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Arcadis Is Plugging Its Own MCP Server Into Autodesk Assistant — and Keeping the Keys

The expanded collaboration announced on 28 September carries one hard number: in one example, automation has cut quality reviews from five days to about half a day, drawn from Arcadis initiatives already running in North America and Europe. The more consequential sentence is that Arcadis connects its own Model Context Protocol capabilities to Autodesk Assistant 'while retaining full ownership of what it builds.' Having already taken equity in an AEC AI startup this year, the firm is behaving like a platform rather than a licensee.

Hugo Pegley

Product

A Façade Manufacturer Has Shipped Its Factory's Limits as a Revit Plug-In

AEC Magazine reported on 5 October that Kora Studio 1.0 has launched: a Revit plug-in that checks every façade panel against production data as the architect draws it. The company says a parametric family that takes two days to build is done in about five minutes and compliance checks that take nearly two months run instantly. The interesting part is who built it — Dextall, which manufactures the panels, and whose own April release put the saving at 315 hours per project.

Hugo Pegley

M&A

Schneider Electric Is Paying $22.6 Billion for PTC — the Asset Autodesk Walked Away From Last Year

The all-cash deal values PTC's equity at $22.6 billion and its enterprise at $23.7 billion, or 21x forward adjusted EBITA. PTC sells design and lifecycle software to manufacturers, not to builders, and the word 'construction' does not appear anywhere in the release. What has been priced is the upstream half of a design-to-operate thread — and Autodesk agreed in May to pay $3.6 billion for the other half.

Hugo Pegley

Analysis

The AI Buildout Just Put the Building Trades Out Front

On 28 September, OpenAI, Blackstone, SoftBank and a roster of data-centre developers and operators launched the American Infrastructure Alliance alongside five construction unions and two Ohio labour bodies. It will campaign in seven states ahead of the 2027 legislative sessions. We argued in July that permission, not power, was the binding constraint on the buildout — this is what the industry does about that.

Hugo Pegley

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