Less than 10 months after being handed a hand-drawn sketch of its building requirements, McCrory Construction delivered a 102,000-sq-ft, $80-million manufacturing facility for Pregis Performance Flexibles, which will produce blown film for the food industry. The project broke ground in January 2021 and wrapped up in September of the same year.

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.

We (the construction industry) seem to be able to produce a well-coordinated design set using new technologies such as BIM.

BIM files faster, new AEC workflows, data risk and common data exchanges. These are just a few of the topics covered at Egnyte’s AEC Leadership Summit.<

Oracle expands its cloud analytics capabilities, while Procore partners with Amazon on digital twins.

Better processes can connect construction for delivery methods such as design-build and integrated project delivery.

T he 100-km, $19-billion Elizabeth rail line opened in London last month after more than a decade of construction. Teams used a digital workflow to install over 27,000 cladding panels in three of the new stations, reducing needed weight and improving efficiency.