How Product Identifiers Can Enhance Your Building Process

Have you considered the significance of a product’s bar code when you shop at a supermarket?  The 50-year-old invention contains a standardized product number essential to the operation of the whole value chain: the retail store, the distribution center, the transportation company, the warehouse, the vendor, and the producer.  Standardized numbers also allow us consumers […]

A New Digital Twin for an Existing Bridge

The smartBRIDGE Hamburg project devised a digital twin of a 1970s bridge using open BIM technologies. Allplan and Solibri were instrumental in developing the twin that enables the Hamburg Port Authority, HPA, to maintain the critical infrastructure asset predictively. Built in 1974, the Köhlbrand Bridge is Germany’s second-longest road bridge and one of its busiest. […]

Construction Startup Competition 2023 Launched

Cemex Ventures, Cemex’s corporate venture capital and open innovation unit, kicks off its Construction Startup Competition 2023, which is the biggest competition in the construction industry for startups. The application phase for the competition will be open until July 2, 2023. Cemex Ventures is joined in its 7th Competition edition by prominent leaders such as […]