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Autodesk Green Building Studio adds more than a million global weather locations
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December 1, 2009
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PHOENIX — During the 2009 Greenbuild Expo Autodesk, Inc. announced that its Green Building Studio web-based service will now provide hourly weather data for 1.6 million virtual weather locations around the world....
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Report offers constructive advice for construction industry’s competitiveness and efficiency
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November 24, 2009
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WASHINGTON, D.C. —The National Research Council (NRC) issued a new workshop report which identifies five key activities to advance the competitiveness and effectiveness of the nation’s construction industry....
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Autodesk Licenses ISOGEN Technology from Intergraph
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November 23, 2009
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SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. — Autodesk, Inc. announced that it has entered into a long-term OEM licensing agreement with Intergraph to embed Intergraph ISOGEN technology in Autodesk’s AutoCAD Plant 3D 2010 product....
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Digital prototyping helps building product manufacturers collaborate with AEC firms
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November 18, 2009
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PHOENIX — Autodesk, Inc., announced that building product manufacturers including Reilly Windows & Doors and Mestek, Inc., are successfully using the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping to collaborate with the building information modeling (BIM) process and architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms. By providing “BIM-ready” product models that can be directly incorporated into the building design and construction process, product manufacturers can help AEC firms make better design decisions around constructability, fit, aesthetics, performance, and cost, while increasing their own ability to win new business....
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BIM service debuts for homebuilders
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November 18, 2009
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WOBURN, Mass. — Simpad, a plan services company for homebuilders, developed a new 3D CAD building information modeling (BIM) service that the company says will solve a problem long thought to be the "Achilles' Heel" of homebuilders, specifically, how to obtain home plans that reflect the changes made by homebuyers during the sales and option process. The service will provide builders with "as-sold" construction drawings on-demand, at a fraction of the cost of making changes manually to their master plan sets. According to Simpad, the overall savings will be enormous to any builder who has ever constructed homes based on faulty or inaccurate plans....
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Autodesk honors three universities for efforts to promote BIM
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November 9, 2009
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SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. — Autodesk, Inc., announced that three universities — California Polytechnic State University (San Luis Obispo, Calif.), South China University of Technology (Guangzhou, China), and RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany) — have earned an Autodesk BIM Experience Award for exemplary building information modeling (BIM) educational efforts and research....
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Construction Users Roundtable presents vision of what’s 'Beyond BIM’
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November 5, 2009
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CINCINNATI, OHIO — “Beyond BIM: Excellence in the Creation and Protection of Capital Assets” will be the subject of a keynote presentation to be given by Frank T. MacInnis, chairman and CEO of EMCOR Group, Inc., at The Construction Users Roundtable’s (CURT) 9th Annual National Conference of Construction Owners, Nov. 16-18, 2009, in Orlando, Fla. “Industrial, commercial, and government facility owners and users face a host of challenges in understanding and managing the true life-cycle costs of their assets,” said MacInnis. “One of the best ways of overcoming these challenges is the use of mutual-benefit partnerships with efficient, technologically adept construction and facilities services firms that have moved far beyond the traditional skill sets and customer relationships of the past.”...
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Quantapoint integrates 3D laser scan data with Autodesk Revit
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November 3, 2009
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PITTSBURGH, PA. — Quantapoint announced the integration of Quantapoint 3D laser scan data with Autodesk Revit using QuantaCAD. Laser data may be accessed directly within Revit as photo-realistic Laser Images of individual 3D laser scans and high-definition Laser Models of integrated laser data, not fuzzy “point clouds” whose sparse measurements make them difficult to use and understand....
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Concrete industry plans for wider BIM use
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October 27, 2009
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FARMINGTON HILLS, MICH. — The concrete industry’s Strategic Development Council (SDC) held its regular fall meeting in early October with focus on Building Information Modeling (BIM), among other topics. During the meeting, BIM was discussed at length, and SDC secured a total of $75,000 from the Charles Pankow Foundation and the RMC Research Education Foundation. SDC will use these funds for strategic planning and development of roadmaps, with an immediate goal to provide interoperability standards, whose absence is an obstacle to wider use of BIM in the concrete industry....
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BIM used to design stadium that will host 2012 European Football Championship
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October 27, 2009
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SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. — Autodesk, Inc., selected Autorska Pracownia Konstrukcyjna "WOJDAK" to receive an Autodesk BIM Experience Award for being one of the first companies in Poland to adopt a building information modeling (BIM) process, and use Autodesk software to base projects on a central digital model to integrate design and analysis. The award also recognizes the firm's application of BIM on the new 44,000-seat Baltic Arena Sports Stadium in Gdansk that will host the 2012 European Football Championship....
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