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BP on the road – warming up with Trimble Viewpoint!

Time never stands still and neither does the newly established BuildingPoint UK and Ireland team! We may only have been around for a few weeks with our new name but we’re already preparing to go out on the road with our own series of launch events featuring a free day of product demonstrations, customer testimonials, networking and a chance to get hands-on with the full BP range of digital solutions.

But as with all great shows, a warmup event is always an excellent idea, so last week we were delighted to be a part of the Trimble Viewpoint EMEA Summit at Tower Hotel in London.

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By Lucy Hamilton Construction • Digital Construction • Trimble FieldPoints • 0 Comments

“The Future of…” Series 3 – Setting Out (Digitally!)

This is the third in our series of “The Future of…” posts where we’ve been looking at trends within the construction industry. We’ve already covered ‘Augmented and Mixed Reality’, and ‘Construction Robotics’, so where next? Well, I did mention that I may mix up Trend 3 due to popular demand so here goes….

In this post we’ll be looking at the move away from paper, or more specifically, taking a closer look at  the future of ‘Digital Setting Out’. What better way to start than with two fitting quotes, one is from 50 years ago, the other I heard just recently!

“The most dangerous phrase in the language is: ‘We’ve always done it this way’.”

Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and US Navy Rear Admiral. (Computer World, 1976)

and…

“Do it once, do it right and your other issues will go away.”

Jamie McCann, Managing Director, AV UNIBRAK. (KOREC case study, 2022)

We get it. Changing from what you’ve always done can be scary, but when we have such feature rich constructible models using our state-of-the-art software in the office, why, when we attend sites, do our site operatives work from GA plans printed on A0 paper?

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“The Future of…” Series 2 – Construction Robotics

During the summer we launched our BuildingPoint UK and Ireland ‘The Future Of….’ Series looking at key trends in digital construction and we decided there was nowhere better to kick off than with Augmented and Mixed Reality – technology that’s truly transforming the way we work!

The second trend that we’ve decided to take a look at is Construction Robots and the nature of ‘true autonomy’.

“An autonomous robot is a robot that acts without recourse to human control” is the official definition. Short and to the point, it’s an easy one to understand.

However, since the introduction of Trimble’s Spot the Dog we’ve realised that our customers and colleagues have plenty more to say on the subject! Spot is a four-legged robot developed by American robotics company Boston Dynamics that’s armed with Trimble’s X7 3D laser scanner and Trimble FieldLink software to collect data while navigating challenging, dynamic and potentially unsafe environments… and it’s certainly had lots of media interest.

Opinions that matter!

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“The future of…” Series 1 – Mixed Reality/Augmented Reality in construction

During the summer we launched our BuildingPoint UK and Ireland ‘The Future Of….’ Series looking at key trends in digital construction and we decided there was nowhere better to kick off than with Augmented and Mixed Reality – technology that’s truly transforming the way we work!

AR and MR – where are we now?

AR/MR might be regarded as ‘the new kid on the block’ but a quick visit to a TV news report back in 1997 on Trimble shows that this technology has been over 20 years in the making! Development is now continuing apace and in particular, recent software advances are engaging a wider variety of users.

Whilst the current geospatial market for AR/MR is still relatively low, primary research indicates that the construction market will see a 44% increase in the number of AR devices used in 2023 alone.

Here at KOREC, our experiences indicate that whilst initial take up has indeed been slowish, end users love the idea of AR/MR, but it’s only when they adopt it into their workflow that they realise how beneficial it can be to their business.

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