AEC TechTV Episode 12: Building Digital Twins

In this interview with Dr. Ken Dooley, we discuss digital twins in the built environment and the recently released report Building Digital Twins by Granlund. Ken Dooley is the Chief Strategy Officer, Empathic Building, at Haltian. During the podcast...

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Jan 04, 2021
AI in AEC Conference 2021

Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, Engineering and Construction is a virtual two-day conference taking place on March 24-25, 2021. The program is published, and early bird registration is open until January 15, 2021. The seed for this conferenc...

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Dec 28, 2020
Why We’ll See Robots on Construction Sites

In his Architect Magazine article, Boston Dynamics construction manager Brian Ringley sees invaluable opportunities for robotics that have little to do with automating building construction and installation. The notion that architects can regain thei...

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Dec 19, 2020
CEMEX Ventures Launches TOP50 Contech Startups

CEMEX Ventures, CEMEX’s Corporate Venture Capital and Open Innovation unit, has announced its TOP50 ConTech Startups list, which includes the 50 most promising new solutions from the 2020 construction ecosystem and the cities of the future. The inves...

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Dec 17, 2020
AEC TechTV Episode 11: Highlights from WDBE 2020 Keynotes

Here are Aarni Heiskanen’s picks from four keynote presentations at World Summit on Digital Built Environment WDBE 2020. The topics and presenters: 00:42 Construction robotics – Kathrin Dörfler, Assistant Professor at TU Munich 04:41 Construction cha...

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Dec 15, 2020
AEC TechTV Episode 10: Supercell’s Mass Timber Office

Supercell is a Finnish gaming company known for games like Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. I took a stroll around their headquarters construction site in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki. The office building is made mainly of m...

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Dec 11, 2020
Survey on Digitalization in the EU Construction Sector

The European Construction Sector Observatory (ECSO) is conducting a survey on the state of digitalization in the construction sector in each of the European Member States. You can take the 10-minute survey online. ECSO was set up in 2015 to regularly...

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Dec 07, 2020