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Aveva teases customers with new plant design product vision

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Randall Newton

Details are slim but the track record suggests a bold initiative that will blend engineering data with point clouds, with ...

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Redefining production in the age of Digital Reality

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Kathleen Maher

Software is transforming every stage of the manufacturing process. Small companies with niche technologies are being gobbled up. By Kathleen ...

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Autodesk’s AEC division regroups

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Kathleen Maher

The surprise move put the AEC division under an unscripted spotlight at last week’s Autodesk University. It is a good ...

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Autodesk buys into Frank Gehry’s Catia-powered think tank

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Randall Newton

The “strategic relationship” with Gehry Technologies provides Autodesk with world-class consulting and GT with money and training to expand the ...

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Russian nuclear plant builder deploys Dassault Systèmes PLM for construction design

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Randall Newton

VNIPIET will use V6 software for ongoing research as well as construction design and management. [Editor’s Note: Several project images ...

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Annotated List of Construction Management Apps

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Randall Newton

A detailed list of iPad/iPhone apps for a wide variety of construction uses. Houston Neal of Software Advice has assembled ...

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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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Time to Consider Job Order Contracting

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Randall Newton

Job Order Contracting makes the scoping phase of a construction job simpler for all parties, says a principal with Wilson ...

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BIM and 3D Animation Credited with Keeping $1 Billion Hospital Project On-Time and On-Budget

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Randall Newton

Construction partners on a large Chicago hospital project say BIM has never before been used to such a deep extent ...