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Screampoint ready to reveal new Digital Cities software

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Randall Newton

AEC software veterans and a Google Earth co-creator lead the team. Today venture-funded AEC startup Screampoint announced the launch of ...

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Autodesk third quarter net income up 81%

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Randall Newton

For the first time in three years all geographic regions reported double-digit growth. CEO Carl Bass used the analyst Q&A ...

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A/E Discovers the Mythical Man Month

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Randall Newton

Less staff but productivity rises? Programmers learned this a generation ago. Too bad it takes The Great Recession to wake ...

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Nemetschek Division Name Change Reflects Reality

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Randall Newton

The former Nemetschek North America has changed its company name to Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. The Vectorworks line of software provides ...

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2008: Avatech’s George Davis: ‘We Can Weather the Storm’

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Randall Newton

When George Davis became CEO of Avatech Solutions in 2007, the company was in the middle of its own economic ...

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How Many Design Firms Have Gone Under in This Recession?

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Randall Newton

It seems no one knows exactly how many architectural and engineering firms have closed in the US since the start ...

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Diva Adds Architectural Daylight Analysis to Rhino

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Randall Newton

A team of Harvard architectural design researchers wrote Diva so they could do daylight analysis inside Rhino. A team of ...

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Sent From My iPad

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Randall Newton

A construction engineering manager sees a bright future for the Apple iPad in construction. By Dave Angelotti Guest Contributor I’ve ...

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Survey: Integrated Project Delivery Simultaneously Scary but Intriguing

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Randall Newton

A new ZweigWhite survey on attitudes toward IPD show both fear and longing. The results of a new AEC survey ...

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A/E Firms Report Overall Decline in Staff Counts

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Randall Newton

The ZweigWhite annual survey of financial performance at architecture and engineering firms in the US finds steady declines across the ...