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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The 5 Most Innovative Building Materials
Discover the future of construction with groundbreaking materials that are redefining what sustainability in the built environment looks like.
The earlier, the better: Automated analysis of the life cycle assessment of construction projects
An automated analysis of the CO2 footprint of construction projects in the planning phase helps to build more sustainably and reduce carbon emissions.
5 Sustainable Construction Materials
Discover how groundbreaking sustainable materials, from self-healing concrete to hemp rebar, are shaping the future of eco-conscious construction.
How BIM Supports Carbon Reduction in Construction
BIM can help drive down carbon emissions and support sustainable construction in a myriad of ways, from better planning to less waste.
How Can You Support Sustainability in AEC Projects?
AEC professionals can help support sustainable construction efforts through the decisions they make on every project, resulting in fewer carbon emissions.
Achieving Net Zero with Green BIM
Sustainability is an essential requirement throughout a building’s entire lifecycle if net zero targets are to be met – and an area where BIM can help.
How Construction Can Support the UN Sustainable Development Goals
The construction industry is a key player in achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, which are essential for addressing global challenges.
Self-healing bricks eat CO2!
What more could you want: researchers at CU Boulder are developing self-healing bricks from bacteria that also eat CO2 during their production. More on our blog.
Construction Waste and Materials Efficiency
Using BIM as a tool for informed decision-making during design can help projects create less construction waste and manage materials efficiently.
A roof made of solar modules
Ennogie's solar roofs consist entirely of solar cells and are also aesthetically pleasing. Find out more about the electricity-generating roofs on our blog.
Vegetables beat graphene and carbon fibres
Everyone knows that vegetables are healthy. But now experiments suggest that "vegetables" apparently also make concrete stronger than any other additive. Read more on our blog.
Bacteria-based solar cells: inexpensive, powerful, ingenious!
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed solar cells based on bacteria. The technology could be the key to cheaper and more sustainable solar cells. Read more on our blog.
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.