{"id":3583,"date":"2018-07-13T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T16:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/?post_type=picks&#038;p=3583"},"modified":"2019-08-27T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:51:08","slug":"like-week-waste-ful-whales-comfortable-coral-connected-construction","status":"publish","type":"views","link":"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/en\/views\/like-week-waste-ful-whales-comfortable-coral-connected-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Like This Week: Waste-ful Whales, Comfortable Coral, and Connected Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital tools and new technologies are making an impact at every level, from the tallest structures to the ocean floor. Check out this week\u2019s picks: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Some Assemble required. <\/strong>After years of lagging behind other industries in innovation, construction is turning the tide, bringing the power of the cloud to dynamic tasks that have, till now, resisted digitization\u2014including bidding, reporting, and payroll. Pymnts.com had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/b2b-payments\/2018\/raken-construction-technology-adoption\/\">a great overview of the changing industry landscape<\/a>back in June. And that should help provide some context for the recent announcement of Autodesk\u2019s acquisition of Assemble Systems. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/autodesk-buys-construction-software-startup-assemble-systems\/\">ZDNet had the basics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enr.com\/articles\/44862-bim-data-integrator-assemble-systems-bought-by-autodesk\">Engineering News-Record went deep<\/a>on the topic, and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/07\/09\/autodesk-acquires-assemble-systems-to-build-up-its-construction-tech-vertical\/\">TechCrunch had some good perspective<\/a>on what it all means.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/07\/screen-shot-2018-07-09-at-1-34-30-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2774\" src=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/In-Fold-header-975x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Breaching in Bruges.<\/strong>\u00a0StudioKCA\u2019s \u201cSkyscraper\u201d is now up for the Bruges Trienialle. In keeping with the festival\u2019s theme of \u201cliquid cities,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/art\/studiokca-whale-plastic-waste-bruges-triennale-ocean-pollution-installation-06-27-2018\/\">this cantilevered installation<\/a> is constructed from 5 tons of plastic pulled from the Pacific. It\u2019s meant to raise awareness of just how much plastic we create\u2014and what happens to it when we\u2019re through. (via DesignBoom)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> https:\/\/youtu.be\/Kg903-hwl9s <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Training ground.<\/strong>With predicted shortages of skilled workers in both manufacturing and construction, training the next generation of technicians is more important than ever. Here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/advancedmanufacturing.org\/stemming-the-tide-with-manufacturing-training\/\">a great piece in Advanced Manufacturing<\/a> about the efforts by companies like Sandvick Coromant and Haas Automation to get students ready for fulfilling careers in the factories of the future. And ConstructionDive reports about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/brasfield-gorrie-offers-hands-on-construction-tech-program\/527536\/\">contractor Brasfield &amp; Gorrie\u2019s efforts<\/a> to train students on the latest digital technologies and modular fabrication techniques in construction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sea and be seen.<\/strong>Coral are adamantly low-tech creatures, but scientists are finding high-tech ways to help them, since they play such an important role in the marine ecosystem. For several years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PJb7ABnNVN8\">The Hydrous<\/a> has been using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PJb7ABnNVN8\">underwater reality capture technologies<\/a> to document the changing state of coral reefs in 3D. <a href=\"https:\/\/3dprintingindustry.com\/news\/fit-additive-manufacturing-group-teams-up-to-save-the-reefs-136021\/\">And now<\/a> Boston Ceramics is using 3D printing technologies to fabricate coral-like structures that the surprisingly picky larvae can grow on safely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_3662\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3662\" class=\"wp-image-3662\" src=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Coral-Seeding-Units-SECORE-International1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Coral-Seeding-Units-SECORE-International1.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Coral-Seeding-Units-SECORE-International1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Coral-Seeding-Units-SECORE-International1-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SECORE International<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital tools and new technologies are making an impact at every level, from the tallest structures to the ocean floor. Check out this week\u2019s picks: Some Assemble required. After years of lagging behind other industries in innovation, construction is turning the tide, bringing the power of the cloud to dynamic tasks that have, till now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"adsk_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3583","views","type-views","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What We Like This Week: Waste-ful Whales, Comfortable Coral, and Connected Construction | Autodesk News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/es\/views\/like-week-waste-ful-whales-comfortable-coral-connected-construction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What We Like This Week: Waste-ful Whales, Comfortable Coral, and Connected Construction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Digital tools and new technologies are making an impact at every level, from the tallest structures to the ocean floor. 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