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Bell & Gossett announces new BIM library featuring Revit drawings
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March 3, 2010
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MORTON GROVE, Ill. -- ITT Bell & Gossett announces a new extensive online library of 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) content files in Autodesk Revit 2010. A total of 113 Revit families and 5,252 types have been created...
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Avatech Solutions designated an Autodesk Seek Content Service Provider
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March 2, 2010
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BALTIMORE – Avatech Solutions, Inc., a professional services company for design and engineering technologies, has been designated an Autodesk Seek Content Service Provider. This designation recognizes Avatech's leadership role in helping building product manufacturers develop data-rich 3D models of their products for easy download and inclusion into digital building information models (BIM)....
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Bentley's Be Together 2010 conference registration now open
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March 2, 2010
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EXTON, Pa. – Registration is now open for the inaugural Be Together: The Be Communities LIVE Conference, being held May 17-20, 2010, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. This event will enable the architects, engineers, constructors, geospatial professionals, and CAD managers who regularly exchange ideas virtually on the Be Communities professional networking site to connect, communicate, and learn from each other in person. At the same time, guided by Bentley product experts, attendees will acquire knowledge critical to the adoption of an information-modeling level of practice as they earn Bentley Institute Learning Units to track time invested in professional development....
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Architect's 'net zero' dream home designed in ArchiCAD
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March 1, 2010
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BOSTON -- In nature, nothing is perfectly square and organisms orient themselves relative to the sun. Both truths explain the fresh design of the "net zero" Zona home. Designed by architect John Zona III using ArchiCAD 13 software from GRAPHISOFT, the Jacksonville, Fla.-residence is Zona and his wife's personal dream home. It features a main residence and guest cottage/studio, both with football-shaped footprints to minimize energy demands for cooling....
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Bentley releases InRoads V8i (SELECTseries 1), GEOPAK V8i (SELECTseries 1)
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February 23, 2010
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EXTON, PA. — Bentley Systems, Inc., released InRoads Suite V8i (SELECTseries 1) and GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite V8i (SELECTseries 1). The new releases include 3D information modeling tools for resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation, which are provided by Bentley’s patented Roadway Designer 3D parametric modeling capabilities. According to Bentley, the new tools enable transportation designers to respond more quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively to road and bridge projects, and are especially suited for the newest construction technologies, including automated machine guidance....
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WPL Publishing presents BIM webinar series
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February 23, 2010
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — WPL Publishing is hosting a series of webinars that are designed to help professionals in the construction industry learn about the emerging technology of building information modeling (BIM). In a four-part series — BIM Roadmap 2010: The Authors' Series, BIM Evolution 2010 & Beyond — authors of four industry-recognized BIM books will describe how the technology has evolved since those books were written, explain what they intend to do differently this time around, and advise webinar attendees on how they should direct their businesses to take maximum advantage of BIM going forward....
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Transportation and BIM webcast series
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February 23, 2010
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DEERFIELD, ILL. — CE News and Rebuilding America's Infrastructure are presenting a series of four, one-hour-long webcasts focused on the use of BIM for transportation design projects. The following webcasts are sponsored by Autodesk:
• The Future of Civil Design & Construction with BIM
• Visualizing Civil Designs with the Power of BIM
• Leveraging BIM for Workflows that Cross CADD Boundaries
• BIM and Sustainability for Roadway Drainage Design...
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Informatix to release new version of its 3D design and visualization BIM software
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February 22, 2010
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CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – Informatix Software International, the authors of both MicroGDS and the 3D visualization software Piranesi 2010, announces the upcoming release of the next generation of its flagship 3D CAD and Visualisation BIM software: MicroGDS 2010. MicroGDS 2010 is being simultaneously released on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 platforms in both 32bit and 64bit versions, and continues its interoperability with Microsoft Application Software and Infrastructure technologies...
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Architectural visualization helps export California lifestyle to Saudi Arabia
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February 19, 2010
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LAGUNA NIGUEL, CALIF. — Bringing a master planned community to life before turning the first shovel of dirt is no small undertaking. And when that community covers 9 million square meters, with 22,000 homes housing 60,000 people, for a project located over 8,000 miles away, the task might seem monumental....
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Bentley makes acquisitions for new AssetWise platform
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February 9, 2010
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ORLANDO, FLA. — Bentley Systems, Inc., acquired Enterprise Informatics, Inc., and Exor Corporation to build its new AssetWise platform, which the company said will combine multiple information modeling services to improve the lifecycle management and operational performance, safety, compliance, and governance of infrastructure assets while increasing the return on investment for owner-operators. Enterprise Informatics’ eB Insight software provides configuration and change management capabilities for mission-critical infrastructure asset operations for the energy, nuclear, rail, and government sectors. Exor information modeling software provides for the management and operations of linear networks for infrastructure, including roads and railways....
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