Virtual Event
In a world that requires change to meet sustainability goals, many industries are re-thinking ways to make this environmental commitment, while also maintaining the economy. This session will explore current and future technologies, processes and initiatives that allow us to fulfill our responsibilities in contributing to a sustainable environment, while also realizing collaborative efficiencies and innovation in our Digital Built Environment.
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Population growth and urbanization is driving a capacity crunch in rail. With more than two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in urban areas by 2050, there is mounting pressure to enable our existing rail networks to achieve more, through increased levels of availability and driving the highest levels of productivity possible. Today, rail networks are managed by an abundance of disparate tools and measuring devices. The average rail network may use in excess of 20 different software packages, each with their own interface, data set and process.
Owners and operators are faced with a sea of unintegrated data, often left to join the dots on their own and to make critical decisions based on incomplete information. This presents a huge challenge for owners and operators. They lack a single, consolidated view of their network along with the real-time data required to make accurate decisions.
How do network owners and maintenance operators address the digitization of the network and in doing so, enable their networks to fully leverage the power of IoT, Predictive Maintenance, and the Intelligent Cloud?
Technical Leaders from WillowRail will speak about how this industry first software has been developed and launched in Europe and talk about the benefits and impacts for the future rail network.
This session discusses the driving forces behind the digital enablement of rail and how WillowRail is enabling rail operators, managers, engineers and maintenance staff to make accurate, timely, and contextual decisions to improve the performance and reliability of their rail networks.
This presentation will focus on how VDC process and technology can continue to support and develop ways to become more sustainable with the application of VDC.
This session will cover the Revit process required to go beyond spooling, to creating packages and modular fabrication using Victaulic Tools for Revit create assembly and new package feature. Easily create Revit assemblies and add them to a package and from that package create all the sheets and bill of material required all while tracking material for fabrication. You never need to leave Revit or rely on time-consuming workarounds to get the job done. The live session will reinforce best piping practices and give users the tools they need to take their business to the next level.
It has become widely accepted that decarbonization of our built environment by 2050 is essential if we are to achieve our goals of limiting climate disruption to manageable levels. This is no small task and will require an industry wide shift in how we design and maintain our buildings and where we set our priorities in doing so.
Digital approaches to design have evolved substantially over the last decade in both capability and complexity. This evolution has opened doors for new generative design solutions for addressing climate change mitigation at all stages of the building life-cycle.
In this presentation we will examine the issues of both embodied and operational carbon and their interconnection in defining a building’s total carbon debt. From there we will examine some exciting work that is being done to apply digital solutions to help us solve these wicked problems. This will include a look at design approaches for addressing embodied carbon in new construction projects, passive design, a generative approach to deep energy retrofits and a how digital twins can be applied for deep efficiency gains in the existing building stock.Learning objectives include:
The world of work is rapidly evolving and sustainability is at the forefront. We must consciously meet the ever-changing demands of the present without compromising the ability and needs of future generations.
Join us for a warp-speed journey through three distinct factors that we believe will define the future of sustainable business models and how you can begin to shift thinking within your organization.
This session will explain LafargeHolcim’s approach to operationalizing sustainability; one in which the need for results to be measurable and economically viable are recognized and enable a business leading path to profitable growth.
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How will we “step into the data” to virtually visualize and predict outcomes of high-performance strategies early in the design process? Two leaders from SERA Architects, David Johnson and Brian Stevens will conduct a provocative facilitated visioning exercise about what visualization tools (Mixed Reality, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality) could provide in terms of building and community sustainability and resilience.
This discussion will center on how visualization platforms and interactive virtual environments (gaming) can be conceived and engineered to support early assurance of efficacy of high-performance strategies that the AEC industry and our communities of constituents are demanding. We can use VR and AR design environments to visualize sustainability and best support client sustainability goals. The millennial generation are facile using data streams already in existence, now could be the time to “gamify sustainability” to create more good.
The construction industry’s appetite for raw materials is vast; it is the worlds largest consumer of raw materials and accounts for 25-40% of global carbon emissions. According to the WEF construction consume 50% of our globes virgin materials predominantly aggregates, wood and ferous materials. According to our NZWC approximately 30% of our landfill is construction and related demolition materials. Yet - very little material gets re-used.
When we look at the rapid pace of global urbanization and the enormity of our large infrastructure and energy related projects it is clear construction is going to continue to have significant impact on the way our worlds resources are used. The population of the words urban areas is increasing by 200,000 people per day all of whom need affordable housing as well as social, transportation and utility infrastructure.
To address these challenges we’ve invited a panel who bring international experiences and perspectives to our discussion where a desired outcome after today is to have a call to action for all of us to move forward with action.
