Dive summary:
- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and CASE have created an exchange where architectural, engineering and construction applications are saved and shared by users who have embraced digital work in their fields.
- The goal of the site, AEC-Apps.com, is to help "you find software used in the design, construction, and maintenance of buildings – from enterprise software to plugins."
- What the site offers, its backers say, is a "crowd-sourced" collection of ways to use technology and to share the insights of users worldwide as everyone tries to keep up with and benefit from more and more new software packages.
From the article:
“Innovation in digital tools is changing the nature of practice, and it’s being driven by many players in different parts of the AEC industry, but they are not often aware of one another’s efforts,” notes SOM’s technical director, Nicholas Holt. ...