Swimming Unit Gets Map Tool
A deal announced sept. 18 between the maker of an underwater positioning system and the maker of a miniature swimming video camera opens up intriguing possibilities for surveying and mapping submerged feat
Publication Date: 30 September, 2002
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Solving Complex Calculations
A new version of a program for integrated analysis and design of bridges can combine composite results and apply them to every section automatically, as well as perform live-load analysis to flag worst pos
Publication Date: 23 September, 2002
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Catching the Wind
Software developed to model ice buildup on airplanes is finding application predicting the impacts of designs on nearby surroundings.
Publication Date: 02 September, 2002
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Embedded Devices Speed Job
A barge hit the Webbers Falls, Okla., bridge May 26, felling four spans (ENR 6/3 p. 11). The state hired Gilbert Central Corp., a Ft. Worth, Tex.-based unit of Peter Kiewit Sons Inc., to replace spans, piers and caps.
Publication Date: 19 August , 2002
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Bentley Buys Plant Design Integrator
On July 26, Bentley Systems Inc. completed a $32-million purchase of Rebis Industrial Workgroup Software, whose plant design and management products are engineered to integrate with the CAD products of bot
Publication Date: 05 August , 2002
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Upgrade or Stay?
One of the big guns in consumer software is targeting small and medium-sized construction firms for what it hopes will be its first lucrative vertical market.
Publication Date: 05 August , 2002
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Getting Them Out Safely
Scottish company with software that models emergency evacuations says sales have surged in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. (Image courtesy of IES, Ltd)
Publication Date: 22 July , 2002
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How Safe is Your Sewerage?
New software for identifying, analyzing, prioritizing and remediating security risks at wastewater treatment utilities is being packaged for free distribution July 22.
Publication Date: 15 July , 2002
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Punch List Is First Punch For Company
One of its products is a stand-alone punch-list tool that can integrate wirelessly with SQL databases for continuous 2-way synchronization. Pocket Punch 1.5, for Windows CE handheld devices, organizes items by the Construction Specifications Ins
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Publication Date: 15 July , 2002
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Putting It All Together
A widely used 2D and 3D finite element analysis and structural design tool has a new add-on sidekick that integrates steel connection design capability from within the same solution.
Publication Date: 01 July , 2002
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Coming Out of the Clouds
Laser scanners are gaining speed and finesse, just as tools for handling their clouds of data are coming down to earth.
Publication Date: 24 June , 2002
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Building with Information
The recurrent theme at the annual A/E/C Systems trade show in Anaheim, Calif., where vendors were sparse and visitors relatively few, was a discussion of a long-term shift in the industry’s regard for
Publication Date: 17 June , 2002
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Vendors Discover Construction Need
Finding handheld computers or personal digital assistants tough enough to survive on construction sites and versatile enough to be useful are issues that have slowed adoption of such tools for field work
Publication Date: 17 June , 2002
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Complexity Slows Adoption
Extranet providers add too many bells and whistles without enough long-term technical support, according to critics such as Jim Bedrick, AEC information services director at Webcor Technologies, a general
Publication Date: 10 June , 2002
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Federal Rules Raise Concerns
Alarms are going off in the Ground Penetrating Radar world over planned federal rules to restrict use of GPR.
Publication Date: 20 May , 2002
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Listening For Trouble
Researchers in Texas are cranking up an elaborate array of acoustic sensors on a cable-stayed bridge to "listen" for the sounds of hidden damage as it occurs.
Publication Date: 20 May , 2002
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Color Specifier Aims For The Sky
In an effort to bring order to chaos, a Canadian company is launching a drive to promote a standard modeling scheme for color specification and matching for building materials, interior finishes and hardw
Publication Date: 13 May , 2002
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Taking Your Measure
A new laser-eyed device that automates the drafting of as-built plans of interior spaces is being trundled out for previews
Publication Date: 13 May , 2002
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Getting Closer To The Truth
Users can see the model through the "eyes" of a virtual human character who is aware of obstacles and their size and can navigate through the structure as if walking like a human being, rather than viewing it from preset vantage point
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Publication Date: 06 May , 2002
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Catastrophic Modeling
Preliminary structural and thermal simulations of the destruction of the World Trade Center towers demonstrated to Congress last month have led to the commissioning of a detailed model of the catastrophe.
Publication Date: 29 April , 2002
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Software Firm Said To Be Near IPO
Industry sources say the lights have been burning late at design software vendor Bentley Systems Inc. in preparation for the company going public.
Publication Date: 29 April , 2002
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Bentley Files for $172.5 million Initial Public Offering
Bentley Systems Inc., a provider of software products and collaborative services for architects and engineers, filed a registration statement with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission on April 23
Publication Date: 24 April , 2002
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Chemical Industry Races Regulators
Wary of potential regulatory intervention, representatives from 17 U.S. chemical companies met April 11-12 at Baltimore-Washington International Airport to work on a plant vulnerability assessment program
Publication Date: 22 April , 2002
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Things-to-Do Goes Digital
The software, from New York City-based EK Solutions Inc., lets users with portable PCs track outstanding "punchlist" items in the field and download data to office PCs for management and report creation. Using pen-based tablets or othe
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Publication Date: 22 April , 2002
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Take a Memo... Returns
Superintendents and project managers have accepted mobile telephones as the answer to jobsite communications. But easy talk can outrun paper trails and lead to disputes and broken chains of accountability.
Publication Date: 15 April , 2002
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Service Checks Weather Here, Now
A meteorologist with visions of a radar in every pocket announced March 25 an agreement between his company and a digital wireless phone service provider that could do just that.
Publication Date: 08 April , 2002
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Sharper Tools Cut Both Ways
New possibilities included a presentation on parametric design and three-dimensional modeling tools that are helping unravel the mysteries of Sagrada Familia–a Barcelona cathedral designed by Antonio Gaudi that has been under construction
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Publication Date: 08 April , 2002
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Modeling Variables For Crack Control
New software, called POWERPAVE, from the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute sifts a multitude of variables to predict early-life behavior of jointless concrete paving.
Publication Date: 25 March , 2002
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Regulator's Site Guides Selection
It's not often that the building codes and standards folks have a hot new product. But a new Web listing that contains current contact and product information about software for building regulatory operati
Publication Date: 25 March , 2002
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X-Ray Vision Sees All
A new system developed in the UK lets workers scan a site through a video imager and "see" pipelines and underground utilities superimposed on real-time pictures of the terrain.
Publication Date: 25 March , 2002
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System Aims to Simplify Data Collection
One of the first things Roberty P. Murphy, President of a transportation engineering firm in Nashville, Tenn., did when his company won a contract to rapidly inspect that city’s 800 miles of sidewalk
Publication Date: 11 March , 2002
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Underground Study Aims To Limit Digging
Mapping and estimating the damage is the first phase of what is expected to be a two-year project for an eight-block area around the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Publication Date: 11 March , 2002
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CAD Wars Continue: Acquisition Planned
Autodesk announced Feb. 21 it intends to buy Revit Technology Corp., the developer and vendor of a parametric building modeler.
Publication Date: 04 March , 2002
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Putting Field Notes in Context
A bridge inspection data management system from France is debuting in the U.S. on an 8,000-ft, segmental, four-lane, dual-span bridge in Michigan. The engineers are giving it two thumbs up.
Publication Date: 04 March , 2002
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Straight Talk By Laser
Add bank-shots off skyscrapers to the list of telecommunication innovations devised and field tested in New York City in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Publication Date: 04 February , 2002
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Loose Bits Sink Ships
Fears that the nation's commitment to security will dwindle along with the rubble from Sept. 11's attacks were allayed at the recent Transportation Research Board conference in Washington, D.C., by the ur
Publication Date: 28 January , 2002
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Satellite Links Offered
Many project managers wrangling with telephone or cable companies for high-speed Internet access on a jobsite have thought wistfully of pulling connections from satellites, but getting vendors interested
Publication Date: 07 January , 2002
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