Technically Speaking

You may recall that last year the U.S scored an abysmal D+ grade for its infrastructure by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), but what can the government, industry leaders and stakeholders do about it?

Key new enhancements to Revit 2015 will enable the MEP engineering professional to design, analyze, and document more efficiently, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at the top five enhancements: 1) Parameter Options

Traffic fatalities in the United States have increased by 30 percent since 1997. In New York City, for instance, approximately 4,000 people are seriously injured and more than 250 are killed each year in traffic crashes. Being struck by a vehicle is the leading cause of injury-related death for children under 14, and the second leading cause for seniors. On average, vehicles seriously injure or kill a New Yorker every two hours, according to the city’s website.

Unless your head's been buried in sand for the past decade then you’ll know that CAD software giant Autodesk releases software upgrades on an annual basis, the most recent being the 2015 releases this Spring.

From New Mexico DOT to the government of Brazil public sector infrastructure designers and engineers are increasingly using model-based visualizations of municipal projects to solicit input from non-technical stakeholders and the public and better communicate design intent. Software like Autodesk InfraWorks 360 can help with that.

AUGI (aka the Autodesk User Group International) is taking a quick pulse on the industry, including job satisfaction, what specialties pay the most, as well as tech trends like the adoption of cloud computing. As of July 2, according to AUGI’s Facebook page, the responses stand as follows: