SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. AND DENVER — The CAD Society announced that Martyn Day is the winner of the 2011 CAD Society Joe Greco Community Award for his achievements as a leader in the CAD editorial community.

ALPHARETTA, GA. — After 25 years of successful collaboration, Tensar International Corp. and CONTECH Construction Products Inc. have mutually agreed that Tensar will take on distribution responsibility for geogrid products in the United States.

MINNEAPOLIS — Braun Intertec has launched Agile Frameworks, LLC, a wholly owned information technology subsidiary that will target the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) marketplace. Also, Agile Frameworks, LLC, has acquired Systems Consulting Group, LLC (SCG), a technology consulting firm focused on the AEC market, to accelerate the growth of the new firm.

MINNEAPOLIS — Braun Intertec launched Agile Frameworks, LLC, a wholly owned information technology subsidiary that will target the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) marketplace.

Manchester, N.H. — Newforma, a software company addressing the project information management (PIM) needs of architecture, engineering and construction firms, released the eighth edition of its Newforma Project Center software. According to the company, the enhanced solution delivers greater transparency, improved accountability, and reduced risk for AEC project teams.

SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. — The U.S. Air Force (USAF), Office of the Civil Engineer, signed a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with DLT Solutions for access to the Autodesk complete portfolio of software products and Autodesk-related services and training. The contract value under the BPA against which future task orders are expected to be issued is $26 million over a five-year period and includes access to the following Autodesk products: AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk Navisworks, Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, and AutoCAD LT, among others.

EXTON, PA. — Bentley Systems Inc. released Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 2), which the company claimed is the only desktop GIS software for infrastructure that is intrinsically 3D, serving as a fully featured, universal GIS platform supporting the creation, persistence, maintenance, analysis, and sharing of 2D and 3D geospatial information.

What’s the next big thing with building information modeling (BIM)? According to Constructech magazine, clash detection is yesterday’s news and taking BIM to the jobsite is no longer a far-off dream. It is reality.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is sponsoring the 2011 International Visualization in Transportation Symposium on Aug. 20-23, 2011, in Chicago.

FRAMINGHAM, MASS. — Rand Worldwide has announced that its IMAGINiT Technologies division has launched the new Scan to BIM 2012 (http://imaginit.com/scantobim) software for the Autodesk Revit 2012 platform.