NEW ZEALAND — A board has been appointed for the first time to oversee steel frame building software provider FRAMECAD Solutions.

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND AND HELSINKI, FINLAND — Solibri Inc. has announced a partner agreement with The Cadimage Group (including GRAPHISOFT New Zealand Limited and Cadimage Limited) to serve the increasing need for BIM quality assurance and Model Checking, and to sell and market Solibri’s products in New Zealand and Australia.

EXTON, PA. — Bentley Systems Inc. has taken top honors at EPC World Awards 2010 in the “IT in Infrastructure and Construction” category. Presented by EPC World magazine, the awards recognize the valuable contribution that infrastructure organizations and professionals from around the world have made to India’s national development.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Newforma has expanded its product line with three new products that complement the latest edition of its Newforma Project Center software.

LONDON — Pointools has launched a new high-value software bundle for working with point clouds — the billions of measurement points collected by 3D laser scanners.

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Safe Software has launched a new version of its spatial data transformation platform, FME 2011.

FRAMINGHAM, MASS. — Rand Worldwide has announced the winners of the IMAGINiT Technologies division Render Us Speechless contest.

REDMOND, WASH. — Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer has announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, the cloud version of the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 release that delivers new levels of productivity to sales, service and marketing organizations. The on-premises and partner-hosted versions of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 will be globally available Feb. 28, 2011.

DEERFIELD, ILL. — Save the dates! The 2011 AEC Technology Strategies Conference will be held June 8-10 at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines in La Jolla, Calif.

BOSTON — Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) has announced its sponsorship of the 2nd Annual BrickStainable International Design Competition. More than 200 teams of architects, engineers, material scientists, landscape architects, ecologists and students competed to design sustainable buildings for the contest using clay brick as the primary material.