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.

Working paper published on Immersive Visualisation of BIM

We have published a new working paper by one of our summer placement students Ben Dalton, who recently finished working with the Design Innovation Research Centre as part of a 6 week UROP project (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme), on Immersive Visualisation of Building Information Models. His research was to investigate and produce efficient work-flows, for conversion of 3D CAD and BIM data, for use with the University of Reading’s fully immersive visualisation systems, the CAVE environment.The working paper series is designed to rapidly disseminate findings to industrial partners, and to ensure that the latest research contributes to ongoing policy debates. You can read the full paper on our website.