As the AEC industry accelerates its adoption of AI in 2026, the gap between manual drafting and AI-assisted workflows is widening. For students and apprentices, mastering ChatGPT prompts to drive ...

Floors, roofs, ceilings. Speaking in a very generic way, they are practically all the horizontal elements that we can find in the construction of a building. These three parts have a very similar way ...

Like the weather, everyone in the AEC industry is talking about using BIM models for operations and maintenance, but no one—well, almost no one—is doing anything about it. That’s because there’s a ...

New design phase tool: Autodesk launches Forma Building Design to embed performance analysis into schematic design, enabling direct transfer into Revit with preserved site and building data. AI in ...

Autodesk has released Forma Building Design and made Revit the first connected client, meaning granular data can flow to it from Revit with no file exchange or conversion needed.

VIATechnik, a Chicago-based engineering firm, partnered with Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and LCS Constructors, Inc. on a reconstruction project of the Steven Spielberg Building. "The ...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) offers a novel approach to design, construction, and facility management in which a digital representation of the building product and process is used to facilitate ...

In 2008, the American Institute of Architects released its first BIM contract document—AIA E202 Building Information Modeling Protocol Exhibit—which outlined five “levels of development” (LOD 100-500) ...

Whether you are an owner, design professional, design consultant, construction manager (CM), general contractor (GC), or subcontractor, it is almost inevitable that you will encounter the use of ...