Tag: building
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Building Digital Twins – An Interview with Dr. Ken Dooley
In this interview with Dr. Ken Dooley, we discuss digital twins in the built environment and the recently released report Building Digital Twins by Granlund. Ken Dooley is the Chief Strategy Officer, Empathic Building, at Haltian. During the podcast interview, he talks about these aspects of digital twins: What they are What are the common…
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Managing Narrative, Capturing Context, and Building Together: Talking VR and AEC with David Weir-McCall
We sat down with David Weir-McCall of Epic Games to discuss the role VR plays in the modern AEC ecosystem. Our conversation covered the power of merging digital innovation with human insight, the importance of accessible data visualization, and the role that the Unreal platform plays across a range of sectors every day. Can you…
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Building 2030 Consortium Transforms the Finnish Construction Industry
Building 2030 is a Finnish consortium of 19 construction industry companies, led by Aalto University. The consortium has devised a vision for the industry and supports research projects in the field. The consortium published a video to summarize their accomplishments to date. Visit https://www.aalto.fi/en/building-2030 for more information. The post Building 2030 Consortium Transforms the Finnish…
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Solibri Transforms Building Permitting with Its Intelligent Code Checking
Building authorities around the world are looking for ways to transform the permitting process, to use building information models (BIMs) instead of 2D drawings. I sat down with Wafa Alsakini to discuss how Solibri is making that possible, and what new opportunities Solibri is offering to its customers across the globe. Building information modeling is…
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Digitalizing the Building Permit Process
In this podcast episode, Aarni speaks with Francesca Noardo and Rick Klooster who gave presentations at this year’s first WDBE pre-event which took place in Tallinn, Estonia. The event was about BIM-based Building Permit Process Automation. The WDBE pre-event took place on the 20th of February 2020 and was hosted by the Estonian Ministry of Economic…
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Fologram and All Brick Introduce an Entirely New Way of Building in AR
Fologram and All Brick have invented an entirely new way of building in augmented reality (AR) to improve precision, reliability, and control over the construction of part of the Royal Hobart Hospital. The footage from the Hololens headsets of bricklayers shows exactly how a team used the AR application. The bricklayers built several hundred meters…
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Forum Wood Building Nordic 2019
Forum Wood building Nordic 2019 will focus on the role of design in the future, veneer and massive wood construction, resource efficiency and sustainability, Nordic harmonization of regulations and guidelines. The event takes place in Helsinki on September 25-27, 2019. The conference brings together academics and practitioners to exchange experiences and learn from the forefront…
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Building with Artificial Intelligence – AEC Business
Artificial intelligence and machine learning help building designers, but also those who want to make construction sites safer. Here are my picks from recent construction-related AI news. Big construction companies are testing technology that could save lives A number of big construction companies are testing AI-aided computer vision that could save lives, and money, by…
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How Algorithmic Design Improves Collaboration in Building Design
Design, like everything else in a construction project, is a collaborative effort. Even with digital tools, collaboration across design disciplines is not yet optimal. An experimental project thus set out to test whether algorithmic design could help streamline the interaction between architects and structural engineers. Design data originating from an architect is used in several…
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Helsinki is Building a Digital Twin of the City
The capital of Finland first tested city modeling as long back as 1987. But the most recent model of the Kalasatama district demonstrates the new state-of-the-art possibilities of this technology: creation of a highly accurate digital twin of the city. My hosts, Helsinki’s city modeling specialists Jarmo Suomisto and Enni Airaksinen, showed me their latest…