May 5, 2022
SimScale’s recent World Cities Day event highlighted the importance of simulation technology in the design of projects ranging from individual buildings to entire cities. It also included presentations from leading firms such as Thornton Tomasetti, KPF, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Atkins.
This article captures the highlights of the 2022 ODA (Open Design Alliance) Summit, including the developments in its wide range of SDKs, its newest Scan-to-BIM SDK, and demonstrations by member companies on how they have implemented ODA technologies in their products.
Graphisoft unveiled the latest versions of its products at a live event held last week, including its flagship BIM application, Archicad; its cloud collaboration solution, BIMcloud; its mobile and web model viewing app, BIMx; and a new building services solution, DDS CAD, that it recently acquired.
This article captures the highlights of ALLPLAN’s annual event, including the latest developments in its parametric solutions for roads and bridges as well customer implementations of its products in several countries including Germany, Turkey, France, Portugal, China, Brazil, Croatia, and Romania.
This article explores the cutting-edge AEC technology applications developed by CORE Studio, a dedicated software development group at Thornton Tomasetti. The applications including Konstru, Swarm, Asterisk, Trace, and many more for design, analysis, collaboration and visualization.
Layer is a new AEC application that was launched close to six months ago to address what seems to be an obvious need in the industry—organizing and integrating the vast amount of disparate data that is typically collected on site during the retrofit or construction of a building project.
Fender Katsalidis describes the implementation of AEC technology on the “Merdeka 118” project, a 118-storey, mega-tall skyscraper under construction in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Upon completion, it will become the tallest building in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, and the second-tallest building in the world.
This article questions why we still don’t have a smart building design tool which does not require us to painstakingly model every detail in our buildings, but can automatically create much of it from a conceptual sketch using a rule-based expert system.
