Virtual Event
Predicting how our world will be impacted due to COVID-19 is difficult. Obviously this crisis has already affected the building industry from a productivity perspective and will have a permanent effect on how we consider safety for our workers. As we consider these impacts we should expect an additional level of attention in design to be paid to Infectious Disease Control beyond Hospital environments. We should therefore expect that architectural design and specifications, specifically the physical gateways that control our built environment, will accommodate the technology systems and processes necessary to keep Society safe. What role will infectious disease specialists play in the design process? How will building’s IOT strategy accommodate and collect the data required to help Society perform epidemiological contact tracing? What will be the new requirements for design? How will this impact existing buildings and future projects? What are the long term supply chain implications? We are gathering the top minds in Canada to start the discussion around this subject. Please join us!
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Autodesk Research has been exploring the integration of IoT data with BIM since 2010 through Project Dasher. In recent years Dasher has been rebuilt to make use of the Forge platform: in this session we’ll take a look at a few projects that showcase the possibilities for contextualizing sensor data in 3D, and how this large-scale data capture will eventually feed performance-based generative design systems.
Incident rates in the construction industry have remained stagnant for years. The industry also bears a disproportionate share of workplace fatalities of any industry. It's clear that a new approach to managing safety is required.
From fraud prevention to data security to customized searches and movie recommendations, AI is transforming our daily lives. AI is also bringing staggering change to the way other industries execute - going beyond digitization of traditional processes to digital transformation, or the creation of entirely new and more efficient ways of doing business.
Predictive-Based Safety (PBS) is at the intersection of incident and injury prevention and AI, it's the beach head that AI is building in the construction industry. Forward thinking contractors who have been gathering consistent safety data are starting to use AI to build models aimed at helping them identify incidents before they transpire. Moreover, their models provide guidance on what they can do to prevent them. This session will present a background on how AI has transformed various industries and then present specific case studies of its use in construction and capital projects for safety.
Learning Objectives:
CanBIM is promoting the concept of “Embracing Disruption”. After 10 years of BIM lets all look at how things are done, and change them. This session will show from a trades point of view typical project pitfalls that are avoidable by pulling upstream concepts that are typically downloaded to the subtrades. Lets save a few million bucks. Now. Owners, Consultants, Subtrades, GCs welcome.
Case Studies:
When we think of VDC we often think of new builds with data rich models and all of the opportunities that they provide us. Reality capture technology has presented us with that same level of opportunity on any renovation project as well. I will present how our team used laser scanning to improve the renovation of a heritage planetarium; How it sped up as-builts dimensioning and shop drawing creationg, how it increased confidence in the final designs, and how it allowed us to have a zero wait time install. We will then discuss how this process can be applied to any renovation project. This presentation will review the use the BLK 360, Recap Pro, Bloom Cloud Engine, and point clouds in AutoCAD. It will teach you how to speed up design, as-built dimension (reducing travel), verifying design, and simplify install.Learning objectives:
This panel presentation will review and discuss the legal implications of COVID-19 and measures taken by Governments in response on the construction industry. The presenters will discuss a broad range of topics, including:
Prefabrication is breaking down silos between the design and construction process to build more efficiently, increasing ROI for the client and project team while reducing waste.
Amy will discuss how the ecosystem of owners, architects, engineers, and contractors must work together to modify their operations, processes, regulations, and business model appropriately to thrive and remain competitive in the technology-driven world.
Takeaways:
Currently, many large cities are closed as governments and public agencies tackle the ongoing pandemic and try to understand how to safely reopen. As people stay at home, we see a drastic reduction in transit usage. However, we also know this is temporary. We anticipate that once we begin returning to work that ridership will increase and with that will come new challenges for mitigating the risks associated with large groups and people being in close proximity. Pedestrian modelling is a valuable tool that will allow owners and operators of infrastructure or buildings to test their mitigation strategies and quantify the impact it has on people movement and the density of people. This presentation will outline various ways that pedestrian modelling is being used to efficiently test and inform scenarios as we collectively seek to reopen our cities. Attendees will learn the following:
Hypar is a cloud platform for generating buildings that makes it easy to publish, distribute, and maintain your building design logic. Rather than requiring web development skills to scale and deliver your design logic, Hypar lets you concentrate on what you want to get done while the platform creates the interface for your audience and provides computation, visualization, delivery, interoperability, and access control for your functions.By uploading a function to Hypar you can produce multiple options for a building problem in just a few seconds, and combine them with other people's functions to create rich, realistic designs. In this introduction to Hypar, we'll work with a much simpler function that generates masses of variable dimensions.
Attendees will learn:
From his days as a US Naval officer, through to today as one of Canada’s leading technology investors, Marty has witnessed first-hand the impact that IIoT, artificial intelligence and autonomous solutions have on society. He will share his lessons learned and make a few predictions as to what tomorrow might look like.
Strong, healthy, and safe construction sector is crucial to the recovery of our economy. COVID-19 has accelerated some pre-existing trends but may also create some silver linings in how we re-think how we operate - safety in particular. This session will explore some of these trends and how reimaging safety in 2021 and beyond is critical to the growth of our companies and our industry.
Less than three months into 2020, the world encountered an unprecedented “Black Swan” event in the form of a deadly virus known as COVID-19. As 2020 began, many construction organizations were predicting another year of success bolstered by strong backlogs in just about every sector. With the world slowly looking at restarting and getting back to "normal", the best business leaders are looking at their organization's strategic imperatives for the balance of 2020 and beyond.There are significant questions all leaders must deeply reflect on in the short and long-term as it relates to their business. This framework is to begin the steps necessary to support the business tactics and strategies during this time as well as preparations for the business long-term to ensure continuity. Operational productivity, training, design, customers, and even business succession planning are all items that require careful consideration and proactive efforts to ensure long-term business success.
During this brief session, you will learn the following:
This session will speak to the concerns, challenges, and technical issues organizations face when operating within uncertain market conditions. The current circumstances of a global pandemic will act as the launch point to provide contextual examples of resolve from the perspective of a large scale firm. The content can easily be adapted/scaled to address many challenges facing professional service firms in the AEC industry.Primary learning objectives/topics covered include:
Predicting how our world will be impacted due to COVID-19 is difficult. Obviously this crisis has already affected the building industry from a productivity perspective and will have a permanent effect on how we consider safety for our workers. As we consider these impacts we should expect an additional level of attention in design to be paid to Infectious Disease Control beyond Hospital environments. We should therefore expect that architectural design and specifications, specifically the physical gateways that control our built environment, will accommodate the technology systems and processes necessary to keep Society safe. What role will infectious disease specialists play in the design process? How will building’s IOT strategy accommodate and collect the data required to help Society perform epidemiological contact tracing? What will be the new requirements for design? How will this impact existing buildings and future projects? What are the long term supply chain implications? We are gathering the top minds in Canada to start the discussion around this subject.
