Things were not looking good a few months ago for Fieldlens, the site documentation and project markup tool once referred to as the “Facebook of Construction.”

As millions of design and construction professionals work remotely, opportunities for cyber crime increase exponentially.

When the COVID-19 pandemic first spread across the U.S. earlier this year, construction sites saw a raft of new safety procedures to ensure essential work could continue without casually spreading the virus.

A team of New Zealand-based software designers that brought digital 3D modeling to engineering geotechnics less than two years ago recently launched an upgrade to their software. It is now being used on some major projects, including the U.K.’s multibillion-dollar London-Birmingham high speed railroad (HS2).

New technologies and processes for digitally managed materials tracking and deliveries are challenging long-held ideas on project logistics

Getting machine learning and artificial intelligence to work for construction is often a matter of finding where it would be most useful.

In an effort to create a common environment for design visualizations across multiple platforms, Autodesk has partnered with Nvidia to bring its broad suite of design software to Nvidia Omniverse, a recently launched collaborative 3D environment that allows users of different software to see their 3D designs in one shared online space.

SoFi Stadium's digital twin from Willow consolidates 3.1 million sq ft of stadium and all its moving parts into a 16GB graphical and relational model that can be accessed from an iPad and analyzed by stadium management for optimizing building operations.

The deal, announced Oct. 27, will allow the tech firm to build out its project management platform further into preconstruction..

With the company’s IPO bringing Bentley into the sphere of publicly traded companies, the software maker plans to continue its expansion into the construction phase of projects.