A spatial-data utopia in construction. With Andy Evans
We're held back by a "disconnect between what the techies know and what the industry knows," says Andy Evans of the Construction Verification Initiative. And that means there's only one way to build the construction metaverse everyone dreams of.
Today, our guest is Andy Evans of Digital Construction Works. We met at a 3D tech conference back in 2011 and spent most of our time talking about the music piped into the conference hall. Andy is a professional land surveyor all about fast, productive, scanning tools and techniques for the digital documentation of construction sites and survey work. He's worked with it all, from full tripod-based lidar scanning, through mobile mapping systems, and now a full catalog of 3D capture solutions. But his goal is much bigger than that: a utopian construction metaverse.
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- Polycam - Phone-based 3D capture
- Construction Verification Initiative - An industry group working to integrate advanced 3D tech into construction
- Unity - Game engine used broadly in industrial applications
- Bentley Synchro - Infraconstruction management software
- NUAR - British national underground asset registry
- Digital Construction Works - Group specializing in custom digital solutions for construction
- Construction Metaverse Discord - Contact Andy for more info!
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