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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), in partnership with CASE, a New York City-based building information modeling (BIM) consulting firm, recently launched AEC-Apps.com, a software-focused networking website. It combines the structure of social-media sites like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter with a user-generated database of software applications used in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries. As David Fano, a founding partner of CASE, explains, visitors can browse the more than 1,000 applications available, or join and contribute reviews, create a network of software applications, follow other members’ profiles, receive software-update notifications, and share their own scripts and applications.