Category: Bulletin
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How Product Identifiers Can Enhance Your Building Process
Have you considered the significance of a product’s bar code when you shop at a supermarket? The 50-year-old invention contains a standardized product number essential to the operation of the whole value chain: the retail store, the distribution center, the transportation company, the warehouse, the vendor, and the producer. Standardized numbers also allow us consumers…
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Leaders Circle – AEC Leadership Training
Leaders Circle Delivers the Goods Enroll now for May 24 start. Working from home… Large-scale prefabrication…Artificial Intelligence…Lean construction processes…New materials… Materials shortages…Diversity, Equity and Inclusion…Covid 19…. Robot dogs working on construction sites…Virtual meetings…etc…etc….etc… The massive changes impacting the AEC industry also impact what it means to be an effective leader. Now in our 31st year,…
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SafeGuard, an AI-Powered Safety Solution for Construction, Raises $8 Million
SafeGuard’stechnology identifies hazardous patterns, generates risk predictions, and enforces preemptive measures in real time and cross-industry. SafeGuard is an international Safety-Tech company that uses machine learning to predict and prevent accidents on construction sites. Today, the startup announced an $8 million Series A funding round. Hi-tech investors Ron Zuckerman and Hillel Kobrinsk lead the round. Also participating are Ronen Peled, Yehuda Rachamim, Zemach…
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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…