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Aarni Heiskanen

Aarni Heiskanen, a Finnish construction innovation agent, is hailed as a Top 100 influencer in construction tech. Aarni has been a pioneer in CAD, he has co-founded a business software company, and worked as a certified management consultant. He runs AE Partners, an innovation agency. Aarni holds a master's degree in architecture. Connect with Aarni on LinkedIn

SafeGuard, an AI-Powered Safety Solution for Construction, Raises $8 Million SafeGuard safety on construction site

SafeGuard, an AI-Powered Safety Solution for Construction, Raises $8 Million

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SafeGuard’stechnology identifies hazardous patterns, generates risk predictions, and enforces preemptive measures in real time and cross-industry. SafeGuard is an international Safety-Tech company that uses machine learning to predict and prevent accidents on construction sites. Today, the startup announced an $8 million Series A funding round. Hi-tech investors Ron Zuckerman and Hillel Kobrinsk lead the round. Also participating are Ronen Peled, Yehuda Rachamim, Zemach […]

Sonic Sculptures: Shaping the Urban Soundscape with Aki Päivärinne Aki Päivärinne OiOi

Sonic Sculptures: Shaping the Urban Soundscape with Aki Päivärinne

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In this special episode of the AEC Business podcast, Aarni Heiskanen’s guest is Aki Päivärinne, Sound Designer at OiOi. Aki is a versatile professional. He is a Sound Designer (TeM), Musician, Composer, UX-Sound Designer, and Taste-Sound Designer at OiOi. OiOi crafts meaningful, immersive, and interactive installations in the built environment by using the latest digital technology. In the […]

AI-Powered Construction Material Procurement App Raises $4.65M construction materials procurement

AI-Powered Construction Material Procurement App Raises $4.65M

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Field Materials says it is the world’s first material-purchasing software powered by AI. The startup has now raised a $4.65 million seed round. Founders Eldar Sadikov and Victor Gane are Stanford-educated serial entrepreneurs. They sold their previous company to PayPal in 2018 and have backgrounds in AI, payments, e-commerce, and construction. Blumberg Capital leads the […]

VIATechnik Launches Precogs, a Predictive Insights And Learning Platform Precogs

VIATechnik Launches Precogs, a Predictive Insights And Learning Platform

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Our friends at VIATechnik are organizing a webinar Digitizing AEC’s Next Frontier – A Precogs Launch Event on April 7, 2023, at Noon Eastern time. The webinar will share the industry’s knowledge digitization opportunity and what truly scaling our learnings can mean for the built environment.  Stanford Professor & Director of Stanford’s CIFE (Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering) Martin Fischer will […]

Case Studies of Digital Transformation Dalux User Day Helsinki

Case Studies of Digital Transformation

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I had the pleasure of attending Dalux’s Finnish user day in Helsinki on March 30. The event provided an excellent opportunity to learn how contractors have implemented digital tools and workflows on-site. Changing the CDE on the run Hospital projects produce a vast number of documents and BIM models. Having a Common Data Environment (CDE) is […]