Tag: Digital
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EarthCam 4D and Bentley Bring Construction Digital Twins to Life
EarthCam, a provider of webcam technology and services, has introduced EarthCam 4D, empowering virtual design and construction (VDC) teams to overlay and synch live imagery with their digital twins. An intuitive timeline allows users to scroll backwards and forward in time to view live imagery in relation to their 4D models. Built on the Bentley iTwin platform, EarthCam 4D augments Bentley…
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How to Provide Impeccable Asset Data – An Interview with James Dixon, Digital Construction Lead at ISG
How can we provide clients with a perfect record of their facility so that they can reap the benefits of digitalisation? I sat down with James Dixon, digital construction lead for ISG’s science and health business, to discuss his method. ISG is a global construction specialist working across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia creating smart,…
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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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The Winners of the 2021 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure
Bentley Systems, the infrastructure engineering software company, has announced the winners of the 2021 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure. The annual awards program recognizes the extraordinary work of Bentley software users advancing infrastructure design, construction, and operations throughout the world. Sixteen independent jury panels selected the 57 finalists from nearly 300 nominations submitted by more than 230 organizations…
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Maximizing the Value of Digital Assets in AEC Companies
AEC firms have a huge and constantly growing repository of photos and other digital assets. How to manage them effectively for marketing, sales, and PR is the topic of this podcast interview with Daniel Emmerson, Co-Founder and Joint CEO of OpenAsset. “Our vision is to inspire people through visualization of the built world,” says Daniel.…
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Digital Construction 2021 Hackathon
Get ready to take the construction industry to the next level digitally! The Garage48 Digital Construction 2021 hackathon takes place on September 24-26, 2021, online and on-site in Tallinn and Helsinki. The deadline for ideas submission is September 19. Digital Construction 2021 will take place for the third time to team up to build a 48-hour…
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The Digital Building Lifecycle
What value does the digital building lifecycle create for owners, users, and the whole supply chain in the AECO industry? Salla Eckhardt, Director of Transformation Services at Microsoft, has written a series of articles on the topic. She writes: “The digital age is bringing a better way—and at the Microsoft real estate group we believe…
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House of Digital Twins – AEC Business
As a vocal and passionate advocate for the adoption of Digital Twins for our built assets, I keep finding myself standing in, what feels like, the middle of a house of cards, observing its always rocky structure in constant danger of collapse. A wobbly system threatened by the tremors stressed by one of the most…
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Digital Blue Foam – An Interview with CEO Camiel Weijenberg
Aarni Heiskanen interviews Camiel Weijenberg, Founder and CEO of Digital Blue Foam, an AEC tech startup. Digital Blue Foam gives you 3D map data on every city, an unparalleled user experience, generative design, and sustainability analytics in one fully web-based design tool. The company is part of a growing movement seeking to digitize the architecture…
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AEC TechTV Episode 12: Building Digital Twins
In this interview with Dr. Ken Dooley, we discuss digital twins in the built environment and the recently released report Building Digital Twins by Granlund. Ken Dooley is the Chief Strategy Officer, Empathic Building, at Haltian. During the podcast interview, he talks about these aspects of digital twins: What they are What are the common misconceptions about…