Archive for the ‘BIM’ Category
Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
In a virtual press conference recently, Harry Vitelli, Bentley vice president, construction and field and Mark Hattersley, Bentley product manager spoke about the immediate availability of ProjectWise Construction Work Package Server.
“This product is the only commercially available off-the-shelf offering that allows constructors to implement the emerging best practice of work packaging,” said Vitelli. “This new paradigm in construction is being advocated by leading industry organizations, including the Construction Industry Institute, following research showing that such methodologies can increase safety and lower total install cost.”
Of the $420 million labor hours that should be done efficiently, only $155 million of that is work getting done.
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Tags: AEC, Bentley Systems, construction, engineering, EPCM, infrastructure
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
John Bacus, director of SketchUp product management, spoke about Trimble’s recent release of Trimble SketchUp 2014, the popular 3D modeling platform for architects, engineers, design and construction professionals. SketchUp 2014 features major enhancements to SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse—a world recognized large repository of free, high-quality, 3D content—as well as new tools that improve the classification of design objects, have more interoperability with other products used in BIM workflows, and make professional documentation more efficient.
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Tags: AEC, architecture, BIM, Building Smart, construction, engineering, Google, SketchUp 2014, Trimble
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Friday, March 7th, 2014
Sherborne Sensors’ Mike Baker examines how field-proven sensor technology lies at the heart of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) innovation.
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is an emerging field that provides information on demand about any significant change or damage occurring in a structure. It has been employed for many years in civil infrastructure in various forms, ranging from visual observation and assessment of structural condition, to technology-led approaches involving deployment of an array of sensors that can include accelerometers, inclinometers and strain measurement devices on site. These sensors can be deployed on a permanent basis or moved on and off site each time a fresh set of data is required.
Conventional forms of inspection and monitoring are only as good as their ability to uncover potential issues in a timely manner. One of the major difficulties with SHM instruments for example, is managing the huge volumes of data that sensor arrays generate. Meanwhile, visual inspections and evaluations are insufficient for determining the structural adequacy of bridges or buildings.
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Tags: AEC, civil engineering, engineering, sensors, Structural Health Monitoring
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Thursday, March 6th, 2014
Brian Robins, director of business development for managed services at Bentley Systems, talked recently with AECCafe Voice about Bentley MANAGEservices, their solution to provision, manage, monitor, and support Bentley software solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction. “Managed services were quite popular in the 80s and 90s and then got overlooked,” said Robins. “Now they are coming to the forefront again, for several reasons.”
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Tags: AEC, Bentley MANAGEservices, Bentley Systems, Cloud, EPCs
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Wednesday, February 26th, 2014
Recently released upgrades for TurboSite Pro and TurboSite Plus, the award-winning apps for field reporting from IMSI/Design, now add video markup to BIM and PDF support. TurboSite Pro v2.5 shows BIM properties and displays 3D section cuts.
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Tags: AEC, architecture, BIM, construction, engineering, IMSI/Design, TurboSite Pro, TurboSite v2.5
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Monday, February 24th, 2014
Brian Sahr, Future Product Marketing Manager, HP LaserJet and Enterprise Solutions, talked last week about the new release of the HP LaserJet Pro MFP M476 color laser device, delivering simple wireless printing from smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, available this spring. The new MFP M476 addresses the following four key trends in the industry:
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Tags: AEC, BIM, HP LaserJet Pro MFP M476, mobile printing, mobility
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Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
Sefaira today announced that its performance based design platform includes daylighting analysis in their Sefaira for SketchUp product. With the addition of daylighting, Sefaira combines two critical design metrics in the same tool.
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Tags: 3D printing, AEC, architecture, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Autodesk Revit, BIM, building information modeling, climate change, construction, green BIM, infrastructure, mobile, Revit, Sefaira
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Thursday, February 13th, 2014
The challenge of getting energy evaluations into a building information model has been puzzling developers for a long time now. GRAPHISOFT has offered some energy evaluation capability in its flagship product ArchiCAD, but now the company has announced EcoDesigner STAR to serve highly energy-efficient building design by turning ArchiCAD BIM models into multiple thermal zone Building Energy Models (BEM).
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Tags: AEC, Archicad, architecture, BIM, EcoDesigner STAR, Graphisoft
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Thursday, February 6th, 2014
The number of large scale construction projects that are implementing building information modeling for collaboration, integrated project delivery and lifecycle management is growing all the time.
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Tags: 3D cities, AEC, architects, Bentley Systems, BIM, building information modeling, construction, engineering, engineers, London, Year in Infrastructure 2013
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Monday, February 3rd, 2014
Andy Rhodes, Executive Director, Dell Precision, talked about the new partnership with Makerbot to sell 3D printers and scanners.
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Tags: 3D printing, 3D prototypes, AEC, architecture, BIM, Dell, fabrication, Makerbot
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