Innovation within Syska Hennessy Group is not new. Over the years many within our organization have felt the need to create something better, embark on the unknown, to do something that had not been done before. For example, we transitioned to AutoCAD in the late 1980s. This was a time before AutoCAD verticals such as Architectural Desktop and Buil…
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Syska Hennessy started Syska Innovations, our innovation and venture-capital entity, to support change in the AEC industry. We think the industry is primed for disruption and, as we mentioned in our previous blog post, we want to be a part of it. From our perspective, technology startups in AEC are a fundamental source of major change. That’s why…
It should have been an easy task: I was supposed to label and tag equipment for my client’s data center using Revit. Simple, right? Nope. Revit’s schedule system does not allow copying or pasting into multiple cells, which meant that I’d have to enter thousands of lines of information manually.…
By early 2019, most of our clients started asking us what we could do to lower their carbon footprint in their existing properties. Many of these clients are Fortune 500 companies with strong environmental mandates, and they wanted to go beyond the usual steps of upgrading to LED lighting, installing variable air volume systems, or purchasing Ene…
As part of our innovations program, Syska has been partnering with leaders in artificial intelligence (AI) to investigate the potential of predictive analytics in the AEC Space. Our first task was to address a pesky problem for design teams: construction requests for information (RFIs), which often lead to an enormous amount of wasted time and mone…
