session keynote and three ?innovation forums? on the topics of the cloud, social networking, and sustainability, along with some AEC industry technology news I was able to glean at the event. This year, Autodesk dispensed with the industry keynotes that it typically schedules following the main general …
AECbytes Blog 2011-12-07 06:21:54
In this Viewpoint article, Paul Seletsky, who is the Digital Design Director at KieranTimberlake Associates, questions the current architectural education approach of providing sophisticated design tools to students, only to have them go on to practice professionally for decades on another level using outmoded means. He envisions another approach, where applied research centers would bring architects, universities, and the public together to advance …
AECbytes Blog 2011-11-30 06:08:58
This article by Chuck Eastman, Manu Venugopal, and Shiva Aram of Georgia Tech describes a demonstration of the initial results of the National Precast BIM Standard that was held at the PCI Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, in Oct 2011. The National Precast BIM Standard is the first domain-wide specification exchange effort in the AEC industry, defined to address all the major exchanges dealing with …
AECbytes Blog 2011-11-17 22:19:26
This review looks at the recently released version 7 of Solibri Model Checker, a model-checking tool that allows BIM models to be checked for potential problems, conflicts, or design code violations, with additional capabilities for visualization, walkthrough, interference detection, and model comparison. The enhancements in the new release include significant updates to its already user-friendly interface, new capabilities for the BIM …
AECbytes Blog 2011-11-02 01:24:21
This article is focused on iPad apps that are available for project management and construction in the AEC industry, including the Vela Systems app for field management, Bentley’s iPad apps for its ProjectWise and Navigator applications, Autodesk’s Buzzsaw and Bluestreak apps, Newforma’s new Mobile Punch List app that has just been announced, and additional construction-specific apps including Onsite:AEC and SafetyNet. URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/buildingthefuture/2011/iPadApps-Const.html
AECbytes Blog 2011-10-19 01:58:37
Given the increasing number of iPad apps that are now available for the AEC industry, AECbytes will look at these apps in two separate articles, one focused on apps primarily intended for design and visualization, and the second focused on apps that can be used for project management and construction. This article focuses on apps for design and visualization and includes an …
AECbytes Blog 2011-10-03 18:39:37
This article looks at the current status and future outlook of the application of BIM in the field of FM (facilities management), including the BIM integrated modules of leading BIM applications such as FM:Interact of FM:Systems, which includes BIM integration with Autodesk Revit, ArchiFM for Graphisoft?s ArchiCAD, and Bentley Facilities. It also looks at two other vendors that are developing different …
AECbytes Blog 2011-09-15 19:17:10
This inaugural AECbytes technology update covers the recent launch of the Vectorworks 2012 product family by Nemetschek Vectorworks, the new Project Vasari update from Autodesk, new offerings from Deltek and Newforma, as well as recent updates from Graphisoft and Tekla. It also looks at the continued attempt by Dassault Systemes to enter into the AEC technology space with 3DVia Composer, and a …
AECbytes Blog 2011-09-01 22:05:31
Earlier this month, I provided an overview of the inaugural Revit Technology Conference (RTC) in the US that was held from June 23 to 25 in the Huntington Beach area of Los Angeles. While that article was entirely focused on the sessions that were presented, this article is dedicated to providing an overview of the different technologies that were being exhibited …
AECbytes Blog 2011-08-04 19:02:44
The inaugural US Revit Technology Conference, known as RTC for short, was held in the Huntington Beach area of Los Angeles a few weeks ago. The RTC actually originated in Australia in 2005 as an expanded Revit user group meeting, and has grown into a full-fledged conference that continues to be held annually in Australia. The RTC 2011 event in Los …
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