Construction

Getting more from on-site plant equipment

Posted by Andrew Johnson - May 20, 2021

BIM, 4D scheduling and machine learning is helping improve construction site equipment utilisation

Visualisation

AI generates 3D objects for viz from a single image

Posted by Greg Corke - April 16, 2021

Nvidia GANverse3D uses machine learning to generate fully textured realistic 3D meshes

AI

AI/ML to detect road safety issues in real-time

Posted by AEC Magazine - March 30, 2021

Transoft technology to form backbone to Ontario crash risk prediction system

News

Piaggio and Trimble collaborate on robot-swarms

Posted by Martyn Day - March 24, 2021

Trimble and Piaggio Fast Forward trial (PFF) autonomous robots that follow others on construction sites.

Digital fabrication

Towards a parametric future

Posted by Tal Friedman - March 24, 2021

Tal Friedman explores the rise of AI and robotics and the fall of BIM

BIM

Three trends for BIM tools

Posted by Tiemen Strobbe - March 19, 2021

What disruptive technologies will drive the industry’s toolsets in 2021

GIS

Flood risk modelling goes under the microscope

Posted by AEC Magazine - March 9, 2021

Newcastle University’s high-res flood risk modelling combines LiDAR and oblique aerial photography with AI

AI

TestFit integrates with Tomasetti Asterisk to drive AEC projects

Posted by AEC Magazine - February 24, 2021

Combining their advanced AI-driven platforms, the partnership aims to cut design tasks from weeks to…

Features

20 AEC technologies that can aid social distancing

Posted by Greg Corke - July 22, 2020

20 technologies that can help AEC firms and facility owners plan, function and mitigate risk…

AI

Digital twins: the next frontier

Posted by Greg Corke - November 22, 2020

Keith Bentley, CTO of Bentley Systems, on why machine learning is so important to digital…