Category: Bulletin
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AI-Powered Construction Material Procurement App Raises $4.65M
Field Materials says it is the world’s first material-purchasing software powered by AI. The startup has now raised a $4.65 million seed round. Founders Eldar Sadikov and Victor Gane are Stanford-educated serial entrepreneurs. They sold their previous company to PayPal in 2018 and have backgrounds in AI, payments, e-commerce, and construction. Blumberg Capital leads the…
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VIATechnik Launches Precogs, a Predictive Insights And Learning Platform
Our friends at VIATechnik are organizing a webinar Digitizing AEC’s Next Frontier – A Precogs Launch Event on April 7, 2023, at Noon Eastern time. The webinar will share the industry’s knowledge digitization opportunity and what truly scaling our learnings can mean for the built environment. Stanford Professor & Director of Stanford’s CIFE (Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering) Martin Fischer will…
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Case Studies of Digital Transformation
I had the pleasure of attending Dalux’s Finnish user day in Helsinki on March 30. The event provided an excellent opportunity to learn how contractors have implemented digital tools and workflows on-site. Changing the CDE on the run Hospital projects produce a vast number of documents and BIM models. Having a Common Data Environment (CDE) is…
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Vectorworks Now Has a Direct Connection to NVIDIA Omniverse
Design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. has released an integrated Omniverse Connector, providing Windows users a direct connection to the NVIDIA Omniverse platform for building and operating metaverse applications. The new plug-in connects Vectorworks 3D models straight to Omniverse via the Universal Scene Description (USD) framework, eliminating steps for the import/export process, saving designers valuable time, and streamlining…
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Hilti Partners with Canvas, a Construction Robotics Company
Hilti announced a strategic partnership with Canvas, a construction robotics company that has developed a robotic drywalling solution. The partnership allows Canvas to scale globally. Hilti launched its Jaibot, the world’s first semi-autonomous ceiling-drilling robot, in 2020. As part of the partnership, Hilti will assume the manufacturing responsibilities for future Canvas systems. They will be based…
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Nemetschek Group Invests in Preoptima, a Carbon Hub for the Built Environment
Preoptima has developed a world-first carbon hub for the built environment, powered by AI and generative design, covering the entire building lifecycle – from concept to refurbishment and demolition. Nemetschek Group announced its investment in the startup on March 2, 2023. Preoptima’s funding will be used to launch their WholeLifeCarbon API, providing uniquely accurate carbon…
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AEC Business Newsletter – Week 9, 2023
Read the weekly AEC Business newsletter and subscribe to it on LinkedIn. In this week’s newsletter: The post AEC Business Newsletter – Week 9, 2023 appeared first on AEC Business. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Building with Inflatable Concrete Formwork and Other News
Here are our industrialized construction updates from February 2023. Automatic Construction, an NYC startup, was one of eight 2022 Construction Startup Competition winners. Alex Bell, the co-founder, presented the company’s concrete building solution at the competition’s Pitchday in October 2022. Bell’s and Tyler Robins’s company produces inflatable concrete formwork in a factory and transports it to the building…
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BIM AI Hub Features AI-Powered AEC Tools
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The Numbers Behind Inefficient Construction Practices and Other News
Here are our smart construction updates from February 2023. Buildots just published a report analyzing quantitative data from 64 global construction projects and identifying common inefficiencies in current construction processes. The data came from Buildots’ datasets. Here’s a snapshot of the indicators: Area Utilization: 46% This is the percentage of available areas that are worked…