New company will help improve national health and safety standards
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A chartered surveying firm is improving health and safety standards nationwide by introducing a safer way to view complex buildings and structures through 3D modelling, with the launch of its new sister company SEEABLE.
SEEABLE is being launched by Severn Partnership to allow non technical access to complex 3D data on desktops, smartphones and tablets. By liberating 3D data and Building Information Modelling (BIM) from design teams and allowing access to site workers or board directors who cannot operate complex CAD or BIM software, SEEABLE will make important building information visible to a greater number of people.
SEEABLE hosts this data in a games engine app, augmenting it with information, images and interactive features to communicate in an intuitive, non-technical manner. By reusing BIM data and repurposing it for safety briefings, marketing purposes and client/user visualisation, executives will be able to visit a site virtually from their desktop, without requiring complex BIM software knowledge.
Mark Combes, Partner of SEEABLE explains how the new venture came to fruition: “We used to see all the effort going in to create 3D models and Building Information Models (BIM) for them just to reside with design teams and Facilities Managers in some form. Much of this work required high end technical software, or model viewers aimed at design teams.
“SEEABLE is our answer to moving these models on to the next stage. Once 3D data goes into SEEABLE, we can reuse it for architectural and engineering design. And because it can be viewed in an intuitive app environment, or through games-based learning, there is no need for complex software in order to make it possible to analyse and view 3D data.”
SEEABLE hosts 3D data in a serious games environment, creating APPs which are then sent to mobile, tablet, PC, Mac or the web. The APPs allow users to explore or examine the 3D environment and use the principles of experiential learning to communicate risks and visualise complex 3D environments.
Reality capture by 3D laser scanning technology used by the company will be particularly useful in potentially dangerous environments. Already SEEABLE has been used to create an accurate 3D model of a live electrical transformer from a distance of 100 metres and on active construction sites without endangering surveyors or disruption operations. The railway industry is one of many that is set to benefit from 3D briefings of potentially dangerous working environments as will large factory plants and university campus constructions will also find the service useful.
Mark Combes continued: “Our aim is to make real or virtual asset information visible and accessible to as wide an audience as possible and through integrating our services from Severn Partnership and SEEABLE we are making this aim a reality. The data we are providing to businesses can be put to a variety of uses from health and safety and design visualisation through to training and marketing.”