The Top 5 Articles of 2024
Discover the top 5 ALLPLAN articles of 2024, featuring innovations in bridges, AI, materials, and high-rise challenges shaping the AEC industry's future.
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Sustainable ‘SuperHub’ fascinates with visible load-bearing structure made of glued laminated timber
The sustainable “SuperHub” in Meerstad fascinates with its visible load-bearing structure made of glulam. The engineers used SCIA Engineer for modeling and structural analysis of the load-bearing structure.
5 Tips for efficient Precast Design and Detailing
ALLPLAN Precast 2025 offers numerous innovations to accelerate precast design and reduce errors.
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German Design Award for BHKW Leipzig North-West
Because its façade is a work of art, the German Design Award 2023 goes to the Leipzig North-West combined heat and power plant.
Hidden Gems: 4 Underrated Features in ALLPLAN That Will Change Your Workflow
Architectural visualization expert, Pietro Massai, shares his top four powerful yet underutilized Allplan features for improved site analysis, rendering, and collaboration.
Seamless Design to Delivery: Combining ALLPLAN and SCIA Engineer
Explore how the seamless collaboration between Allplan and SCIA Engineer supports innovation in engineering projects across the globe. More on our Blog.
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Designing Up a Storm
A young architect’s design fuses concerns over climate change with the awe-inspiring atmosphere of a cyclone to create a sustainable work environment.
Everything from a single source: Carré Bleu
Carré Bleu offers all planning services from a single source. The group of companies relies on Allplan to ensure that all areas mesh smoothly. Read more on our blog.
Germany's first 3D-printed house is finished!
After about 100 hours of printing and an eight-month construction process, Germany's first completely 3D-printed single-family house stands. More on our blog.
How can we design better for Buildability?
However, although the digital models used by architects and engineers during design enable impressive visualization and documentation of the designer’s intent, the data and considerations required to construct it are often considered separately.
3 Ways Design Will Change Post-COVID
The post-COVID era poses a number of challenges for architects and designers, with new approaches needed for safe and socially distanced spaces.
Supporting AEC Data for Building Lifecycle Intelligence
The data created during a building’s lifecycle can add significant value to the design, construction, and operation of buildings – learn how.
The Top 5 Most Helpful Tools for Architects
These five tools are indispensable for architects to design, model, visualize, and update their designs as quickly, easily, and accurately as possible.
The Phases of Architectural Design
Most architectural design projects follow the same steps to reach the final design, despite every project being unique – and Allplan supports them all.
Polar Bear House: the most sustainable building in the world
After the certification by the DGNB last year, it is clear: the Polar Bear House in Kirchheim unter Teck is currently the most sustainable building in the world. More on our blog.
Parametric master plan by Foster + Partners
Future-oriented urban planning: A computer program was apparently largely responsible for the master plan of the Guangming Hub by Foster + Partners. More on our blog.
Improving Quality of Life Through Architecture
Can architecture improve our quality of life? And if so, how? We’ve identified four areas where the spaces we design can make a positive impact.
Combining 2D and 3D for Ultimate Design Flexibility
With the right 3D modeling program, moving from 2D to 3D CAD does not have to be difficult and inefficient – particularly with a combined approach.
ALLPLAN BLOG - The blog for everyone in the construction industry
Hello and welcome to the ALLPLAN Blog! The blog for everyone in the construction industry. Can we be honest? Does the world really need another blog? We asked ourselves this question before we launched the ALLPLAN BLOG in 2016. After intensive self-reflection, we came to a clear conclusion: No. However, what we felt was still missing was a format that represented the AEC industry in all its diversity - from architecture and urban planning to civil engineering and infrastructure, materials science, new technologies, production methods and construction methods.
We are as passionate about aesthetic form as we are about sustainable substance - and above all about the successful combination of both aspects. We are particularly interested in innovative ideas, concepts, processes and projects that improve construction. In doing so, we take a look at practice, but also at research and teaching. Our contributions are aimed at professionals such as architects, urban planners and engineers, as well as building owners, developers and general planners, whose needs and requirements represent the beginning of better building. Of course, anyone who finds their way to our site out of curiosity or by chance is also very welcome. Because the construction/AEC industry is too fascinating and beautiful not to share it with everyone.