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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
The connected future
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- Written by Admin
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The potential for connected operations in asset management, harnessing the power of BIM, digital twins, IoT and deep learning
Five tools for real-time rendering
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- Written by Greg Corke
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Explore your building from any angle, and in Virtual Reality, or produce stills and animations at lightning fast speeds
Seeing the future
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- Written by Admin
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Why HDR (High Dynamic Range) camera technology has the ability to transform survey data inputted into the BIM process
Unreal Engine - becoming part of the design process
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- Written by Greg Corke
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Epic Games Enterprise has the bold ambition to make its legendary real time game engine an essential tool for design
Nvidia takes giant leap with real time ray tracing
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- Written by Greg Corke
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3D graphics specialist launches Quadro RTX GPUs, which promise to transform the role photorealistic visualisation plays in product development, writes Greg Corke