Tech firms announce data sharing agreement at recent user conferences that includes support for IFCs and better application programming interfaces.

Vendor says new SaaS platform will allow better decision-making early on

Construction and sustainability have not always gone hand-in-hand, but times are changing.

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.

Architects from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland have joined a 2020 call from UK designers for more development of Autodesk design software. 

Purchase terms for The Wild, a technology firm with an immersive virtual/extended reality environment for industry professionals and a dedicated virtual meetings tool, were not disclosed.

Chris Andrews has been working with computer-aided drafting and geographic information systems data nearly as long as they’ve been used in construction, “including mapping indoor facilities on the web, starting from work in startups in the late 90’s,” he says.