The new Trimble X7 3D Laser Scanning System, a compact 3D laser system that makes it possible for professionals with little or no scanning expertise to capture precise 3D scanning data to produce high-quality deliverables, was introduced last week at INTERGEO in Germany.
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New Trimble X7 3D Laser Scanning System Introduced for Construction, Surveying and Forensic Applications
Wednesday, September 25th, 2019Deltek Acquires ComputerEase to Add Integrated Construction Solutions to Their Portfolio
Tuesday, August 27th, 2019
With Employee Hub employees get instant access to pay stubs, 1095’Cs, and W-2s online. And, it’s integrated with ComputerEase.
Pete Mann, SVP of Corporate Development for Deltek, spoke with AECCafe Voice this week about Deltek’s acquisition of ComputerEase, a company that is known as a standard in construction accounting, project management, and field management software for contractors. Deltek is a global provider of software and solutions for project based businesses. The announcement was made on Monday, August 12th.
According to company materials, over 6,000 contractors in North America use ComputerEase’s integrated construction solutions, offered on-premise or in the cloud, for streamlining all aspects of their businesses. Founded in 1983, ComputerEase software includes job costing, construction accounting, project management, field management and other add-ons, including fleet and asset management, as well as certified payroll – which address the concerns specific to construction industry businesses. ComputerEase is valued for its scalable approach to construction.
For decades, Deltek has offered award-winning solutions to A&E firms of all sizes. With the combination of Deltek + ComputerEase, the company secures its place in the construction industry, adding to its powerful portfolio of solutions for architects, engineers and construction firms. The end result will be rather an end-to-end approach to AEC firms across the board who are looking to coordinate their workflows.
KOTRONIS Consulting Teams up with Dassault's Cloud-Based 3DEXPERIENCE
Thursday, August 15th, 2019
James Kotronis, Founder & CEO, KOTRONIS Consulting, commented on the recent partnership between Kotronis and Dassault Systèmes and why they work primarily with Dassault in an interview with AECCafe Voice. In the following video, he provided insights into the relationship between the two companies at the Dassault 3DEXPERIENCE FORUM. A look at the new database driven approach to the Cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform as opposed to the traditional file based approach offers great advantage to the AEC industry.
ARCHIBUS Workplace Links Staff to Workspaces on Any Device
Thursday, March 14th, 2019Mark Gargarian, Marketing Department for ARCHIBUS, Inc. spoke to AECCafe Voice this week about the company’s latest release. ARCHIBUS Inc., the industry’s leading Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS), announced a groundbreaking update to its suite of solutions for the management of real estate, infrastructure, facilities and the workplace. The new version, V.24.1 includes the ARCHIBUS Workplace, a new product entirely, that connects staff to their work spaces from any device.
Trimble’s Constructible Revolutionizes Building Construction Data
Thursday, February 28th, 2019In an interview with Jon Fingland, general manager of collaboration solutions at Trimble, we talked about the need for digitization and transformation in the construction industry.
Trimble’s answer to the challenges and transition to digitization is Constructible, a purpose-driven approach to building construction – a process that coordinates and optimizes the entire design, build, operate lifecycle. Constructible links the work of each construction stage and helps to implement that work within businesses.
Call for AEC Industry Predictions for 2019!
Friday, January 4th, 2019Happy New Year!
Before the holidays I sent out a call for industry predictions for this year. So far, we have received a number of responses. This may mean that I need to extend this into a multiple part blog. Please get your submissions to me asap so they can be included.
AECCafe Year In Review 2018
Thursday, December 20th, 20182018 brought with it the realization and development of various technologies that will serve to move the AEC industry forward and in some cases, serve the concept of digital cities more widely. Digital Twin technology has emerged as a force to be reckoned with in the coming years.
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Co-Venturing Defines Bentley Partners
Friday, November 23rd, 2018Dr. Horst Kayser, chief strategy officer, Siemens AG, presented a keynote in London at the Bentley Year in Infrastructure 2018 conference in October on the position of Siemens in the world of business. Siemens has gone from a PLM company to software company, and is now rated number two in its space, just behind SAP. It is the largest industrial manufacturing company in European industry, with a focus in the areas of Energy, Healthcare, and Infrastructure & Cities.
AECCafe Voice Special Report: What Makes for BIM Interoperability?
Thursday, September 27th, 2018The built environment is increasingly more digitized, relying heavily on large building models to hold all aspects of a building project. Thus, the need for BIM Interoperability is greater as the necessity grows for stakeholders to be able to access the information inside these complex and huge models.
ABDCE_disciplines: AECOsim Building Designer, Bentley’s multi-discipline BIM application, provides architectural, structural, electrical, and mechanical tools so you can coordinate your designs better across disciplines with a streamlined workflow.
For AEC firms, it is very common to use multiple software products within the same organization, as well as outside the organization. No single BIM software solution or integrated system can fulfill the requirements of the AEC industry. All these products throughout the design process need to be able to communicate with one another.
Standards organizations have come forward to suggest that they have the answer to interoperability in the BIM world. But currently what most vendors are able to achieve is perhaps an increase in interoperability. Does anyone offer total interoperability?
Some of our respondents define BIM interoperability in this way:
“Interoperability is about handing over the right amount of information, to the right people at the right time,” says David Lash, product manager, Trimble, Tekla Structures Division. “It’s about hitting milestones for people who want to stay up to date with the wider project, even on a daily basis.”
“Communication, communication, communication,” says Joe Eichenseer, director, Building Lifecycle Solutions, North America IMAGINiT. “Interoperability allows us to communicate better and reduce or eliminate the chance of translation errors between systems.”
Vancouver Fraser Port Authority Implements Autodesk Vault
Thursday, August 30th, 2018Responsibilities of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority are vast, as they manage stewardship of federal port lands in and around Vancouver, British Columbia.
The port authority oversees and manages over 16,000 hectares of water, more than 1,000 hectares of land, and approximately 350 kilometers of shoreline, bordering 16 municipalities and intersecting the asserted and established territories and treaty lands of several Coast Salish First Nations.
The port authority’s mandate includes handling permits for all projects for proposed federal port lands use and is responsible for real estate management. It also manages infrastructure development designed to support growth and efficient operations.
In order to manage all this, the port authority maintains a repository of AutoCAD drawings. They have been AutoCAD Map 3D and Civil 3D users for a long time.
Maintaining source drawings from many systems such as water, communication, electrical, storm, sewer, and more is what the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority’s Spatial Data Group does on a daily basis. Team members create plans based in these systems and want to query features from each of them. One of the primary problems was that those features could be unintentionally removed from the source drawing if the user didn’t detach it before saving the working file. It could then be gone forever. The team really wanted a solution that could automatically create an audit trail displaying everyone who had modified a file.
Joe Hedrick, manager, Infrastructure Solutions for IMAGINiT, answered some questions for AECCafe Voice on how the port authority found a solution for tracking and safeguarding its CAD drawings in the form of Autodesk Vault.
