Version 1.2.47 (Latest)

Version 1.2.47 (28 Oct 2026)

New Features

Residential building features

• You can now choose how podiums and basements are generated during automatic scenario generation, such as generating an independent podium for each building, giving you more visibility and control over the result.

• You can now select several parking generation options at once: the first is applied to your current scenario, and a new scenario is created for each additional option so you can compare parking strategies side by side.

• We have enhanced podium and basement parking generation. Secondary and inner driveways now subdivide the parking area into well-organised zones, parking bays are placed around the structure using new column buffer and offset settings, parking can be generated beneath tower footprints, and all driveways are rendered as continuous surfaces.

• Gain more flexibility when stacking towers with different floorplates: you can now create a residential tower without a roof.

• Editing individual floor-to-floor heights for multi-storey podiums now has a cleaner, more legible interface.

Industrial building features

• Explore two new Data Centre analyses in the Analyse panel. Cooling climate uses a year of local weather data to estimate free-cooling hours and an indicative annual PUE, while Plant noise maps the noise from chillers and generators across your site and checks it against the limits you set.

• You can now swap a data hall cluster for another compatible template directly within the Building Layout Editor.

• Detached plant rooms can now be stacked vertically in the Building Layout Editor for low- and medium-density Data Centre templates, giving you more layout flexibility.

• A new metrics panel gives you key figures at a glance when generating Data Centre layouts automatically.

• Podium's AI assistant can now do more when creating Data Centres, including adding multiple Data Centres to a site and updating the Engineering Configuration based on your inputs.

Structural features

• We have introduced detailed structural generation for residential podiums, including slabs, beams, columns, pile caps and piles, with a perimeter ring beam and podium structure that integrates with the residential towers above.

• You can now switch early-stage structure generation on or off for residential buildings in Site View, giving you control over solve times, as already available for industrial buildings.

• Podium now generates a preliminary structural design for external steel gantries on Data Centres.

• Early-stage embodied carbon estimates are now available for substructure elements such as foundations, supporting your sustainability reporting from the earliest design stages.

Site features

• Introducing Solar analysis: see hours of direct sun on every surface of your design for a chosen date and time window, and check sunlight to dwellings and outdoor areas against regional standards such as NSW ADG, UK BRE 209 and China GB 50180.

• The new Sun energy analysis shows a year of solar energy on every outside surface of your design, estimates rooftop solar generation, and includes an optional Singapore envelope (RETV) check, with results exportable to CSV.

• Run line-of-sight studies with the new Viewline analysis: place an observer and targets, and instantly see which sightlines are clear or obstructed.

• Generate planning shadow diagrams as a one-page PDF, showing the shadows cast with and without your design at key times on the winter solstice.

• Analyses now stay live while you work: keep editing your model with an analysis on screen, and it re-runs automatically to reflect your changes.

• You can now produce site elevations from your scenario model and download them as an A3 or A1 PDF drawing set.

• Speed up your design work with group cloning, which lets you clone multiple elements at once while keeping their relative spacing.

• Click on surrounding buildings to see more contextual information, and use the new colour-coded building-type view in the GIS layers.

• Open the images you saved with your views in a split-screen panel alongside your live model, making it easy to compare site conditions with your design.

• You can now align the view to a line you draw and lock the view rotation, which is remembered per project, and place new products square to the view or matching a selected element.

• In the 2D markup view, you can now edit object names and labels directly and turn on GIS layers.

• Markup is now available in the Floorplate Editor and Building Layout Editor, and your markups can be saved as images to the gallery for stakeholder presentations.

• Automated reports now show the data layer legend when data layers are turned on, and the report title defaults to your project name.

• A Google Maps satellite view is now available as a basemap.

• You can now continue working on your scenario while 3D context building data is still loading.

• Splitting a site into parcels is simpler: use a toggle to mark each parcel as a build zone or no-build zone, instead of setting a height limit.

• After setting up a site, you can now edit the project boundary and remove the boundary limit altogether.

• You can now scale and move a placed object at the same time, making it easier to get it to the right size and position.

• New sheets on the site layer now display a helpful message while they are still empty.

Platform features

• Navigate faster: key links now open in a new tab with Cmd/Ctrl-click or right-click, browser tabs show your project and scenario names, and new breadcrumb menus let you switch between projects and scenarios from the top bar.

• Your portfolio now includes a "Continue where you left off" row and quick actions to start a new project, create one from a brief, or explore sample projects.

• Scenario comparison is more flexible: compare a single scenario against your targets, compare as few as one metric, keep your comparison settings per project, and export a one-page summary PDF with scenario thumbnails.

• The viewers have been refined, with the scale bar shown by default, mouse navigation presets in Preferences, zoom-to-pointer in Building View, and a single Analyse entry in Site View.

• We have made many smaller usability refinements, including Undo and Redo always available in the template editor, clearer sort options and empty states, and dismissible notices in the project overview.

• Type calculations directly into any dimension field, in metric or imperial units, and Podium will work out the value for you.

• Quickly find the setting you need with a new search box in the criteria panel.

• Podium's AI assistant can now read an uploaded brief (PDF or URL), extract your targets and configurations, and let you decide which to apply to your project.

• When creating renders with Podium's AI assistant, you can now choose either the current scene or a saved gallery image as the starting point.

• Conversations with Podium's AI assistant are clearer, with results shown in a readable format and restored sessions matching your original chat.

• Area calculations now classify walls as external or internal, supporting area calculations under different regulatory standards.

• Data queries are more powerful: you can now filter results, find elements with or without specific attributes, limit the number of results returned, and query across multiple models.

• In the query builder, the Reset button is now labelled Clear.

Bug Fixes

Residential building features

• Cloned residential models now render correctly.

• Point block positions no longer shift after each solve when you change the unit mix.

• You can now move a cluster after it has been rotated and solved.

• Spine towers now generate refuge storeys correctly when the building height is adjusted after solving.

• Refuge storeys now generate correctly, removing visual gaps in the building massing.

• When a cluster is rotated in the Building Layout Editor, its corridor now stays connected to the main corridor.

• Fixed a solver error that could occur when setting a floorplate offset to zero.

• Corrected the unit count shown for residential towers.

• Resolved an issue where podiums, and residential towers placed on them, could disappear from a scenario.

• Changes to cores in the Building Layout Editor now continue to update correctly after further edits.

• The bounding box is now centred when you create a new template.

• Void units are now displayed correctly in Site View.

• Fixed an issue where a floorplate could show a validation error as soon as the Floorplate Editor was opened.

• Models created from My Templates can now be edited.

• I-shaped towers now solve correctly.

• The 3D massing on the site canvas now updates correctly after you modify a floorplate in the Floorplate Editor.

• Unit swapping now works as expected.

• Mirroring units in the Floorplate Editor now works correctly.

• Unit entrances now stay connected to the corridor after units are mirrored.

• Increasing the floor count is now reflected correctly in the interface.

• You can once again create automatically generated scenarios for residential projects.

• You can now move units and clusters from one segment to another.

• The site-level unit count now matches the sum of the individual building unit counts.

• Resolved an issue where elements could overlap in Site View and the Building Layout Editor.

• Wall dimensions are now shown for imported unit templates.

• Customised templates saved in My Templates now solve with your customisations rather than reverting to the original tower design.

• Unit editing options are now available for hammerhead units.

• You can once again add new clusters to a spine.

• Values you enter in room dimension fields are now preserved.

• Assigning a single floor to residential use in a generic building no longer marks the model as invalid.

• Swapping a unit template no longer creates an entry with an empty template name in the metrics.

• The storey-level function type is now shown for Advanced Generic Buildings.

• An Advanced Generic Building now stays in position when its cover option is enabled and a residential building is stacked on top.

• Bounding boxes are now positioned correctly when buildings are placed close to each other.

• Unit entrances now remain on the corridor edge, as walls extending beyond the corridor and adjacent edges no longer cause unit edges to shift.

• Units now generate correctly when you edit the spine length in the Building Layout Editor.

• Fixed column solver and other building solve errors in Building View for residential models.

Industrial building features

• Site metrics now correctly reflect the number of Data Centre buildings on the site.

• Fixed a solver error that could occur when updating a warehouse's tower height after changing the office criteria.

• Fixed solver errors that could occur when adding multiple warehouses to a site.

• Fixed a solver error that could occur when updating the tenancy count for a multi-storey warehouse.

• Corrected the validation between office height and tower height for warehouses.

• Loading bay and office criteria changes are now reflected in the warehouse solve, even when synchronisation is turned off.

• Fixed a solver error displayed for Modular Industrial buildings.

• Distribution elements now appear for default Modular Industrial buildings.

• MEP clusters now respect the project's imperial unit setting.

• Addressed an intermittent issue where an extra element could appear on the site when adding or editing a medium-density modular Data Centre.

• Addressed an intermittent solver error that could occur when cloning a modular Data Centre.

• The Floor Power Distribution Unit option no longer appears in the schedule when it is disabled in the criteria.

• Buildings now render correctly when you update the cooling system on a cloned Data Centre template.

• Fixed a rendering issue when updating the dimensions of a cloned Data Centre.

• Cloning a Data Centre with its context and expanding its building boundary now solves and renders correctly.

• Data Centres added from a saved template now render as expected.

• Fixed a solver error that could occur when an industrial model was solved in Building Space.

Structural features

• Residential models in Site View now generate beams and slabs, as well as columns, in the early-stage structure.

• Fixed an error that could occur when adding a podium as the first element on a site.

• The save and duplicate buttons for load definitions are now responsive.

Supplier features

• Importing product variant data from Excel now works correctly.

Site features

• IFC files now export correctly from both Site View and Building View.

• Fixed a planning envelope solver error that could occur on existing scenarios when you remove or update the project boundary.

• Fixed a planning envelope solver error for sites with site divisions.

• Fixed a planning envelope solver error when defining the planning envelope for a site with site divisions.

• Modifying the project boundary no longer shifts the geometry of contextual buildings in your scenarios.

• A basement in a build zone no longer reverts to its default shape when another building is added to the site.

• Walls solved in Site View are now visible.

• When you reject a drawing, the camera now returns to the view you had before you started drawing.

• Imported OBJ files now have the correct orientation.

• You can now enter a distance and angle when rotating or moving the base point.

• Parking lots now generate on all sides beneath residential buildings.

• Driveways and parking no longer clash with a podium set to use the full site boundary.

• Podium and basement parking no longer appear transparent.

• The base parking option is no longer enabled by default.

• Base parking driveway generation now works for basements.

• The driveway layout now resets when a residential model is deleted.

• Parking lots now generate in all parking zones.

• Driveways no longer appear closed when generating parking with zones.

• Fixed a gap that could appear in the perpendicular parking pattern.

• Parking spaces generated during scenario generation now meet your target.

• Empty parking metrics are no longer displayed in the site metrics when you add a warehouse or Data Centre.

• The project datum no longer resets when you disable topography.

• A second building (podium, basement or generic) no longer sinks after re-solving on a site with topography enabled.

• Stacked residential models no longer sink when you enable topography.

• Fixed a topography rendering error for landscape areas.

• Buildings no longer float or become embedded in the ground when you toggle topography on and off.

• Landscape areas no longer disappear when you disable topography.

General fixes

• Project Settings is no longer blocked by the "Convert to Shared Project" notice on the project dashboard.

• Residential templates are now listed in the "By template" section of analytics.

• Brief attachments in the AI assistant's chat history now remain accessible.

• The colour you set for a metric in a metric policy now persists when viewing it inside a project.

• The "Used in policy" and colour fields are now populated for metrics published from a project to your organisation.

• The metric policy page now has a scrollbar.

• Your selection is now preserved when assigning a metric policy to a template.

• The data query documentation link now opens the correct page.

• The activity section in organisation settings now displays correctly.