Category: Features
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Meet Ben Guy, CEO of Urban Circus
The evolution of digital 3D visualization is allowing everyone to experience and participate in urban planning in unprecedented ways. That’s the topic of Aarni Heiskanen’s interview with Dr. Ben Guy, head of Urban Circus and a keynote speaker at the WDBE. ”Communication is everything,” argues Ben. “Communication happens every day, and it can make or…
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Meet Damon Hernandez, Founder of the AEC Hackathon
I sat down with Damon Hernandez in Helsinki at Urban3, the home base of the Finnish digital built environment ecosystem. We discussed the AEC Hackathon and Damon’s passion for connecting the digital and physical worlds. I initially met Damon Hernandez in November 2015 at the first AEC Hackathon in Finland. The hackathon followed the trademark…
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Meet Niknaz Aftahi, the CEO and co-founder of aec+tech
Aarni Heiskanen recently chatted with Niknaz Aftahi, a keynote speaker at the WDBE 2022 conference. She touched on her path to becoming a construction technology advocate, her Big Why, the reason she started her own company, and so much more. Niknaz went against all odds to become an architect. For context, she received her Bachelor…
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Meet Jacqueline Rohrmann, the Tesla Gigafactory BIM Expert
Aarni Heiskanen had the pleasure of meeting with Jacqueline Rohrmann, a keynote speaker at the WDBE 2022 conference. She talked about the digitalization of the construction sector, her experiences as a design manager at Tesla, and the industry’s future. If you’re a designer learning to use Revit, a BIM tool, you might have watched some…
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Construction Robotics Companies 2022 – AEC Business
Update your knowledge! Construction Robotics Today is a self-paced, concise e-learning course for industry practitioners. “This course provides tremendous value and insight into the best use cases of robotics in construction. It gives great real-world companies leading the way along with studying why and how you should devote the time and effort to changing your…
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Companies Providing Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality for AEC
What are AR, VR, and MR? 27 Extended Reality Companies for AEC The list contains, in alphabetical order, companies that offer virtual, augmented, or mixed reality products to the AEC industry. Please, suggest additions and edits. Argyle Argyle’s augmented reality enriches your entire site with always-available holograms. Helpful, up-to-date BIM you can reference in…
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Automating Construction with AI – An Interview with Stuart Maggs
I had a great conversation with Stuart Maggs, the CEO of Scaled Robotics. On the AEC Business Podcast we discussed how AI, machine learning, robotics, and BIM work together to create situational awareness of a construction project. Scaled Robotics is a startup that leverages computer vision, machine learning and AI to provide precise construction quality…
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Smart Collaboration on Infrastructure Projects – An Interview with Joe Giegerich
I had the pleasure of interviewing Joe Giegerich, founder and CEO of ProjectReady. We discussed why and how the construction sector should start using an integrated data environment on large infrastructure projects. You can listen to the interview on the AEC Business Podcast. The USA, Japan, China, and the EU are among the economies that…
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The Digital Roads of the Future Initiative
Dr. Ioannis Brilakis, Laing O’Rourke Reader in Construction Engineering at University of Cambridge (UK) presents at the WDBE Community Session titled “How can supersensing improve infrastructure construction” on September 22, 2021. The session hosts were Aarni Heiskanen (https://aec-business.com) and Paul Wilkinson (http://extranetevolution.com). The session program is at https://kirahub.org/en/wdbe/community-session-supersensing-for-infrastructure-construction/ The post The Digital Roads of the…
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Snaptrude, an Intelligent Online Building Design Tool
Aarni Heiskanen’s guest is Altaf Ganihar, CEO of Snaptrude. He talks about the background of Snaptrude and gives a quick demo showing the capabilities of the online design tool. To learn more, visit https://www.snaptrude.com. The demo begins at 6:05. The post Snaptrude, an Intelligent Online Building Design Tool appeared first on AEC Business. View the…