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, 2015Autodesk AEC Media Summit Report
Thursday, May 28th, 2015Last week media trekked to Autodesk’s new Innovation and Design Building in the heart of Boston for the Autodesk AEC Media Summit. While the previous LEED Gold headquarters in Waltham, Mass. was a testament to the company’s commitment to sustainable design, the Innovation and Design Building speaks to their branching out in their innovative capacities.
“As if It Were Already There” – sculpture by Janet Echelman in Rose F. Kennedy Greenway
AECCafe 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?
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.
AutoCAD 2016 is here
Thursday, March 26th, 2015The newly available AutoCAD 2016 release includes many new features that accelerate the 2D and 3D design, documentation and collaboration process plus new graphics hardware for better and faster visualization. In addition, users can share their work with others using TrustedDWG™ technology, for the storage and exchange design data.
AutoCAD 2016 includes many new features that accelerate 2D and 3D design
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.
AECCafe Voice Techno-Predictions for 2015
Tuesday, January 27th, 2015I’ve been reviewing what people have been discussing at conferences this year, and what their thoughts are for 2015. While so many topics such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) have been around for awhile, they are still very relevant moving forward. Customers are still grappling with challenging problems surrounding project delivery and collaboration. Others want to ensure that the model they build will not only last through the life of the project, but will extend beyond it into the future, for operations and maintenance. Reality capture, UAVs, scanning, data management, data acquisition as a service, cloud computing, are all technologies we have today, yet will be front and center in the AEC community going forward into the new year.
MultiTaction Display Wall
Taking a look at IMAGINiT’s infrastructure division
Friday, January 9th, 2015At Autodesk University 2014 held in Las Vegas in December, Kevin Breslin Infrastructure Solutions Manager, IMAGINiT Technologies talked about new technologies that are being used by their consulting company and their clients this year. IMAGINiT is a provider of software, training, support and services to design and engineering companies and Autodesk Authorized Reseller and Autodesk Training Center.
La Pata Gap Closure, Orange County, California. Image courtesy of Huitt-Zollars and Orange County Public Works
