Technology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 New cloud service brings models into the mainstream, viewable in any web browser

Image Satsense converts satellite data every six days and offers historical snaps shots going back to 2015

Image 360° reality capture software company developing an application for autonomous progress tracking with the Spot Mini robot

Image Images from 360° cameras attached to construction worker’s hard hats are stitched together by AI

Image It’s been a long time coming but, with AMD’s Zen 2, Intel is finally getting some serious competition. Greg Corke reports on Scan’s new Ryzen 3000 workstation

Image Project Lavina now includes animation support, Nvidia RTX GPU scaling, a new noise algorithm and more