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Augmented Reality (AR) for 3D BIM : GenieVision presents smARt Viewer app for construction

BIM World 2022

GenieVison, a leading developer of AR construction technology, will showcase its smARt Viewer at the upcoming BIM World, taking place in Paris on April 5-6.

GenieVision’s solution enables all construction professionals to benchmark the on-site reality against the 3D BIM.

The AR mobile app brings the BIM digital twin to life on-site through an AR app on a mobile device, allowing users to detect, report, and fix construction flaws before they become major failures. This innovative AR for 3D BIM technology that saves time and money throughout construction project phases will be on demo in the GenieVision stand A26.

BIM file series @ STRABAG

By Frits Bonte, Digital Process Manager at STRABAG

STRABAG is a European technology partner for construction services, leading in innovation and capital strength. Their offer includes all areas of the construction industry and covers the entire construction value chain. They bring people, building materials, and equipment to the right place at the right time. As a result, they are familiar with various technologies that support all areas of the construction industry.

At the Digital Construction Day conference in Brussels, the presentation of Frits Bonte focused on the growing use of Augmented Reality for BIM in construction projects. We asked Frits to share with GenieVision a summary of the power of AR in construction projects, some caution notes, and why AR for BIM is the central smARt construction technology users need to be thinking about. Now and in the future.

Traditionally, the construction industry was perceived to be slow in adopting the digital technologies needed to achieve higher productivity. But today, as the industry faces new budget, regulatory, and time pressures, the use of digital technology is no longer optional – it’s a requirement.

Facilitating that move to technology is speeded up by visionary organisations, like PropTech Lab. This community of innovators focuses on creating awareness, fostering innovations, and empowering the real estate and construction sectors to act now for everyone’s tomorrow.

Recently, GenieVision co-hosted a webinar with PropTech Lab and its CEO, Noémie de Crombrugghe. The C-level insights she shared into how today’s construction technology innovations shape tomorrow’s properties and real estate markets were too valuable to not be elaborated on. So, we asked her to delve a little deeper.

BIM files series: 3D @ Probim

By Mouna Drira, BIM Manager at Probim.

Introduction by Caroline Zigrand, COO at GenieVision

This blog post is the first in our ongoing series entitled “The BIM [email protected]”. You’ll hear the GenieVision partners and customers share their BIM insights and ideas in these articles.

Our first guest blogger is Mouna Drira, BIM Manager @Probim in France. Probim is a team of engineers and architects who rely on a digital model based on digital innovation and new technologies to meet the design and construction needs of buildings.

Mouna believes that BIM has proven its value in the design phase, and now sees the value of relying on digital models to monitor construction, anticipate the implementation of predictive maintenance, and ensure the monitoring and wealth management of buildings.

Here is her contribution to the AR revolution in BIM.

By Jean-Pierre Oudenhove, CDO @ GenieVision

Late last year, the GenieVision team and I had the chance to attend the BIMLux event in Luxemburg. The event brought together an international group of key players in the field of BIM and construction technology. As you would expect, BIM was a central topic throughout the event. More specifically, attendees were heavily debating if Open BIM or closed BIM would shape the industry’s future. The answer – for now! – is that both Open BIM and closed BIM have a role in connecting today’s building ecosystems.

If this confuses you, you are not alone. Read on to learn the current state of play in BIM technology, the advantages and disadvantages of both solutions, and where we are heading in the future.

The pandemic-induced economic slowdown in 2020 certainly had an impact on the construction sector. But today, the industry has largely rebounded from the COVID crisis. In 2021, demand for construction was up two and a half percent compared to 2019. Construction order books are full, and needs keep growing.

But despite the growth and opportunities in today’s construction industry, companies of all sizes are challenged to finish jobs on time. These challenges are partly due in part to stringent sustainability requirements, rising cost pressure, labour scarcity, and lack of new available materials.

Construction companies are increasingly turning to technology to overcome these challenges and gain greater efficiency. This technological breakthrough has the potential to transform the entire industry.

But in construction, where business habits are ingrained and correspond to actual human know-how, it is not likely that transformation will come from a new technology that disrupts established ways of doing things.

Instead, the technological transformation in construction will come from established companies reinventing themselves by testing, qualifying, and adopting new technologies. These companies will experiment with technology at first, then integrate it into the digital toolbox of the construction site.

In 2021, GenieVision attended the Digital Construction Day conference in Brussels to learn more about these technological developments. In this post, we’ll share key lessons learned at the event and highlight the digitalisation of construction in the context of site monitoring and control.

A unique webinar with PropTech Belgium!

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19th of January, 17h-18h

How the construction industry is relying on 3D for a successful BIM and how AR can help?

Change has come to the construction industry, but one hast to ask: is the industry ready for change?

Many other industries have already adopted digital processes, yet manual processes and traditional methods still characterise the construction industry. While this industry embraces some technology, technologies with the potential to make a real impact on accuracy, project management, and budget outcomes have yet to achieve widespread implementation across the construction value chain.

While travel restrictions keep shifting, the GenieVision team and I were lucky to fit in a safe trip to the Netherlands for the Building Holland event. This forward-thinking event brought together market players and leading experts to present new technologies, innovative products, and fresh ideas on how the construction and real estate sectors can play a leading role in meeting sustainability objectives.

How smart construction can help to create a sustainable future – some Building Holland afterthoughts

By Philippe Carême, CEO @ GenieVision

BIMLux is the leading digital transformation event in the construction sector

So GenieVision is very enthusiastic about participating in this year’s event!

It will discuss the digitalisation of the construction sector, the state of progress of BIM in the country and the role of Augmented Reality on site.