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Make It Resilient 2024 Student Contest Encourages New Ways to Build for Extreme Environments

Autodesk Construction Cloud

With its latest annual Make It Real program, Autodesk is challenging high school students to imagine how to design and build a habitat for an extreme environment. In the end, the habitat design should help answer the question, “What if extreme environment habitats embraced their unique surroundings to enhance human well-being?”

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NAWIC Block Kids: The Future of Construction

Carol Hagen

The Greater Phoenix Chapter recently held their Block Kids competition at the Encanto Elecmentary School with over 50 young builders creatively assembling project models (done without BIM) using 100 building blocks, 1 sheet of construction paper, a piece of tin foil, a rock and a string.

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Webinars & Construction Events in September 2022

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Autodesk University 2022 is the design and make conference for innovators everywhere. You’ll join and connect with thousands of industry experts across architecture, engineering, construction, design, and more. The benefits of using Assemble to identify variances between design iterations. September 27 – 29, 2022.

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Carole Wedge, former Shepley Bulfinch President and CEO, retires after 37 years

BD+C

Carole Wedge, former Shepley Bulfinch President and CEO, retires after 37 years 0 qpurcell Wed, 04/05/2023 - 10:51 Women in Design+Construction Wedge’s 37-year career at Shepley Bulfinch evolved a historic firm into a national design practice. in 2019, and Durham, N.C.,

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Two-Day US Workshop Series for Efficient design of post-tensioned buildings

Construction Cost Estimating

This workshop series is purposely designed for those who get interested in availing practical training & in detail training in 3D-FEM concrete software , modeling processes and methods used for the design and evaluation of post-tensioned buildings. construction estimating 3d concrete software concrete estimating'

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Augmented Reality Now: How 3D Visualization is Changing the Construction Industry

Carol Hagen

I met James in Phoenix last year when he was the speaker for a construction association dinner meeting and we have been friends (and admirers of each other) ever since. Precise 3D models. ? The devices, combined with their data, allow the user to take a BIM ( [link] ) model and render it in 3D on top of real world images.

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Does a BIM Requirement Stop You From Bidding?

Carol Hagen

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has become an industry standard on complex construction projects. As more Construction owners reap the benefits of BIM, more projects add a modeling component. Then you can mold your own model of a BIM professional without any “bad habit” baggage.

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