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This article captures the highlights of those products that were exhibited at the recent Autodesk University which are relevant to the AEC industry, including Revit-integrated applications such as Trelligence Affinity, FM:Interact which now provides mobile access, e-SPECS, CodeBook, an interesting new tool called VIMtrek which allows game-like navigation of a Revit model, ClearEdge3D, which develops software for automatically extracting 3D geometry from point cloud data, IMAGINiT’s new ProductivityNOW portal, and updated hardware solutions from Supermicro, HP, Dell, Contex, and Nvidia.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/buildingthefuture/2011/AU2011_Exhibitors.html
This article by Chuck Eastman, Manu Venugopal, and Shiva Aram of Georgia Tech describes a demonstration of the initial results of the National Precast BIM Standard that was held at the PCI Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, in Oct 2011. The National Precast BIM Standard is the first domain-wide specification exchange effort in the AEC industry, defined to address all the major exchanges dealing with precast concrete elements throughout the product lifecycle. Five different precast concrete software systems participated in the demonstration; six exchanges were made between these applications using Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) as the neutral data schema; and two other applications were used to visualize the exchanged data.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/buildingthefuture/2011/NBIM-ProgressReport.html
This article is focused on iPad apps that are available for project management and construction in the AEC industry, including the Vela Systems app for field management, Bentley’s iPad apps for its ProjectWise and Navigator applications, Autodesk’s Buzzsaw and Bluestreak apps, Newforma’s new Mobile Punch List app that has just been announced, and additional construction-specific apps including Onsite:AEC and SafetyNet.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/buildingthefuture/2011/iPadApps-Const.html
Earlier this month, I provided an overview of the inaugural Revit Technology Conference (RTC) in the US that was held from June 23 to 25 in the Huntington Beach area of Los Angeles. While that article was entirely focused on the sessions that were presented, this article is dedicated to providing an overview of the different technologies that were being exhibited by vendors such as Bentley, Newforma, Ideate, and CTC, further pushing the boundaries of what can be done with Revit and adding many more capabilities to the application than what Autodesk could do alone.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/buildingthefuture/2011/RTC2011_Exhibitors.html
This article describes STRATUS, a private cloud server technology for Revit that has been developed by Stephenson & Turner, a medium-sized, multi-disciplinary, Architectural and Building Services Engineering practice based in New Zealand, with offices in Auckland and Wellington. Authored by Des Pudney, the CIO of the firm, the article describes the background and rationale for the development of STRATUS and discusses additional details, including the technology’s features and the benefits afforded by STRATUS to the firm.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/buildingthefuture/2011/PrivateCloudComputing.html
This follow-up article on the AGC’s recent BIMForum event in San Diego discusses additional presentations from AEC firms such as JE Dunn Construction, HNTB Architecture, and PCL Construction Services on using BIM for the design and construction of building envelopes. There were also presentations focused on performance analysis of building envelopes, including acoustical analysis, on fascinating new projects around the world including the Baha’i temple in Chile and the SaRang Community Church in Korea. Additionally, it discusses initiatives by the GSA and NIBS, and the latest offerings from vendors such as McGraw-Hill, Precision 3D Scanning, Scenario VPD, and Eagle Point.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/buildingthefuture/2011/AGC_BIMForum_2.html
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