AI+AEC in News · AEC Magazine
As McNeel quietly rolls out Rhino 9, Campbell Yule reports on how the company is embracing AI, accelerating development and reshaping its software while retaining its distinctive business model. On the final afternoon of Rhino World 2026, in a session that had not been on the agenda and was added to fill a gap, someone in the audience asked the question that had hung over three days of talks about Rhino 9. When will it ship? “When do you want it?” asked Bob McNeel, the company’s founder and CEO. “Yesterday,” came a shout from the floor, followed by: “Next week. But not Monday.” “So Tuesday? Or how about Wednesday? I’ll see what we can do.” Five days later, on Wednesday 28 October, Rhino 9 was released. True to form, it happened quietly.
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As builders begin to consider their tech plans for their businesses in 2027, Mycon General Contractors has named Michael Shepherd as its new chief information officer , the builder announced Nov. 3. Shepherd brings a breadth of CIO and chief technology officer experience to the contractor. Before joining Dallas-based Mycon, he served as CIO for logistics specialist Gulf Winds International. From 2018 to 2022, he also served as CTO at another Dallas-based builder, Rogers-O’Brien Construction, per his LinkedIn . In his role at Mycon, Shepherd will focus on advancing the firm’s tech infrastructure, streamlining enterprise processes and identifying opportunities for automation and artificial intelligence, per the firm. AI has, for years, been a major eye-grabber in the construction industry as builders raced to figure out how to implement it into their workflows. Now, builders are starting to use the tools for design, modeling and construction-feasibility workflows.
AEC Magazine ·
Trimble Connect platform introduces AI agents and automation to improve project coordination, manage risk and streamline workflows Trimble has embedded AI within Trimble Connect , expanding the platform beyond its traditional role as a common data environment (CDE) to connect site information with design, cost and operational workflows. The new capabilities are intended to help teams identify and mitigate risks across the project lifecycle, while keeping human judgement at the centre of decision-making. Unveiled at Trimble’s Dimensions User Conference, the AI capabilities span design, construction and project operations. In design, they include generating architectural options using live as-built point-cloud data, converting natural-language prompts into constructible structural models, and automatically classifying scanned point clouds into structural elements. For construction teams, applications include AI-powered diagnostics for machine-control systems, converting 360-degree site walk videos into 3D point clouds, and voice-driven site inspections that automatically transcribe observations and link them to project drawings.
Archinect ·
Artificial intelligence companies are turning to architects and other AEC firms in search of data. As tech enterprises seek to build AI models and agents to perform industry-specific tasks, such as reviewing drawings and writing RFI responses, architecture firms are being approached by businesses offering money in return for access to private data. “Architects, have you seen this?” asked USC adjunct professor Simon Ha in a LinkedIn post . “This AI company is offering to pay six figures for your CAD files, including revisions and markups, to train AI models on how design work gets done.” Ha’s post included a screenshot of a social media post by a company, Nyne.ai, describing itself as “the data factory for AI,” which said, “You’ve got 3 years of CAD files doing nothing. We’ll pay you six figures for them.” “This raises serious questions about copyright and ownership of instruments of service,” Ha added.
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