Keeping the workforce and public safe as the project swirls through its cycles requires that managers be vigilant analysts, aggressive contingency planners, flexible adjusters, great communicators and effective safety trainers.
Image Courtesy of Bentley Mixed Bag 3D model of layers of buried utilities is auto-generated from many sources and corrected and annotated by object Related Links: Latest Bentley App Brings Geospatial Data to the Field Bentley: BIM Also Means Information Mobility Bentley Systems' latest addition to its suite of infrastructure design software helps utilities gather everything they know about existing systems and assigns reliability values as a foundation for future planning.The product—referred to as SUE, for subsurface utilities engineering—uses BIM-style tools to create intelligent 3D models of combined subsurface utility systems, which it does by automating the use of legacy
Bentley Systems Inc., an international purveyor of a broad suite of software for design and management of infrastructure that gets three quarters of its revenue from subscriptions, maintained the same 8% revenue growth rate, in constant currency—an accounting method that filters out exchange rate fluctuation—that it reported the previous two years.CEO Greg Bentley says the company is budgeting for 6% internal growth this year, and also expects to make acquisitions.The 2013 performance self-assessment came during an April 16 analysts’ briefing about the Exton-Pa.-based company. During the call CEO Bentley described the 2013 annual report, which has not yet been released.The
TempleMaj. Gen. (ret.) Merdith W. "Bo" Temple has been awarded the U. S. Army Engineer Association's 2014 Gold Order of the de Fleury Medal for contributions that “exemplify boldness, courage and commitment to a strong national defense,” says the association that represents the service's active-duty and retired engineers.
courtesy of Autodesk Pick Up Autodesk-Revit integration of detailing package is latest in BIM development. Related Links: U.K.s BIM Mandate Driving Major Shift in Digital Tools Adoption BIM Adoption Spreads Globally The annual release of software updates from the dominant provider of building design software in the U.S. includes integration with an acquisition that gives the suite a new dimension: steel detailing and fabrication.Autodesk Inc. inked, in October, a deal with GRAITEC SA to acquire GRAITEC's Advance Steel and Advance Concrete software and R&D teams. The products are used in Europe primarily for automated production of fabrication documents for steel
By Tom Sawyer Attendees at ENR's FutureTech conference gained a deeper appreciation of the technology shifts that are changing the character of the built world as the needs of the occupants change. Related Links: Construction Tech Companies Forecast a Cloudy Future Exploring the Future of Construction Through Science-Fiction Stories It is axiomatic that accurate forecasting should build on an understanding of the past and, particularly, of the economic drivers that shape the way we live, work and produce, said Paul D. Saffo, a technology forecaster, in a keynote presentation at ENR's FutureTech conference in San Francisco on March 19. "As
Related Links: List of firms that took part in trade mission Text of Pritzker's prepared remarks for meeting in Riyadh Text of Pritzker's prepared remarks for meeting in Abu Dhabi Drawn by the potential for hundreds of billions of dollars in construction projects, top executives from 21 U.S. engineering, architecture and energy firms recently traveled to the Middle East on a U.S. Commerce Dept.-arranged, infrastructure-focused trade mission.Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker led the March 8-14 trip, which included visits to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Interest in the program was high: The 21 firms were selected from 80
In order to match the challenge of creating high performance buildings, the construction industry needs to move toward high performance construction, says McGraw Hill Construction senior director Stephen Jones. During his remarks to open ENR’s Futuretech conference March 18-19 in San Francisco, Jones said the industry should foster “the industrialization of construction to reduce risk and uncertainty and get better designs out there.”Lean construction practices are paramount to a high performance construction strategy, but awareness and adoption of lean techniques is lagging. According to a McGraw Hill Construction study conducted in 2013, 30% of firms surveyed had not heard of
Photo Courtesy WaterFX Pilot project plant in California's Central Valley is about to be scaled up to a commercial-grade system, with little added load on the electric grid. Related Links: WaterFX Profile of Panoche Water District from the Pacific Institute After a little more than eight months of operation, a pilot plant that uses solar energy to distill contaminated groundwater in the parched farmlands of California's Central Valley has performed so well that at least one expert is seeing a new gold rush on the way."We are actually sitting on a wealth of groundwater that just needs treatment," says Dennis
Photo courtesy of Manhard Consulting Donald Willemarck, director of technology at Manhard Consulting, is looking forward to cutting the servers he maintains in his main office as a Nasuni customer. Related Links: Cloud-Integrated Storage Adds In-House Encryption BIM-in-The-Cloud Has New Competition With Newforma New distributed workforce collaboration systems rising in the AEC market are making an end run around crippling latency and bandwidth issues suffered by users sharing work on huge building-information-modeling file sets. They are doing it with hybrid systems of local and cloud servers, along with synchronization schemes that give everyone the speed of working locally, even among
