What do we want from AI? Defining responsibility in adoption

Trimble’s Stuart Campbell, explores AI in construction, the call for standardisation and where the responsibility should lie AI has been part of our technological landscape for years, but its capabilities are rapidly advancing. The construction industry, in...
Chaos acquires AI software firm EvolveLab

Chaos acquires AI software firm EvolveLab

Developer of V-Ray and Enscape will gain valuable AI visualisation technology and unlock new opportunities in AEC design software Chaos, a specialist in arch viz software, has acquired EvolveLab, a developer of AI tools for streamlining visualisation, generative...

Topcon and Faro announce strategic agreement

Reality capture specialists will collaborate on laser scanning technology Topcon and Faro have announced a strategic agreement to ‘develop and distribute innovative solutions’ in the laser scanning market. The companies expect the agreement to expand access to digital...
Twinmotion 2025.1 adds realism to exterior scenes

Twinmotion 2025.1 adds realism to exterior scenes

Real-time viz software includes volumetric clouds, adds control over sky, sun and fog Epic Games has unveiled Twinmotion 2025.1, the latest release of its easy-to-use visualisation software, widely used by AEC professionals. New features include volumetric clouds;...

AI platform to ‘liberate dark AEC data’

Tektome brings structure to data across various formats to enable automation and quality checking Tektome is a new AI platform for processing, automation, and quality checking of architectural design data through the use of natural language. ‘Dark data’ can be...

AI BIM assistant for Revit launches

Pele AI plug-in uses natural language prompts to automate and streamline repetitive tasks Pele AI is a new AI BIM Assistant for Revit designed to simplify, automate and streamline manual tasks such as tagging elements, generating views, organising sheets or...