Category: architecture, engineering and construction

Innovation Management: un’occhiata alla nuova ISO

Nel gennaio 2025 è stata pubblicata una nuova versione ISO 56000 sulla gestione dell’innovazione o, meglio, della prima parte della serie ovvero quella dedicata alla definizione dei concetti chiave e alla terminologia. Questa ISO è una norma relativamente giovane, la cui versione precedente risaleva al 2020, e che fa da preambolo e contestualizzazione per altre […]

Why do we AI? Devaluation, division and control of labour

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on the mouth of everybody, for good and for worse, and people in the AEC field — especially those involved with aspects that are perceived as “creative” such as architectural composition — often ask me: why should I care? This prompted me to explore a concept: why, exactly, are we pursuing […]

Industry Foundation Classes: risorse per capirci di più (o quantomeno per capirci qualcosa)

Che io non sia una fan del formato Ifc è cosa nota e risaputa ma purtroppo, per parafrasare una nota massima quantomai attuale riguardante la democrazia, per quanto possa fare schifo è ancora il formato migliore che abbiamo (principalmente perché è l’unico). E siccome avere i dati anche in formato aperto è un’indiscutibile necessità, non […]

AEC Data Model API: an introduction

Autodesk announced lots of news during last October’s Autodesk University and, though some of them weren’t really new, we do have some interesting development, especially on the cloud services. You can find the full list here. Since I am bound to forget to look into it or forget that I’ve looked into it altogether, I’ll […]

The Autodesk University Journal – Day 3

Ok, so, my phone died after the last day of Autodesk University, which means I lack some of the resources to craft this post properly, but I don’t want to leave some awesome things unmentioned, so you’ll get this for now and then I’ll do something better as soon as I’m back. What was my […]

The Autodesk University Journal – Day 1

Well, my class came and went and it was awesome. Not the delivery, I mean — I’ll leave that judgement to the participants — but I had a blast delivering it and my audience was wonderful. I think I was really able to articulate the key points between the complexity of designing for climate change, […]