NXT DEV 2023

21 June

Do you want to play a role in shaping the future of BIM and AEC software?

For over 20 years, AEC Magazine has been documenting the growth of the global BIM industry. We have seen firms shift from 2D drafting to utilising BIM, adopting 3D models as the common design practice. However, it has become evident that relying on 3D models to create 2D PDFs has not been yielding much in the way of promised productivity advantages. As a result, the industry has found itself bogged down with creating and managing even more drawings, making unsynchronised 2D edits, weighed down by onerous BIM deliverable documents and generally unable to reap all the benefits of creating a ‘digital twin’ of a design, both conceptually and in detail. This has resulted in mature BIM users becoming dissatisfied with the current capabilities and workflows.

This has created an ideal incubator for disruptive technologies to evolve, from traditional desktop applications to cloudbased SaaS services, from low detail 3D to fabrication-ready models, from editing 2D drafts to generating automated drawings, and from manual construction to automated off-site construction.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made great strides, already capable of quickly automating many aspects of detail modelling, as well as the production of drawings, making a process that would normally take months achievable in the time it takes to have lunch.

On June 21, the day after NXT BLD, AEC

Magazine’s NXT DEV event will bring together numerous entrepreneurs, experts, software and hardware developers, as well as software development tool companies with distinguished IT professionals from AEC firms to build a community dedicated to designing the next generation of industry tools, transforming current processes and improving design to fabrication.

Speakers will be announced shortly but one of the key sessions will cover all the new BIM 2.0 tools such as Arcol, Snaptrude, Swapp, Qonic and perhaps some currently in stealth. This will be first time these ‘Revit competitors’ can be seen back-to-back, in the same conference. And they have your ears.

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