Case Studies

Image In order to bring to life its vision for Rathbone Square, Great Portland Estates adopted BIM from the start, working with BIM Technologies to deliver a digital built asset before on-site construction even began

Image At Isachsen, drones have become one of the most cost-effective tools for surveying projects in fast and non-intrusive ways. Today, the company now conducts regular, often weekly, flights to check that its big projects remain on track

Image Argyle Asia puts to the test a new ‘perimeter scan’ flight mode in the 3DR commercial drone platform, in order to capture side-on details of building facades for an as-built survey

Image A mobile mapping device from Topcon has allowed companies working on a sewerage upgrade in Newark, Nottinghamshire to better understand the town’s layout, minimising traffic disruption and eliminating risk to historic buildings

Image Kelsey Kish, staff designer at StudioMB, discusses the role that Virtual Reality (VR) played in the firm’s design for the Potomac Distilling Company bar and restaurant in Washington DC

Image With the help of IES, Barts Health NHS Trust has been able to understand the likely impact of a range of energy conservation measures at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel

Image At Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, Tekla Structures helped bring to life a forest of ‘Supertrees’ crafted from steel and concrete

Image At Goodwood Festival of Speed reality capture technology was used to produce a giant 3D model of the famous Hill Climb

Image At the Birmingham Conservatoire, Galliford Try is using Asta Powerproject BIM as its platform for 4D planning in order to orchestrate a polished performance

Image A big boost in productivity and a flurry of new highend project wins has seen Andrew Evans of Lime Architecture go from BIM sceptic to BIM enthusiast in the space of two years

Image To demonstrate the potential of drone data on a live civil engineering project, 3DR enlisted the help of Autodesk to work on Arizona’s Pinto Creek Bridge

Image Swanton Consulting is optimising its design workflow for temporary works by using Pointfuse software to significantly reduce the time it takes to produce CAD-ready 3D models from laser-scanned point cloud data

Image When the City of London Corporation needed sophisticated surveying performed at the Poultry Market at Smithfield, Plowman Craven had the supply to meet its demands

Image The Costain Group has used ContextCapture from Bentley Systems to document site conditions for massive renovations at London Bridge Station

Image At 22 Bishopsgate in London, WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff has used an integrated modelling approach that incorporates existing elements from a previous, unfinished building

Image David Morley Architects has partnered with KnowledgeSmart and Evolve Consultancy to identify gaps in its team’s CAD and BIM expertise and provide the targeted training needed to raise benchmarks across the firm

Image Time and cost savings for new apartment complexes hit new heights, thanks to clever use of software from Bentley by Stanley D Lindsey and Associates to rework 3D models for different locations

Image In order to facilitate the use of advanced automated drilling on the Crossrail project, surveying company Plowman Craven came up with an innovative way to map out the work that lay ahead

Image In Amsterdam’s Eastern Docklands, a 3D printing project is underway, using bioplastics and concrete to bring to life a Dutch canal house with a difference

Image Norwegian researchers simulate how low-frequency sound waves travel within buildings to help alleviate annoying vibrations.