The American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Convention held in Atlanta two weeks ago, was the setting for a number of AEC vendors to announce new products and services.
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From the Exhibit Floor at AIA in Atlanta
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015AECCafe Attendance at AIA in Atlanta
Monday, May 11th, 2015For all those traveling to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) event in Atlanta, AECCafe will be there and interested in talking to attendees and vendors.
Some of my questions for attendees:
1) What is your interest in attending the conference?
2) What kinds of technologies/standards/trends are you interested in finding out about?
3) What is your role in the world of architecture today?
4) What steps, if any, are being taken in your firm towards sustainable infrastructure?
Bentley’s ProjectWise Essentials Brings Cloud-Based Design Integration to the Mid-Tier
Thursday, May 7th, 2015Bentley Systems’ ProjectWise Essentials is an innovative, cloud-based, design integration environment designed for the mid-tier AEC market. Bentley’s popular ProjectWise design collaboration and work sharing solution has been addressing the needs of large AEC organizations for over 20 years.
ProjectWise Essentials Photo Preview
How Does Architecture Fit into the Future?
Friday, May 1st, 2015Who are the next generation of architects? Or rather, how does architecture fit into the future?
An Engineering Approach to Big AEC Data
Friday, April 24th, 2015Environmental Systems Design is a consulting engineering firm that addresses the AEC industry. According to vice president ESD Global, the company does all the engineering in the building that you can’t see “but you really notice unless it doesn’t work, such as, heating, cooling, electrical, lighting, low voltage work, computer networking and data centers.”
The $1.2 billion Kingdom Tower, which will stretch 3,280ft into the Saudi Arabian sky, has so far only been illustrated through concept sketches and a rendering showing the bank-busting building from afar.
EdgeWise 5.0 Furthers Revit Integration and Much More
Wednesday, April 8th, 2015Chris Scotton, president and CEO of ClearEdge, talked with AECCafe Voice about the latest release of EdgeWise, EdgeWise 5.0. In this release, the ClearEdge team has updated the core automated feature extraction algorithms. The EdgeWise 5.0 release is for the BIM Suite and the Plant Suite.
Tekla Structural Designer Combines Analysis and Design
Wednesday, April 1st, 2015Stuart Broome, Business Manager, Engineering North America at Tekla, a Trimble company, spoke with AECCafe about the recent addition to the Tekla portfolio, Tekla Structural Designer, a dedicated analysis and design software for structural engineers working on commercial building projects.
TurboCAD Pro 2015 and TurboCAD Pro Platinum 2015 released
Thursday, March 12th, 2015Dave Taylor, product design manager at IMSI/Design, spoke with AECCafe Voice about the recent release of TurboCAD Pro 2015 and TurboCAD Pro Platinum 2015.
IMAGINiT Clarity for Revit helps BIM teams focus on data that matters
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015Rand Worldwide announced in December at AU 2014 that its IMAGINiT Technologies division released key features provide more power, flexibility and enhance BIM coordinators’ abilities to monitor projects with IMAGINiT Clarity, IMAGINiT Clarity Connect and IMAGINiT Clarity Connect LT.
Special Coverage: Envisioning 3D Cities of the Future
Tuesday, February 17th, 2015First published in GISCafe Voice:
Cities worldwide are charged with the same challenge: that of creating or retrofitting sustainable, intelligent infrastructure. Cities need the best in design, geospatial, visualization and analytical tools to realize a viable and intelligent city design. 3D City design is architectural design times thousands, plus it must have the ability to be interwoven with other surrounding infrastructure and foster an urban conversation.
