Tag: AEC
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Platform Power: Data, Terms of Use, and the Fate of AEC AI Startups
An ENR article reported that the agentic AI provider Trunk Tools lost its API access to Procore in September. According to ENR, Agave (a data integration platform) informed Trunk Tools and other startups that Procore’s new terms required changes to how they used its data connector. Procore says the change is due to its updating…
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Talk to Your Project – AEC Business
Back in the day, when mobile phones and Bluetooth earpieces first emerged, it felt weird to see people walking down the street talking to themselves. Now, nobody pays attention. Will the same happen with voice interaction with AI soon? Could speech replace WhatsApp chats? Voice is often the most efficient and convenient way to communicate.…
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Complink Automates Construction Procurement – AEC Business
In this episode of the AEC Business Podcast, Aarni Heiskanen sits down with Aino Hukkanen, co-founder and CPO of Complink, a Finnish startup that aims to bring intelligence back into construction workflows. Aino shares her journey from architecture to product design and co-founding Complink, and explains how their platform helps construction companies automate procurement and…
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Egnyte Launches AI Agents to Aid AEC Efficiency and Safety
Egnyte, a leader in secure content collaboration, intelligence, and governance, today announced its first industry-specific AI agents specifically designed to support the unique needs of the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. These AEC AI agents target some of the most time-consuming and costly parts of the process, from bid to completion, by addressing some…
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Egnyte Launches AI Agents to Aid AEC Efficiency and Safety
Egnyte, a leader in secure content collaboration, intelligence, and governance, today announced its first industry-specific AI agents specifically designed to support the unique needs of the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. These AEC AI agents target some of the most time-consuming and costly parts of the process, from bid to completion, by addressing some…
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Building New Data Bridges in AEC
The AEC sector’s longstanding problem is the lack of data flow among processes and project participants. We’ve tried to fix it with shared file repositories, shared BIM models, and APIs that enable software data exchange. Despite new AI tools, the issue remains. But there may be a solution. Anthropic released MCP (Model Context Protocol) in…
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Building a Successful AEC PoC
“Can a robot navigate on a construction site and collect information for situational awareness?” “Does a construction process ontology help combine information from multiple sources to support construction management?” “Can a digital twin platform serve for visualizing 3D zoning data?” These are some of the questions our clients have answered through Proofs of Concept (PoCs).…
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Egnyte Launches Project Hub to Streamline AEC Data Flow
Egnyte, a leader in secure content collaboration, intelligence, and governance, today announced a new product for its architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) offerings. Project Hub, an AI-powered project data infrastructure, is designed to solve documentation and coordination challenges by enabling consistent, secure collaboration and oversight in an intuitive structure throughout the project lifecycle. “Our customers…
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From BIM to BMI: What AEC Leaders Are Overlooking in the AI Era
Gulnaz Aksenova recently shared with me a research paper that discusses business model innovation (BMI) in AEC consultancies in the age of AI. She and co-author Rich Synott CEng FICE refer to several timely studies and examine why and how BMI is necessary to achieve a competitive advantage through the use of AI. Boosting efficiency…
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How Disorganized Project Data Is Costing AEC Firms Millions
Information management isn’t just about staying organized. It’s about staying profitable. If you’re leading a busy architecture, engineering or construction firm (AEC), you’ve seen what happens when files get lost, RFIs slip through the cracks or your team spends hours chasing down the latest drawing. That waste adds up. The right information management system doesn’t…