No one would contest the fact that 2016 has been a tumultuous year, with lots of shifts worldwide and many disruptive technologies coming onboard.
Oak-paneled Auditorium inside the Aliyev Center – photo by Helene Binet
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2016 in Review Through AECCafe Stories
Wednesday, December 14th, 2016The Human Experience and Technology: AECCafe’s Autodesk University 2016 Report
Thursday, November 17th, 2016The Autodesk University 2016 keynote kicked off this Tuesday morning at the Venetian Congress Center, Las Vegas, with some rousing state-of-the-art rock and roll, followed by an introduction by Autodesk CTO Jeff Kowalski.
AECCafe Attends Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE FORUM in Santa Clara
Wednesday, November 9th, 2016AECCafe will be in attendance at Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE FORUM held in Santa Clara, California on Thursday, November 10th. This venue is focused on how to address industrial challenges and quickly realize the benefits of this business model.
According to company materials, by attending this year’s event, you will get the opportunity to:
- Learn from thought leaders on key issues impacting all businesses today – manufacturing in the future, the sharing economy, digital transformation, big data and the internet of everything
- Meet with senior executives from a range of industries to gain insight into how today’s leaders are driving their business to create captivating experiences for their end customers
- Discover Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform and learn how the power of connecting people, ideas, solutions and data create a new framework for thinking that can help you innovate, develop new revenue streams and realize the future of the experience economy
Look forward to seeing many of you there! Editor, Susan Smith susan.smith@ibsystems.com and President, Sanjay Gangal sanjay.gangal@ibsystems.com
BEinspiring in London – AECCafe’s Bentley Year In Infrastructure 2016 Report
Thursday, November 3rd, 2016It’s difficult not to be inspired when attending the Bentley Year In Infrastructure Conference, with so many talented professionals gathered to show off their infrastructure projects.
Innovation in Building Winner: Morphosis – Hanking Center Tower. Image Courtesy of Bentley Systems
From the Exhibit Hall: SPAR3D 2016
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016Those I spoke to at SPAR3D 2016 last week were amazed at the progress the 3D laser scanning/reality capture products had made over just one year. Many people attended in order to find out if the technology would be right for their organization and what it would entail in terms of a learning curve, and of course, how much it would cost.
SPAR 3D scanning mobile unit from Surphaser
AECCafe Special Report: AEC Collaboration Platforms and the Cloud
Friday, March 18th, 2016Buildings are now generating vast amounts of data, cities need to be sustainable, flexible and producers of resources. AEC professionals must also have their eye on environmental impact and diminishing greenhouse gas emissions in design and construction as well as operations. As owner/operators get more involved in the entire lifecycle of the project, there is a greater need for convergence and collaboration of AEC teams.
Autodesk’s BIM 360 Docs Now Available Commercially
Thursday, February 4th, 2016The construction industry is driven by documentation in the form of submittals, contracts, record sets, and RFIs. While this is still a priority, the design teams are adopting BIM, and there needs to be a way to consolidate all the information coming from various stakeholders on the project.
View and navigate 3D models, access object properties, use sectioning tools and explore models with gravity-based walkthroughs.
Autodesk’s BIM 360 Docs web service was just made available as a commercial product. Designed for the entire construction project team, BIM 360 Docs ensures that the entire team works from the correct version of documents and plans. Addressing the entire AEC lifecycle, BIM 360 Docs includes tools for publishing, managing, reviewing, editing and approving all project plans, models and documents from the beginning stages of the project all the way through owner occupancy. The cloud-based service is available on all devices or desktop, so that it is a complete collaborative tool.
Quickly navigate between 2D plans and 3D models on any device, without having to close the viewer.
Unlike typical document management platforms available on the market, which are generally in the form of document management platforms, AEC drawing viewers or model viewers, and project management apps, BIM 360 Docs goes beyond the focus on specific people or goals to putting the project at the center of the technology instead. The single cloud-based repository holds all project documents, models and plans for the entire project team.
Call for Participants: February Topics – Collaboration and Reality Capture
Tuesday, January 26th, 2016Two topics coming up for February timeframe on AECCafe Voice:
Collaboration platforms and the Cloud
Reality Capture
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AECCafe Editorial Calendar 2016
Tuesday, December 8th, 2015AECCafe
Editorial Calendar 2016*
January:
1/31-2/3 Solidworks World, Dallas, TX
Editorial topics:
- Trends and Predictions for 2016
- Collaboration platforms and the Cloud
1 Merchant Square, London, Robin Partington & Partners Architects
21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21/CMP11) to Convene in Paris Monday
Tuesday, November 24th, 2015France will chair and host the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21/CMP11), from 30 November to 11 December 2015. The conference is crucial because the expected outcome is a new international agreement on climate change, applicable to all, to keep global warming below 2°C, a level that would ensure safety of the planet’s fragile resources. If that level is not achieved, it could have devastating consequences on world populations and survival.
One of the challenges of the Paris agreement, where heads of state will all gather, will be to establish a periodic – ideally five-year – review mechanism to raise the ambition of each Party and progressively improve the collective effort toward keeping global warming below 2°C.
Each country represented will obviously have reasons to participate but also issues, largely economic and political, that may create a climate of resistance to the review mechanism.
Royal Insight from Prince Charles
Prince Charles of the UK, The Prince, a tireless climate change campaigner for the past four decades, will deliver a keynote speech at the opening of COP21 next Monday.
He gave an exclusive interview to Sky News three weeks ago (well before the Paris attacks) about his ongoing concerns about climate change, saying he believes there is evidence to suggest that the reason for the Syrian conflict and resulting terrorism was drought. “We need to deal with the problem of the movement of people as a result of not being able to survive,” he said.
