GreenWizard – a cloud-based product management and project collaboration solution that simplifies green building administration, planning and certification –has announced that contractors and architects who use GreenWizard have added $800 million in construction project value in just the last four weeks.  The total project value within GreenWizard today is $8.75 billion.

CSC, a structural engineering software developer recently announced the formation of a new industry strategic business relationship with Autodesk, Inc.’s Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) division to further promote the adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) within the global structural engineering community. As part of the new relationship, the parties have entered into an agreement whereby CSC and Autodesk will provide customers with more closely integrated solutions that support a more efficient structural engineering workflow for BIM.

IMAGINiT Technologies, a division of Rand Worldwide, has released IMAGINiT Clarity, a web-based solution that allows project team members and external partners to share one centrally located BIM model securely from multiple locations. Clarity was designed for use with the Autodesk Revit BIM platform.

A working group of the American Concrete Institute’s (ACI) Committee 131 on Building Information Modeling (BIM) is developing an Information Delivery Manual (IDM) for cast-in-place concrete. The IDM will capture in written form the  interaction that occurs in the design and construction of concrete structures by identifying the parties involved in information exchange, what information is exchanged and when, based on a typical construction project timeline.

Hewlett-Packard introduced the Z1 workstation PC today in Las Vegas, the world’s first all-in-one workstation with a 27-inch diagonal display. The HP Z1 combines a sleek design with accelerated performance featuring Intel Xeon processors, NVIDIA Quadro graphics, and support for more than 1 billion colors.

Current economic conditions, especially in the design and construction industry, have forced professionals to reevaluate the way they do business. “Drawings in the Palm of Your Hand: New Power and Freedom for Creative Professionals” by Gordon B. Arnold AIA, an architect and registered Apple applications developer, presents ideas for how professionals can be more productive with today’s mobile tools and speaks to how they can use their professional skills with these devices to produce new products and services for new markets.

If you run a small business (1-299 employees) and currently hold a version of AutoCAD, Autodesk is offering the opportunity to win a total technology setup for your office on AutoCAD's facebook page: up to five licenses of Autodesk Design Suite software of your choice and five Lenovo ThinkStation workstations courtesy of Lenovo. Small businesses have until February 23rd to enter.

BidClerk – a provider of construction project data and marketing tools to manufacturers, contractors, and distributors – recenlty announced the release of BidClerk Enterprise. BidClerk Enterprise provides Building Product Manufacturers (BPMs) with tools that provide access for direct sales and marketing to product specifiers and project managers on a wide range construction projects, from bridges and highways, to schools, hospitals, and government buildings.

Luciad, a manufacturer of visualization for Geospatial Situational Awareness applications has released FAA AIXM 5 Viewer. The AIXM 5 Viewer, an application developed by Luciad for the Federal Aviation Administration, is a free viewer that is open to all stakeholders. Access to the AIXM Viewer is available from the AIXM Forum for members. AIXM Forum membership is free and open to all who use the software.

Spitfire Management has released Version 4.2 of Spitfire Project Management System—its  browser-based construction project management software.