Features
VDI: on-premise or in the cloud?
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- Written by Adam Jull
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Many AEC firms struggle to fully understand the different options for VDI and whether to go cloud or on-premise. Adam Jull of IMSCAD Global explores the benefits and costs
Design through a prism
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- Written by Martyn Day
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A free application from the London Mayor’s office helps developers conform to planning rules and decide which rapid off-site construction technology best fits their design
Seeding the National Digital Twin
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- Written by Greg Corke
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The National Digital Twin is an ambitious project to bring new efficiencies to the UK’s infrastructure. Greg Corke reports on the Cambridge pilot project
Out of the shadows
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- Written by Stephen Holmes
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The race for enterprise VR is heating up. Stephen Holmes gets hands-on with Varjo’s first headset and discovers an experience that goes far beyond anything he’s seen before
Lenovo ThinkStation P330 family [sponsored content]
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- Written by Super User
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Smaller just got better with the Lenovo Thinkstation P330 family
Radeon ProRender – accelerating GPU rendering
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- Written by Greg Corke
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AMD is developing smart ways to cut render times in its physically-based renderer, other than relying on the brute force of the GPU.
BIM from Finland: the new wave
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- Written by Greg Corke
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Following the success of Finnish firms like Tekla and Solibri we explore seven new BIM-centric technologies looking to make their mark on the international stage.
Connecting design and construction
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- Written by Greg Corke
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We report on the latest developments in ‘constructioneering’, a process that aims to solve the fragmented workflow between design and construction.
OpenBuildings: design and beyond
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- Written by Greg Corke
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How Bentley Systems intends to play to its strengths in building design with focused, vertical design tools, cross disciplinary workflows and open data
What does blockchain really mean for construction?
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- Written by Randall Newton
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We cut through the hype and explore what impact the distributed database technology could have on BIM, contracts and people
iModel unleashed
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- Written by Martyn Day
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iModel, Bentley’s format for exchanging project information between design, construction and operations, has just gone open source to feed the Digital Twin
Autodesk forges ahead with construction
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- Written by Martyn Day
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Autodesk’s refocus on construction has never been so clearly evident than at this year’s annual user event in Las Vegas.
NBS Chorus
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- Written by Martyn Day
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NBS’s latest development aims to bring the specification process out from its silo to benefit global team collaboration and provide a single source of truth, writes Martyn Day