Giraffe for urban planning

Giraffe for urban planning

Giraffe loomed into view long before the current glut of data and analytical tools for early-phase design emerged. For over six years, this Australian developer has been quietly amassing an impressive portfolio of tools, connecting spatial building and city design...
Project Phoenix: tech driven affordable housing

Project Phoenix: tech driven affordable housing

Sustainability meets industrialised construction in this new Autodesk-led collaboration to deliver affordable housing to West Oakland, California Project Phoenix is a collaborative effort between MBH Architects, Factory_OS, and Autodesk Research designed to make...

Rhino 8 boosts architectural modelling

Flexible CAD software includes new tools for creating rectilinear architectural forms Rhino 8, the latest release of the flexible Mac / Windows CAD tool from McNeel, is now available. The new version introduces new modelling tools, a speed boost for Mac, PushPull...
Skema beta: design automation

Skema beta: design automation

In a flurry of concept design tools, Skema stands out from the crowd, morphing data from past projects and rapidly moving from massing to highly detailed and integrated Revit models, writes Martyn Day In the AEC industry, much of the frustration associated with BIM...

BIMcollab Twin ‘digital twin’ platform launches

Software follows on from acquisition of Dutch CDE software developer BIMlink BV BIMcollab, best known for its BIM issue management platform, has launched a ‘digital twin’ solution, BIMcollab Twin. The new offering largely appears to be a reframing of the Common Data...

Automatic for the people

Speckle Automate brings automation to open-source AEC platform On the pathway to BIM, AEC data flows managed to get well and truly broken. This is not ideal in a world where collaboration and interoperability are paramount. Speckle started out as a geeky product,...