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US-based CAD/BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc., has again won an Architizer A+ award, this time for the Popular Choice Award in the Design Tools Category. This is the fifth time Architizer A+ awards have gone to Vectorworks Architect, the last being last year.

This year marked what we believe is the second year in which the entire Nemetschek Group’s daughter companies were together in a single super-sized booth. This is how the Group is handling AEC industry conference expositions now, choosing to consolidate daughter brands under the Nemetschek Group umbrella brand. The benefits are several. The first benefit is that the Group has a large visual presence on the show floor.

2026 was definitely the year that Autodesk’s Forma-branded products garnered the majority of the attention in Autodesk’s large booth at AIA26 San Diego. The Forma AEC cloud and branding strategy seems to be finding many successes, but it will still take existing customers some time to adjust to rebranded products like ACC (Autodesk Construction Cloud), now being called Autodesk Forma. Here is the way to think about how Autodesk is organizing its AEC products and services.

This year, the AIA National Convention was in San Diego, and the conference wrapped up ten days ago. For two days (Thursday and Friday), architectural industry professionals got a chance to experience a massive surge of both old and new digital solutions, infused with new types of AI (artificial intelligence) and automation capabilities. Agentic and Agent-based AI Over the last two years, AI technology at AIA24 and AIA25 has steadily matured, and we saw many AI solutions last year.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) DOMINATED digital topics at the AIA Conference on Architecture and Design in San Diego, which took place 10-13 June 2026 in sunny California’s most southern major city. The sheer number of digital technology providers at AIA26 was so high that even with two editors on the show floor, Architosh could not possibly get to all of them.

At AIA26 San Diego, Nemetschek’s daughter company, Maxon, announced Redshift for Autodesk Revit and the newly announced Redshift for Graphisoft Archicad beta. Both solutions bring Redshift’s highly acclaimed raytracing technology to these leading BIM solutions, but with tiny differences.

At AIA 2026 San Diego, Graphisoft and its parent company, the Nemetschek Group, announced the next stage of its Design Intelligence Strategy, including previewing new collaboration and AI-assisted design initiatives currently being developed. The new platform will be fully cloud-native.

Kestrel Labs, a Denver-based AEC technology company, is bringing native code compliance inside of BIM platforms, beginning with Autodesk Revit. While the BIM movement in AEC has existed for decades, the ability of BIM platforms to automatically run code compliance checks on the virtual building model has never truly existed. Kestrel raised USD 2.15 million in pre-seed financing from New Stack Ventures, FirstMile Ventures, Denver Ventures, and Avesta Fund.

As of today, Apple now has its most formidable chip competitor for personal computers. Having essentially run away with industry performance leadership in single-core processing and performance per watt, Apple’s M-series (ARM-based) SoC (system on a chip) processors have shown up Intel and AMD X86 processors in industry benchmarks and the world’s top apps. Now, NVIDIA has entered the same race—the race to deliver the world’s fastest and most capable processor for the personal computer.

Chaos announced this week that Enscape, V-Ray, and Corona now have fully integrated Veras AI integration in every version of those rendering software tools. Veras is Chaos’s popular AI-powered visualization tool and has been a hit within the larger Archviz professional community, competing against a sea change of new AI visualization platforms.