I had the pleasure of interviewing Marina Korol, CEO at Concurator and Vice Chair of buildingSMART Russia. We discuss the state of BIM in Russia. What is your background and how did you get interested in construction and especially BIM? My primary background is computer science. But my main domain was always AEC industry where […]

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Marianne Friis is Head of BIM Management at Arkitema Architects, a Danish company. In this interview, we discuss architectural BIM, especially from the Scandinavian perspective. Arkitema Architects was founded in Aarhus in 1969. Today, it is one of Scandinavia’s biggest architectural firms, with fifteen partners and a staff of 500 employees. The company has offices […]

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Dr. Noha Saleeb is Associate Professor Creative Technology/Digital Creativity at Middlesex University London. In this interview, we discuss BIM and other technologies in education and the best ways to put BIM into practice. Noha has taught multiple modules at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Architecture, Building Information Modelling, Design Engineering, Programming, and Graphics.  Her research […]

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In this podcast episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Natalia Rincón and Johanna Suortti of CHAOS Architects, a smart city AI platform startup. CHAOS Architects say that current smart cities are missing a key element: “The smart city is very good at tracking but not very good at listening. We are still missing one ingredient. A city […]

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Marzia Bolpagni, an advocate for BIM in business and education. She’s the Strategic BIM Advisor at Mace in London and works actively in the standardization of BIM practices. Marzia became interested in BIM during her studies at the University of Brescia in northern Italy: “I was very lucky to […]

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A new survey of 500 US executives and managers in construction and engineering found that nearly half still use manual collection processes to capture critical data on job sites. These manual processes increase the time needed to make decisions, hurt work quality, and leave firms facing unnecessary costs. The research, from TrackVia, a mobile-ready workflow […]

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All major car manufacturers are committed to making hybrids and 100 % electric vehicles (EVs). Consequently, a growing number of drivers will need sockets to charge their vehicles. Echargie solves this problem by turning any power socket into a smart charging station. “Last year, I hosted a group of German automotive manufacturers in Finland. We […]

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Midsummer 2020 will forever be known as a historic time for U.S. economic data releases. On this date, July 30th, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has published its estimate of Q2 versus Q1 gross domestic product (GDP) change, annualized (i.e., extended for a full year), and it’s a searing drop of -32.9%.

Buildots announced today that it had secured $16 million in funding to leverage the power of AI to track, analyze and provide actionable data for construction project teams. The company uses hardhat-mounted 360° cameras to seamlessly determine the exact status of an ongoing project and provides invaluable insight to contractors. The $3 million seed and […]

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When you imagine a pole barn, you probably picture a horse barn with a riding arena, or a commercial building used for retail purposes. Most likely, you don’t think of the engineering components that make your post frame building structurally-sound.