There were concerns the large triennial equipment show would be a muted affair this year with the lingering global recession threat and war in Ukraine driving up energy prices across Europe.
In 2018, EPC contractor TGE Top Down delivered a $112-million, 10-story, 621,000-sq-ft office building in Bangalore, India, using a patented top-down building system.
Top-down construction—assembling the floor of a building on the ground and lifting it into place—has long presented a possible alternative to the labor-intensive process of building steel frames, floors, walls and all components at height.
Autodesk explained the rationale for its new separate cloud services at its user conference, while a number of the company's technology partners unveil new integrations for their services.
Autodesk is working on an AEC-focused cloud collaboration platform, and says it will continue to push the industry to change its workflows and processes to be more data-centric and less process-centric.
When the city of Lenexa, Kan., this spring opted to move forward with a test pilot of “smart pavements,” it represented a vital step forward for electric vehicles.