LEXINGTON, MASS. — RISATower has recently been acquired by Tower Numerics Inc.

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. — CDV Systems Inc. has announced that its BIM Lifecycle Management solutions are being integrated into AECOM's overall BIM initiative/strategy.

ANKENY, IOWA — QA Graphics has announced that Diana Robinson has joined the company’s interactive design team as a flash designer.

LAS VEGAS — Autodesk Inc. has announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has signed a multi-flex, enterprise license agreement for Autodesk products and Autodesk-related services and training.

OLYMPIA, WASH. — Developed by the bridge design offices of the Washington and Texas Departments of Transportation for the Alternate Route Project, PGSuper is a precast-prestressed girder design and analysis software used to design, check, and load rate precast-prestressed girder bridges in accordance with the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specification, WSDOT criteria, or TxDOT criteria.
 

REDMOND, WASH. — Microsoft Corp. has announced the general availability of Microsoft Lync communications platform.

BOSTON — GRAPHISOFT has announced its new Green BIM Bundle — a new program that combines the company’s building information modeling (BIM) software, ArchiCAD, with EcoDesigner, its tool for helping architects evaluate energy consumption early in the design process.

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Informative Graphics Corp. (IGC) has released its Brava Enterprise 7 software for Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

Read how new technology is enhancing collaboration between design and construction teams in “BIM and IPD victory in Vail,” by Wayne Muir, P.E., in the November 2010 issue of Structural Engineering & Design.
 

BOSTON — ARCHIBUS Inc. has announced the latest release of its flagship solution — ARCHIBUS V.19, featuring Run Anywhere architecture as well as new and enhanced Web-based applications that help organizations reduce their carbon footprint, increase asset optimization, and lower operating costs.