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Japan’s ACIMUS Raises About ¥65 Million for a Chat-Based BIM Tool and Partners With JR East
Tokyo startup ACIMUS, which builds BIM models from typed instructions in a web browser, has raised about ¥65 million and formed an alliance...
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CADCraft, a Free AutoCAD-Style Drafting App Written in Rust, Was Built Around AI Coding Agents
CADCraft, an open-source drafting app modelled on AutoCAD and developed with AI coding agents, reads DXF and DWG files and can be driven...
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Blueprints AI Claims It Can Turn Sketches Into Permit-Ready Construction Drawings in Minutes
Santa Monica startup Blueprints AI says its software generates code-compliant, permit-ready drawing sets for every discipline from a sketch or description, with licensed...
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Robots Braid Hemp Rope Into Mould-Free Building Panels Bound by Living Fungus
Researchers at ETH Zurich and Empa have a robot braid thick hemp rope into a scaffold, then let mycelium grow through it and...
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Oxford Street Goes Traffic-Free as the First Phase of London’s Pedestrianisation Opens
Almost a kilometre of Oxford Street between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street closed to traffic on 26 October, opening a temporary test...
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Autodesk Previews a Standalone AI Assistant That Works Across Revit, Forma and Fusion
At Autodesk University 2026, Autodesk previewed a standalone version of Autodesk Assistant that can call on several products and AI models at once....
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Chaos Veras 5.3 Adds NODES, a Canvas for AI Workflows That Bake Into Revit, Rhino and SketchUp
Chaos has released Veras 5.3 with NODES, a node canvas where architects chain image, video, analysis and parametric geometry steps, let an agent...
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Architects Rate ‘High’ for AI Exposure in BLS Data, While Most Building Trades Rate Low
An NAHB analysis of BLS data finds 45 of 47 construction occupations have low or moderate AI exposure. In the same table, architects,...
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