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Takeaways from the 2024 Construction Technology Summit – SYNCHRO’s Presence

A few weeks ago, I attended the annual Construction Technology Summit in Austin, Texas. The conference was a gathering of various companies, students, and colleagues that showcased the latest technology trends in the construction sector. There were interesting discussions on a variety of topics. Peter Bleday, with Danfoss Power Solutions, defined the five levels of construction automation that can promote precision, productivity, and safety. Christopher Rauch, an assistant professor from the University of Texas at Austin, presented an overview of laser scanning and why it’s important for cultural heritage preservation, accurate geometric analysis, transferring to BIM, and dimensional quality assurance. Paul Surin, head of digital and IT at the Trojena project, gave a glimpse into the future with the technology being utilized for the tourism destination under construction at Neom, Saudi Arabia, with an estimated value of USD 100 billion. Caterpillar demonstrated a command station that allows operators to remotely control a cab thousands of miles away and switch between job sites. Throughout the day, there were a variety of reoccurring themes. Dr. Christopher Rauch presenting on laser scanning in construction. AI is top of mind Most technology companies have raced to understand and implement artificial intelligence (AI) into their

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How SYNCHRO 4D Stacks Up Against Navisworks

In 2023, Bentley’s SYNCHRO 4D and Autodesk’s Navisworks stand out as two signature software solutions for professionals in the virtual design and construction space. With a quickly evolving construction technology landscape, it’s now more important than ever for companies to make sound investments into tools that will keep projects pointed and performing in the right direction. Particularly, when it comes to addressing project factors such as safety, risk, proper scheduling, and meeting allocated budgets. SYNCHRO 4D and Navisworks help with these decisions, primarily on the planning side of things. Both software options do something remarkable – they bring a construction project alive before any work physically takes place.

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How to Quickly Detect and Resolve Clashes

How often have you started construction on a project only to realize that the design does not fit reality? A sewage pipe that is too close to an outer wall, increasing the chances that the pipe will freeze, or an electrical line cutting across steel beams. These situations happen more often than we might like to admit.

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Import and Install a Tower Crane with SYNCHRO 4D

Animating equipment movements during generation of a 4D construction sequence can be challenging.Ā  In this article, we will focus on one part of the challenge, importing and simulating of the installation of a tower crane. Import a Tower Crane with SYNCHRO 4D and Simulate Installation While importing equipment models inside SYNCHRO, we generally import the entire equipment as a single resource, otherwise, animating equipment movement can become difficult. However, importing a tower crane should be an exception. If we import the entire tower as well as the rotating arm as a single resource, the rotation simulation does not look realistic. The entire tower, along with the arm, appears to rotate simultaneously, instead of just the arm. The following video illustrates the points we need to keep in mind while importing a tower crane with SYNCHRO 4D. You will see how to stage the installation of a tower crane in a 4D construction sequence simulation. https://youtu.be/UXVms6GXsBQ Related Articles To explore additional steps to complete the rotation of a tower crane inside SYNCHRO 4D, check out the following links: OnDemand Training | SYNCHRO: Equipment Movements and Advanced Animation Modeling 3D Paths for Tower Cranes and Forklifts in SYNCHRO

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Success Story | Clark Construction Sea-Tac Airport

To enhance international passenger experience and advance the Puget Sound region as a leading tourism and business gateway, the Port of Seattle is building a new, expanded, 450,000-suqare-foot International Arrivals Facility (IAF). The project includes constructing a 345,000-square-foot, three-story grand hall, a new connecting international corridor, and an 85-foot-high pedestrian aerial walkway connecting the new grand arrivals hall with the airport’s South Satellite. Clark Construction was hired as the design-build contractor for the USD 968 million project that is the most complex capital development program in the history of the 71-year-old airport.

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Dzhamgyr Mine – Project Implementation in Extreme Conditions

city of Almaty, Kazakhstan Facts ProjectWise and Bentley’s open applications streamlined workflows and communication, optimizing scheduling across 500 worksites. Leveraging Bentley’s modeling and visualization software facilitated simultaneous design and construction. Project Bringing Gold Production into Kyrgyzstan To eliminate exporting ore for processing and enable gold production within Kyrgyzstan, a decision was made in 2018 to build a gold plant in the mountainous Talas region, nearby the Dzhamgyr mine. The USD 75 million project included constructing the main building, a crushing and screening complex, a laboratory, storage pond, tailings storage facility, poison and ore storage areas, shift camps for operating personnel, and new roadways and accesses. AAEngineering delivered the winning bid for this engineering, procurement, and construction project that was located in a dangerously seismic area. In addition to the altitude and seismicity complications, AAEngineering had to overcome technical, engineering, and coordination challenges, as well as meet strict environmental standards amid a short construction period and an ensuing global pandemic. ā€œWithout using ContextCapture and OpenRoads, it is difficult to imagine the possibility of designing the multistage construction sites, on-site engineering works, roads, and highway spirals.ā€ Andrey AksyonovDirector of Information Modeling DepartmentAAEngineering Group Solution Open Applications Provide Integrated Solution AAEngineering selected ProjectWise

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