Digital Design
November 12, 2019
Article originally posted to GovDesignHub here. If you’ve made the move from AutoCAD to Revit, congratulations. But what do you do with that huge library of details that you amassed over years of working on CAD projects? As you transition to Revit, recreating AutoCAD details is a hassle and trashing them is out of the […]
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November 12, 2019
Article originally posted to GovDesignHub here. Building and maintaining our nation’s infrastructure is a critical responsibility of the public sector. Yet, year-after-year, the U.S. continues to rank low on the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Report Card. While there are no quick fixes (the ASCE recommends that $4.5 trillion is needed to fix our […]
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November 1, 2019
Smart cities have been called “the future of urban development”, but what is a smart city and what does it mean to digital designers and engineers? When we think of smart cities, we often think of them in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT). Perhaps you live in a city where you can […]
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February 25, 2019
Autodesk made further strides into its quest to empower the technological transformation of the construction industry with its recent acquisition of BuildingConnected – a leader in preconstruction tools that help building owners and contractors streamline their operations and communicate better. This latest move comes on the heels of Autodesk’s acquisition of PlanGrid (which brings improved […]
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January 24, 2019
The state of our nation’s infrastructure is grim. The most recent report card from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) gave U.S. infrastructure an overall score of “D” for “poor” or “at risk”. The hurdles to improving that score, are high. Writing for City A.M, Autodesk president and CEO, Andrew Anagnost outlined the facts: […]
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January 15, 2019
If your job involves capturing existing field conditions as part of the design and construction process, you’ll know it’s a tedious, manual, often analog and inaccurate process, which often leads to costly re-work. Whether you’re renovating a building or involved in a large-scale infrastructure project, the process goes something like this: 1. Start with a […]
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December 17, 2018
As any surveyor or field engineer knows, capturing existing field conditions for an infrastructure project or building renovation is a tedious, manual, often analog, and inaccurate process – not to mention dangerous. Renovations projects are a particular challenge since the infrastructure or building may be decades old and designed before the age of digital blueprints. […]
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December 13, 2018
When we launched GovDesignHub in the spring of 2018, we had one goal in mind – to address the lack of resources, discussion, and analysis available online for those who practice in government digital design ecosystem. Today, we’re proud to be the only website that showcases government design projects and the technology used to support […]
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November 14, 2018
What do a Facebook data center, a railway, an expressway, an office building extension, and a cancer center have in common? These and other global projects are recipients of this year’s AEC Excellence Awards in recognition of how they’ve embraced technology to reimagine the processes of design and construction. Announced on day one of Autodesk […]
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September 10, 2018
Want to win a free pass to Autodesk University (AU) 2018? Earlier this summer, we announced that we’ll be awarding a full conference pass for you or a chosen nominee at your agency or department to attend Autodesk University 2018 in Las Vegas from November 13-15th. All you have to do is tell us about […]
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