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PBC Today | November 05, 2020

It may appear the 2050 zero-carbon deadline is far off in the future. However, if we are to eliminate all carbon-based sources of energy throughout the UK, work must begin now on a whole-system approach, Bryan Palmer, senior civil engineer at Burns & McDonnell explores. Engineering will be key to success as the UK moves towards meeting its zero-carbon goals by 2050, and digital technologies will be at the core of an engineering-led approach. With the right model, we can optimise energy syste...

Trimble, Tekla | April 09, 2020

Trimble’s latest Tekla software releases improve the free flow of information, the creation of data-rich constructible models and improved collaboration. Trimble released updates of its Tekla 2020 Structural BIM Software Solutions, that are used for advanced Building Information Modeling, structural engineering and steel fabrication management. The updates concern the following software products: Tekla Structures is advanced structural BIM software for creating, combining, managing and sha...

MIT School of Engineering | January 22, 2020

Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Research And Engineering has created the Mobile Autonomous Systems Experimentation Laboratory to provide consultancy and research on autonomous vehicle technology. The lab’s centerpiece is the MASE Jeep – a modified Grand Cherokee outfitted by MITRE engineers with sensors, analytic and data recorders, and powerful processors – which is being used to examine autonomous technologies and algorithms. Zachary LaCelle, a senior autonomous s...

Autodesk | January 22, 2020

Autodesk Innovator of the Year Amr Raafat has teamed with a robot software company to develop an autonomous laser scanning and layout planning robot that is being used on Windover Construction work sites. The robot is able to move around on uneven surfaces to predetermined locations to scan indoor and outdoor spaces, as well as to measure and draw plans for walls and spaces that would need to be meticulously measured by a human, according to Raafat, Windover Construction’s vice president o...