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ALICE's adventures overground
Feature | July 2022
ALICE (ArtificiaL Intelligence Construction Engineering) is being used to supplement the 'optioneering' of planners and project managers working on...
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H2PORTO
Feature | July 2022
Oporto Water Utility develops a technology platform for integrated management of its urban water cycle
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NBS finds green future stuck on amber
News | July 2022
NBS recently surveyed over 600 construction professionals on the sustainability of building projects in recent years.
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Swatchbox platform launches in the UK
News | July 2022
Using proprietary technology built by a team of architects and designers, Swatchbox addresses a common challenge faced by building professionals...
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REscan Viewer based on iTwin Platform
News | July 2022
Rescan has released the REscan Viewer, a spatial communication tool that provides a fully immersive site visit and revisit experience from a distance for...
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A healthy approach to BIM
Case Study | July 2022
3D Repo models can now be used to furnish all of the non-CAD trained specialists on a project with federated data relating to their specific needs
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Making a mark on Birmingham's multicultural landscape
Case Study | July 2022
Midlands-based MADE Architecture was tasked with designing a mixed-use development comprising school, community centre, Mosque, commercial and...
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Paperless Construction
Case Study | July 2022
How the Paperless Construction app supported Eurovia Contracting on the Vauxhall Bridge Refurbishment Project in Central London
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Can construction catch up?
Technology Focus | July 2022
Ibrahim Imam, CEO of construction management platform PlanRadar, explains how to ensure minimal disruption when introducing new technology to your...
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Enscape 3.3
Software Focus | July 2022
The latest version of Enscape adds new features requested by the Enscape community, including Site Context, which surrounds your rendered models
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Comment
Last year's Hammers Awards marked a significant departure from earlier events, being entertained by two opera singers from Covent Garden - a delightful innovation which I hope we continue, and one which crowned a successful return to the live event after a couple of years of the virtual stuff. With nominations now open, it is incumbent on all of you to send in your projects or post your votes. The list of nominations and topics are available on-line on constructioncomputingawards.co.uk and the deadline for sending in nominations is 7th September, with voting opening a week after. Time flies, so do it now.
Otherwise, this newsletter features a couple of articles focusing on just two of the issues exercising the industry - the use of Artificial Intelligence in construction and the global management of water. ALICE Technologies uses AI to handle the hugely complex range of factors that affect the performance and management of a major project. Their software has been developed to analyse a range of options for the major steps involved in a project, and to present the results of their analysis to Project Managers, facilitating more informed decisions.
The H2Porto case study looks at the development of the Urban Water Supply in Portugal's major port, using Digital Twins to balance the water supply against the demands of the City. It's a nicely contained solution, until one considers the fine summers we are having that have been hiding catastrophic drought conditions in much of the Northern Hemisphere, blamed chiefly on global warming. You can add the global water supply to Zero Carbon and global warming as the third Horseman of the Apocalypse. What will constitute the Fourth?
Finally - I love the design of the Birmingham Mosque in the Graphisoft Case Study, which finally brings the Mediaeval architecture of such buildings into the 21st Century.
David Chadwick
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