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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 

VOL 32 NO 06 

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Lighting up the stage 

Gray Matter uses Vision 2019 for 

stage design previsualisations 

What makes a Smart City? 

Exploring Bentley's OpenCities Planner 

Landscaping with BIM 

Ares Landscape Architects utilise 

Vectorworks Landmark's BIM capabilities 

Unreal designs 

Epic Games' Unreal Engine powers 

real-time rendering in Twinmotion 

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CONTENTS 

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 

CONTENTS 

FUTUREPROOFING INFORMATION 14 

Andy Hudson, Director of global architects 

Chapman Taylor, explains to David Chadwick 

why the company is transitioning to Atvero's 

SharePoint-based PIM solution 

WHAT MAKES A CITY SMART? 16 

Bentley Systems has introduced OpenCities 

Planner to promote the development and 

planning of Smart Cities, while appointing 

Hakan Engman as their Business 

Development Director for Smart Cities 

SOLIBRI ANYWHERE 20 

Solibri, the construction industry's model 

checker of choice, is now available for a wider 

range of users. Solibri Managing Director 

Andrew Bellerby outlines its capabilities and 

where it fits into the market 

LIGHTING UP THE STAGE 30 

New York based Gray Matter Visual used 

Vectorworks Vision 2019 for the spectacular 

light show at Telemundo 2019, the annual 

celebratory event for the advertising industry 

and their clients 

NEWS................................................INDUSTRY NEWS....................................................................................................6 

• IDEATE STYLEMANAGER FOR REVIT RELEASED • EQUE2 ACQUIRES CLIPIT SOLUTIONS 

CASE STUDY....................................LANDSCAPING WITH BIM.....................................................................................10 

• ARES LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS USE VECTORWORKS LANDMARK FOR THE NOTTINGHAM COLLEGE CITY HUB 

SOFTWARE FOCUS.........................UNREAL DESIGNS...............................................................................................18 

• EPIC GAMES' UNREAL ENGINE GIVES TWINMOTION ITS ABILITY TO HANDLE RENDERING ON THE FLY 

INDUSTRY FOCUS...........................TRADITION OR TRANSITION?...........................................................................22 

• EXCITECH'S DARYN FITZ SPEAKS TO DAVID CHADWICK ABOUT THE INDUSTRY'S MOVE FROM CAD TO BIM 

AWARDS...........................................BUILDING ON SUCCESS AT THE HAMMERS 2019.........................................24 

• THE WINNERS OF THE 2019 CONSTRUCTION COMPUTING AWARDS HAVE ARRIVED! 

CASE STUDY....................................KEEPING THE TRAFFIC FLOWING....................................................................26 

• HIGHWAY TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IS DRIVING ITS DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FORWARD WITH RE-FLOW 

INDUSTRY COMMENT.....................MAKING AN ASSET OF IOT..............................................................................28 

• HOW LEVERAGING IOT CAN UNLOCK THE NEXT GENERATION OF ASSET TRACKING IN CONSTRUCTION 

CASE STUDY....................................LASER SCANNING FOR FACILITIES MANAGEMENT.......................................29 

• CONVERTING POINT CLOUD DATA INTO USABLE 3D MODELS FOR ASSET MANAGEMENT WITH SIMPLEBIM 

TRAINING MAP.................................AUTODESK TRAINING.......................................................................................32 

• YOUR GUIDE TO AUTODESK TRAINING 

MASTERCLASS................................Q & As WITH EASYBUILD..................................................................................34 

• EASYBUILD'S CONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE PLATFORM FORMS THE BASIS OF OUR Q & A SERIES 

November/December 2019 3

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Smart thinking? 

by David Chadwick 

What's the key ingredient in making a 

smart city? Getting the public 

involved in the process, of course. 

It's a touching notion at least, especially if 

you have been paying attention to the results 

of the last public referendum, which has 

irrevocably split the country and pitted 

Leavers against Remainers, with all shades 

of opinion in between. Three years down the 

line we are still in the same time warp and no 

nearer to a solution. 

This is not a sideswipe against Brexit again 

though, as everything possible has been 

said about that umpteen times. It is, instead, 

a focus on a key ingredient of any urban 

planning process - the involvement of the 

public. In fact, when you look at the latest 

architectural design tools, reality models, 3D 

booths and so on, after explaining their 

capabilities when it comes to checking the 

results of building progress compared to the 

BIM model, the use of snagging tools, and 

all of the myriad features that expedite the 

building process, the tame phrase 'keeping 

the public informed' gets added on almost 

as an afterthought. 

We have the most wonderful tools to allow 

us to be 'kept up to date', from virtual 

walkthroughs to being able to slice through a 

building to view its innards, or to plough 

through added vegetation and witness how 

the building will look, day or night, and 

through the seasons. But the public are 

mainly onlookers in the process, with scant 

opportunity to present our own opinions 

except in closed planning sessions that 

require some fortitude to prepare a case for 

or against and a wealth of legal rigmarole to 

make your voice heard. 

So, how wonderful then to see the way in 

which the inhabitants of one Swedish city are 

able to put forward their opinions and 

thoughts about any aspect of city planning 

using Bentley Systems OpenCities Planner 

software. One wonders whether the concept 

is conducted with an appropriate amount of 

maturity and respect for other people's 

opinions and whether the ensuing debates 

about particular proposals are resolved 

without rancour - and whether the same 

degree of maturity could be expected in this 

country. Read the case study in this issue of 

the magazine for more. 

It's early days though, and given the 

freedom to share ideas and opinions that the 

web gives us, we should be able to devise a 

way that fosters them. The alternative is to 

leave the process as it is today, where 

planning committees are peopled by 

ordinary folk who usually have less expertise 

about any particular subjects than their 

constituents, but who have legal precedents 

and authority to make substantial and costly 

decision in their armoury - and no legal 

recompense when the projects go awry. 

I'm probably treading on any number of 

toes here, as all projects must go through a 

compulsory planning process, and 

sometimes the most sensible of projects 

meet with ferocious protests from those 

members of the public who perceive a 

detrimental effect on them and their own 

properties or interests. But the promise of 

more enlightened involvement and a 

greater chance to discuss the issues 

mitigates against the perceived amateurism 

of local planning committees - and 

politicians, who for better or worse are one 

of the most influential members of the city 

planning classes. 

There is an example local to me of a small 

project that has failed utterly because of the 

lack of expertise of the local council, which 

had insufficient insight to engage experts 

and engineering companies with the 

appropriate expertise. At this late stage, a full 

20 years after the start of the project, they 

are refusing to allow local inhabitants to 

engage with them about the measures they 

need to take to rescue the project. No 

names, though, as I want to finish this on a 

positive note, and to say that I am looking 

forward to seeing how the 'public 

participation' project evolves. 

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INDUSTRY news 

SHARING 3D MEASUREMENTS ONLINE 

Leica Geosystems, part of 

Hexagon, has announced 

BLK3D Web, an online collaboration 

workflow that extends the 

Leica BLK3D Imager by 

enabling users to share 3D 

measurable images with anyone, 

anywhere online. The 

BLK3D device allows users to 

take precise, 3D measurements 

directly in the images it 

creates. Now, with a BLK3D 

Publisher license, those 3D 

image files can be easily and 

securely uploaded to the cloud. 

Once published, the 3D image 

files can be viewed and measured 

with BLK3D Web via a 

shared link, a simple and powerful 

tool used across major 

collaboration platforms today. 

"BLK3D Web in-picture measurements 

make communication 

clearer when explaining 

issues to project teams. The 

ability to measure on the fly 

without having to revisit a jobsite 

is very valuable," said 

Megan Levick, virtual construction 

engineer, PC Construction. 

"BLK3D Web is a 

great tool for architects and 

those who draft or model 

existing conditions often, or to 

anyone who frequently does 

renovation projects." 

BLK3D Web runs on all major 

desktop web browsers including 

Safari, Chrome, Firefox 

and Explorer. Owners, subcontractors 

and other project 

stakeholders with access to 

the shared link can measure 

and mark-up the image files 

without requiring additional 

software or licenses. 

"With the launch of the 

BLK3D, construction professionals 

across a variety of 

industries experienced the 

benefit of images containing 

3D measurement data," said 

Tobias Heller, senior product 

manager, BLK3D. "BLK3D 

Web greatly expands access 

to measurable images, driving 

more informed collaboration 

across project teams through 

a simple URL." 

Shown at Autodesk University 

2019, the Leica BLK3D integration 

with Autodesk BIM 360 

Docs enables BIM 360 users 

to utilise BLK3D measurable 

images (.CMI files) in the issue 

creation and resolution workflow. 

Adding 3D images to 

issues provides richer context 

for team members collaborating 

in BIM 360, and helps 

accelerate decision making by 

bringing site conditions from 

the field into the office. 

The BLK3D Publish license 

and BLK3D Web measuring 

platform will be available in 

Decembe. Integration of the 

BLK3D with Autodesk BIM 360 

will be available in early 2020. 

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ANYTIME, ANYWHERE CLOUD COLLABORATION 

Autodesk has expanded 

Autodesk BIM 360 Design, 

their fastest-growing cloud 

solution, to include Autodesk 

Civil 3D. Collaboration for Civil 

3D, now included with a BIM 

360 Design subscription, 

allows subscribers of BIM 360 

Design and Civil 3D to work 

collaboratively with project 

partners at anytime and from 

anywhere, regardless of team 

locations and disciplines, 

including architects, engineers, 

and contractors. 

FINDING THE PLOT WITH ASSETINO 

T-MAPY, the company behind 

the award winning cloud 

based Assetino asset management 

suite, has launched an 

international version of its 

Cemetery Management Module. 

Designed to assist with the 

complex task of cemetery 

administration, Assetino Cemetery 

applies proven geospatial 

asset management technology 

allowing operators and visitors 

to identify and locate the final 

resting place of an individual, 

manage capacity and maintenance 

of a facility and aid with 

ancestry studies. 

Assetino Cemetery provides a 

range of tools intended to help 

private and public sector 

organisations effectively and 

sympathetically manage the 

administration of cemeteries, 

With the existing Revit Cloud 

Worksharing capabilities and 

the addition of Collaboration for 

Civil 3D to the same platform, 

designing airports, rail stations, 

and other complex projects 

with vertical and horizontal 

structures is simpler and more 

efficient. User can collaborate 

using streamlined workflows on 

a unified platform while also 

performing their day-to-day 

data management activities in 

the same place. 

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graveyards and other internment 

facilities. From simple 

searches of burial records to 

automated management of 

contracts and fees, Assetino 

Cemetery is available as an 

online solution complete with 

integrated smart mapping. 

"Assetino Cemetery builds on 

more than 27 years' experience 

working to develop advanced 

technical solutions for a range 

of asset management applications," 

commented Milan Novotny, 

CEO of Czech based T- 

MAPY. "It is already helping a 

large number of municipalities 

reduce the administrative tasks 

of the day to day operation of 

facilities and improve the service 

they provide to the relatives 

and friends of the deceased." 

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INDUSTRY news 

EQUE2 ACQUIRES CLIPIT SOLUTIONS 

NBS CHORUS INTEGRATES WITH ARCHICAD 

NBS and Graphisoft have 

partnered to develop an 

add-on for Graphisoft ARCHI- 

CAD to enable direct linkage 

with NBS Chorus. NBS Chorus 

is a cloud-based specification 

platform, allowing architects, 

designers and engineers to create 

specifications for projects. 

This direct link with ARCHICAD 

will enable users to build a project 

model and specification 

together in the ARCHICAD environment, 

compatible with 

macOS for the first time. 

The add-on reduces the risk 

of product information becoming 

incorrect or out of date 

Eque2 has acquired CLiPIT 

Solutions, the Yeovil-based 

company that specialises in 

fully-integrated construction 

accounting and job costing software 

solutions. Established in 

2002, CLiPIT provides construction 

accounting software which 

manages a construction company's 

job costing, CIS, applications, 

accounts, retentions and 

payroll. The acquisition of CLiP- 

IT brings together two strong 

companies and further strengthens 

Eque2's status as the leading 

provider of construction 

accounting and job costing software 

solutions, taking its customer 

count up to 2,300. 

Justin Moule, Managing Diretor, 

Commercial at Eque2, said: 

"The acquisition of CLiPIT has 

provided an excellent opportunity 

to acquire the skills, knowledge 

and technology of a company 

that shares the same aspirations 

as Eque2." 

Peter Davidson Managing 

Director, Operations at Eque2 

added: "CLiPIT customers can 

expect business as usual in 

terms of talking to the same 

support team, but can also 

look forward to the benefits of 

being part of Eque2, and the 

additional resources, knowledge 

and investment in product 

development they will now 

be exposed to." 

www.eque2.co.uk 

from users developing the 

specification and drawing on 

separate documents. It also 

improves productivity by linking 

the information modelled 

within ARCHICAD to the information 

contained in NBS’ 

specification software. 

Nick Greenwood of architectural 

practice Maber, said "The 

integration of our NBS specifications 

into the ARCHICAD 

model environment on a Mac 

is something that, as a company, 

has been missing from 

our digital tool kit for a number 

of years." 

www.thenbs.com 

IDEATE STYLEMANAGER FOR REVIT 

Ideate Software, a veteran 

Autodesk Developer Network 

member and provider of 

applications for Autodesk 

Revit software, has reported 

that its newest Revit productivity 

solution, Ideate StyleManager, 

has proved to be an 

instant success. 

"We started getting positive 

comments almost immediately 

after launching Ideate 

StyleManager this past June," 

said Glynnis Patterson, Director 

of Software Development at 

Ideate Software. "Many customers 

had provided input as 

beta testers during its development, 

and they had high 

expectations. I congratulate the 

entire software development 

team for meeting and even 

exceeding those expectations." 

Ideate StyleManager addresses 

problems that occur when 

styles associated with content 

Treeconomics, a specialist in 

the use of trees to improve 

urban spaces, is taking advantage 

of a digital record of over 

300 million trees created by 

aerial mapping company 

Bluesky. In a landmark project 

for the London Borough of 

Islington, Treeconomics completed 

a study to measure and 

assess tree canopy cover and 

understand its impact on the 

urban environment. 

The Bluesky National Tree 

Map was used in conjunction 

with a variety of open datasets 

including health and socio-economic 

data from organisations 

such as the Office of National 

Statistics and Public Health 

England. Following advanced 

geospatial analysis, Treeconomics 

were able to identify a 

link between higher canopy 

cover and increased life 

load into a model along with 

the content, or when users create 

non-standard styles. Managing 

those unwanted styles in 

Revit can be time consuming 

and risky but ignoring them 

can cause publishing errors 

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StyleManager fixes the problems 

by making it easy to: 

• Delete styles that can't be 

deleted in Revit software 

• Merge non-standard styles 

into standard styles 

• Analyse the usage of all 

styles to understand the true 

scope of a deletion 

• Clean up Object Styles, 

Line Styles, Line Patterns, Fill 

Patterns, Materials, Material 

Appearance Assets, View Filters, 

Templates and Scope 

Boxes 

• Understand which views are 

using which View Filters. 

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BLUESKY MAPS TREE CANOPY COVER 

expectancy, lower crime rates 

and higher house prices. 

Treeconomics also produced 

a tree plant strategy for Islington 

Council and concluded the 

inner London Borough could 

reasonably aspire to increase 

canopy cover in alignment with 

London's target to achieve 30% 

tree cover by 2050. 

Using the Tree Map data, 

overall canopy cover for the 

borough of Islington was estimated 

at 25 percent. This 

favourably compares to a 

national average estimated in 

320 towns and cities of 17 percent 

and a London-wide estimate 

of 21%. Treeconomics 

also suggested that Islington 

could aspire to a canopy cover 

of 30%, identified areas of low 

canopy cover and potential 

'plantable' spaces. 

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CASEstudy 

Landscaping with BIM 

Ares Landscape Architects have used Vectorworks Landmark's BIM capabilities on the Nottingham 

College City Hub project 

Ares Landscape Architects Ltd 

mandates quality in all areas of 

their practice, starting with the 

quality of their employees. Led by 

Directors Ricardo and Ania Ares, the 

firm is comprised of 20+ members 

who, at a minimum, hold a 

postgraduate qualification in 

Landscape Architecture. Ares' qualified 

team members offer consultancy 

services in all areas of landscape 

architecture throughout the UK; 

leading and facilitating landscape 

design, feasibility studies, landscape 

and visual impact assessments, site 

planning, contract administration, 

modelling, and community project 

consultation. 

In 2016, the UK government 

mandated the adoption of BIM Level 2 

framework on all public projects; this 

requirement had a direct impact on the 

firm's work in the public realm, 

particularly on the education sector. 

Since they serve clients in the public 

sector, Ares Landscape Architects 

knew they needed a software program 

that creates models with associated 

data - easily shareable in a 3D 

environment and with other 

construction disciplines. 

The opportunity to experiment with a 

new workflow to meet these 

requirements presented itself when 

they were appointed to work on a 

number of different projects such as 

the Nottingham College City Hub, a 

new educational facility in Nottingham 

City Centre. "We were loading 

drawings with intelligent and 

quantifiable information. It was really 

useful," said Sam Bailey, Senior 

Landscape Architect at Ares. 

MERGING PAST AND FUTURE 

Nottingham College is the result of 

joining two pre-existing colleges - New 

College Nottingham and Central 

College Nottingham - and was 

developed as part of the Nottingham 

City Centre regeneration efforts. 

Envisioned for both college students 

and the community to enjoy, the newly 

proposed City Hub is in close proximity 

to Nottingham's public transport 

system, rail network, and the wider 

city's green infrastructure. However, 

the constrained site needed to account 

for existing buildings and transport 

infrastructure, along with the proposed 

surrounding regeneration projects. 

They also encountered problems 

related to the landscape over structure 

as well as site conditions overall. 

Additionally, as part of their BIM 

requirements, the firm needed to 

collaborate with the wider design team 

efficiently and effectively. 

In order to achieve BIM Level 2 

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CASEstudy 

requirements (and to reach their target 

completion date of May 2020), Ares 

used Vectorworks Landmark to 

facilitate the delivery of the project's 

BIM execution plan (BEP). According 

to Sam Bailey, Senior Landscape 

Architect and BIM coordinator at Ares, 

using Landmark helped "speed up the 

time involved in project drafting and 

data reporting since the two processes 

are integrated, while providing useful 

information for other parties involved." 

Although they were interfacing with 

collaborators using different software 

programs, Bailey stated that "IFC 

became the common denominator" and 

by defining BIM requirements out of the 

gate, the firm could clearly state 

expectations tied to the IFC models. "We 

were loading drawings with intelligent 

and quantifiable information," said Bailey. 

"It was really useful." 

Another useful time-saving step was 

setting classes in the model file during 

the early stages of the project. "It 

speeds up the drafting process and 

takes a lot of the thinking out of it," 

Bailey explained. In fact, Ares is 

currently developing templates that are 

available across their different office 

locations as a training tool for junior 

employees who may be new to working 

in BIM. 

FROM 2D TO 3D 

For the Nottingham City Hub, Ares fully 

embraced the 2D to 3D functionality of 

Vectorworks. Using features such as 

the Hardscape Tool, the 3D Polygon 

Tool, and the Plant Tool, Bailey could 

easily draw, adjust, edit, and replace 

elements of the model as needed. He 

could also edit the look of the 

graphical representation by a simple 

click of a button, which automatically 

changes the information attached. 

"All of the information is embedded in 

the object," Bailey said. "If something 

should change, such as a plant 

species, it can be replaced easily." 

That same information can then be 

seamlessly transferred to a worksheet, 

which Bailey has used for things such 

as plant schedules, clearly laid out in 

a table that immediately updates as 

needed. 

And for landscape architects who 

would rather input plant information 

manually, that option is also available 

in Landscape. Bailey and his 

colleagues can attach data such as 

the plant's Latin name, common name, 

and anything else that the designer or 

the contractor may need. 

IMPORT/EXPORT MADE EASY 

In their plans for a roof terrace, Bailey 

was able to easily change elevations 

through design layers - and export it 

just as easily as one model with those 

proper elevations left intact. When 

working with the project architects, the 

ability to specify stories in this nature 

is invaluable. 

In a different phase of the project, 

Ares needed an export option to send 

files that could be read by other 

software programs. Nottingham 

College required COBie data and a 

Federated Model for their records; the 

firm was able to submit this 

information. By using the Object 

Information Palette (OIP) in 

Vectorworks, Ares can edit IFC data to 

ensure it matches the COBie 

information as required by multiple 

parties, including information 

managers across the site, the 

architects on the project, and the 

firm's own landscape architects. 

FORERUNNERS IN THE BIM 

ARENA 

Ares Landscape Architects was able to 

meet a government requirement while 

simultaneously becoming a pioneer in 

the growing arena of BIM for 

landscape architecture. Through 

several helpful toolsets from 

Vectorworks Landmark, Ares 

significantly streamlined their workflow 

with a singular, all-in-one solution. 

As demonstrated through their work 

with conceptualising and planning 

Nottingham City Hub, Ares proved that 

integrating BIM is not only possible to 

achieve expected results, but also has 

the potential to make a lasting impact 

on the field - thanks to Vectorworks 

Landmark. 

www.vectorworks.co.uk 

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CASE study 

Caspian Waterfront, Baku 

Futureproofing information 

Andy Hudson, Director of global architects Chapman Taylor, explains to David Chadwick why the 

company is transitioning to Atvero's SharePoint-based PIM solution 

Because everybody can now access 

data, there is no longer a need to 

share it," says Chapman Taylor 

Director Andy Hudson. This striking 

statement encapsulates the reasoning 

behind Chapman Taylor's recent decision 

to adopt Atvero's Project Information 

Management solution to more closely 

align to its worldwide network of studios. 

I spoke to Andy, who is based at 

Chapman Taylor's London head studio, 

about the company's decision to use 

Atvero's application, which uses 

Microsoft's SharePoint Online to manage 

the information flow between its global 

studios. Andy gave me some background 

about the company first, to put its needs 

in perspective. 

Chapman Taylor is a global practice of 

award-winning architects and 

masterplanners specialising in residential, 

retail, leisure, hospitality and office 

design, and the combination of these into 

sustainable, mixed-use environments. 

Their experienced teams provide a range 

of services across all these sectors, 

including interior design, architecture, 

delivery, graphics, BIM and sustainability. 

Established in 1959, the company has 

expanded from its London headquarters 

to operate from 16 design studios across 

Asia, Europe and the Middle East, 

successfully delivering over 2,000 

projects across five continents. Their 

global team speaks 35 languages and 

includes over 45 nationalities. The mix of 

projects is fascinating, from theme-based 

shopping centres and large-scale 

masterplans in China and the Middle East 

to a 3,000m2 covered ski slope and 

winter sports destination in the mountains 

of Norway. 

With three studios in the UK and the rest 

spread across the globe, the tendency 

was to base project members within their 

country of operation, with all information 

pertaining to projects localised, 

independent and held in separate silos on 

local servers. The growing need to share 

expertise learned on different projects, 

however, brought about an increase in 

collaboration between the international 

studios, most of which was conducted 

through the extensive use of emails. 

CLOUD-BASED COLLABORATION 

The rise of cloud services is changing all 

of that. Chapman Taylor felt it was time to 

move to a cloud-based application that 

would accommodate the project 

information, an accompanying image 

library and an electronic document 

management solution. With such a system 

in place, staff would be able to collaborate 

across studios, with each project member 

working from the same, single information 

source. This would remove duplication of 

data when information was previously 

shared between separate offices. 

Chapman Taylor was already using 

Microsoft's Office 365 suite together with 

OneDrive, an undervalued piece of 

software that provides a comprehensive 

suite of tools to help people share data 

and collaborate. The company is now in 

the process of transitioning local 

information to its Chapman Taylor 

SharePoint tenancy with Atvero, bringing 

separate silos of information into one 

place, beginning with the UK business 

before rolling it out across the 

international network. 

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CASEstudy 

Salford Quays, Manchester 

Exporting sheets from Revit in Atvero 

SHAREPOINT AND ATVERO 

SharePoint is one of the most widely used 

of Microsoft's collaboration tools, allowing 

organisations to set up team sites where 

files, data, news and resources can be 

shared. With assistance from Atvero, 

Chapman Taylor intends to start uploading 

data to SharePoint from its on-premises 

document management system in the 

spring of next year, including information on 

current projects and around five million 

pieces of archived data. 

This is where the expertise of Atvero will 

be most useful. Instead of transferring files 

and folders in a multitude of formats and 

with a variety of identifiers, Atvero will be 

'tagging' the information as it is extracted 

and stored as metadata. This metadata 

can then be retrieved in whatever format is 

needed to link projects to every scrap of 

information related to it, extract lists of 

components or gather all emails relating to 

a particular project. With no hierarchical 

structure to struggle with, users will have 

the ability to select any of the information 

stored in the server and to present it in 

whatever format they require. 

That information can range from Revit and 

Autodesk drawings and building models to 

Word documents, PDF files, or Excel 

spreadsheets. Atvero will help to configure 

output files above and beyond the library of 

prerecorded templates, but, as the 

application and Chapman Taylor's expertise 

with the software develops, this process will 

move in-house. 

Anyone can dive into the metadata and 

set up a filter to find the information they 

need - with the obvious permissions and 

exceptions, of course (financial and 

personal/sensitive will remain secure) - 

and present it in whatever format is most 

appropriate. 

There is another benefit. Separate silos of 

information were created to accommodate 

the old software's limitations and the 

specific requirements of different 

companies working on particular projects. 

The data being held is therefore hostage to 

the future development of the software, and 

to the fortunes of the principal contractors 

managing it. Access to vitally important 

information about a project could be lost if 

it exists solely on the server of a minor 

subcontractor which ceases trading. 

"Atvero's task", says Andy Hudson, "is to 

provide a non-folder-based system which 

can store 'tagged' data, reallocating it to 

make it more accessible. SharePoint 

provides a means of storing the 

information, but it is not a document 

management system. It is Atvero which 

provides the means of accessing that 

information." 

THE ATVERO DASHBOARD 

The new system accommodates an old 

technique of Chapman Taylor's - allowing 

project or team members to log in to 

individual projects using separate emails 

for each project they are working on - and 

all projects are easily accessible, via 

thumbnails, on the homepage of the 

company's website. 

One very valuable feature is the 

MyProjects page, which shows, in one 

location, an overview of what is 

happening on a project, reminders, 

calendars, pending emails and news from 

each of the studios. 

Chapman Taylor has always had an 

intranet to provide this information, but 

SharePoint is a more modern and 

accessible format. According to Andy 

Hudson, "It's so much easier to carry out 

diverse tasks with the new system, from 

setting up new projects to booking 

personal leave." 

A REVIT SOLUTION 

Chapman Taylor uses Autodesk Revit as its 

major design software, assisted by various 

other Autodesk applications. Atvero is also 

focused primarily on Revit because of its 

prime position in the market, making it 

easier for Atvero to 'tag' data elements, 

create automatic naming systems and 

handle dates, revision and links between 

data elements. Templates for companyspecific 

documents and reports and output 

requirements are being developed, with 

both Atvero and Chapman Taylor working 

on the 'mapping information' required. 

The final output is usually in PDF format, 

although other formats, such as InDesign 

templates, can be used to assist users in 

transitioning to the new system. For issuing 

approvals and transmittals to clients, 

sometimes many columns' worth, Atvero 

can be used to filter and compress the data 

into manageable chunks. 

The final words belong to Andy: "Atvero is 

allowing us to futureproof our data!" 

www.atvero.com 


SOFTWARE focus 

What makes a city smart? 

Bentley Systems introduces OpenCities Planner to promote the development of Smart Cities 

Increasing urbanisation, environmental 

concerns and the evolution of 

infrastructure to accommodate new 

transport technologies are forcing 

governments and local authorities to 

upgrade their planning needs and 

ambitions. Simply put, they need to 

squeeze more people into finite space, 

improve or retain their access to services 

and transport facilities, and save money in 

the process. 

Hence the evolution of Smart Cities - the 

utilisation of Digital Twinning to create 

digital representations of reality in order to 

plan their development and integrate all 

sources of information, including terrain 

mapping and other GIS data, building and 

infrastructure models, utilities and services 

and operating statistics. The federated 

data, presented within a single model, uses 

all of the latest tricks of the trade to share 

the resources available to planners, city 

clients, contractors and, most importantly 

to the people involved, the inhabitants. 

Because Bentley Systems already 

operates within ecosystems that provide 

the tools to develop different aspects of 

infrastructure development - OpenRoads, 

OpenRail, Conceptstation - and supports 

these with reality modelling tools like 

Contextcapture, another vital part of 

infrastructure development that allows 

models of existing structures to be 

modelled to facilitate further development, 

It has been able to utilise their capabilities 

to present OpenCities Planner. 

It comes at just the right time too, as IDC 

has forecast significant growth in Smart 

City planning, rising worldwide from $80 

billion currently to $135 billion in 2021, 

outlining the demand for higher 

productivity, efficiency and cost reduction 

and to assign more planning resources. 

HAKAN ENGMAN AND AGENCY 9 

Bentley Systems has facilitated the 

development of Smart City planning by 

appointing Hakan Engman as Business 

Development Director for Smart Cities. 

Hakan was CEO of the Swedish company 

Agency 9, which was recently acquired by 

Bentley. The company's web-based 3D 

tools provided huge, integrated maps and 

3D models for project communication and 

citizen dialogue - now an integral part of 

OpenCities Planner. 

Recently, assisted by Johan Goransson, 

Director of Product Management, Hakan 

presented OpenCities Planner at Bentley 

conferences and symposiums in London, 

to explain the concept behind the new 

initiative. The basis of their presentation 

was to show how OpenCity Planner met 

the goals of planning authorities by 

providing more apartments, improved 

transportation and infrastructure, energy 

savings, better services for inhabitants, and 

a happier populace. They referenced a 

United Nations statement which said that 

'Smart infrastructure provides the 

foundation for all of the key themes related 

to a Smart City'. 

PLANNING A SMART CITY 

An intelligent infrastructure is therefore 

crucial, and Bentley see it developing in 

four stages: from mere bricks and steel to 

an automated structure, the addition of 

intelligence, and a final state where a fully 

integrated, intelligent entity is achieved. 

Smart Cities have to incorporate a 

strategy that allows elements to be built up 

in stages, starting as a map that includes 

roads, rail and buildings, street furniture 

and infrastructural elements, power, water 

and transportation, and to update these in 

real time as the city evolves. 

A Digital Twin of the city is used as the 

background to visualise its operational 

status, but also to be used for analysis and 

simulation purposes and to provide the 

information from a multiplicity of sources to 

create unified workflows. Bentley already 

operates ecosystems to plan, design, build 

and operate infrastructure, and that is now 

enhanced with analytical design, 

geoinformation management and the 

management of assets. 

OPENCITIES PLANNER 

Going digital can only be achieved in a 

connected data environment, which allows 

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a seamless exchange of data from many 

sources, including satellite imagery, LIDAR, 

drones, handheld mobiles and sensors. 

This has to be made available using webbased 

tools to relay it to every home, office 

and meeting room - and even semantic city 

models using CityGML, KMZ and 

COLLADA. The key needs are to share the 

information and engage planners and 

politicians alike - as well as the people who 

actually live in the cities. 

It is envisaged that, whilst Smart City 

planning will start small, with a couple of 

bold statements from local politicians and 

bright ideas emanating from initial planning 

meetings, the scope will widen quickly and 

dramatically. Given the means to participate 

in the development process the opportunity 

will be enthusiastically grasped - as seen 

with a number of projects in Sweden. 

Public planning develops along 

recognisable paths, starting from laying out 

a policy or working brief, master planning, 

zoning, design and permits, with the 

populace being involved as early as the 

master planning phase. Contractors come 

in at an early stage to plan, design, build 

and operate the future development. The 

two parallel processes are able to interact 

and exchange data throughout. 

Everybody becomes involved, using the 

3D model to prepare, sketch, compare, 

analyse and survey opinions using a 

common dialogue to publish, modify and 

promote views and opinions. 

OpenCities Planner's streaming 

technology can encompass entire cities 

and countries within its huge data 

models. The cloud-based service has a 

powerful 3D rendering engine that can 

stream massive Digital Twins online. It is 

scalable for all organisation types, from 

individual planners, architects, and GIS 

engineers to city governments and larger 

organisations, enabling the visualisation 

of 2D, 3D, and GIS data on a city-scale, 

and can handle detail down to individual 

buildings and trees. 

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION 

Quite aside from the zoning developments 

in the major cities and the development of 

road infrastructure, two of the cases that 

Hakam outlined are particularly vivid. The 

first enabled the public to submit ideas 

about the future development of their city 

using a 3D reality model on which they 

could place their marker and promote their 

idea. This was immediately made available 

to everybody else using the model, 

promoting further discussion and 

development of their ideas. 

The second provided users with access to 

a 5-mile tunnel to be built under 

Gothenburg. The real-time and interactive 

capabilities of the 3D model allowed the 

public to use a slider bar to reveal the 

different levels of the tunnel, from any 

surface modification to a full underground 

view. This particular model received 10,000 

views within the first 24 hours of its release. 

Additional examples used Bentley's 

OpenFlow FLOOD software to show the 

impact of possible flooding in a major 

Swedish port, and the movement of large 

groups of people in a popular area of 

Stockholm using Bentley's LEGION crowd 

simulation software. 

In Dubai, a particularly interesting 

demonstration showed how the amount of 

data that has to be stored with the city 

model can be reduced by providing 2D 

floorplans with apartment blocks which can 

be extruded to 3D when accessed. The 

city's reality model showed apartment 

blocks in 360 degree views at street level 

which, crucially, allowed users to attach 

dimensions and attributes to all of the 

individual elements of a model to facilitate 

demographic studies and surveys. 

OPENCITIES PLANNER IN USE 

OpenCities Planner is designed to be 

both user friendly and intuitive to use, and 

as an open solution can be viewed on all 

smart devices. It can even offer lower 

bandwidth imagery to enable lower 

specced devices to access the city 

modes, and to allow users to navigate 

and interact with them. 

Professional users have access to the 

database and, with permissions, can edit 

those features they are concerned with. 

They can view, edit, create screens, remove 

data and facilitate its sharing. There is even 

a tool within the 3D library that allows users 

to create scenes using basic volume 

creation and shadow management, and to 

integrate elements of vegetation - simple 

massing tools to put ideas across. Once 

created, the views are available to all. 

THE FUTURE? 

The future is already here. Never before has 

such a facility been available to the general 

public, who are typically faced with 

unfathomable planning decisions being 

made behind closed doors and an 

impenetrable jungle of procedures and 

deadlines to overcome should they wish to 

raise an objection. OpenCities Planner, 

when properly used as Agency 9's tools are 

being utilised in Sweden, will enable 

postive consultations and the full 

involvement of the public. 

www.bentleysystems.com 



Unreal designs 

Epic Games' Unreal Engine gives Twinmotion its ability to handle rendering on the fly 

Instead of berating your children about 

the amount of time they spend playing 

Fortnite and other games with 

awesome animations and rendering, 

consider how much the software used to 

create them is transforming our own 

industry. It's no coincidence either, as this 

summer Twinmotion became part of Epic 

Games, well known as the developer of 

both Fortnite and the real-time creation 

tool Unreal Engine. Twinmotion is already 

powered by Unreal Engine and was the 

subject of a recent Epic Games webinar 

called Fast architectural visualisation. 

Real-time rendering allows architects to 

create their designs and view them 

instantly fully rendered, and then to edit 

the design and see the changes updated 

in real-time. It also enables animations 

and panoramas to be created in minutes 

instead of days, and plays a crucial role 

in creating virtual reality immersive 

experiences. Twinmotion is already 

regarded as one the better visualisation 

and rendering tools for architects and 

designers because of its simplicity of 

use, which doesn't compromise on its 

quality of output. It runs on both PCs and 

Macs and allows users to create stills, 

animations and immersive media 

experiences from CAD models. 

Once you have created your design - 

either in ARCHICAD, Revit, SketchUp 

Pro, or RIKCAD - you can import it and 

synchronise it with Twinmotion, which 

enables any changes made to the 

original model to be instantly updated in 

your visualisations. Twinmotion comes 

with a large library of materials and other 

assets. Selecting one of the PBR 

(physically based rendering) materials or 

lights and dragging and dropping them 

into the model, together with their 

attributes - for example, the reflective 

characteristics of different materials or 

the luminescence of a light - adds 

veracity to the model. The Twinmotion 

library includes animated characters and 

vehicles, enabling you to populate 

scenes with moving characters, or to 

describe a path for a vehicle to follow in 

an animated scene. 

Once the date and time of the original 

scene is set, you can change the 

seasons, and go from daytime to 

nighttime using a slider bar. Additional 

slider bars give you control over the 

weather, wind and precipitation, including 

leaf fall in the autumn and snow in winter. 

Pinning the model's location and 

orientation will also provide an accurate 

representation of shadows throughout 

the day. 

The main advantage of Twinmotion, 

though, is the speed of Unreal Engine; its 

powerful processing capabilities lie 

behind its ability to produce rendering in 

real-time, and not just for the 

photorealistic rendering of preset scenes, 

but also its ability to provide immersive 

experiences, where users are able to 

navigate through buildings using 

Twinmotion, or the virtual reality 

capabilities in BIMmotion, which give 

users the ability to run Twinmotion 

visualisations without having to install it 

on their system, and to create 360 

degree videos and panoramas. 

In fact, the speed of Unreal Engine 

enables users to achieve great results in 

timescales that would simply not be 

possible using other tools. This includes 

adding animated people to a scene in 

just a couple of clicks or populating an 

entire forest of different tree species, 

randomly positioned using painting and 

sculpting tools. 

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THE LEARNING CURVE 

In the same way that rendering used to be 

left to dedicated and powerful 

workstations, some architects used to 

specialise in the technology using complex 

software which both tested their skills and 

took time to learn. Twinmotion on the other 

hand is extremely easy to use, with 

architects claiming they are able to start 

producing professional results within a few 

days of practice with the software. This 

means that instead of using it merely to 

create renderings of the finished product, it 

can become part of the creative process. 

Even at the earliest stages of a project 

Twinmotion can be used to stimulate 

ideas, switching from the very first flush of 

a 3D architectural concept to a rendered 

model with a few clicks, regardless of the 

size and complexity of the project, the 

materials, the user's IT knowledge or their 

preferred BIM modeler. Direct 

synchronisation with ARCHICAD allows 

users to move from the BIM model to a VR 

experience in just three clicks. 

Its ease of use has no doubt help it gain 

an enthusiastic community of users, which 

has developed into some helpful YouTube 

training series-context-appropriate videos 

that show you how to develop 

visualisations without having to pore 

through lengthy user manuals. 

GRAPHISOFT AND TWINMOTION 

Graphisoft has had a long association with 

Twinmotion, with the result that its prime 

architectural application, ARCHICAD, 

works seamlessly with the software. To 

celebrate the acquisition of Twinmotion by 

Epic Games, Graphisoft is providing users 

of the latest release of the software, 

ARCHICAD 23, with free access to 

Twinmotion and its state of the art 

rendering technology. 

As part of the agreement all qualifying 

ARCHICAD 23 license holders, having 

purchased their licenses anew or 

upgraded from earlier versions of 

ARCHICAD, are entitled to a matching 

number of fully functional licenses of 

Twinmotion free of charge. The offer 

coincides with the first release of Epic's 

upgraded software (due out round about 

now) and runs until the end of ARCHICAD 

23's release cycle. Existing ARCHICAD 

customers are able to experiment with the 

currently free version of Twinmotion at 

www.unrealengine.com/twinmotion. 

For users of other AEC applications, Epic 

Games has released another free update 

for Twinmotion which includes the new 

direct link with SketchUp Pro, together 

with an expanded pack of grass and 

flower assets. 

FROM ARCHICAD TO REAL-TIME 

VISUALISATION IN SECONDS 

Architectural Designer David Rieser at 

Scenario Architecture, who are ARCHICAD 

users and now also committed users of 

Twinmotion, says that "Being able to give 

the client a sense earlier on how the 

finished project will look has made a huge 

difference when it comes to getting the 

green light on designs. The fact that you're 

able to walk around a 3D environment that 

has all the materials and all the lighting 

effects means that sign off for the client is 

a lot easier. 

"It's a very useful tool," he added, "even 

very early on when we just show 

everything in white. When you're just 

looking at the light and spatial quality, 

when no materials are in play, it's still a 

very useful." 

The decision to adopt Twinmotion for 

visualisation is also having an effect on the 

number of clients coming through 

Scenario's doors. "It's hard to quantify 

because it's such an integral, organic part 

of our process, but we can say that it helps 

us bring in more clients with better 

projects," says Ran Ankory, Founder and 

Managing Director at Scenario. "We can 

no longer imagine working without it." 

Cementing the new relationship between 

Epic Games and Twinmotion, Marc Petit, 

General Manager, Unreal Engine, Epic 

Games, said "The same Unreal Engine 

that powers the world's most popular 

video game, Fortnite, has been part of 

Twinmotion for years. We are now very 

excited to work with Graphisoft to promote 

the use of real-time visualisation solutions 

to help architects and designers visually 

communicate. The simplicity of the 

Twinmotion user interface and the power of 

Unreal Engine to deliver real-time effects is 

unmatched in the industry." 

This was endorsed by Huw Roberts, 

Graphisoft's CEO: "Real-time rendering is 

indeed the next big thing in photorealistic 

visualisation. To bring this cutting-edge 

technology to the AEC space, we couldn't 

find a better partner than Epic Games! 

ARCHICAD 23 customers will benefit from 

an unparalleled immersive experience 

when creating and sharing their 

architectural designs." 

www.unrealengine.com 


CASE study 

Solibri Anywhere 

Solibri, the construction industry's model checker of choice, is now available for a wider range of 

users. Here, Solibri MD Andrew Bellerby outlines its capabilities and where it fits into the market 

For more than a decade Solibri's 

software solutions, developed in 

the BIM hotbed of Finland, have 

established themselves as some of the 

construction industry's favourite tools. 

Their Model Viewing software over that 

period became the de facto standard IFC 

viewing tool, with even other software 

developers checking their output in IFC 

for correctness. 

Solibri Model Checker was a solution 

developed way ahead of its time, with the 

usage of BIM and IFC being very limited 

in the early days, but it grew from a 

software solution that was developed for 

quantity take-off from IFC. Very quickly 

there was a realisation that the quantities 

were of very little use if they weren't 

correct, something that is also very 

relevant today. On the back of that Solibri 

developed their Model Checker to 

overcome the issues in the model, with 

the quantity take-off tools still very much 

a part of the solution. Solibri Model 

Checker became the tool of choice within 

most of the major contractors - as well as 

architectural and engineering offices, 

among others - for guaranteeing quality 

of geometry and data as well as 

compliance with standards, be those 

industry, company or project related. 

If there was one complaint about 

Solibri's offering over the years it was that 

it wasn't readily accessible to smaller 

companies, who might consider the price 

prohibitive, and the fact that you needed 

to purchase the full Model Checker 

software even if you just needed a 

portion of the functionality. Larger 

companies also wanted models and 

information available to other people in 

the company and on projects. 

THE NEW PRODUCT FAMILY 

Earlier this year Solibri introduced their 

new product family with added 

functionality and new purchasing 

options, which plugged the gap between 

the free Viewer software and the full 

blown Office version. Many customers 

over the years had asked for something 

to fill that void, and after discussions 

about and feature requests for the 

intermediate version, followed by a pilot 

program, the new product family was 

launched. The names of the new product 

family relate to likely location usage and 

new icons were created to complete the 

revamped look. The price is also no 

longer prohibitive, offering another 

incentive to get involved in a quality 

controlled workflow. 

Solibri Enterprise targets large 

companies that have adopted Solibri's 

solution throughout their organisation in 

a quality controlled design and/or 

construction process built around Solibri. 

The license type becomes a user based 

license (UBL) with a per person/per 

month cost and thus allows more 

flexibility for usage peaks on projects. 

Included in the Enterprise agreement 

are two of Solibri's other options for 

automating and controlling the workflow. 

AutoRun is a script that automates the 

opening of multiple models, running 

selected rulesets and the generation of 

any issues found into a report, saving 

many hours of work. Extensions is an 

add-on that allows the management and 

easy distribution to third parties of any 

customisations that you may have 

applied to the software on a project. This 

means that only those with certain 

permissions are able to edit rules, 

classifications etc. and everybody is 

working on the same level playing field. 

USAGE AND WORKFLOWS 

Solibri Site was introduced into the 

product portfolio to serve the needs of 

those that require access to validated 

data and therefore can make decisions 

knowing they have the correct 

information. Solibri Office is typically 

used by designers checking the quality 

of their work before issuing it to others. 

Models from designers are then 

typically federated and coordinated by 

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the main contractor and/or their BIM 

Coordinator who will also perform other 

compliance checks. BIM coordinators 

typically act in an Information 

Management role, having to generate 

COBie outputs from the validated data. 

Solibri Anywhere makes the information 

in the model available to all, and also 

allows feedback and creation of visual 

issues using the BCF files. 

As mentioned, the validated information 

in the model is hugely useful to quantity 

surveyors, estimators and cost 

consultants, as well as the team on the 

construction site. Bonava, a Finnish 

contractor, was involved in the 

development and piloting of the Solibri 

Site license. Bonava Finland has about 

60 licensed Solibri users in design, 

planning and management, BIM 

coordination as well as procurement and 

quantity calculations. In addition, the free 

viewer version is used by a variety of 

people including the on-site foremen and 

engineers, who are now keen on 

adopting Solibri Site instead. 

The full workflow support is important, 

however. Salmenranta remarks: "The 

models that are delivered to the site must 

be of a good quality. They must have been 

checked and validated beforehand so that 

once they get on-site, there is no longer a 

need for checking them out there." 

Bonava Finland took the Solibri Site pilot 

version to use in the Vermonniitty project, 

which is a part of a larger residential area 

development in the city of Espoo, 

Finland. Once done, the area will provide 

housing for 6000 residents. In 

Vermonniitty, Bonava has the task of 

building new blocks of residential flats 

and a separate parking garage. Two 

blocks of flats and the garage have 

already been delivered. 

Before starting the Solibri pilot, Bonava 

organised training for the site manager 

and foremen. The team has so far 

received the new tool with enthusiasm. 

Tom Helenius, Site Manager at Bonava, 

explains: "There are great benefits for the 

site team both in terms of construction 

and service coordination, especially 

when we have to perform information 

takeoff. Traditionally, we've only been able 

to get the quantities in parts and 

information on which service is in 

question - for example, getting exact 

calculations for pipe lengths has been 

laborious or imprecise. With Solibri, 

estimating all of this is considerably 

easier, faster and more accurate." 

The site team agrees that the benefits 

are best seen when working with more 

complex structures. "Solibri would have 

been of great use when casting the 

foundation for the garage in this project," 

Tom Ekroos, Foreman at Bonava points 

out. The garage was built before the onsite 

version of Solibri, and the manifold 

structure consisted of various heights 

and levels. 

Matti Rusanen, Foreman at Bonava, 

explains: "In complex spots like that, even 

seeing it in 3D early on would help 

tremendously," and Ekroos echoes this, 

saying "From the model, it would have 

been very easy for us to see straight 

away that it was in so many heights that 

it's difficult to build. The idea to use less 

concrete there was nice but for us it 

meant triple the amount of work." 

Helenius agrees with the foremen: "We 

did receive the plans in papers but from 

there it's not so easy to see, for example, 

the reasonable order of progression on 

the build. In complicated structures like 

this it helps massively." 

As the pilot project approached 

completion, Bonava Finland were eager 

to expand the use of BIM in other teams 

and projects as well. "We are discovering 

more and more benefits," says 

Salmenranta, "and in future projects, the 

aim is to use BIM models from the very 

beginning of each project, giving site 

teams time to become familiar with the 

software and the model before the actual 

building starts." 

In Bonava's VDC (Virtual Design and 

Construction) workflow, the BIM models 

integrate directly to cost and quantity 

calculation, schedules and more, which 

makes the quality of the models crucial 

both in terms of geometry and data. "The 

models are simply useless if the data in 

them is incorrect, so their quality is 

becoming more and more important," 

Salmenranta added. He concludes: "The 

models must be checked in the design 

phase and when going on-site, but also 

the site team should be closely involved 

in reviewing the decisions made by the 

designers and communicating with 

them, and for that, getting the correct 

data and information takeoff are of 

utmost importance." 

www.solibri.com 


INDUSTRY focus 

Tradition or transition? 

Excitech's Daryn Fitz continues his conversation with David Chadwick on the industry's move from 

CAD to BIM 

David Chadwick: Is the migration 

from CAD to BIM the same as the 

industry's move from drawing 

boards to CAD? 

Daryn Fitz: No, it is different and more 

complex. The Construction Sector made 

the transition from drawing boards to 

Computer-aided Design (CAD) back in 

the early 1980's and I remember well the 

resistance from many traditional 

draughtsmen and women at the time. 

The emergence of the office-based 

personal computer and a drive for more 

efficient workflows was a perfect catalyst 

for CAD to emerge and it quickly 

replaced many traditional drawing 

production workflows. My recollection 

from that time was that although you 

could produce an initial drafted design 

equally quickly via CAD or a drawing 

board, when it came to changes, and 

understanding design is an iterative 

process, CAD was significantly quicker 

and more efficient. CAD also allowed 

people to type text rather than use an ink 

pen and a stencil. 

Today's transition to Building Information 

Modelling (BIM) however is very different 

to CAD and is not solely focused on 

changing a single production process 

such as the generation of drawings. BIM 

is far more encompassing than that; the 

focus is now on sharable data and digital 

information, which has the potential to 

provide a positive impact on the entire 

project team and its delivery. To make a 

successful transition it has to be carefully 

managed, and as a technology provider, 

the strategy for implementation is an 

important part because BIM workflows 

are very different to CAD, even down to 

the way a designer may wish to 

commercialise the services they provide. 

DC: What are the main advantages of 

BIM for designers? 

DF: The first advantage of BIM for 

designers is the use of BIM Authoring 

technologies such as Autodesk's Revit. 

Revit is one of the most popular BIM 

authoring solutions globally. Errors that 

were commonplace via CAD, such as 

architectural doors appearing in different 

locations or being of different types 

across a set of drawings, are replaced by 

a workflow in Revit where any change 

made to an object in a 3D model is 

reflected and updated automatically 

across all drawing outputs, resulting in 

coordinated rather than disconnected 

information. This also means that 3D 

visualisations from the model are always 

available to aid communications across 

the project team and with clients to 

provide a faster and more interactive 

method for evaluating design intent. 

If higher quality computer generated 

imagery or animations are required, addons 

to Revit such as Enscape provide 

real-time, fast and efficient outputs that 

keep in step with the design process. 

There is no longer a need to employ thirdparty 

external visualisation companies 

and receive outputs that are three weeks 

behind the current design. Software such 

as Enscape can output to virtual and 

augmented reality systems, providing 

ever-increasingly immersive experiences. 

Tedious tasks such as generating door, 

window, component or area schedules 

are now automated and this capability 

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extends to semi-automated 

section and elevation drawings. 

The advantages can go on 

and on, and include links to 

specifications, design analysis 

systems and automation to 

document management 

systems such as Excitech 

DOCS that ensure compliant, 

complete and auditable 

information leaves the 

organisation and is received by 

others. Of course, if all 

designers on the project work 

to BIM processes, the advantages extend 

even further to allow all design 

consultants to share and federate models 

to once again improve communication 

and understanding, but also allow for 

design coordination supporting 

processes such as Clash Detection. 

Software such as Autodesk's 

Navisworks or Glue find the elements that 

clash within a design using rules set by 

the designer. BIM is also promoting 

consistency through industry standards 

and specifications, encouraging 

increased collaboration and sharing of 

data and digital information. In summary 

BIM saves designers money, time, effort, 

drives better outputs and is becoming a 

standard project requirement and the 

preferred industry workflow. 

DC: You mentioned BIM adoption can be 

challenging and complex, can you 

expand on this? 

DF: This is a different way of working 

when compared to CAD, and any change 

from the daily norm can be concerning to 

employees and management alike. There 

will also be a reduction in productivity as 

individuals learn the new systems which 

has to be managed whilst still ensuring 

delivery of projects on time and to budget. 

There are new internal and project 

standards and workflows to understand 

and embed, new information 

management roles and responsibilities, 

and a need to include information 

placeholders within model objects for 

others to complete at latter project stages. 

This list could expand and be detailed a 

lot further, but the simple solution is to 

employ expertise who can provide 

education, training, a clear plan and 

support the transition. BIM is a huge 

subject area and extends from design 

into manufacturing, construction and 

facilities management, and within 

Excitech we have different subject matter 

experts to provide holistic support. 

DC: In your opinion are all design 

companies moving to BIM? 

DF: No, this is a process and just like the 

move from drawing boards to CAD, there 

will always be the early adopters at the 

start and laggards who will resist change 

at the end. However, I am confident that 

we are now transitioning to a 

Construction Sector in the UK where BIM 

is becoming the norm and not an 

exception. BIM as a concept has been 

around for a long time - there were BIM 

projects being delivered in the 1990's 

within the UK, but adoption over the last 

seven years has accelerated rapidly. 

However, I still have personally seen 

projects where two out of three designers 

are working in BIM, whilst the third is still 

using CAD. Some design specialists such 

as landscape architects need the 

technologies for their discipline to evolve, 

and for some small and medium-sized 

enterprises (SMEs), the initial financial 

investment, especially in the current 

political climate, may delay their transition 

until it becomes business critical - 

meaning work is not secured as they lack 

the capability that their employers require. 

DC: If BIM is now, what is next? 

DF: That is a leading but good question, 

and although I don't have a crystal ball to 

tell me the future, I think we are starting to 

see the possibilities and future 

direction now. For designers I 

would suggest an exciting but 

maybe different working 

environment in the future. I am 

sure we will see more remote, 

dispersed and global design 

teams on projects, and although 

today we reference improved 

collaboration and using 

common data environments 

(CDE's) such as Autodesk's BIM 

360 platform, these will be 

extended to real-time cloud 

based ecospheres and, I am sure, will 

also be supported with holographic 

meetings. 

Generative design, which is a design 

exploration process, is also of great 

interest. Designers or engineers input 

design goals into the generative design 

software, along with parameters such as 

performance or spatial requirements, 

materials, manufacturing methods, and 

cost constraints. The software explores all 

the possible permutations of a solution, 

quickly generating design alternatives. It 

tests and learns from each iteration what 

works and what doesn't. The concepts of 

Digital Twins and Smart Cities are already 

widely discussed both academically and 

within industry, and even future smart 

contracts using blockchain as a secure 

method are being explored. 

Designs that consider off-site fabrication 

opportunity and carbon neutral design 

analysis can only increase. But all the 

above will need data and digital 

information, and BIM provides the 

foundation for an exciting and 

increasingly digitally led world, far 

removed from drawing on parchment, 

paper, velio (plastic) sheets with pencil or 

ink. When compared with CAD working 

and designing, using BIM is fun, and 

much more engaging and rewarding as 

you develop a 3D data rich representation 

of your design rather than simply flat 2D 

lines, arcs and circles. 

You can learn more about the future of 

BIM and Generative Design on the 

Excitech webiste, below. 

www.excitech.co.uk/Campaign/ 

Generative-Design 


2019 awards 

Sponsored by: 

@CCMagAndAwards 

Champagne Reception Sponsors: 

Building on success at The Hammers 2019 

The Grand Connaught Rooms in London's Covent 

Garden was the venue for the 2019 Construction 

Computing Awards this November, where our nominees 

and guests gathered to celebrate a year of industry success 

stories - and to discover who would be taking home the 

coveted Hammers trophies, of course. 

The evening began with a champagne reception sponsored 

by Asite, followed by short talks from Steven Eglinton, 

Director, GeoEnable and Principal Tutor in BIM at the 

Institution of Civil Engineers, and Bill Hill, chairman of The 

Hammers' chosen charity for the night, Lighthouse Club. Bill 

spoke on the importance of mental health and wellbeing in 

the construction industry, and we’re delighted to announce 

that the evening's silent auction raised just under £12,000 for 

this worthy cause. Many thanks to everyone who contributed. 

Soon it was on to the evening's main event, the awards 

ceremony itself. You’ll find a full round-up of the 2019 

winners below, and they include Solibri with Evolve 

Consultancy and Tideway for Constructing Excellence, 

winners of the BIM Project of the Year award as chosen by 

our panel of judges. We also saw a new winner in the 

Estimation & Valuation Product of the Year category, with 

Exactal taking the top spot for CostX. And the final trophy of 

the night, the sought after Company of the Year award, was 

won by Bentley Systems. 

We'd like to once again congratulate all of this year's 

winners and runners-up, and thank both our awards 

sponsors and everyone who took the time to vote online. We 

hope to see you all again in 2020! 

www.constructioncomputingawards.co.uk 

INNOVATION OF THE YEAR 

Winner: VisiLean for BIM & Project Planning Solution 

ONE TO WATCH COMPANY 

Winner: Atvero 

BEST USE OF IT IN A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT 2019 

Winner: Asite with Adoddle for Ballymore, Goodluck Hope Project 

BEST USE OF IT IN AN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT 2019 

Winner: Specialist Project Integration with 3drepo.io for Kings Cross Track Remodelling 

BIM PROJECT OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Solibri UK Ltd with Evolve Consultancy and Tideway for Constructing Excellence 

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COLLABORATION PROJECT OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Dalux with Dalux Field and Box for Southern Regional College (Felix O'Hare) 

CLOUD TECHNOLOGY OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Asite for the Adoddle Platform 

HEALTH AND SAFETY/TRAINING SOLUTION OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Biosite with Mosaic Asset Manager for Thames Tideway East 

BIM PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Graphisoft for ARCHICAD 23 

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Autodesk for AEC Collection 

STRUCTURAL DESIGN PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Trimble for Tekla Structural Designer 

COLLABORATION PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Viewpoint for Viewpoint for Projects 

DOCUMENT AND CONTENT PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Newforma for Newforma Project Center 

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP) SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR 

Winner: EasyBuild (Construction Software) Ltd for EasyBuild 

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Elecosoft for Powerproject 

ESTIMATION & VALUATION PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Exactal for CostX 

CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNTING PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Integrity Software for Evolution M 

CONSTRUCTION FINANCIALS SUITE OF THE YEAR 

Winner: RedSky for Summit 

PROJECT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 

Winner: IFS for IFS Applications 

ASSET MANAGEMENT PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Glider Technology Ltd for GliderBIM 

MOBILE TECHNOLOGY OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Graphisoft for BIMx 

CHANNEL PARTNER OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Excitech 

EDITOR'S CHOICE OF 2019 

Winner: Vectorworks 

PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Viewpoint for Viewpoint for Projects 

COMPANY OF THE YEAR 

Winner: Bentley Systems 


CASE study 

Keeping the traffic flowing 

Highway Traffic Management is driving its digital transformation forward by rolling out Re-flow 

Highway Traffic Management, 

based in the West Midlands, is a 

temporary traffic management 

company specialising in high-speed 

roads, 12C mobile works and 12D Street 

works. They have around 100 operatives 

with 80% of them working remotely on 

sites around the country. 

Greg Baldwin is the Business Director at 

Highway Traffic Management and 

oversees strategy and direction, which 

includes goal setting, objective monitoring 

and also the day-to-day operations and 

health and safety. Speaking from their 

offices under the famous Spaghetti 

Junction, they reflect on their recent 

transition to Re-flow, a digital mobile 

workforce management solution. 

Highway Traffic Management had 

already undertaken a digital 

transformation four years ago, so paper 

was already on the way out - but not all 

software is created equally… The existing 

system restricted them from making quick 

changes or updating their forms easily. 

Furthermore, they were also dealing with a 

lag of a couple of seconds when moving 

through the app, which, over the course 

of a day, equated to a great deal of 

wasted time and frustration among the 

users. The decision was made to find 

something that not only looked good but 

had the back-end system to support it. 

Re-flow was chosen because it gave 

them the flexibility to change their 

processes, revisit what was necessary 

and cut out a lot of the areas that weren't 

efficient or adding value to the company 

and their clients. They were looking for a 

solution that didn't have the price tag of a 

bespoke system but that still gave them 

the sort of flexibility that you don't tend to 

find in a lot of off-the-shelf systems. 

Greg commented, "What made Re-flow 

stand out for us was that it had both style 

and functionality. The aesthetics of it was 

excellent, which makes the user 

experience easy to run through, and the 

system is clear on where you find things 

and how you navigate through it, so for 

our users it was perfect." 

According to the Commercial Director at 

Highway Traffic Management, Marcus 

Casey "One of the main reasons we went 

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to Re-flow was not just how the system 

worked, but also the cost. Some of the 

systems out there are very expensive for 

something that we would have to adapt as 

a company to use, instead of having a 

system that adapts to how we work as a 

company such as Re-flow." 

Having had previous experience with 

rolling out a new technology to staff, 

Highway Traffic Management conducted a 

phased rollout, contract by contract. They 

found it relatively easy by calling in their 

change champions from the previous 

rollout, making the actual implementation 

a lot quicker than they'd planned for. 

From the initial sales meeting, they felt 

there was complete transparency, so they 

knew what the system could and couldn't 

do, which they found to be a refreshing 

approach. The actual implementation was 

clearly planned out and made life a lot 

easier for the team. Now they're actually 

using the system it still feels "seamless". 

Greg commented, "The reason we've 

been able to implement this so easily is 

obviously with the support of Re-flow, but 

also the team we've got here and the lack 

of red tape. If we want to get something 

through or we've got an idea, it can be 

conceived very quickly. We can get on and 

get it done". 

FEELING THE BENEFITS 

Both time and money has been saved 

using Re-flow. Time savings include the 

operations team being able to produce 

the job packs and reports much quicker, 

which in turn releases them to do other 

tasks, enabling them to fit more into their 

day. Financially, aside from the efficiency 

savings, Re-flow is simply cheaper than 

the previous system they were using, so 

the cost benefits were immediate. 

A critical part of any company is being 

able to get invoices out and money in, and 

Marcus is acutely aware of his 

responsibility in making this happen. 

"Part of my role is looking after the money 

coming back into the business through 

the invoicing process. To ensure this 

happens efficiently, the paperwork from 

the job has the be right first time when it's 

sent over to our clients, so they have a 

clear understanding of what's been done 

for them in advance of an invoice being 

sent. Then, when they receive a request 

for payment, it makes my life easier 

because that client has the correct 

paperwork that we're invoicing for, so 

they're going to pay a lot quicker." 

In the field, app user Sean Langley shared 

his thoughts on using Re-flow to assist his 

job. "Day to day, traffic management 

operatives are assisting construction 

companies carrying out roadworks, 

installation or repairs to street furniture by 

setting up traffic management systems 

prior to work taking place and then 

dismantling it once the work is complete. 

On site we use the Re-flow app on our 

phones to see what the brief for the 

current job is and the required tasks and 

then to keep a log of all the work 

completed, including the required returns 

of forms and site photographs to confirm 

what's been completed. 

Having everything on an app makes our 

jobs much easier. Because we have so 

many jobs to complete throughout the 

day, having a simple series of boxes to 

complete to log everything keeps it 

simpler. It's also a way to do our bit for the 

environment by doing away with paper 

and it keeps everything safe from the 

weather, where paper can easily get 

damaged or destroyed." 

Communication has improved tenfold 

because, according to Greg, "Our 

operational managers can see what step 

our operatives are on within the job and 

they have feedback for the client instantly 

on the dashboard." 

Highway Traffic Management have also 

started to use Re-flow for their internal 

auditing system, to eliminate time 

consuming paper processes and the risk 

of losing physical paperwork. Now they 

say that everything's in one place and fully 

searchable to speed up the internal audit 

process. According to Greg "In terms of 

compliance we've had a big improvement 

because what we've been able to do is put 

a lot of our management system forms on 

there as well, so our internal audit 

programs, evaluation of compliance and 

non-conformance records are all now 

generated through Re-flow, which allows 

that audit process to be a lot quicker and 

more efficient." 

In conclusion Marcus says "We'd 

definitely recommend Re-flow to anybody 

and we'd welcome anyone that wants any 

advice or questions to come to us and ask 

us how we got on with the implementation 

and building of forms. We've only got 

good things to say about Re-flow." 

www.re-flow.co.uk 


INDUSTRY comment 

Making an asset of IoT 

Derek Bryan, VP EMEA, Verizon Connect, explains how leveraging 

IoT can unlock the next generation of asset tracking in construction 

There is a thin line between asset 

tracking and the Internet of Things 

(IoT). From simply keeping track of 

equipment in a spreadsheet to using RFID 

or GPS to log equipment usage and 

location electronically, most construction 

businesses will typically have some form of 

asset tracking system already in place. 

However, new developments in numbercrunching 

power and advances in all-in-one 

software platforms, are helping 

construction businesses enhance their 

asset tracking capabilities by embracing 

IoT, arguably the next evolutionary step in 

the development of asset tracking. 

IoT makes asset tracking data actionable 

by adding context. In other words, 

identifying not just where equipment is 

being used, but how it is being used and by 

whom. The industry has evolved to the 

point where any tool or asset can be 

inexpensively connected via IoT sensors 

and data relating to its usage and/or 

condition can be captured, interpreted and 

acted upon. 

With this information in hand, managers 

can make better informed decisions 

regarding whether it's necessary to rent 

additional equipment or simply retrieve 

underutilised, owned equipment from 

another job site and deploy it elsewhere. 

Here we look at some of the ways in which 

construction managers can get the most 

value from IoT. 

Keep your most important assets healthy 

with maintenance management 

Upgrading your asset tracking to the level 

of IoT means more than just developing an 

understanding of where your assets are. 

Sensors can be used to send status 

updates on a range of events, including 

temperature change, excessive vibration or 

door movement. This helps track 

mechanical wear and tear and schedule 

necessary maintenance (based on usage 

metrics, such as engine hours) or create 

alerts for parts when they need replacing. 

It's easy to take your business' assets for 

granted until they go missing or break 

down. Using a digital solution to track and 

regulate equipment maintenance can 

therefore help protect the lifeblood of 

businesses and prevent costly downtime. 

For powered equipment that requires 

preventative maintenance or routine fixes, a 

consolidated asset tracking solution can 

provide a holistic view of maintenance 

alerts, regardless of manufacturer. 

Moreover, paperless inspections can help 

automate the monitoring of equipment 

condition, which improves on-the-job safety, 

productivity and overall job efficiency. 

Get the most out of your assets with 

utilisation reports 

Are assets giving a good return on 

investment (ROI), or are they sitting idle 

most of the day? Asset utilisation reports 

can help identify equipment with low ROI, 

providing managers with the numbers they 

need to identify equipment that can be sold 

off or repurposed somewhere else in the 

business, or to review how often and for 

how long a piece of equipment is used on 

a particular day or during certain periods of 

time. That data can be matched against 

the progress of work accomplished to 

identify discrepancies or inefficiencies. 

Monitoring asset information, such as 

time of use, idle time, employee usage and 

maintenance dates, also helps 

construction firms to reduce or eliminate 

unnecessary fuel and labour costs that can 

eat away at profit margins. 

Combat the high cost of theft and 

unauthorised asset use 

Given the cost of purchase and the risk of 

theft, it's no surprise that a company that 

leases or owns construction equipment 

would want to keep a close eye on its 

assets. With an intelligent asset tracking 

solution in place, construction firms can 

receive notifications when a piece of 

equipment is operated during an 

unauthorised time period or even if a piece 

of equipment is being moved out of hours 

or outside an approved area. This feature is 

particularly critical for smaller construction 

firms that may lack extensive job site 

security resources or security technology. 

'Geofences' allow construction managers 

to easily draw up virtual perimeters around 

the area in which equipment is authorised 

to be used. If assets leave that perimeter, 

they can be instantly notified either via SMS 

alerts or via their asset tracking software 

platform's mobile application. These instant 

alerts allow managers or their security 

teams to notify law enforcement 

immediately, if required, potentially reducing 

damage and accelerating recovery. 

Consolidate all your construction 

equipment data in one place 

Construction companies own and operate 

thousands of powered and non-powered 

assets of various makes, models and 

manufacturers. These various systems are 

independent, meaning construction site or 

equipment managers must access several 

different sources to pull the asset data they 

need. Any investment in IoT, therefore, must 

be matched with investment in a single, 

complete asset-tracking software system. 

In so doing, construction firms can make 

sure all the data from their powered and 

non-powered assets is consolidated and 

centralised, regardless of make, model or 

manufacturer. With this holistic approach in 

mind, companies can gain an enhanced 

level of visibility of assets and deliver 

positive returns on their investment in IoT. 

www.verizonconnect.com 

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CASE study 

Laser Scanning for Facilities Management 

Pointfuse automatically converts point cloud data into usable 3D models for asset management, 

using their SimpleBIM (sBIM) solution 

Reality capture for space and facilities 

management is a rapidly growing 

opportunity. It is often the case that 

any existing floorplans are old and out of 

date and not a fair representation of real 

estate, and therefore certainly not a sound 

basis for good decision making. 

Government, academic, leisure and health 

amenities as well as retail outlets and 

manufacturing facilities, are all sectors that 

need up to date information about their real 

estate. Space optimisation and optimal 

layout are strong business drivers that can 

lead to the large-scale capture of data 

about a space. However, this information 

needs to be quick and easy to generate in 

order to be an effective business tool of use 

within an organisation. Something as 

simple as having up to date information on 

total square footage by actual use is 

essential in ensuring that the appropriate 

insurance is in place, for example. 

This requirement has seen the trend for 

recording existing infrastructure and 

ongoing developments through laser 

scanning or photogrammetry within the 

AEC sector making the move indoors. A 

new breed of mobile mapping systems, 

specifically designed for urban and inside 

use where the GPS signal may be lost, is 

coming into mainstream use. Utilising SLAM 

(Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping), 

with its root in robotics, these use a variety 

of complex algorithms to create a map of 

their location and correctly orient 

themselves within the map, all in real time. 

A number of systems are available offering 

compact and handheld designs which 

allow a much greater degree of mobility, as 

well as access to spaces and objects that 

may have been difficult or impossible to 

scan before, such as complex interiors. 

Systems are simple to operate with 

automatic registration of data and onebutton 

operation making them an option for 

professional and casual users alike. 

However, one lesson already learnt and 

therefore transferable between in use 

applications is that, in order to derive real 

value from data capture technologies, 

recorded measurements need to usable 

and compatible with existing workflows and 

software. Many advancements have 

already been made to achieve this ease of 

use including software to reduce the large 

data volumes usually associated with point 

clouds, such as Pointfuse. 

Pointfuse is a powerful modeling engine 

that delivers an automatic, precise and 

flexible way of converting the vast point 

cloud datasets generated by laser scanners 

or photogrammetry into usable 3D models. 

Auto classification features automatically 

detect both horizontal and vertical planar 

surfaces, separating them into layers. This 

automatic segmentation of the mesh model 

into discrete, selectable surfaces makes the 

ongoing classification of objects easier and 

faster, reducing potential bottlenecks in the 

modelling process, further speeding 

workflows and producing repeatable, 

consistent results. 

Pointfuse can also significantly reduce the 

file size of 3D models created from point 

clouds. In simple terms, the data density 

within each surface is reduced whilst still 

maintaining the fidelity of the model. This 

results in a significant reduction in model 

size making ongoing use of the model 

easier, faster and more efficient. 

Pointfuse has now launched a solution 

that automates the identification and 

classification of objects for space and 

facilities management applications using 

data from mobile mapping systems like the 

new Leica BLK2GO. Pointfuse 'Simple BIM' 

(sBIM) leverages the core functionality of 

Pointfuse - the segmented mesh model; 

automatically converting classified mesh 

models into 'family' groups, such as walls, 

floors, doors, windows, etc. for use with 

popular downstream BIM and FM software. 

Data can then be exported as IFC 

(Industry Foundation Class) parametrised 

objects and 2D floors plans and space 

management reports easily derived. 

Pointfuse sBIM also automatically calculates 

quantities, areas and dimensions, 

producing an easy to read PDF report. 

sBIM was developed in response to a 

large scale client opportunity that saw the 

scanning of millions of square feet of 

facilities with the final deployment of data in 

Archibus facilities management software, 

using Autodesk Revit as a bridge. Early 

testing identified that 3D was as quick to 

create as traditional 2D workflows and 

exported data was in the region of 

hundreds of Kbs compared to the Gb 

volumes of the original point cloud. 

Taking the process one step further, 

Pointfuse provides an accurate record of 

the as-built scene by allowing users to 

create Hybrid meshes combining Pointfuse 

models with the sBIM IFC container. 

Pointfuse sBIM, in combination with the 

new breed of mobile mapping systems that 

are specifically designed for indoor 

mapping, will enable the rapid creation of 

space management BIM models that can 

be repurposed within software, such as 

Archibus. In fact, the benefits of 3D data 

representation of space develop additional 

ROI beyond simple 2D, and are no more 

expensive or difficult to capture and 

process with this optimised workflow. 

"This ability to convert classified objects 

into family placeholders has a huge impact 

on how as-built data is used within a 

Scan2BIM workflow with the potential for a 

real return on investment for facilities and 

space management applications," said 

Mark Senior, Regional Sales Director at 

Pointfuse. "The combination of ease and 

speed of data capture, as offered by 

modern handheld indoor mapping systems 

like the newly launched Leica BLK2GO, with 

the automation of Pointfuse processing will, 

it is hoped, release the potential of laser 

scanning across this sector." 

www.pointfuse.com 


CASEstudy 

Lighting up the stage 

New York based Gray Matter Visual used Vectorworks Vision 2019 for the spectacular light show at 

Telemundo 2019, the annual celebratory event for the advertising industry and their clients 

Stage presentations, product 

launches, musical extravaganzas 

and basically anything else that 

requires a visually spectacular effect, are 

increasingly reliant on dazzlingly 

choreographed lighting displays. In spite 

of the fact that they are, essentially, 

transient events, they rely on sophisticated 

planning, using the latest CAD software, 

to lay out the design of the lighting rigs 

being used, set up a lighting schedule to 

sequence the different lighting effects and 

to previsualise the result. 

One of the leading lighting and 

production design firms in America is 

Brooklyn, NY-based Gray Matter Visual 

Inc. (GMV) who recently used Vision 2019 

software as a previsualisation solution for 

Lighting Designer Rob Cangemi of 

Cangemi Design. The software was used 

for the 2019 Telemundo Celebration event 

at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City 

for advertising clients and business 

partners. Vision, created by global design 

and BIM software provider Vectorworks, 

Inc., allowed GMV to properly previsualise, 

program and cue the show, which was 

produced by Ray Bloch Productions. With 

a complex brief for the show, and limited 

time on site, Cangemi asked GMV to 

provide an in-studio previsualisation. GMV 

combined the lighting plot and scenic 

drawings in Vectorworks Spotlight to build 

the combined 3D model before exporting 

to Vision. 

GMV was also able to take advantage of 

the My Virtual Rig (MVR) implemented in 

Vision 2019. MVR is part of the General 

Device Type Format (GDTF) initiative that 

seeks to create a unified definition for the 

exchange of data for the operation of 

intelligent luminaires. According to GMV 

Staff Associate Charlie Winter: "We used 

MVR for the initial import of the lighting rig 

into Vision, as well as to manage 

subsequent plot and channeling updates. 

The support for unique fixture IDs helped 

make this process smooth." 

Lighting Designer Rob Cangemi and 

Lighting Programmer Hillary Knox spent 

two days at the GMV studio in the 

DUMBO area of Brooklyn, working with 

the in-house grandMA2 onPC system 

connected to Vision. From this system, 

Cangemi and Knox were able to build the 

show file and work on cueing, including 

showing how the production would look to 

their clients. 

"The GMV team allowed us the time and 

space to develop our ideas with our 

clients before the chaos of our intensely 

tight onsite schedule hit us," said 

Cangemi. "We came in so prepared and 

our long-time clients saw the difference. 

We knew it would be a plus having the 

previs time at the GMV studio, but what 

we didn't anticipate was just how 

invaluable it became, such that we never 

want to do this show again without it! The 

transition from previs to onsite was 

remarkably smooth thanks to the quality 

time that Charlie and the GMV staff took to 

set everything up, carefully adding our 

needed elements and filtering out the nonessentials." 

Cangemi and Knox were also able to 

utilise GMV's mobile Vision system to 

continue cueing while on-site and keeping 

an eye on the load-in and any last-minute 

updates to the show. "We use 

previsualisation solutions on many of our 

design projects," said GMV Founder and 

Principal Designer Brendan Gray, who 

describes his involvement in the industry 

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in his entertainment online blog. Brendan 

spoke recently about his work with 

Telemundo and how his company set 

about developing a project with 

collaborators. He explained, first of all, 

how it used to work. "Sheets and sheets of 

drawings, depending on the complexity of 

the project, an environment where speed 

was of the essence with lots of meetings, 

lots of emails, and usually just a week to 

rehearse once the format was agreed." He 

added, "It's also a very collaborative 

environment where creative people had to 

work hand in hand with both artistic and 

technical programmers to make it work." 

"One of the biggest problems we had to 

deal with," he explained, "is that the typical 

venue is a busy place with limited time 

available on-site to plan things and 

program the event, and a widely diverse 

group of people who need to get involved 

in the process - it's time consuming and 

expensive. Being able to produce a 

previsualisation of the event off-site is 

therefore invaluable. We give clients the 

ability to see how an event will run within a 

real-time graphics environment, enabling 

them to add their comments, make 

suggestions and get fully involved in the 

process," he explained. 

"We have no time constraints other than 

the date of the event, and can make 

alterations and adjustments at any stage 

according to a client's needs, or to modify 

a stage design to run a similar experience 

in different locations." 

BRACEWORKS RIGGING ANALYSIS 

Vision is not the only design module that 

they use. Braceworks rigging analysis 

software is used to set up and define the 

lighting gantries - where structural 

members needed to be placed and the 

positioning of hoists, and to extract the 

weight of the various structural elements 

that enable structural engineers to certify 

the structures. "Not a trivial requirement," 

Brendan commented, "as the last 

Eurovision Song Contest used 240 tons of 

steel for their ceiling." 

Spotlight, the industry standard lighting 

design tool, also features seating layout 

tools - an essential part of any stage 

production - allowing designers to check 

what the audience can see from any given 

seat. And if you are going to pack large 

and excitable crowds into any given venue, 

you must also provide a means of rapid 

evacuation in emergencies. GMV also uses 

SimTread, a simulation software provided 

by Vectorworks for such a purpose. 

GRAY MATTER VISUAL 

Gray Matter Visual provides a 

comprehensive support solution for event 

organisers, from design to programming, 

working as creators, specialists, 

collaborators, solution providers, 

supporters and partners. Their core 

specialty though is lighting design. It is the 

lens through which the company works, 

aiming to show their clients in the best 

possible light, either for dynamic 

performances, immersive environments or 

powerful presentations. 

From corporate theatre to concerts, 

experiential marketing to television, GMV's 

wide range of experience allows them to 

leverage their expertise and promote a 

cross-pollination of ideas and techniques 

to produce the best solutions for any given 

project. "But," Brendan said, "We work here 

because of theatre, and New York is still 

the top spot in the country, if not the world, 

for theatre. Its variety keeps it interesting 

for us - and Vectorworks allows us to 

support that variety. 

"We use Vectorworks on every project. I 

even use it for things that it's not supposed 

to do - as a page layout piece of software 

for example - because I've just been using 

it for so long. I know the tools. Whether 

we're in a ballroom, an arena, theatre, or a 

complete raw space, we use the same tool 

no matter what. I'd say that Vectorworks as 

a platform adapts to all of those 

environments for us. 

"When we go outside the box, I am happy 

to see if the tools we use actually hold up 

to the rigours of real-world usage, which 

can be unforgiving. You don't want things 

to not work when you need them to. I think 

the continued ease of access to 

previsualisation and the convergence of 

being able to look at full designs and 

incorporate video in advance is something 

I'm really excited about. We use some 

MVR in Vision, and have worked with 

GDTF in Spotlight. We're excited about 

what that means in the future in terms of 

helping us streamline some of the 

processes, both with the previsualisation 

and the programming of increasingly 

complex shows. 

"A lot has happened in the last several 

years as automated lighting matures as a 

segment in the industry. The things that 

are happening with video technologies 

and integration, both on the display side 

and the control side, are really fascinating. 

We're seeing a lot more mixing of elements 

between the real and the virtual. Anybody 

who thinks they can tell you what's going 

to happen in ten years is mistaken. Just 

five years ago, I don't think you could 

predict what is happening right now. We're 

currently just exploring the possibilities." 

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MASTERclass 

In association with: 

EasyBuild Q & A 

Properly utilised, EasyBuild gives users the ability to look beyond the daily working processes, 

allowing them to refine the information and use it to improve ROI 

The reason we get out of bed 

every morning is, I suppose, to 

earn a decent crust. In an 

industry where margins are tight, costs 

heavy, supplies variable and a 

workforce only half-trained - or so we 

are led to believe - we must either love 

the profession utterly, or have an 

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enterprises more efficiently, we shall 

reap the proper rewards. The focus of 

this issues Q and A, therefore, is how 

we can leverage our Project 

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Q. We know, to the minute, what 

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and what income is expected and 

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to increase our ROI? 

EasyBuild allows companies to work in 

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manner where they can manage their 

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we have to allocate resources and 

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both charge each project, yet retain the 

costs against each resource? 

EasyBuild allows individual skill rates to 

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Rostering goes to the next level in 

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costs on a specific part of a project and 

compare it against a similar piece of 

work on another, with a view to 

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production methods on all sites? 

EasyBuild's structure allows a business 

to "Compare cost across projects". 

Standard cost head structure allows 

this to take place within the application. 

Introducing Activity/WBS codes also 

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streams across similar project types. 

Q. A quick and easy question. What is 

the most effective way of presenting 

information to a client - a simplified 

dashboard, a series of graphs or 

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highlighting in bold type the expected 

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over? What are the benefits or 

drawbacks of each? 

As a contract it is always important to 

provide your client with the right level 

of detail to substantiate the 

performance of the project. It is also 

important for the ability to drill down to 

the level of details such as supplier, 

order etc. 

EasyBuild has over 800 standard 

reporting types, but also allows a 

contract to design cost reports to suite 

their client's requirement. Here's a 

comparison between reporting types: 

Simplified dashboards - this is 

appropriate for C levels so that they 

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performance /KPI for projects and the 

business 

PDF - this is a locked down 

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it would need more information to 

substantiate the numbers 

Spreadsheets - every accountant 

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they are prone to errors and don't offer 

the ability to drill down to core data. 

Q. How frequently does EasyBuild 

update its application or introduce 

revisions in response to changes in 

government policies? How does it 

inform customers of impending 

changes that will affect the 

construction industry? 

EasyBuild provides legislative changes 

as required by government policies. 

This is part of the annual subscription 

which is paid by our customers. If we 

are to support the construction industry 

we have to be fully compliant on behalf 

of our customers. 

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