Technical innovations transforming the AEC industry Management for Design attended a recent industry event on Tuesday 5 April that shone a spotlight on innovation in architecture, engineering and construction. The event was hosted by Friends of the industry in Sydney. The evening included presentations from three tech startups innovating in the AEC sector, followed by a Q&A and networking. Historically, innovation is something the AEC industry hasn’t been great at. However, in the past three years this has started to change and we are noticing a rapid innovation shift and a call for novel solutions to old and longstanding problems. Business leaders in architecture and engineering firms are starting to see the strategic benefits of innovation. Innovation is at the centre of new government policy and technologists are taking ideas from industry and innovating to create better ways of doing things. ‘Innovation’ is the buzz word du jour. Sam Carigliano from SkyCiv Engineering presented a demo of his online engineering software platform used to design structures. The software offers deflection and stress analysis, reporting and rendering, along with a full 3D structural design. Sam showed a range of different projects that are being built using his software, including that of a user building an aeroplane. The site also includes free beam, truss, frame and moment of inertia calculators.
SkyCiv’s Sam Carigliano demonstrated his structural design software.
