AECCafe Voice Archive for the ‘field’ CategoryAward-Winning Comcast Technology Center Employs New Structural “Off-Center” Split Core DesignThursday, October 10th, 2019Peter Napiorkowski, assistant manager, Prodraft, Inc. spoke with AECCafe Voice about the challenges and rewards of the Comcast Technology Center project, a Tekla 2019 North America BIM Awards Steel Winner. Comcast Technology Center is the newest skyscraper addition to the Philadelphia skyline.  DBOX for Foster + Partners – Arch Street – Comcast Entrance New Trimble X7 3D Laser Scanning System Introduced for Construction, Surveying and Forensic ApplicationsWednesday, September 25th, 2019The 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. BAM Ireland Adopts Autodesk BIM 360 and Construction IQ for Full Data PotentialWednesday, September 18th, 2019Manu Venugopal, senior product manager, BIM 360 Construction IQ, Autodesk, spoke with AECCafe Voice about BAM Ireland and its data management challenges prior to adopting Autodesk BIM 360 and Construction IQ. Royal BAM is one of Europe’s most successful engineering and construction companies, with over 21,000 employees and thousands of projects ongoing each year. The sheer volume of papers and files the organization handles is astronomical and has been difficult to assemble in a useful and comprehensive way. By digitizing their workflows they were were able to achieve a 20% reduction in on-site quality and safety issues, and 25% more time to focus on high-risk items.  BAM Ireland data capture GeoCue Releases TrueView UAV/LiDAR Fusion PlatformFriday, August 23rd, 2019GeoCue President and CTO, Lewis Graham, answered some questions for GISCafe Voice about GeoCue products and their new TrueView platform. TrueView is UAV/LiDAR fusion by design, according to company materials, an integrated LIDAR/camera fusion platform designed from the ground up to generate high accuracy 3D colorized point clouds.
The Latest in Trimble's 4D Control Real-Time Monitoring SoftwareThursday, August 8th, 2019In a webinar offered by Christian Abendschien, product manager monitoring solutions and Christian Breuer, marketing manager monitoring solutions for Trimble 4D Control Real-Time Software, they discussed the latest innovations in Trimble 4D Control Real-Time Monitoring Software.
Juniper Systems Releases Two New Rugged Handheld Computers for Data-Intensive ApplicationsThursday, May 16th, 2019The Birmingham, UK company, Juniper Systems Limited announced the release of two new rugged handheld computers, each the third generation in their respective product lines. The new Allegro 3™ Rugged Handheld Computer is designed for applications requiring full alpha-numeric keyboard input, while the new Archer 3™ Rugged Handheld Computer is ideal for single-handed data entry use. Both products were designed for data-intensive applications and are now running on the Android® operating system.
AECCafe Special Report: Digital Twin Technology Mirrors AEC Reality, Materializes the IntangibleFriday, March 22nd, 2019Digital Twins – are they taking the AEC technology world by storm? IDC recently noted that by 2020, 30% of global 2000 companies will be using data from Digital Twins to improve organizational productivity by as much as 25%.  According to the 2018 Gartner Hype Cycle, Digital Twin is a trend that is now approaching the “Peak of Inflated Expectations” and is estimated to hit the “Plateau of Productivity” within 5 to 10 years. Image courtesy of Gartner, Inc. ARCHIBUS Workplace Links Staff to Workspaces on Any DeviceThursday, 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. Unity 3D’s PiXYZ Plug-In Real Time 3D Tool Changes the Face of Workflow ModelsFriday, March 8th, 2019Tim McDonough, general manager of Industries, for Unity3D spoke with AECCafe Voice about the PiXYZ plug in that can be now used to host AEC projects in Unity3D. PiXYZ Plugin and PiXYZ Studio for Unity allows you to import IFC BIM files into Unity. The 2018.3 version of the PiXYZ products are now available and can import the geometry from Revit and all BIM 360 data. Trimble’s Constructible Revolutionizes Building Construction DataThursday, 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. |
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