The Details
This session will introduce learners to two key innovative tools which are used within the construction industry; tools 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 both of 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.
Learning objectives
Students will learn about surveying, and will also gain an understanding of how construction methods of the past (ie surveying and mapping) can work hand in hand with innovative and digital tools of the future to gain an insight into the structure of a building.
Learners will understand how technology can inform the future of construction
This session is led by Matt Drummond, Technical Demonstrator, UWTSD
PIC
About Matt
In 2023, Technical Demonstrator Matt Drummond led a collaborative team from CWIC and UWTSD to create a digital twin surveyed cityscape of Swansea City in 3D high resolution space. This project was demonstrated at COP28, as part of an initiative that showed how digital twins are making substantial impacts in urban environments . Supported by the Welsh Government, this project was part of an integrated digital twin and data visualisation project to support cities, nationally and internationally, on their net zero carbon journey.
Matt is part of the outreach team at UWTSD who regularly engage with industry to demonstrate the latest digital tools and state-of-the-art equipment available for use on construction. His work, in capturing unique urban data, can be used to assess the challenges and opportunities of decarbonisation in a city context. The innovative work was also showcased at the International COP28, held in December 2023 in the UAE.
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