Category: Columns
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Bridging the Gap: Using Computational Design to Meet Today’s Infrastructure Demands
In the race to repair our failing infrastructure, BIM and computational design can help us build faster, better, and cheaper – Mac Little, Computational BIM Lead and Anton Dy Buncio, COO, VIATechnik The transportation infrastructure of the U.S. is approaching failure at an alarming rate – the 2017 Infrastructure Report Card issued by the American…
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Australia’s way to better plan, design and manage its cities
The last couple of weeks have been very significant for Digital Built Australia. On the 24th of February, Minister for Customer Service Victor Dominello launched the New South Wales Spatial Digital Twin (NSW SDT). It’s a virtual 4D (3D + time) model of the Western Sydney area’s built and natural environment. The government has worked…
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Australia’s way to better plan, design and manage its cities
The last couple of weeks have been very significant for Digital Built Australia. On the 24th of February, Minister for Customer Service Victor Dominello launched the New South Wales Spatial Digital Twin (NSW SDT). It’s a virtual 4D (3D + time) model of the Western Sydney area’s built and natural environment. The government has worked…
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BIM-FM Integration: A Primer on Virtual Facilities Management
Minding the FM Gap – Setting the Stage for a Successful BIM-FM A building is only as good as it operates; the most sophisticated creation made with the most cutting-edge digital tools remains a fantasy if it cannot be operated within the means of the owner/operator in the real world. Today’s facilities are demanding complex…
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Cutting Through ‘Paralysis by Analysis’: Strategies for Managing the Rising Tide of Construction Data
Construction firms juggle dozens or even hundreds of projects simultaneously. For c-suite decision-makers, that can translate into a near-permanent state of triage—scrambling to put out project-specific fires related to schedules, costs, quality and safety. It’s a dynamic that must end if contractors, especially self-performers, are to take full advantage of the tech and data revolutions…
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The Road to a 3D Digital World in Australia
In the last six months have been spending a lot of my time down-under, thanks to my lovely partner who decided to improve my air mile elite status by accepting a job in Melbourne. Even though I have been visiting Australia for almost ten years, I must admit I have never been involved much with…
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Classification is the Bedrock to a Digital Built Environment
It seems we all agree the digitisation of construction and real estate is an imperative for buildings to be designed, constructed and operated more cost-effectively and deliver the changing needs of the building’s occupants. There is much discussion about the benefits of AI, MI, Digital Twins and not forgetting BIM to support the digital transformation…
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Keeping it Clean: Analytics Can Benefit Contractors—So Long as They Maintain Good ‘Data Hygiene’
Construction firms receive a flood of information these days—everything from sales pitches in their email inboxes, to cover stories in industry magazines—about the potential for data analytics to revolutionize what they do. And it’s true that under the right circumstances shifting from siloed spreadsheets to advanced data warehouses and analytics engines can yield transformative insights.…
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Three Advancements for a Seamless Future in VR
Over the last few years, one of the biggest questions looming over the discussion of VR has been user adoption: “When will VR become a viable platform?” Development of VR hardware has advanced significantly, service platforms have been built around that hardware to deliver content to users, and yet it still seems that VR is…
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Digital Twins for a Safer Built Environment
As a native of Turin Italy, I was horrified at the Ponte Morandi bridge collapse last year. As a child and as an adult I have travelled over that bridge more times than I can imagine and have often pondered the what-if scenarios. What if it had happened when I or my loved ones were…