{"id":35485,"date":"2017-10-05T12:02:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T11:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=35485"},"modified":"2022-10-19T15:58:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:58:06","slug":"smes-invited-to-pitch-immersive-solutions-at-dcw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/smes-invited-to-pitch-immersive-solutions-at-dcw\/35485\/","title":{"rendered":"SME\u2019s invited to pitch immersive solutions at DCW"},"content":{"rendered":"

Immerse UK and i3P have joined forces to invite SMEs to create immersive solutions for three unique challenges set by i3P members Heathrow Airport, Kier Group and CH2M<\/h2>\n

Innovative SMEs are invited to apply to present and pitch solutions for the challenges using immersive technologies.<\/p>\n

Successful applicants will present their immersive solutions to the challenge partners at Digital Construction Week<\/a> (DCW), from 4pm on 18 October at ExCel, London.<\/p>\n

The Heathrow Airport Challenge: Improving productivity with immersive technologies<\/h3>\n

The World\u2019s busiest international airport, having invested \u00a311bn in the last 15 years and about to embark on a \u00a316bn Heathrow Expansion project, one of the largest infrastructure projects in the UK.<\/p>\n

Heathrow <\/a>wants to drive significant improvement in the on-site productivity of its contractors. It is interested in using immersive solutions to drive and support overall productivity improvement by ensuring compatibility and facilitating constructability of the \u201ckit of parts\u201d\u00a0to form completed buildings and, as far as possible, all elements of the overall Expansion Project.\u00a0This might include design stages, manufacturing processes, logistics processes, sequencing, connections and ultimately operational function.<\/p>\n

The CH2M Challenge: Engaging stakeholders through immersive technologies<\/h3>\n

CH2M wants to be able to undertake stakeholder engagement sessions using immersive technologies. \u00a0It is interested in how this can provide stakeholders with an improved sense of what impacts would occur and what it would feel like when the project is being constructed and completed.<\/p>\n

CH2M <\/a>is keen to explore how to design in the immersive environment, to be able to alter designs with stakeholders, collecting real time feedback in a semi\/fully automated way.\u00a0 This should result in more productive and efficient consultations accelerating the design process and ensuring better buy in \/ inputs from stakeholders. The ability to record all interactions and preferably undertake actions from design inputs such as voice commands would be an advantage.\u00a0Should a solution be able to provide the level of interoperability required,\u00a0it is conceivable that CH2M would invest in it and encourage its clients to do the same.<\/p>\n

The Kier Group Challenge: Rehearsing using immersive technologies<\/h3>\n

Kier <\/a>want to be able to undertake induction courses and provide training to site personnel in a standardised and safe way across their many sites.<\/p>\n

Kier are interested in how VR\/AR\/MR can be used to undertake industry wide training (to a common standard) and induction to be carried out before arriving on site.\u00a0This could include simulation and virtual rehearsal before carrying out a task, and might include simulation of issues or unplanned events.\u00a0 This may take the form of virtual training at multiple locations similar to that used by surgeons receiving training using VR.<\/p>\n

How to get involved<\/h3>\n

Applicants can respond to as many of the challenges as they wish.\u00a0Simply fill out an application by 11 October,\u00a0with the following details:<\/p>\n