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SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today released the Construction Outlook 2021: Risks & Opportunities report, a new study that dives into macro industry trends across five areas including growth, health and construction safety, labor, supply chain and design. As the compounding effects of the global pandemic and resulting economic instability begin to surface, aggregated and anonymized product data from BuildingConnected, a preconstruction solution within Autodesk Construction Cloud, finds that real-time bidding activity has surpassed pre-pandemic levels and reached an all-time high in January 2021.
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More than one million owners, general contractors, construction managers and subcontractors use BuildingConnected to answer or request bids. More than five million bid invites are sent out every month on the platform.
Budget lacks detail on roads, rail, airports and sustainability
As expected, Covid impact and recovery took centre stage in chancellor Rishi Sunak’s second Budget statement yesterday but there was plenty of reason for the civil engineering industry to be positive about in the announcements, particularly with confirmation of the UK Infrastructure Bank.
The plans for the bank were widely welcomed, however, industry reaction suggests that the lack of mention of roads, rail and airports during the speech is reflected in the lack of clarity created by documents released after the speech ended.
Rail
Rail Industry Alliance chief executive Darren Caplan said: “It is good to see the chancellor clarify a number of the government’s plans for infrastructure, including the establishment of a UK Infrastructure Bank based in Leeds and the £4.8bn ‘levelling up’ fund opening for infrastructure around the UK.
Autodesk Construction Solutions
Over the past year, the construction industry has demonstrated an immense level of resiliency as it found ways to continue to move forward in the midst of a global pandemic and resulting economic downturn. New onsite safety regulations have helped jumpstart postponed projects, but perhaps the biggest lever pulled has been the adoption of new technology to digitize our workflows and become more productive, precise, and prepared for the future.
The global concrete and cement market is expected to grow by
$332 billion over the next three years.
While the adoption of new technology has been growing over the past few years, COVID-19 has pushed the fast-forward button. In fact, a recent report from McKinsey & Company showed that the pace of digital transformation in the world has been sped up by seven years meaning the rate of adoption has sped up so much, we’re seeing adoption levels we weren’t expecting to see until the year 2027. More and mor
TU Dublin partners with Autodesk on new construction education centre
The €22m centre for construction education will be located at TU Dublin in Broombridge.
Software company Autodesk has committed 10 years of support to TU Dublin’s new hub for construction education, with the aim of preparing graduates in Ireland for careers in a “rapidly changing” sector.
The new €22m Centre of Excellence for Construction Education, Research, Enterprise and Innovation will be located at TU Dublin’s campus in Broombridge, Cabra. Construction is due to begin later this year.
Autodesk, which is known for software products such as AutoCAD, is one of several founding partners and investors in the centre. TU Dublin said other partners will be announced soon.
Extracker Integrates PlanGrid to Enhance Usability
Extracker announces integration with PlanGrid allowing construction teams to save time manually entering data by updating Extracker documents immediately when changes are made in the PlanGrid Task.
December 23, 2020
Extracker
Extracker, a cloud-based change order communication platform that helps subcontractors, general contractors and owners create, track and share change orders, time and material Tags, announced a new integration with PlanGrid, a field collaboration solution that is part of Autodesk Construction Cloud and widely adopted across the construction industry for mobile productivity. The integration automatically updates users’ Change Order documentation in Extracker when updates are made in the PlanGrid Task, enabling construction teams to save time with manual data entry, and avoid miscommunications and mistakes that can compromise project budgets.