The rise of AI and robotics and the fall of BIM: the digital transformation has created a disruption in almost every field imaginable. From Google to Amazon, through Uber and Airbnb, it seems like our world is quickly adopting new models of automation and lean digital...

Tekla Structures gets new functionality-focused licensing options, simplified change management plus lots more Trimble has introduced 2021 versions of its Tekla tools for constructible BIM, structural engineering and steel fabrication management – Tekla Structures,...

PARAM-O is designed to make it easy for architects to create parametric libraries without having to write any code Architects can now create building component libraries parametrically inside Graphisoft Archicad 24 without having to write a single line of GDL code or...

If digital construction is the future, we need to understand modern fabrication methods. Richard Harpham ponders if today’s design-centric BIM solutions are the right tools and, indeed, if architecture is the right discipline to take this on? It looks like the...

Revit has predominantly occupied the design / documentation space of BIM. Strucsoft extends its capabilities to driving fabrication through several applications covering timber/steel framing, floors, trusses and CNC fabrication. Montreal-based Strucsoft certainly...

We have all been using Computer Aided Design for decades but, the fact is, the computer has hardly aided in the design so far. The last few years have seen a number of interesting design optimisation tools appear, one of which is Testfit.io As an industry we like to...

An optimised cloud-based digital construction workflow is helping the ECC Group keep its largest projects on track, improve site productivity, cut contractors’ unseen costs and reduce the impact of Covid-19. Recognised as one of Ireland’s foremost engineering...

With many feeling that BIM development is stagnating, AEC Magazine asked Bricsys’ BricsCAD BIM product manager, Tiemen Strobbe, what disruptive technologies he thought will drive the industry’s toolsets The construction industry — which encompasses real estate,...