The annual Bentley Systems Year in Infrastructure Awards was held in Singapore this year at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel. Finalists and attendees gather to learn about the projects and ultimately to see who is awarded the winning distinction in each category. Categories include Buildings and Campuses, Road and Rail Asset Performance, Digital Cities, Bridges, Power Generation, Utilities and Industrial Asset Performance, 4D Construction Modeling, Reality Modeling, Mining and Offshore Engineering, Rail and Transit, Roads and Highways, Manufacturing, Water and Wastewater, and Communications and Utilities.
2019 was a banner year for Bentley’s Year In Infrastructure thought leadership conference, in its focused attention to what organizations need to manage increasing quantities and densities of data. Digital Twins were definitely the order of the day this year, with other technologies taking front and center stage in the form of acquisitions.
Peter 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.
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nTopology was featured in a July 2019 article in Forbes Magazine, with a focus on the $20 million the company had raised, led by early-stage VC firm Canaan, to expand its design capabilities and increase its customer base. Brad Rothenberg, nTopology’s 34-year old founder and CEO, spoke with AECCafe Voice about the nTop platform and how it got started and what it provides.
The 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.
Manu 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.
For those who have dreamt of walking in the clouds, there is a new attraction at the Top of the World Summit of Whistler Mountain, located in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia. The Cloudraker SkyBridge and Raven’s Eye Cliffwalk is a new 130 meter-long steel pedestrian suspension bridge leading to a cantilevered viewing platform, anchored into rock and projecting 12.5 meters out from the mountain’s edge. At more than 2,100 meters above sea level, it is thought to be the highest pedestrian bridge in North America and offers access to spectacular 360-degree views of the Whistler Valley and surrounding mountain peaks.
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Pete Mann, SVP of Corporate Development for Deltek, spoke with AECCafe Voice this week about Deltek’s acquisition of ComputerEase, a company that is known as a standard in construction accounting, project management, and field management software for contractors. Deltek is a global provider of software and solutions for project based businesses. The announcement was made on Monday, August 12th.
According to company materials, over 6,000 contractors in North America use ComputerEase’s integrated construction solutions, offered on-premise or in the cloud, for streamlining all aspects of their businesses. Founded in 1983, ComputerEase software includes job costing, construction accounting, project management, field management and other add-ons, including fleet and asset management, as well as certified payroll – which address the concerns specific to construction industry businesses. ComputerEase is valued for its scalable approach to construction.
For decades, Deltek has offered award-winning solutions to A&E firms of all sizes. With the combination of Deltek + ComputerEase, the company secures its place in the construction industry, adding to its powerful portfolio of solutions for architects, engineers and construction firms. The end result will be rather an end-to-end approach to AEC firms across the board who are looking to coordinate their workflows.
GeoCue 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.
James Kotronis, Founder & CEO, KOTRONIS Consulting, commented on the recent partnership between Kotronis and Dassault Systèmes and why they work primarily with Dassault in an interview with AECCafe Voice. In the following video, he provided insights into the relationship between the two companies at the Dassault 3DEXPERIENCE FORUM. A look at the new database driven approach to the Cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform as opposed to the traditional file based approach offers great advantage to the AEC industry.
