Tag: Digital
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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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Video: Digital Awareness in Construction
Participants from 17 countries had signed up for the Digital Situational Awareness in Construction webinar and workshop on June 24, 2020. It was an official WDBE 2020 pre-event. You can now watch the four presentations of the virtual event on YouTube. The agenda: 1) How situational awareness boosts construction productivity, Professor Olli Seppänen, Aalto University2) Digital construction…
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Webinar: Digital Situational Awareness in Construction
The Digital Situational Awareness in Construction webinar and interactive workshop event briefs you on the latest developments in digital construction and features first-hand experiences from the field. This is an official pre-event of the World Summit on Digital Built Environment WDBE 2020. The focus of this event is situational awareness; what it is, why it’s…
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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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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…
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Measure Your Digital Maturity – AEC Business
The Construction Digital Maturity Ladder™, CDML, is an 8-minute online assessment that enables construction companies around the world to measure their digital maturity and benchmark the results both locally and globally. The CDML is provided by LetsBuild, a construction project management software company. The assessment is aimed at creating a common language on how to…
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Computational Design and Digital Fabrication
In this podcast interview with Shajay Bhooshan, Senior Associate at Zaha Hadid Architects, we discuss computational design, digital fabrication, and AI. The topics include: Parametric, algorithmic, and generative design –are these all the same? How much computational design have Zaha Hadid Architects used in their most recent projects How computational/parametric design differs from a more…
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Digital Trust in the Built Environment
The Construction Blockchain Consortium, CBC, holds its first International Symposium titled Digital Trust in the Built Environment on June 6-7, 2019, in Paris. Held in collaboration with the Scientific and Technical Centre for Building (CSTB), the symposium will bring together leaders in the field of BIM, Distributed Ledgers, Semantic Web and the Internet of Things…
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Helsinki’s Digital Twin Report Released
A report called The Kalasatama Digital Twins Project by the Helsinki 3D+ team details the process and the technologies that they used to create a digital twin of the Kalasatama district. I met with the city’s team in April 2019 and consequently wrote the article Helsinki is Building a Digital Twin of the City. Download…