Archive for November, 2024
Monday, November 25th, 2024
LAS VEGAS — The Trimble Dimensions Conference in Las Vegas offers a rare glimpse into the construction industry’s future. This year’s gathering featured innovative tech on display, underscoring a drive to redefine how projects are managed and built. Central to this vision was Nathan Patton, Trimble’s Product Marketing Manager for Construction Technology, who shared insight into the possibilities that AI, robotics, and data capture bring to construction. With his background as a former surveyor, Patton is as much a storyteller of Trimble’s journey as he is an advocate for its transformative potential.
Patton’s path to Trimble is notable. Before joining the company, he was a surveyor using Trimble’s equipment on job sites. “I was a customer of Trimble long before I ever came to work here,” he explained. This gives him a unique perspective as someone who understands the practical realities of Trimble’s technologies and what they mean for the people using them. His role today involves taking Trimble’s sophisticated innovations — tools like terrestrial scanning, mobile mapping, and cloud data management — and distilling them into solutions that construction firms can understand, trust, and deploy.
 With the Trimble Reality Capture Platform Service, users can facilitate seamless collaboration with a central source of data for visualization, issue tracking, model comparison, measuring and more — all inside Trimble Connect’s web-based interface. (more…)
Tags: AI, autonomous systems, Construction technology, reality capture, robotics, Trimble
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Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
 Chris Bradshaw Vancouver, B.C.— In a decisive step towards making infrastructure more sustainable, Bentley Systems announced the launch of its new Carbon Analysis capabilities at the Year in Infrastructure Conference. The enhancements, available in the iTwin Experience platform, are aimed at simplifying carbon impact assessments, enabling engineers to systematically integrate carbon analysis into their design processes. The new features promise to streamline the traditionally complex task of carbon reporting by automatically aggregating data, integrating carbon metrics, and offering 3D visualizations of carbon impacts.
Chris Bradshaw, Bentley’s Chief Sustainability Officer, unveiled the Carbon Analysis capabilities at the conference, underscoring their role in addressing a critical aspect of global emissions—embodied carbon. “Given that up to 80% of today’s greenhouse gas emissions are linked to infrastructure, it’s essential that we find ways to significantly reduce the carbon impact of new construction projects and renovations,” said Bradshaw during an interview. “Our new capabilities help engineers visualize carbon data and make informed decisions early in the design process.”
Tackling Embodied Carbon
Embodied carbon refers to the greenhouse gases emitted during the construction of an asset, accounting for everything from material extraction to manufacturing. These emissions represent a significant portion of infrastructure’s environmental impact—often well before an asset is even put into operation. As Savina Carluccio, executive director of the International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure, highlighted, “By 2050, embodied carbon from new infrastructure could account for nearly half of the world’s carbon footprint.”
Bentley’s Carbon Analysis capabilities provide a “cradle-to-gate” assessment of embodied carbon, offering a more comprehensive understanding of an infrastructure project’s environmental cost. The system simplifies the integration of carbon data by linking Bentley’s iTwin platform with third-party carbon assessment tools, such as EC3 and One Click LCA. This approach allows users to dynamically visualize carbon impact changes across different design iterations, facilitating real-time decision-making.
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Tags: Bentley Systems, Carbon Analysis, digital twin, embodied carbon, iTwin Experience, sustainable infrastructure
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Monday, November 4th, 2024
At Autodesk University 2024 in San Diego, the construction tech world took note as Morpheus Technology Group (Morpheus) showcased their innovative approach to seamlessly integrating construction project management data with financial systems. In an exclusive interview, Randy Nolan, CEO of Morpheus, and Guy Barlow, Vice President of Sales, shared the company’s mission, the evolution of their platform, and their future plans. What started as a modest effort to bridge gaps in data has now grown into a powerful solution for some of the largest players in the construction industry.
A Mission Born from Industry Demand
Founded in 2001, Morpheus’ inception was driven by an industry-wide need for better synchronization between project management and accounting systems. As Nolan recalled, “The industry was demanding integration, and we saw an opportunity to step in and solve the problem.” Initially, Morpheus’ focus was on integrating just two core applications—a necessity at the time due to the industry’s heavy reliance on disparate systems for project management and financial accounting. But as technology and business processes evolved, so did Morpheus’ capabilities.
Now, more than two decades later, Morpheus’ Frameworks platform addresses a growing need for adaptability, as construction companies increasingly use a variety of software applications. The platform is designed to integrate systems seamlessly, reducing manual entry and ensuring that project managers and accounting teams are always working with the same data. “Our core belief is that everybody implements cost management differently,” Nolan said. Frameworks reflects this philosophy, allowing each company to tailor integrations to their specific processes and workflows.
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Tags: automation efficiency, Construction technology, data integration, financial accounting, MTG Frameworks, project management
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