Tag: Construction
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AI-Powered Construction – An Interview with Aviv Leibovici of Buildots
In the 100th episode of the AEC Business podcast, Aarni Heiskanen interviews Aviv Leibovici, the CPO and co-founder of Buildots. Buildots is an innovative construction tech start-up established in Israel in August 2018. The company was created with the aim of creating the equivalent of a mission control room for construction sites. Bringing together AI…
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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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Hilti’s BIM Services Help Optimize Building Design
Hilti’s BIM design services and digitized building tools help optimize design and offer tools for multi-trade MEP support design. Karl Johnson, Technical Marketing Manager for BIM & MEP, explains the direct impacts of using BIM to improve construction processes, “Let’s consider MEP planning: Without BIM, the support structures are planned on-site and separately by each…
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Autovol’s Affordable Housing Project with Robotic Automation
First-of-its kind Idaho factory nears completion of a five-story San Jose, CA apartment building. Just over two years since breaking ground, Autovol is now using automation in new ways as it nears completion of its first major affordable housing project. The project, Virginia Street Studios, will make high-quality apartment homes more affordable to seniors in San…
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CHAOS Raises EUR 1.5 Million to Make Cities Better for Future Residents
The Finnish proptech platform CHAOS lets investors forecast which services and infrastructure urban areas will need to meet the needs of future residents. It has announced the successful closure of a €1.5M funding round led by sustainability-focused Swedish investment firm Nidoco with angel investors Kai Keituri, Tapio Heikkilä, and Stefan Lindberg also participating. The investment…
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The Construction Technology Handbook – An Interview with Hugh Seaton
In this episode of the AEC Business Podcast, Aarni’s guest is Hugh Seaton who has released an interesting book. It’s titled The Construction Technology Handbook: Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence and Beyond. The book is available on Amazon. Listen to the podcast (also available on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and other platforms) The post The Construction Technology…
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Interoperability and the Construction Software Market
In episode 14 of the AEC TechTV, Paul Wilkinson talks about the impact of poor interoperability on information management in construction projects. 2004 estimates suggested poor interoperability cost the US capital facilities market alone over $15 billion a year. The worldwide cost will be many times greater. Paul Wilkinson explores the issues, outlines recent discussions…
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CEMEX Ventures Invests in Modulous, an Offsite Construction Trailblazer
CEMEX Ventures invests in a disruptive offsite construction method. Modulous offers an answer to the housing requirements in the United Kingdom, where they are working on different residential schemes and projects to achieve sales of £25 million in the pilot year. CEMEX Ventures, CEMEX’s Corporate Venture Capital and open innovation unit, announced on January 14,…
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With Adeaca’s Project Autopilot, No AEC Project Issues Go Unnoticed
Adeaca Corp., a company dedicated to the innovative advancement of project business, has announced the availability of its Project Autopilot solution. As part of Adeaca’s Project Business Automation (PBA) platform, Project Autopilot acts as an alarm system for project-based companies, detecting all the problems in every project in real-time and alerting the right people to…
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The Most Popular BIM Software 2004-2020
Artem Boiko, a BIM implementation specialist, used Google search data to determine the popularity of BIM software from the year 2004 onward. He produced the following video from his analysis. Objective indicators of Google Trends show the relative popularity of the query: 100 points mean the maximum interest in the topic, and 0 – insufficient…