February 26, 2025
Dan Stine, Director of Design Technology at Lake|Flato, explores the blend of foundational upgrades and future-forward experiments in Autodesk’s new Revit 2016 release, including accelerated graphics, improved modeling tools, documentation enhancements, and more.
Kristijan Vilibić delves into the mechanics of Computer Vision (CV) in construction, explores deployment strategies, presents a real-world case study, analyzes the benefits and challenges, and discusses future trends of this crucial technology.
This review explores the features of Solibri CheckPoint, a new solution based on Solibri’s acquisition of Xinaps and its Verifi3D product, that enables model-checking of Revit and IFC models to be done much more easily and quickly using just a web browser.
Julian Geiger, Vice President of AI Product and Transformation at Nemetschek Group, discusses how to ensure that the powerful AI tools that are emerging enhance, rather than replace, human expertise and creativity in AEC/O.
This article describes the digital twin of the Köhlbrand Bridge in Hamburg, Germany, which was developed with the objective of enabling predictive maintenance of the bridge rather than the conventional reactive maintenance that is ubiquitous for buildings and infrastructure.
This article captures the discussion on the potential impact of AI in Architecture presented at the WA100 Live 2024 event, with leading firms in the UK including Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio sharing the exploratory work they are doing with AI.
HKS is an interdisciplinary global design firm of over 1,400 architects, interior designers, urban designers, scientists, artists, and anthropologists working in multiple practice areas including aviation, urban design, civic & cultural, commercial, education, government, health, hospitality, and more.
This Viewpoint explores what happened to the concept of “City Information Modeling” (CIM) for city planning and management, which is similar to the concept of “Building Information Modeling” (BIM) for building design and construction. Has CIM been subsumed by the concept of “urban digital twins”?
