Categories Autodesk

The U.S. Needs a National Privacy Law

Privacy is an important issue for all of us as consumers and Autodesk fully supports your privacy and data. Read more about our policy and why there needs to be rules covering privacy and data from Autodesk’s Pascal Di Fronzo – Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Chief Legal…

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Categories AEC

Civil Engineers Can Save the World

Here is a great article about thinking about things differently and how engineers can help create a better world and future. 3 Ways Heroic Civil Engineers Can Save the World Through Resilience Planninghttps://autode.sk/2EFfBAg

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Categories Misc.

FAA Highlights Changes for US Recreational Drones

There are some big changes coming in the United States to people flying UAS (drones) recreationally, especially in cities and controlled airspace. I am writing this blog post from an area of class c airspace in downtown Portland Oregon. It basically levels the field for recreational and commercial…

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Categories AEC

Reimagining the Eiffel Tower Landscape Using BIM

“At an event in Paris’ City Hall this week, Gustafson Porter + Bowman was named the winner of a competition to redevelop the Eiffel Tower’s “grand site”—an area which includes the Trocadéro Gardens and Champ de Mars, as well as the Tower and its esplanade. The announcement was…

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Categories AEC

Machine Learning Unleashed to Aid in Construction

Machine learning has been a growing in this ever growing world of growing data. It has been in your hands surfacing tips and reducing tasks on your phones, in your bank statements, everyone and now in construction. Autodesk has released a preview of Construction IQ after several years…

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Categories AEC

Builders Herald the Coming Wave of Mass-Timber Construction

In Portland, Seattle, and around North America we are seeing more and more beautiful wood being used in building construction, and it has been more common in Europe for years. There is a massive tall timber project is in the planning stages for Toronto by Google’s Sidewalk Labs.…

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