On Monday the 6th October 2014, the Design Innovation Research Centre hosted a Technology Showcase event in partnership with the Thames Valley BIM Hub.

Dr Chris Harty gave a short introduction and overview to BIM-related research currently underway in the School of Construction Management and Engineering, followed by presentations from five technology providers in the Construction Sector.

During these presentations, Dr Maxwell Mallia-Parfitt demonstrated technical capabilities of the University of Reading’s CAVE (Collaborative Automatic Virtual Environment) which gave visitors the chance to experience total immersion within a BIM model, at a 1:1 scale, of the new Whitechapel Station development part of the £14.8bn Crossrail project.

Pictures from the event: