AEC Trends & Future Tech
From Desert Dream to Digital Reality: The Line’s Pivot from People to Processors
Now, once again, the desert sands are shifting. What started as one of the most audacious urban ideas of the 21st century, a 170-kilometer mirrored metropolis slicing through the Saudi desert, is quietly being rewritten as a hub for somewhat humbler inhabitants: servers and GPUs.
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Engineering the Edge: Florida’s Shift Toward Adaptive Resilience
Let’s be honest: Building in Florida has always been a high-stakes game of “The Floor is Lava,” except the lava is sand and corrosive salt water and, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the US Geological Survey, it’s rising.
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Will AI Kill Your CAD Career or Are Things About To Get Much Better?
Adapt or die? That may sound overly dramatic or Darwinian, but the artificial intelligence (AI) boom has triggered this question for many industries.
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AEC Gold: Hyperscale Data Center Construction
For too long, the humble data center has been the much-overlooked little beige box tucked away in an industrial park, unobtrusively humming along while the rest of the world oohs and aahs at sleek new skyscrapers and crazy-wonderful achievements in bridge design. No more.
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MicroStation 2025: Python Assist, Google Maps and Why Your Mouse Hand Just Got a Break
If you’re a seasoned MicroStation® warrior, you probably live for Bentley® update cycles. If you additionally have a penchant for Python scripting, geospatial data, 3D Tiles, smarter automation and/or seamless reality integration, you’re about to fall in love again
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The Real Robot Uprising: Why CAD & BIM Tools May Be Smarter Than AI
The AEC universe seems to be experiencing some kind of technological dichotomy (with Departments of Transportation being a notable example).
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How the Digital Skills Shortage in the AEC Sector Is Stalling America’s Infrastructure
A silent calamity is underway in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) universe and the Department of Transportation (DOT) industry.
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6 Points to Help You Deal With Net-Zero Requirements in CAD/BIM Design (And How This Will Affect Your Career)
Net-zero requirements are impacting construction in the AEC, MEP and DOT industries. What you need to know, plus tools that can help.
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6 AEC Industry Challenges: Who Is Your Client, Really?
Working in the AEC (architecture, engineering and construction) industry, you probably think “the client” is the person signing your contract. But here in the 2020’s, that’s increasingly no longer the whole story (far from it).
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