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Aktion | July 26, 2021

Corum announced today that Aktion Associates has acquired its client, Minnesota-based Central Consulting Group (CCG), Deltek's biggest Vision/Vantagepoint partner. The acquisition expands Aktion's product offerings and customer base in the AEC sector in North America. Corum is the world's top educator on technology trends, valuations, growth plans, and tech mergers. On August 10th, 10:00 AM CDT, Rob Griggs will conduct a 90-minute online Tech M&A, Merge Briefing. T...

Autodesk, Pype | July 24, 2020

Autodesk has announced its plans to acquire Pype, a DC-area based startup that has created AI-based software to manage spec books and submittals, documents common to the construction industry. Submittals are composed of shop drawings, cut sheets and other data, in paper or digital form, and are shared between engineers, architects, contractors and architects. Pype's main products, from what we can gather on their website, are: AutoSpecs, which creates a draft s...

Fast Company | January 17, 2020

In an effort to build a more sustainable future, architects and policy makers are nodding to the past with structures entirely made of timber. From a 70-story timber skyscraper in Tokyo to an all-wood, 200,000-plus square foot university residence hall in Arkansas, constructions that have eschewed steel and concrete for forest-grown materials have been sprouting up across the world. Next up in this timber trend: a Copenhagen neighborhood built fully with wood, with housing for 7,000 people, a sc...

ENGINEERING TECH

Prophecy | June 23, 2022

Prophecy, the leading low-code platform for data engineering, announced the launch of Prophecy for Databricks, a powerful new offering that makes it easier and faster to build data pipelines that deliver the data for business intelligence and machine learning. This platform, with a visual drag-and-drop canvas, enables anyone that wants to do data engineering to visually and interactively develop, deploy and monitor data pipelines on Apache Spark. Built for use by both season...