Image Plex.Earth Timeviews service gives AEC firms ‘unlimited instant access’ to premium satellite data

Image New integrated construction management offering features a wide range of acquired and in-house developed web services

Image New release of the real-time rendering tool gets more realistic trees and plants and the ability to paint them into a scene

Image Ideate Explorer aids in model management and allows CBT to quickly identify where issues may be

Image New 2.5 displacement tool is said to render 3x faster with half the memory for scenes using intense displacement

Image Virtual Reality and training hub designed to support collaborative BIM workflows

Image Integration of Vectorworks BIM capabilities with Esri’s ArcGIS Online services said to benefit planners, developers and designers

Image New collaborative immersive projection space boasts a smaller footprint and allows for faster set-up and de-rig

Image New integration allows AEC teams to collaborate on BIM content in VR/AR from anywhere

Image Microdesk ARID uses ML and AI to analyse assets names and values, identify inconsistencies and make recommendations

Image The HoloLens 2 is a vast improvement over the first generation mixed reality headset. Visual experience and interaction might grab the headlines, but for AEC firms the biggest impact should come from Azure cloud connectivity

Image The technology to design and fabricate high-quality engineered buildings is entering a disruptive phase. How will large AEC firms cope? 

Image Greg Corke reports on an easy to use rendering add-on for V-Ray that uses lightfields to bring new levels of interactivity and dynamism to 360 VR renders

Image When Unity Reflect launches later this year, AEC firms will be able to push rich BIM data out to multiple devices, quickly and easily, and then build custom apps on top.

Image SiteVision can blend 3D civils or BIM models with real-world environments

Image NBS Chorus specification platform tightly integrated with solutions from Autodesk, Viewpoint and Newforma

Image New features include support for McNeel Grasshopper through a dedicated connection

Image Project Information management tool said to offer ‘smarter way’ to manage project deliverables and communication

Image The new VR-2 and VR-2 Pro support SteamVR and OpenVR, and the VR-2 Pro offers integrated Ultraleap hand tracking for enhanced interactivity

Image Rhino 3D with Grasshopper occupies a special place in the AEC industry. Soon the software will be able to work in pretty much any Windows application, including Revit

Image Organisers want to hear about emerging ideas and the creative application of new tech, plus the individuals making an impact

Image Nemetschek’s Vectorworks has delivered its yearly update to its flagship BIM modelling suite of products and the news is, it’s a big one, offering some unique capabilities.

Image Real-time rendering tool Enscape has just had a major overhaul, laying the groundwork for real time ray tracing with Nvidia RTX

Image Portability doesn’t have to come at the expense of performance as Greg Corke discovers in this impressive 14” CAD-focused mobile workstation from HP

Image BIM offers many benefits, not least its ability to check a design’s overall quality, to identify spatial, functional and data errors. Xinaps has a new customisable, cloud- based checker

Image Epic Games’ Build:London event has become an essential diary date for the AEC fraternity. There’s a great balance between showing real-world applications and giving insight into what’s coming next in Unreal Engine

Image Digital technologies were key to communicating the design and overturning planning objections for a contemporary extension to a 19th century Dublin house

Image With V-Ray and Corona, Chaos Group is a dominant force in arch Viz. We report from the company’s huge user event in Bulgaria

Image Company’s cloud-based image processing software will create 3D experiences derived from standard smartphone cameras

Image Platform helps construction teams to connect, report, collaborate and manage International engineering projects