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AMD has announced two new additions to the AMD Radeon PRO W7000 Series product line: the AMD Radeon PRO W7600 and AMD Radeon PRO W7500 workstation graphics cards. The new graphics cards are designed to tackle mainstream workloads across a range of professional industries, including media and entertainment, design and manufacturing, and architecture, engineering and construction.

The Georgia Institute of Technology’s Centre for the development and application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) has released a research report titled “Foundational Research in Integrated Building – Internet of Things (IoT) Data Standards”.

A Soluis Group-led consortium has secured £1 million (€1.10 million) of funding from Innovate UK to develop an Augmented Worker System (AWE), the use of virtual and augmented reality for the construction industry.

By 2020 it is estimated that the global Internet of Things (IoT) market will have grown to more than $1.7 trillion. According to a study by Gartner, by the end of this year alone the number of IoT devices on the planet will have reached more than 4 billion.

The IoT era looks set to bring significant changes to industries which have, typically, been slower to embrace disruptive technologies. One such sector is construction, in which IoT technologies have the potential to not only improve efficiencies at key stages of the design and build of structures,