BIM technology showcase

The Design Innovation Research Centre is hosting the next Thames Valley BIM Hub meeting on the 6th October 2014.
Dr Chris Harty will give a short introduction and overview to BIM-related research currently underway in the School of Construction Management and Engineering, followed by demonstrations by seven technology providers to show the capabilities of their products.

Visit the BIM CAVE: Dr Maxwell Mallia-Parfitt
Dr Mallia-Parfitt will be giving visitors the chance to experience total immersion within a BIM model. In the BIM CAVE (Collaborative Automatic Virtual Environment) graphics are projected in stereo onto three walls and the floor and viewed with active stereo glasses equipped with a location sensor. As the projector screens form a room-sized environment, it is possible to have multiple users stand within one-to-one scale recreations of BIM and CAD models, which enables collaborative discussion, viewing and navigation of the model in real-time.

Only small groups can visit the CAVE at any one time, so places really are limited.

To book your place please email: Julian@secbe.org.uk

There is no charge for this event. If you book but are subsequently unable to attend, please let us know.

ICCCBE Conference

The International Society for Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ISCCBE) 2014 Conference in conjunction with the 2014 CIB W078 conference has just concluded in Florida, and was attended by Dr Dragana Nikolic and Dr Maxwell Parfitt. ICCCBE is a leading forum in the area of information technology in civil and building engineering. It is organized by the ISCCBE and is run bi-annually.
Dr Parfitt presented his work at the conference on Visualization of Built Environments using a Mobile Immersive Visualization Environment (3D-MOVE).

A video of the presentation can be viewed here.
For more information, please contact Dr Parfitt.

EPSRC Vacation Bursary

Following the success of our summer placement students last year [1] [2] we have recruited another student, through the EPSRC Vacation Bursary program, to help develop software to support user interaction within the Fully Immersive Virtual Environment (the CAVE).

Ed Norman, a 3rd year MEng student studying Artificial Intelligence, will join the Design Innovation Research Centre team for 10 weeks this summer to work on Digital Model Interaction: Towards a virtual reality toolbox for BIM data interaction.