"Please stop building more takeoff tools. Just stop."
Salil Pandit of Neuron Factory on pre-con point solutions that leave all the context with the human.
Episode 245 of the TRXL podcast: trxl.co/245
Evan Troxel retweeted
Calling all contributors 🏴☠️
We have 15 founding contributors for Mutiny BIM, and just a few seats left.
We still need fire protection and civil engineers to cover the building end to end.
Discord is coming soon for early planning.
Know someone? Please share.
Register here: mutinybim.com/
MKS DTECH Feature Spotlight: Rhino Sync + Nessie nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qGvverWk…
I'm live right now with Mauro Sabiu and Mikael Santrolli of @MKSDTECH, demoing Rhino Sync and Nessie.
Join us: luma.com/7pdxiszc
"Whose Data Is It, Anyway?" is out. Episode 248 of the TRXL podcast, the finale of The Next AEC Tech Stack.
I asked the vendors what a firm walks away with. @RandallSStevens of AVAIL told me AVAIL doesn't take possession of a firm's content, it's an index. Sasha Crotty of Autodesk said the files are yours, but the relationships between the data are hard to pull out.
Listen: trxl.co/248
Graitec, the series partner, is giving away a pair of Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. Enter here: graitec.com/us/graitec-trlx-… (entering shares your contact info with Graitec)
What if your drawing set got checked against building codes, your firm's standards, and the project specs before it ever reached the contractor? And what if the fix could happen inside Revit?
I'm going live Wed Nov 4 with Ari Baranian, CEO of Pirros, to demo the Quality Management System and Mira, its AI partner inside Revit.
10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM UK
Register: luma.com/zxzfd5uz
Two people in the same Rhino model at the same time. And Revit data you can edit from a browser.
I'm going live tomorrow with Mauro Sabiu and Mikael Santrolli of @MKSDTECH to demo Rhino Sync and Nessie.
Thu Oct 29, 9:30 AM PT / 12:30 PM ET / 4:30 PM UK
Register: luma.com/7pdxiszc
A customer to @RandallSStevens: "You know I'm dealing with 180 different applications inside this firm, don't you?"
Before an AI can use your project history, someone has to decide what the words mean and where the answer lives.
Leadership Edge on TRXL 247, with three small tests to run before anyone indexes your shared drive: trxl.co/leadership-edge-trxl…
"A lot of the time people do things because it's fast, so we have to make using the correct standard faster."
Sasha Crotty of Autodesk on why firm standards get skipped. If the right way is the slow way, people find a shortcut.
Episode 247 of the TRXL podcast: trxl.co/247
"It's on the Server Somewhere" is out. Episode 247 of the TRXL podcast, part of Arc 3 of The Next AEC Tech Stack.
@AaronVorwerk of Egnyte told me up to 80% of the data on a project doesn't live in tools like Revit and Forma. It's in email, Slack, Teams, and calls, which is where the decisions get made.
trxl.co/247
Evan Troxel retweeted
The AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score fell to 44.7.
“Weakening billings are being compounded by a soft economy, challenging project financing, and growing caution among clients.” —AIA Chief Economist Richard Branch | 🔗 More news here: aia.org/about-aia/press/arch…
ALT Chart: architecture firms’ billings index falls to 44.7; inquiries rise modestly above 50 and average backlog is 6.2 months.
ALT Graphic: Commercial/industrial billings rise to 50.9; multi-family residential falls to 42.9 and institutional to 47.6.
ALT Infographic: architecture firms expect 2027 revenue down 0.9% on average; 35.5% expect about the same, 22.9% somewhat up, 17.6% somewhat down.
Two people in the same Rhino model at the same time. And Revit data you can edit from a browser.
I'm going live Thu Oct 29 with Mauro Sabiu and Mikael Santrolli of @MKSDTECH to demo Rhino Sync and Nessie.
9:30 AM PT / 12:30 PM ET / 4:30 PM UK
Register: luma.com/7pdxiszc
You're on a hospital addition and there's a decision in the old set nobody can explain. The person who knows is Joe, and he's a year from retirement.
@idid brought up Joe on the show. @RandallSStevens said firms keep a record of what got done and lose why it was decided.
Leadership Edge on TRXL 246, with a one-month experiment you can run on your last five projects: trxl.co/leadership-edge-trxl…
Virginia Senf of Speckle on AI and model data: "What we see at Speckle that is almost being exacerbated by that speed is the long-standing trust issue."
Faster queries don't mean better answers.
Episode 245 of the TRXL podcast: trxl.co/245
German Aparicio Jr. tells startups to "think of [Trimble] as the system of record" and build "systems of action, systems of intelligence" on top.
Which tool is your firm's system of record, and which ones get to act on it? AI tools want write access now.
Episode 245 of the TRXL podcast: trxl.co/245
AI as a intelligence layer in your next AEC tech stack: "Call an agent that runs an energy simulation over here, produces a rendering over here, and then brings it all back together."
Greg Demchak · episode 242 of the TRXL podcast
trxl.co/242
ALT TRXL 242 quote card: Greg Demchak
Oliver Goldman on why Revit's MCP server started read-only, in episode 242 of the TRXL podcast:
"Both of you have the pen." When the agent is in the model, trust is the problem.
trxl.co/242
ALT TRXL 242 concept card: Both of You Have the Pen — Oliver Goldman
Five people at Slantis (@lifeatslantis) demoed the Revit tools they built themselves this year, live in Session 2 of TRXL Live: AI at Slantis, with applied research lead Massimiliano Fraga.
One cut a 10-hour detail-library job to about five minutes. Another turns a photo into a native Revit family.
None of them are developers by training. Slantis gives people sanctioned time between projects to build, and calls it "the branch."
Full recap: trxl.co/slantis-show-and-tel…
ALT TRXL Live Session 2 recap: Four architects built their own Revit tools. What AI adoption looks like at /slantis
"You've sort of given away that productivity gain to the client."
Campbell Yule (@ctyule) got the last word in Arc 2. If work that took 100 hours now takes 70 because AI helped, and you bill hourly, the client keeps the savings. There's value in the service beyond the hours.
Michael Jansen of TwinMaster: "A fee is time-bound. Job's over, your fee is gone, and on to the next job you go."
Episode 244 of the TRXL podcast: trxl.co/244
ALT TRXL 244 thumbnail: Who Signs When the AI Is Wrong?
"Color code the concrete based on the quantity of embodied carbon… that is something you can do today."
Greg Demchak · episode 242 of the TRXL podcast
trxl.co/242
ALT TRXL 242 quote card: Greg Demchak