IES extends Indoor Air Quality simulation

Partnership with Octopus Lab will allow allow users of IESVE software to simulate the concentration of over a thousand pollutants IES has signed a strategic partnership with French software company Octopus Lab to bring better indoor air quality simulation to a wider...

Eleco acquires Vertical Digital Solutions

Custom software integration and development provider will help Eleco customers deliver on their digital transformation strategies Built environment software provider Eleco has acquired Romania-based custom software integration and development provider, Vertical...

Nvidia finally brings RTX to entry-level desktop GPUs

Nvidia RTX A400 (4 GB) and A1000 (8 GB) GPUs to enhance AI and visualisation workflows Nvidia has launched its first entry-level professional desktop GPUs to feature RT cores for ray tracing and Tensor cores for AI. The Nvidia RTX A400 (4 GB) and RTX A1000 (8 GB) are...

SketchUp for iPad embraces reality capture

New Scan-to-Design feature uses iPad Pro’s LiDAR scanner to capture as-builts SketchUp for iPad can now take advantage of the iPad Pro’s LiDAR scanner to capture scans of buildings and transform the data it into ‘clean, organised 3D geometry’ as a starting point for...
Scaling-up digital construction

Scaling-up digital construction

As an industry, offsite modular is pretty much collapsing in the UK. There’s a serious scarcity of skilled labour, and the traditional construction industry racked up more insolvencies last year than any other sector. So what hope does the UK have of digitising...

Autodesk to take over VAR payments from customers

Will this latest change diminish the role of the CAD reseller? Throughout its history, Autodesk’s business model has been constantly evolving. Someone joked on LinkedIn recently that ‘Autodesk’s business model is to get you to the next business model.’ For end users,...