Utility Gets The Joints Too
Designers planning for efficient construction may find a new product called DelphiCad an interesting and inexpensive utility.
Publication Date: 16 August , 2004
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Water Planner Goes With Flow
Bentley Systems Inc. has bought Haestad Methods Inc., a 25-year-old developer of water resource planning soft-ware.
Publication Date: 16 August , 2004
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Group Presents Plan To Organize Equipment Data
FIATECH’s AEX Project released its XML Schemas for Capital Facilities Equipment on July 26. The data framework specifies a cataloging plan for a vast sweep of information about facility equipment, including engineering, procurement, install
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Publication Date: 09 August , 2004
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Study of Data Roadblocks Costs Tags Capital Facilities Industry With $15.8 Billion Loss
About $10.5 billion of that cost is incurred during operations and maintenance and is borne by owners and operators, the report concludes. It adds, however, that respondents to the survey used to generate the data said there are significant addi
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Publication Date: 09 August , 2004
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Custom Parts Factory Goes On Line
eMachineShop, which opened its virtual doors June 21 at www.emachineshop.com, lets users trim a process that could easily take days, down to as few as 15 minutes, claim its officials.
Publication Date: 12 July , 2004
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Illusions Rise to New Heights
Zebra Imaging Inc., Austin, Texas, produces 2x2-ft tiles burned with holograms generated from any 3-D data source. They leap into three dimensions when illuminated by any point-source light, such as the sun or a halogen lamp. Zebra has received
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Publication Date: 12 July , 2004
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Software Catches the Rain
Now, Haestad Methods, a Waterbury Conn.-based water resources software company, has a new product called CivilStorm Dynamic 2005 that is capable of modeling entire city or county stormwater management systems. It can run what-if scenarios on sys
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Publication Date: 12 July , 2004
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Scour Alerts Tell Bridge Inspectors Where To Go
Transportation engineers monitoring bridges at risk during flood situations are getting a helping hand with locally focused weather forecasting, Web bots that troll automatically for targeted information and software that assesses the data to se
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Publication Date: 26 April , 2004
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Seeing the Light
The tool is the fruit of a three-year joint project, just concluding, of the Lighting Group at Canada’s Institute for Research in Construction and the Buildings Group at Natural Resources Canada. Their goal was to create a realistic en
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Publication Date: 26 April , 2004
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Website Has Layers of Data
Publication Date: 26 April , 2004
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Chicago Tries "e-Permits" To Unclog Traffic in City Hall
What the City of Chicago is trying to do for local builders is similar to what financial institutions have done for their Internet-savvy customers. However, the city is banking on its new online “e-p
Publication Date: 23 February , 2004
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Satellites Measure Sagging Soil
The European Space Agency has awarded a U.S. firm $878,000 to develop projects to demonstrate satellite technology to monitor large-area ground subsidence, which can damage linear infrastructure such as ra
Publication Date: 22 December , 2003
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Surveys Test Technology Use
December seems to be the season for benchmark surveys on information technology.
Publication Date: 22 December , 2003
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Voice Recognition Estimato
A young start-up company with patents for applying voice recognition technology to estimating take-offs got a break Nov. 26 when it signed a partnership agreement with a vendor of software for heavy, highw
Publication Date: 22 December , 2003
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U.S. Army of the Future Will Need Bases To Match
Responding to the spiraling challenges of war and terrorism, military planners are speeding up efforts to re-engineer the U.S. Army, its training programs, bases and equipment into the force of the future.
Publication Date: 01 December , 2003
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Certified in the 4th Dimension
The Center for Integrated Facility Engineering at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., has launched what it says is the first online certificate program in virtual design and construction.
Publication Date: 24 November , 2003
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Find First Big Customer in Asia
An expressway in Singapore is expected to be the first large-scale installation of a new concrete monitoring system that uses embedded, multisensor instruments from a U.S. company to analyze conditions in
Publication Date: 24 November , 2003
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IT Trends Study Wants Your Data
A Princeton, N.J.-based nonprofit organization for construction industry financial professionals is conducting a major survey of the industry’s information technology plans and practices.
Publication Date: 24 November , 2003
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Model Variations in Real Time
Dr. Frame 3D is a new structural modeling and analysis tool that lets users manipulate components, such as loads, supports and members, while the structure updates on screen. Numeric results and visual def
Publication Date: 24 November , 2003
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Customers Steer the Ship
Listening to customer input to drive product development is a claim vendors love to make. Now, one Scottsdale, Ariz.-based software company has institutionalized the concept into a democratic process.
Publication Date: 20 October , 2003
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Let's Make a Deal Becomes Much Easier
The new AIA Contracts Document software doesn’t have a catchy name, but it does have good tools to get the job done.
Publication Date: 20 October , 2003
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Talking the Old- Fashioned Way
People with questions are used to turning to the Internet, and also to colleagues. UK-based Lend Lease, parent company of Bovis Lend Lease, is combining the two in ikonnect, a knowledge management service
Publication Date: 20 October , 2003
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9/11 Response Team Wins Grant
A group of volunteer first-responders to the Sept. 11 disaster who created virtual models of the World Trade Center and the resulting debris pile have won a three-year, $2-million grant to enhance their te
Publication Date: 13 October , 2003
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Bridging the Digital Divide
One quality that seems to be developing in the information technology industry is deliberation, as vendors take time to refine features before touting them.
Publication Date: 13 October , 2003
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Improving Others Sometimes Starts at Home
Business consultant Nicholas B. Martorano sees opportunity in discord. He has launched a Web-based service for general contractors to help them and their subs get along.
Publication Date: 13 October , 2003
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Consulting As Virtual Enterprise
An international alliance of architects, security experts and software wizards is using the Internet to pool their talents by using model-based design data to collaboratively analyze plans for security and
Publication Date: 04 August , 2003
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Memo Cell Service Goes National
SkyLog, from Pacific DataVision Inc. San Diego, Calif., lets inspectors call in notes from the field for retrieval and processing by their office staff from a site on the Internet (ENR 4/15/02 p. 33.) Reports can be generated while inspectors ar
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Publication Date: 04 August , 2003
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Sketching with Tablet and Pen
About 150 architects showed up July 15 for a regular meeting of the American Institute of Architects’ New York technical committee to see the three-day-old release of pen-based design product SketchUp, from @Last Software, Boulder, Colo. It
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Publication Date: 04 August , 2003
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Regulators Seek Feedback On Power Line Communications
The Federal Communications Commission is gathering comments about power line communications (ENR 12/9/2002, p. 26), an emerging technology which uses electric power distribution circuits to convey broadban
Publication Date: 30 July , 2003
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Best Software Aquires Timberline
Timberline Software signed an agreement July 16 that will sell the company to U.K.-based The Sage Group plc and its U.S. subsidiary Best Software. The cash deal is worth $102.9 million. Shareholders will r
Publication Date: 18 July , 2003
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Meridian Co-Founder Towert to Leave
"We're not letting Dave get too far from the tree," says Meridian CEO Jim Olsen, who joined the firm in November.
Publication Date: 15 July , 2003
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Meridian's New Proliance Manages Processes Online
Meridian Project Systems announced on June 30 it is bringing out Proliance, a Web-native, interoperable foundation for an array of separate business applications. The company says the product will facilitate collaboration and enable a company to
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Publication Date: 02 July , 2003
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Buyers Buy On Line
Gregg Hensler figures he’s spent $7,000 on equipment and tools on eBay and saved $5,000 in the process. Same with Holly Pinner, who’s spent $20,000 for what would have cost $70,000 new. Pinner pa
Publication Date: 16 June , 2003
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Robo Mine-Mapper Takes Solo Foray
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University tested an autonomous robot explorer in an abandoned coal mine May 30 with substantial success. The mechanical beast picked its way, without human guidance, 308 m b
Publication Date: 16 June , 2003
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Versatile Program To Remain So
Concerns that a widely used plant design product might lose some of its Bentley/Autodesk compatibility as a result of a recent acquisition may have been allayed June 9 by an announcement from Bentley Syste
Publication Date: 16 June , 2003
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Bentley Publishes File Format
"Bentley has done something very few software vendors are willing to do," adds Evan Yares, president of the OpenDWG Alliance. This means it is willing to "compete on the merits" of its applicat
Publication Date: 02 June , 2003
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Environmental Data Delivers New Detail
A company that provides data for environmental site assessments has completed a major upgrade to improve report production.
Publication Date: 02 June , 2003
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3D Models of Anywhere
It doesn't matter if there is a war there, as was the case recently when Vexcel Corp. produced its second project, a model of Baghdad, Iraq, with bombed palaces shown in red (below). Nor does it matter if the country objects.
Publication Date: 26 May , 2003
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Company Goes One Way With All Data
Thanks to a new self-made product, project superintendents, project managers and other field personnel can now fill out a single-page daily report online and have the data automatically populate to the proper databases behind the scenes, flowing
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Publication Date: 26 May , 2003
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Steel Sector Plans Paradigm Shift
The American Institute of Steel Construction Inc. predicts that, thanks to electronic data interchange, in 15 years at most, two-dimensional design and shop drawings will be relics of a bygone era, pushed
Publication Date: 14 April , 2003
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Is That Your CAD File Calling?
Imagine CAD plans downloaded, stored and viewable on your cell phone. A Swedish-based software developer selling such a system in Europe is trying to bring it to the U.S.
Publication Date: 17 February , 2003
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Work Zone Safety Field Trials
The Federal Highway Administration has posted a 38-page study on the use of intelligent transportation systems for work zone traffic control. It examines experiences from four projects around the country i
Publication Date: 17 February , 2003
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Plant Design Getting Smarter
The process and power market is getting a look at a new object-based 3D modeling design program and is being invited to help in its refinement though an early adopter program.
Publication Date: 10 February , 2003
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Steel Designer Turns to Concrete
A structural design system that has been growing in capability since it first appeared 12 years ago has added concrete design to its bag of tricks.
Publication Date: 10 February , 2003
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Coast Guard Pilot Project Casts Wider Net for Data Exchange
This spring, the U.S. Coast Guard's civil engineers will begin presenting a new kind of master plan. It ultimately will consist of integrated, Internet-accessible electronic data models of all of USCG Grou
Publication Date: 03 February , 2003
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Hazard Modeling Tool Will Be Free
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is preparing to release a multi-hazard risk assessment and loss estimating tool that comes with extensive base reference data, yet can also incorporate local data su
Publication Date: 27 January , 2003
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Navy Set to Sail Virtually
A U.S. Navy contractor is preparing a request for proposals to build a $50-million to $80-million warship simulator capable of subjecting crews of nearly 400 graduating boot-camp recruits to virtual trials
Publication Date: 27 January , 2003
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Access Controls Are Landing in High-Class Spaces
Anxieties are easing as months pass without another attack on the homeland, but enhancements to intelligent building security systems still are progressing with determination.
Publication Date: 13 January , 2003
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Technology Hides in the Past
In a venture to supply voice, video and data services to a housing project in northern Virginia, a technical services contractor is now finishing setting up a $1.6-million telecommunications center disguis
Publication Date: 16 December , 2002
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Building Systems Tools are Combined
The trend toward the single, building data model in design is generating its own ripple effect in software--unified design tools.
Publication Date: 02 December , 2002
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Strain Gauge Has Light Touch
Europe's first public highway bridge to be built with structural plastics opened Oct. 29 near Oxford, England. It not only pioneers the use of composite materials on an active highway river crossing, but a
Publication Date: 02 December , 2002
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Security Colors Conference
Growing political pressure and technical demands involved in enhancing infrastructure security are pushing industry interests to do something they rarely do: work together.
Publication Date: 25 November , 2002
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Calculation is Just the Start
An easy-to-use but quite sophisticated math program that captures the rationale behind calculations, as well as solves them, is coming out in an enterprise version for the first time.
Publication Date: 18 November , 2002
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Robot Mapper Takes Maiden Jaunt
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have delivered on a pledge to fast-track a robotic mine mapping tool (ENR 9/16 p. 50). They recently sent a 1,600-lb robot named 'Groundhog" into a mine closed s
Publication Date: 18 November , 2002
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Slicing And Dicing The Project Data
Software that is a project management staple at many firms is out in a new edition, reengineered to increase flexibility and offer better data manipulation and reuse capabilities.
Publication Date: 18 November , 2002
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Bean Counter For Small Contractors
After realizing that contractors are the biggest part of its customer base, the maker of a line of popular consumer accounting software will be selling a product for small contractors at a store near you s
Publication Date: 28 October , 2002
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Study Tests System Analyzer
Silicon Valley Power, the municipally owned electric utility of Santa Clara, Calif., is subject of a study being launched using a new technology that may provide a basis for optimizing electric power grids
Publication Date: 28 October , 2002
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Design Tool for City Streets
A British company that makes 3D civil design software optimized for electronic collaboration has introduced a product to the U.S. market specialized for reconstructing roadways in urban and suburban locati
Publication Date: 14 October , 2002
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Chemical Process Plants Must Review IT Tools
The U.S. chemical process industry must exert strict cost-justification as it applies the tools of information technology to improve itself or it runs the risk of adding cost without adding value, and of m
Publication Date: 11 October , 2002
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The Biometrics Are Coming!
A vendor free-for-all has developed in biometrics, the technology for recognizing individuals by unique biological characteristics. Security concerns have sparked a surge of interest even though the field
Publication Date: 07 October , 2002
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