GSSI Highlights GS Series for geophysical and environmental surveys at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, announces that it will feature its industry-leading GS Series at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2019, to be held December 9-13, 2019 at the Moscone Center, in San Francisco, CA. GSSI will be exhibiting alongside the OYO Corporation companies in Booth # 937. Visit the booth to learn about the new GS Series, which is ideal for geophysical, geotechnical, or environmental applications that require...
EarthCam’s A.I. Technology Advances Autodesk Integration with Improved 3D Model and 360° Reality Capture Alignment
EarthCam, the leading provider of construction camera technology and services, today announced at Autodesk University a new feature set that continues to enrich its integration with Autodesk. Today’s digitized workflow creates enormous amounts of data from a growing number of sources, which makes it difficult to keep track of. By converging live jobsite cameras, AI, and 360° reality capture with Navisworks and Revit models, a powerful multifaceted model emerges making it easier to organize ac...
OpenSpace Announces New Integrations with Autodesk® BIM 360® Software
SAN FRANCISCO - OpenSpace, the leader in automated 360° photo documentation and analysis, today announced additional integrations with the Autodesk BIM 360 construction management platform. The new integrations will help streamline the creation of RFIs and Issues in the BIM 360 platform by allowing users to generate them directly from within site walkthrough images. With these new integrations, builders can better understand job site status and problems, easily adding rich visual...
Leica Geosystems Enriches Construction Collaboration with Launch of BLK3D Web, Integrates with Autodesk
Leica Geosystems announces BLK3D Web, an online collaboration workflow that extends the Leica BLK3D imager by enabling users to share 3D measurable images with anyone, anywhere online, and the integration with Autodesk BIM 360 Docs Heerbrugg, Switzerland – Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, today announced BLK3D Web, an online collaboration workflow that extends the Leica BLK3D imager by enabling users to share 3D measurable images with anyone, anywhere online. The BLK3D device allows...
Wärtsilä appoints Sushil Purohit as Energy Business Vice President for Area Americas
The technology group Wärtsilä announces the appointment of Sushil Purohit as Vice President for Area Americas within the company’s Energy Business. The appointment takes effect from 1 January, 2020. He will be based in Houston, Texas Mr Purohit joined Wärtsilä in 1998 and has served in various management level positions in different countries in Asia and Europe. Most recently he has served as Vice President for the company’s Energy Business in the Middle East, Asia and Australia. He has playe...
The UP Companies Receives 2019 AGCMO Keystone Award for Hotel St. Louis Historic Renovation Project
St. Louis, MO - The Associated General Contractors of Missouri (AGCMO) honored The UP Companies (UPCO) on Nov. 4 with a Keystone Award in the Specialty Contractor/Subcontractor Building Construction on a Project $4 million or More category for its work on the Hotel St. Louis project. Started in 1998, the Keystone Awards honor the achievements of Missouri’s construction firms and their employees in building facilities that support and enhance quality of life. Square UP Builders and Power UP El...
USGBC Launches New “Insight” Feature to Help Green Building Projects Prioritize Sustainability Strategies and Improve Performance
ATLANTA, Ga. – Today, at the annual Greenbuild conference, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) launched Insight, a new data-driven tool that highlights building project design features that can lead to better performance. Insight is available as a feature of the Arc platform and provides information on the design attributes of LEED certified buildings within a specified geographic region. Project teams can then compare and rank potential sustainability strategies to see how they stack up...
Trimble, Hilti and Boston Dynamics Partner to Explore the Use of Autonomous Robots in Construction
Boston Dynamics' Spot Robot with a Trimble X7 3D Laser Scanning System. A high-speed laser scanner with integrated imaging, automatic calibration and registration technologies as well as survey-grade self-levelling. Connecting the Physical and the Digital World for Improved Safety, Productivity and Quality SUNNYVALE, Calif., SCHAAN, Liechtenstein and BOSTON — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), Hilti and Boston Dynamics announced today a collaboration to explore the integration of Trimble’s...
Autodesk And Virgin Hyperloop One Announce Joint-Effort To Explore Advanced Route Optimization, Transportation Design, And Construction Technology
LAS VEGAS - Autodesk, Inc. (ADSK) and Virgin Hyperloop One, a leader of hyperloop technology and the evolution of how the world moves people and goods, announced an alliance to explore new opportunities in extending the value of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for transportation route optimization and improved digital engineering and construction workflows. "Virgin Hyperloop One is pushing the boundaries of transportation efficiency," said Josh Giegel, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Offi...
Rockefeller Group Announces Topping Out of Rose Hill, The Historic Firm's First Residential Tower in Manhattan
NEW YORK, NY – Rockefeller Group, founded more than 90 years ago to develop Rockefeller Center and today a leading U.S. owner and developer of premier properties across various real estate asset types, celebrated the official topping out of Rose Hill – the firm’s first luxury residential tower in Manhattan. Located in the flourishing NoMad neighborhood at 30 East 29th Street, the 45-story full service condominium building launched sales for the 123 residences earlier this summer, with closings a...