The best way to capture that information was via 3D scanning, in order to create a point cloud that was brought into Revit and then shared via Revizto to various MEP and design teams involved in the planning stages. Plant room refurbishment is an important part of the plan here, making it vital to understand before the project began what equipment was already installed in three different plant rooms across the site. It was used, for example, on a recent hospital project, which involves a lot of refurbishment work, as well as some rebuilding. Revizto is proving equally valuable for overcoming internal collaboration hurdles, especially in conversations that involve office-based workers and onsite teams. “It’s a great way to take people out of the silo of a VR headset.” Internal collaboration time “It was a superb experience for everyone involved and it’s really got me thinking about using that kind of technology more in future,” says Brophy. While Oculus Rift headsets have proved a popular way to showcase planned projects to clients, in a recent technology pilot, clients were walked through a virtual model of their project projected onto the interior wall of the Soluis Reality Portal, for an ultra-immersive, joint exploration. Revizto helps us take BIM out of a ‘specialist-only zone’Īntony Brophy, senior digital manager, Wlilmott Dixon We don’t want to restrict anyone with a useful point of view from seeing what we see.
“They can float into a Revit model, take a look around, and where we’re incorporating that drone data, they can look out the windows, see what the view will be like – and this could be a year or more before we even build anything.” “We can show them what they’ve got on the site already, what will be new there, and we can take them on a guided tour around the model,” says Brophy. It’s a democratic approach that works very well in discussions with clients, according to Brophy. The system’s search engine, meanwhile, makes it easier to locate these issues (and all information relating to them) further down the line. Revizto helps us take BIM out of a ‘specialist-only zone’.”Ĭomments raised in meetings, especially those that focus on issues, can easily be captured, stored and shared through Revizto’s mark-up tools and subsequently tracked through to resolution. “We don’t want to restrict anyone with a useful point of view from seeing what we see. “It’s about opening up 3D models and making them accessible to more people, so that they can understand a project site and what’s happening there and you can benefit from their ideas and opinions,” he says. Either way, the aim is the same, says Brophy: The end-user viewing device is most frequently an Apple iPad, although a wide range of other mobile devices are used too, as well as Oculus Rift head-mounted displays (HMDs).
In Willmott Dixon’s case, the BIM data comes largely from Autodesk Revit the reality-capture data of the site is from 3D scanners and drones, imported into Revizto as point cloud and mesh data. The technology at work here is Revizto, he explains, which fuses multiple data sources together in one collaborative environment to make it simple for all stakeholders to understand a project, to help spot issues and to track them through to resolution. That’s what happens when the results of this powerful combination can be presented to even the most non-technical of users in a compelling, understandable visual format, delivered directly to their familiar mobile device or via an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience, according to Antony Brophy, senior digital manager at Willmott Dixon. At UK construction company Willmott Dixon, the fusion of BIM models with reality-capture data is transforming project planning and review meetings, sparking new insights and driving new conversations.
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