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A rubber safety screen falls away from a newly blasted rock at one of the many faces forming an 18-kilometer-long tunnel being built to divert traffic away from Sweden’s capital city. 

By showing students what’s actually happening in the industry, they can be convinced that construction is a tech-focused, engaging, and exciting place to be.

The introduction of a cloud-based, automatic, change synchronization system for composite project models captured great attention at a Bentley Systems' Year in Infrastructure conference in Singapore, and that was just the start.

A young Boston-area start-up, ManufactOn has entered into a non-exclusive partnership with Autodesk, which plans to integrate ManufactOn's cloud and mobile software for optimizing materials and prefabrication supply-chain management with Autodesk's BIM 360 construction management platform. The partnership was announced on Sept. 18.

After five years of PhD research and two years of software development, a start-up enterprise that applies parallel computing and artificial intelligence to construction planning and scheduling is ready to go to work.

A new web-based, structural-engineering BIM collaboration platform is providing its devel­opers with a few surprises about how the product is being used, with more small projects loaded than expected.

Collaboration between CBT Architects and Skanska construction teams accelerated construction of an elliptical building built over a tunnel that distinguishes itself in Boston’s booming Seaport District.