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INDUSTRY news<br />
AUTODESK'S DIGITAL TWIN PLATFORM DEBUTS<br />
Autodesk has announced<br />
the commercial availability<br />
of its cloud-based digital twin<br />
platform, Autodesk Tandem, following<br />
its successful public<br />
beta. As plans and files change<br />
throughout the design and construction<br />
process, keeping data<br />
together is challenging. A recent<br />
FMI report revealed that more<br />
than 95 percent of all data goes<br />
unused in engineering and construction,<br />
which results in inefficient<br />
processes and lost revenue<br />
for AEC firms and owners.<br />
"Autodesk Tandem is a cloudbased<br />
digital twin technology<br />
platform that aims to turn that<br />
Scott Griffiths<br />
stat on its head," said Bob Bray,<br />
senior director and general<br />
manager, Autodesk Tandem. "It<br />
enables projects to start digital,<br />
stay digital, and deliver digital,<br />
transforming rich data into business<br />
intelligence."<br />
By embracing digital transformation<br />
and harnessing BIM<br />
data throughout the design<br />
and construction process, AEC<br />
firms can create and handover<br />
a digital twin to customers. The<br />
easily accessible, contextual,<br />
and insightful data in a digital<br />
twin makes for ready-to-go<br />
operations.<br />
https://intandem.autodesk.com<br />
CIVIL ENGINEERING DEGREE APPRENTICESHIP<br />
ACoventry University student<br />
is among a small group of<br />
apprentices who are the first in<br />
the UK to have completed their<br />
Civil Engineer degree apprenticeships.<br />
Scott Griffiths, who<br />
works as a structural engineer<br />
at Waterman group in Birmingham,<br />
passed his Level 6 Civil<br />
Engineering degree apprenticeship<br />
end point assessment<br />
in June, achieving Incorporated<br />
Engineer (IEng) status with the<br />
Institution of Civil Engineers.<br />
Scott began on a Level 3<br />
apprenticeship at the age of 18<br />
and progressed through a parttime<br />
Higher National Certificate<br />
(HNC) at CU Coventry, before<br />
starting on the Civil Engineer<br />
degree apprenticeship Scott<br />
learned to manage the challenge<br />
of balancing a full-time<br />
job and part-time study. The<br />
discipline he mustered from<br />
this experience has helped him<br />
to be better organised and<br />
goal-oriented, which has driven<br />
him to achieve more in his personal<br />
life, work and studies.<br />
On the benefits of studying<br />
via the apprenticeship route,<br />
Scott said: "Working day-to-day<br />
in the industry that my studies<br />
applied to allowed me to see<br />
the value in every portion of the<br />
qualification. I could take more<br />
information in because I had<br />
somewhere to place it, and as<br />
a result, I was able to achieve<br />
much higher grades than I<br />
would have done in a full-time<br />
scenario."<br />
www.coventry.ac.uk<br />
NEW HOMES FROM TFL'S PROPERTY COMPANY<br />
Up to 46,000 new homes in<br />
the capital could be delivered<br />
by Transport for London's<br />
new property development<br />
company over the next 25<br />
years. The proposals would<br />
form part of TfL's bailout settlement<br />
with the government.<br />
TfL director of commercial<br />
property Graeme Craig said:<br />
"As part of our long-term strategy,<br />
and building on the successful<br />
work that has already<br />
taken place in recent years,<br />
we are now looking to take forward<br />
development activity in a<br />
commercial property company<br />
VECTORWORKS JOINS THE OGC<br />
that is wholly owned by TfL."<br />
Craig said half of the new<br />
build homes would be affordable<br />
with the revenue to be<br />
reinvested in public transport.<br />
Brokers Hank Zarihs Associatessaid<br />
SME builders would<br />
be keen to be involved and that<br />
property development finance<br />
lenders would support them.<br />
TfL already has more than<br />
6,300 homes with planning<br />
committee approval with 479<br />
homes for Nine Elms and 51<br />
homes for Old Brompton Road<br />
the most recent consents.<br />
www.hankzarihs.com<br />
Vectorworks, Inc. has<br />
announced its official membership<br />
in the Open Geospatial<br />
Consortium (OGC), a global<br />
resource for geospatial information<br />
and standards. As a<br />
technical member, Vectorworks<br />
will offer its experience and<br />
expertise in connecting BIM<br />
and GIS workflows to the OGC.<br />
"Joining the OGC is a milestone<br />
that not only shows our<br />
commitment to standards for<br />
BIM and location data, but also<br />
demonstrates how we’re continually<br />
progressing to advocate<br />
for the needs and standards<br />
of the AEC and landscape<br />
industries," said Vectorworks<br />
CEO Dr. Biplab Sarkar.<br />
Through their member-driven<br />
consensus process, OGC<br />
serves as the leading authority<br />
on geospatial standards,<br />
ensuring that location information<br />
is findable, accessible,<br />
integrable and reusable. Vectorworks<br />
global architecture,<br />
landscape architecture and<br />
planning customer-base, along<br />
with the use of geospatial data<br />
across BIM and BIM for landscape<br />
workflows, are leading<br />
priorities for the company. As<br />
such, together with the OGC,<br />
Vectorworks will participate in<br />
discussions that ensure interoperability<br />
of geospatial data<br />
within design and BIM projects.<br />
www.vectorworks.net<br />
8<br />
<strong>Jul</strong>y/<strong>Aug</strong>ust <strong>2021</strong>
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