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Graphisoft BIMx model viewer for iPad/iPhone connects with Facebook

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Randall Newton

With game-style navigation and social networking as a useful function, Graphisoft has released the industry’s first next-generation CAD/BIM viewer.  Graphisoft ...

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AEC startups Horizontal and Ziggurat launch cloud BIM partnership

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Randall Newton

The two plan to carve out a niche as the ‘best of breed’ in 3D BIM project collaboration for existing ...

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Tekla adds construction management module

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Randall Newton

Newest module in Tekla Structures offers a 3D BIM approach to construction work processes. Tekla has added a construction management ...

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Sydney high-rise designed in ArchiCAD rakes in the awards

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Randall Newton

Ark-Coca-Cola Place is the first commercial tower in Australia completely designed, constructed, and managed from a BIM model. Australia’s first ...

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US Air Force civil engineering to buy $26 million in Autodesk software

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Randall Newton

The five-year deal was the work of reseller DLT Solution. Autodesk today announced the United States Air Force Office of ...

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FIATECH offers webinar on revolutionary construction fabrication process

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Randall Newton

FIATECH will present the inventor of Contour Crafting, a technology that promises to revolutionize construction the way additive fabrication is ...

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New Tekla BIM viewer is good, but not what AEC desperately needs

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Randall Newton

BIM has enough proprietary viewers but too few interoperability options. And where are the AEC iPad viewers? Structural engineering software ...

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Impatient progress: Abu Dhabi hopes to build its own future

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Randall Newton

The oil-rich Emirates seek opportunities in manufacturing, aerospace, building and infrastructure. Kathleen Maher reports from the new center of investment. ...

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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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Busy Autodesk looks wistfully to the clouds

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Kathleen Maher

A variety of new and novel technologies were on display at Autodesk University 2010 last week. Autodesk is the first ...