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BIM News: Vectorworks Intros New Cloud and Mobile Features Built on Apple Technology New features in Vectorworks Cloud Services and Nomad mobile app leverage new advanced Apple technologies for reality capture, more… Global design and BIM software maker Vectorworks, Inc., has announced this month new cloud and mobile enhancements to its product offerings. These new features and capabilities are built on Apple technologies. The new Apple technologies in question are Apple’s new photogrammetry API (Apple Object Capture Framework) and Apple’s LiDAR-based room scanning RoomPlan API. Reality Capture Enhancements One of the major thematic tech transformations in AEC/O is reality capture...

ICON to develop Space-based Construction Technology for Moon exploration ICON wins $57.2 Million SBIR Phase III to build Furthers ICON’s Space-based Construction 3D Printing Technology Developments ICON Space-based Construction Technology Concept rendering/Source: ICON ICON, a pioneer in advanced construction technologies and large-scale 3D printing, announced that it has been awarded a contract under NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program’s Phase III. This $57.5 million NASA grant will be used to develop space-based construction technology for Moon exploration. It also aims to be humanity’s first construction on another planet. The nearly $60 million contract expands on previous NASA and Department...

OSHA investigating recent construction accidents A spokesperson for the Denver office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has confirmed the agency is looking into the circumstances which led to two separate construction site accidents in the Denver metro area last week. One of the accidents killed a worker. Chauntra Rideaux, a regional OSHA representative, stated the U.S. Department of Labor agency is investigating the April 13 fatal fall in downtown Denver and the April 17 collapse of a warehouse-sized building in Commerce City. In the first incident, a 25-year-old worker, Juan Blanco-Parra, died after falling from the upper stories...

Arup’s visualisation tool bridges communities in Rwanda The bridge visualisation tool from Arup and Bridges to Prosperity Arup, in partnership with Bridges to Prosperity (B2P), has designed a bridge visualisation tool to support bridge construction in East Africa and Central America. The tool, developed as an offline app, creates interactive 3D models of trailbridges, detailing the construction stage by stage. B2P’s teams use it to train local communities, which often act as the main construction workforce on the projects. It has been tested on seven bridge projects in Rwanda, and is now available for all B2P projects. B2P will also...

  FPT INDUSTRIAL TO CONEXPO CON/AGG 2023 WITH ITS WIDE RANGE OF SOLUTIONS FOR CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT  FPT Industrial, the world-leading manufacturer of low environmental impact solutions, presents its full range of Tier 4 Final and Stage V, 2.8-to-16 liter engines at CONEXPO CON/AGG 2023, the largest construction show in North America to be held from 14 to 18 March in Las Vegas.  Renowned for their high performance, flexibility, reliability and maximized uptime, these highly productive and efficient engines can be used across several applications (off-road, and power generation) in a fully sustainable way since they are compatible with renewable diesel...