
NXT BLD celebrates its ten‑year anniversary with a two‑day conference in London on May 13‑14, 2026. The event brings together AEC leaders, Lenovo, and hundreds of professionals to explore AI‑driven transformations, from agentic BIM to design automation. Tracks cover engineering AI startups, automated drawing tools, BIM 2.0, open data strategies, and AI‑enhanced reality capture. Speakers from firms such as Augmenta, StructureCraft, Motif and Speckle will demonstrate how these technologies are reshaping the industry.

OpenSpace has launched Field, an image‑based mobile solution that lets construction crews capture snagging items, observations and issues in real time. The platform leverages AI autolocation to tag the exact spot of a problem using a smartphone and prior 360°...

Grimshaw has completed a firm‑wide migration of its UK and European design teams onto Inevidesk’s virtual desktop infrastructure, replacing a centralized rack of physical workstations with cloud‑based virtual desktops. After a pilot deployment for its visualisation team in 2024, the...

Q3D Sensing announced the AuraGO, a compact add‑on LiDAR scanner that attaches to smartphones and tablets. The device promises centimetre‑level accuracy and a working range of 0.5 m to 30 m, delivering roughly 100 times the coverage of built‑in phone LiDAR. AuraGO...

Hexagon Multivista has integrated its Analyze deviation‑detection service with Revizto’s BIM collaboration platform, enabling users to push clash and deviation data directly into Revizto’s issue log. The workflow lets project managers select individual or grouped deviations from reality‑capture scans and...

Autodesk announced a $200 million strategic investment in World Labs, the spatial‑intelligence AI startup co‑founded by Stanford AI pioneer Fei‑Fei Li, as part of a $1 billion funding round that also includes Nvidia and AMD. The deal grants Autodesk an advisory role and...

Vectorworks has acquired Morpholio, the creator of the iPad sketching trio Trace, Board and Journal, bringing the mobile tools under its desktop CAD and BIM umbrella. The three apps will continue as separate subscriptions on the App Store, while Vectorworks...

Vectorworks, a leading desktop CAD and BIM platform, announced it has acquired Morpholio, the creator of iPad sketching apps Trace, Board and Journal. The acquisition brings Morpholio's subscription‑based iOS tools under Vectorworks' umbrella, potentially enhancing its design workflow and AI...

Autodesk announced a $200 million strategic investment in World Labs, a spatial intelligence AI startup, as part of a $1 billion funding round that also includes Nvidia and AMD. The deal gives Autodesk an advisory role and deep collaboration on 3D...

Cintoo has launched a new 360 Edition that natively ingests Ricoh 360° video and merges it with 3D scans, BIM and CAD models in a single cloud‑based environment. The platform offers unlimited automatic camera‑path processing, manual alignment tools, and Gaussian‑splat visualisation for...

Esri and Pix4D have linked the PIX4Dcatch smartphone app with ArcGIS Online, creating a terrestrial‑mapping workflow that captures high‑precision 3D scans of trenches and subsurface infrastructure. The integration uses a real‑time kinematics (RTK) device to georeference scans at centimeter‑level accuracy,...