Francois Valois, vice president, Civil Engineering with Bentley Systems spoke at Bentley’s recent Civil Design Virtual Press Briefing about the current state of civil engineering and how we now need to do things differently. Civil infrastructure will continue to need to accelerate, according to Valois. “There has been an enormous infrastructure deficit over the years. Any time we stop accelerating we make the problem worse. Now we have social distancing, and funding challenges. Projects may be funded by a special tax on gas, for example. In addition to this, we have to stay home and when we’re onsite we must have less people onsite and find new ways to work. Our answer is the digital twin, and helping our users to go digital.”
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Bentley Civil Design’s Answer to the New Normal: The Digital Twin
Friday, May 15th, 2020Pointfuse Space Creator Automates Feature Conversion to BIM LOD 200 and Much More
Thursday, March 12th, 2020Pointfuse, a powerful modeling engine that delivers an automatic, precise and flexible way of converting the vast point cloud datasets generated by laser scanners or photogrammetry into segmented mesh models, has launched a new toolkit called Space Creator. Pointfuse Space Creator is designed to facilitate adopting laser scanning within space management, planning and utilization workflows.
IMAGINiT Clarity and Autodesk Dynamo a Winning Combination
Thursday, February 6th, 2020Recently, AECCafe Voice conducted interviews with Peter Costanza, director Facilities Management, Carl Storms, senior applications expert, and Matt Mason, director of Software Solutions from IMAGINiT about the latest developments for their company and what was talked about at Autodesk University 2019.
AECCafe Industry Predictions 2020 – Part 4
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020We are winding down our Industry Predictions 2020 series now, with one more week to go. The commitment of industry professionals to what lies ahead in 2020 is demonstrated in these informative views.
This week we cover topics such as digital adoption maturity in construction, VR/AR, drone capture and laser scanning, and cloud adoption. CMiC, Autodesk, Trimble and Workspot are our featured voices.
AECCafe Industry Predictions 2020- Part 3
Thursday, January 16th, 2020We’re coming down the home stretch with our AECCafe Industry Predictions. The last of a series of editorial articles on this topic will be published the last week of January. Deadline for entries is January 20th. This article is the third installment of those articles.
Please keep your submission to 200-1,000 words, with author’s name, email address, photo and a short bio. Susan.smith@ibsystems.com
AECCafe Industry Predictions 2020 – Part 2
Friday, January 10th, 2020Every January AECCafe Voice publishes blogs of industry predictions from our readers. This article is the second installment of those predictions. This year we have extended the deadline to Tuesday, January 14th for entries.
AECCafe Industry Predictions for 2020 – Part 1
Friday, January 3rd, 2020Happy New Year!
Every January AECCafe Voice publishes blogs of industry predictions from our readers. This year we have extended the deadline to January 14th for entries.
AECCafe Editorial Calendar 2020
Thursday, December 5th, 2019AMD Announces AMD Radeon Pro W5700 Professional PC Workstation Graphics Card
Thursday, November 21st, 2019At Autodesk University 2019 held this week in Las Vegas, NV, AMD announced the AMD Radeon™ Pro W5700, said to be the world’s first 7nm professional PC workstation graphics card. According to company materials, the new graphics card delivers new levels of performance and advanced features that enable 3D designers, architects and engineers to visualize, review and interact with their designs in real time, dramatically accelerating decision-making processes and product development cycles.
Trimble XR10 for HoloLens 2 System Enables Workers to Visualize 3D Data on Project Sites
Thursday, November 14th, 2019Trimble announced this week that they are now taking orders for the Trimble® XR10 with HoloLens 2 system, a worksite-ready mixed-reality solution that enables workers to visualize 3D data on project sites for easier and more efficient planning, collaboration and reporting.