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Brafer creates "Nomadic Architecture" for Rio Games

Hosting the world's biggest sporting event, with ten thousand athletes from over 200 countries attending, Rio de Janeiro has had many sports facilities constructed, including two arenas which were built with great accuracy by Brafer, with the help of Trimble's Tekla solutions

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New ARCHICAD tool for BIM objects

Graphisoft UK Ltd has launched a new tool that allows designers and manufacturers to create their own BIM objects

Bluesky laser maps inform BIM projects

3D models produced from aircraft mounted lasers are being used by survey company Greenhatch Group to help inform a range of BIM projects

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The Hammers 2016

Nominations are now open for the 2016 Construction Computing Awards finalists

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Case Studies

Olympic Legacies

The London 2012 Olympic stadium has been transformed for the future, earning Steel Fabricators William Hare the winning position in the Sports and Recreation Projects category at the UK Tekla Awards 2016

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Raising a Smile

The Smile Respite & Care Centre presented some uniquely rewarding challenges for Brymor Construction

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Software Review

Algorithmic CAD

Adding formulae to architectural design simplifies the design process instead of adding unwarranted complexity - and it can inspire your creative side too

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Smarter Cities

The Construction industry needs to catch up with the Smart City boom, says John Stokoe, Head of Strategic Business Transformation at Dassault Systèmes EuroNorth

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Technology Focus

Virtual Desktops

David Angwin of Dell Cloud Client Computing explains how virtualisation empowers high-end graphics users

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Comment

Olympic Legacies
I thought it was opportune to write about Olympic Legacies in the latest issue of CAD User, and so it has proved. The success of the London Olympics has been a catalyst for Rio not just for the athletes who took part, but also for the developers of the Olympic stadia and other buildings – and particularly for the infrastructure. We appear to have particular expertise in all of these areas.

The big problem, though – and it is quite understandable, but infuriating – is that having persuaded multinational companies like Lloyds Bank, Nike – two I can still recall, but other global brands as well - to cough up colossal amounts of sponsorship money to support the Olympics, their contracts are drawn up so tightly that other companies involved in the project who have supplied software, goods and resources, but not financial sponsorship, are forbidden to talk about their involvement.

Thus it is that I am currently looking at the involvement of UK expertise in the development of infrastructure for the Rio games, taking a leading role in bringing together all of the companies involved in developing local transport systems to get people (those who actually attended!) to and from each of the venues. The company who supplied the expertise were involved in similar projects for London 2012, but such is the nature of the game that I am reluctant to name names until I am certain that they, or I, can do so without a legal backlash - and in spite of the fact that you will find the story on the company's own website. Money talks, but in certain cases, shut’s mouths up!

David Chadwick

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