The Details
This session will introduce learners to two key innovative tools used in the construction industry which can be used to help drive more efficient and sustainable building practices:
- The basic concepts of BIM as a tool that provides more effective and efficient collaboration between all stakeholders throughout the construction process, focusing on the ability to digitally model a building’s predicted energy performance, and understand the embodied carbon of the materials used for construction during the design stage
- Introducing high precision reality capture technologies that can produce comprehensive 3D models of the built environment.
The session will demonstrate to learners how these new technologies can help in the evaluation of existing buildings, better informing decisions for retrofitting and repurposing of existing buildings to create a more sustainable built environment.
This session is led by Matt Drummond, Technical Demonstrator, School of Architecture, Construction and environment.
Learning objectives
Students will learn about surveying, gain an understanding of how construction methods of the past (i.ei surveying and mapping) can work hand in hand with innovative and digital tools of the future to obtain an insight into the structure of a building.
Learners will understand how technology can inform the future of construction.
English (UK) 
Cymraeg 