Allen & Company

“So now we fly all of the ALTAs that we have and mainly send it to you guys [AirWorks] and work on that. It streamlined our process and allows now the project managers to take in more work.” – Allen and Company

AirWorks saves Allen & Company between 60-70 percent of plan drafting time while they pay 25 percent of what it would cost them to perform the same tasks in-house. We complete in one day what would take them four days!

Allen & Company Completes Projects Quickly and Cost-Effectively Thanks to Aerial Mapping and AirWorks’ Automated Drafting Software

AirWorks is currently able to generate linework on 14 layers autonomously, including both planimetrics and topography.

Some projects require additional features which is why we offer more layers upon request, our team will add them during the QA process.

The Airworks Automate™ platform is built on more than 30 thousand hours of data perpetration by processing thousands of acres of remote sensing data at varying GSD levels. The platform autonomously identifies and classifies features, and generates planimetric and topographic basemaps fast.

What types of projects can be uploaded to the platform? What industries does it serve?

Any type of engineering/land surveying project where you have collected aerial imagery and need feature extraction works for us. We currently only do work above ground, which includes: ALTA surveys, land development, corridor/transportation/highway work, as-builts, and many more. We serve clients within the AEC industry: civil engineering (top 100 ENR firms), land surveying firms, drone service providers, state DoTs, architecture firms, land developers, real estate, and many more.

AirWorks

Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.

Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. stays a step ahead of modern-day obstacles despite labor shortage, by embracing our technological solutions!

Some of the benefits that AirWorks’ software offers CEC are:
- Tight turnarounds through parallel workflows
- An economical cost per acre
- Efficiency that complements safety

Despite Labor Shortage, CEC Continues to Expand Footprint and Meet Tight Deadlines through AI and Technology

Find out how one pilot with Cyvl’s technology turned into a 30+ project partnership in 2022.

Benefits include:

Ability to do more for less with automated sensor + software solution.
Better and more efficient inventories of assets.
Improve operational efficiencies and increases safety.
Viewed as innovators in the industry as governments seek to digitally transform their infrastructure knowledge and data.

To read full article: https://www.cyvl.ai/projects/success-story-beta-group

Customer Success Story: BETA Group

One Algorithm, Countless Applications

1- Pavement Management

An easy, affordable, and reliable automated method for performing pavement condition assessments.
Cyvl identifies distresses in your pavement, like alligator cracking, longitudinal and transverse, patching, utility cuts, and more. In addition to these distresses, Cyvl also identifies variations in surface smoothness.

2- Sign Management

An affordable way to inventory and assess traffic signs using LiDAR and AI technology.
Auto inventory signs, trees, and markings from the same data sets collected on the road. Data is processed simultaneously with pavements through Cyvl’s proprietary algorithms.

3- 3D Surveying + Mapping

Interactive Digital Twins at Your Fingertips
Obtain measurements of the built environment in a fraction of the time. Translating physical assets into digitized replications is a practical way of gaining valuable information.



Cyvl.ai Platform - Streetview w/MUTCD Signs

Cyvl.ai

Trammell Crow Company’s teams are dedicated to building value for its clients with professionals in 26 major cities throughout the United States and Europe. 

Trammell Crow Company

Trammell Crow Company (TCC), founded in 1948, is a global commercial real estate developer having developed or acquired nearly 2,900 buildings valued at $75 billion and over 655 million square feet

Giraffe was rolled out to all of TCC’s offices in the U.S. Having Giraffe accessible to TCC’s development team will save weeks of work across hundreds of projects a year.

Trammell Crow Company (TCC), a global real estate developer, engaged Giraffe to save their development teams valuable time when assessing dozens of sites for potential development.
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“We were in need of a tool set that gave our team an edge when exploring new development opportunities, especially since we would often review dozens of sites at a time to find the best option. By implementing Giraffe, our team was able to move at a faster speed when analyzing opportunities – our ability to assess a site went from weeks to hours with virtually no consultant involvement. Having this time back is incredibly valuable to our team and our business.” – Andrew Wallace, Senior Development Manager, TCC

After a six-month pilot program, Giraffe was rolled out to all of TCC’s offices in the U.S. The system is used to save TCC’s team valuable time and as a powerful communication device, bringing visual clarity to the firm’s pursuit process and stopping ideas from getting lost in
translation.

While Giraffe has unlocked significant success at TCC, this could only have been made possible by TCC’s appetite for continuous innovation. Having Giraffe accessible to TCC’s development team will save weeks of work across hundreds of projects a year, which translates into several years worth of development time in a single year.

Learn more at: 

https://www.giraffe.build/post/trammell-crow-company-weeks-to-hours?utm_campaign=Trammell%20Crow%20Use%20Case&utm_content=239562773&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-29334840

Trammell Crow Company - Andrew Wallace, Senior Development Manager

Trammell Crow Company 'Weeks to hours'

Giraffe allows you to draw, automate parts of your design, analyze your design outcomes and accelerate your processes.  

Map, Pencil, Calculator

Quick and Precise. Follow your instincts. Draw a massing in position in seconds.
Smart and connected. Easily manage your assumptions and define custom metrics.
Instant Analysis. As you sketch, Giraffe shows you up-to-date yields to assess your design.
Collaborate Seamlessly. Work together in real time.  See your team’s updates instantly.
Supercharged workflows. Generative drawing tools automate tedious tasks.

Data driven decisions

Contextualize success. Host, style, and share map data easily. Add filters and tools to bring your data alive.
A world of knowledge. Connect to any geodatabase, internal or external, effortlessly. Giraffe handles the authentication.
Nimble Calculations. Define and share quantitative analytics with a low-code, spreadsheet-like syntax.
Extensible capability. Use the SDK to build beautiful custom apps, in hours.

Captivate your audience

Simple, engaging, and attractive. Clearly communicate projects from all angles.
Engagement Assets. Illustrate, annotate and share with a few clicks.
Tell your story. Give your stakeholders an immersive view of the potential you see for a site.
Include everyone. Increase community engagement with viewer-level access that includes context and images.

Portfolio scale

Structure corporate knowledge. Complement your existing knowledge base with Giraffe's simple spatial knowledge base. Track projects or opportunities on a map or a kanban board.
Unlock potential. Every design, assumption, data layer, and calculation is usable in any other project for anyone with permission.
Democratize Knowledge. Designers, cost planners, and portfolio managers - everyone sees the data they need in the way they want.
Safe and structured. Workspaces, teams, templates, and permissions are carefully designed, making data management simple and secure.


Giraffe Technology

Skanska AB is a multinational construction and development company based in Sweden. Skanska is the fifth-largest construction company in the world according to Construction Global magazine.

Skanska USA

Skanska is a world leading project development and construction group

The office building with its strong sustainability profile will be 36 storeys high, corresponding to 144 meters, and will have a total leasable area of approximately 42,000 square meters. 'Reconstruct' is being used everyday on the job site to track the development of the construction. 

Learn more at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU2RWPqH0Oc&ab_channel=GlimpseoftheFuture

Citygate office tower

Reconstruct

Multi-million dollar, multi-site, multi-year school project in the PNW — https://hubs.ly/H0NG_nH0

Skanska Portland School

Avvir

OIS is Scaling Rapidly to Target New Commercial and Residential Projects in the Growing Southwest
Offsite Integrated Structures (OIS) is at the forefront of leveraging light gauge steel panels on major commercial and residential construction projects. Their products can rapidly reduce project schedules through the efficiency of design-build and offsite manufacturing in their state-of-the-art factories. Therefore, it’s no surprise that with surging demand in OIS’s target market, Southwestern United States, they have expanded production to western markets. Both their Denver, CO factory and Phoenix, AZ factory will cater to major commercial and residential projects in Denver, Austin, and Phoenix with expansion plans for California.

As the population in OIS’s target market is rapidly growing, there is a increasing need for new construction and a pressure to complete these projects quickly. As OIS scales their production to keep up with demand, they have enlisted the help of Offsight to manage their process across multiple factories and to aid in managing the complexities and stick quality standard for their major commercial and residential projects. 

Read more at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/panel-manufacturer-ois-leverages-offsight-deliver-large-scale/?trackingId=zpjwCGRa6tJ76dOOtttCMA%3D%3D


Panel Manufacturer OIS Leverages Offsight to Deliver Large Scale Projects in America's Fastest Growing Cities

We help solve the delivery, quality, traceability and communication challenges of modular/offsite construction and project-based manufacturing with our easy to use mobile software. We enable collaboration between project managers, quality inspectors, production supervisors, architects, and developers to ensure your offsite projects stay on track. 

If you're thinking about going offsite/modular or ready to take the next step to streamline your quality and productivity, drop us a note. 


Offsight

GBBN

GBBN are an architecture practice with offices in Beijing, Cincinnati, Louisville, Minneapolis & Pittsburgh

GBBN used AR to present the design of a Medical ICU fit-out on the 12th floor of UK HealthCare’s Chandler Hospital. This process significantly increased participant engagement as we stood within the shell of the space. A myriad of comments like, “oh… that’s what that would look like” or “that’s what the drawing meant…” made it clear that the end-users understood the design with more confidence. It’s one thing to know abstractly that patient rooms have windows of a given dimension that are located so far off the ground. It’s quite another experience to stand in the building core (where the central nursing station would be located) and look down the hall to see what kind of a view that provides.

Medical ICU Mockup with AR

Fologram’s software provides designers with a toolkit to create mixed reality experiences within design software they already use, and view and share these experiences through the Fologram app running on mobile phones or Microsoft's mixed reality headsets the Hololens.  Fologram’s clients include leading universities, multinational architectural firms, industrial designers, engineers and artists who using Fologram to create mixed reality applications for full scale construction, public art, architectural fabrication, sculpture, automotive design and visualisation.

Fologram is a software ecosystem that allows Mixed Reality hardware running our standalone application to talk to desktop design software running the Fologram plugin. Geometry and other model information from your design software is streamed to your headset or mobile phone, and spatial information like device or hand positions are sent back in real time. By using this spatial information to trigger changes in design models, designers can use Fologram to build interactive mixed reality experiences. 

A feature rich free mobile version is avaible at https://fologram.com/download, and a 14 day trial for Hololens users.


AllBrick using Fologram on the Hobart Hospital Redevelopment

Jack Hunter from Uni of Washington using Fologam for robotic control and path visualization 

Akio Hamada Architects & Eri Sumitomo Architects using Fologram to guide a chainsaw operator in producing furniture

UAP using Fologram in their production of large scale public art

Fologram

Artillion studio using Fologram as part of their fabrication process

Rhinoceros 3D is a 3D computer graphics and computer-aided design application software developed by the American company Robert McNeel & Associates. Utilizing NURBS mathematical modeling to produce precise representations of free-form, curving surfaces, Rhino is used in industries such as architecture, industrial design, automotive design, product design, and multimedia and graphic design.

Rhino 3D

Peikko Group is a global operating specialist of fastening technology for concrete constructions and composite beams for slim floor structures.

Peikko Group

Peikko Group Corporation is a Finnish supplier of Slim Floor Structures, Wind Energy Applications and Connection Technology for Precast and Cast-in-situ.

Our first operational 3D printing Micro-Factory, installed on Peikko site in Lahti for two weeks. Hyperion's 260-square-meter Micro-Factory was set up in Finland's top-class environmental city and demonstrated how it is possible to improve the sustainability and productivity of the construction process with the help of automation. In our Micro-Factory, we printed 20 different fully reinforced concrete pad foundations. Representatives from different cities, universities and industry leaders came to visit us as well as our partners and investors.

Construction companies can learn from industry and agriculture success stories where productivity has been improved through automation. With automated construction processes, lead times are shortened, and at the same time, worker safety, material efficiency and ecological sustainability during the entire life cycle of the building can be improved. Hyperion's Micro-Factory is a comprehensive solution that combines Industrial Robots with patented hardware and software, and produces optimized reinforced concrete structures for construction projects with the help of automation.

Read more at: https://www.hyperionrobotics.com/projects/micro-factory-lahti

Hyperion Robotics 3D Concrete Printing Micro-factory Deployed in Lahti

Micro-factory Lahti

Hyperion Robotics is a Finnish technology company formed by experts in engineering, construction, 3D printing and robotics. To build a better future we need to rethink the way we build.
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Our mission is to bring automation and sustainable practices to the construction industry.



DESIGN & ENGINEERING OF 3D PRINTABLE OBJECTS

Hyperion Robotics

Brayman is a leading heavy civil and geotechnical contractor with office headquarters in suburban Pittsburgh.

Brayman Construction Corporation

Project Intro:

The Koppel Bridge project was a $27 Million effort to replace the previous bridge. TyBOT performed bulk tying operations on this project in April of 2019 to assist the crews of Brayman Construction Corporation. The Koppel Bridge is located in rural Western Pennsylvania and serves as a crucial link between the towns of Koppel, and Ellwood City. It is a 4-span bridge that is 43 feet wide and 1,240 feet long. The new Koppel bridge opened in October of 2019. 

Role in Project:

TyBOT® is an autonomous rebar tying robot that ties up to 1,000 intersections an hour. TyBOT deploys to any job site that has screed rails in place and will do the work of an average crew. TyBOT easily deploys anywhere in the country to work on horizontal reinforcing steel installation projects. TyBOT performed the bulk tie portion of the Koppel Bridge deck reinforcing steel installation for two out of the four spans of the bridge.

Description of Project:

The Koppel Bridge project, located in Koppel, PA, began in January 2017 and opened to traffic in October 2019. The bridge carries two 12 ft travel lanes and 8 ft shoulders. The deck of the Koppel Bridge consists of 1 million pounds of rebar and 6,000 cubic yards of concrete. The structural steel supporting the deck weighs approximately 4.3 million pounds.

Project Features/Advancements:

Manhour savings: 34%
Schedule savings: 34%

Brayman Construction Corporation (BCC) meticulously recorded production data for the deck reinforcing steel installation of the project so that this case study could provide meaningful results. While self-performing the rebar installation on two spans that did not utilize TyBot, BCC expended 20% of their total manhours on the bulk tie sub-activity that TyBOT would perform on the other two spans.

When TyBOT executed the bulk tie on these two spans, the data showed that BCC not only saved the expected 20% of manhours for bulk tying but also saved another 14% for a total savings of 34% of their budgeted manhours. These additional savings was attributed to a couple of different factors.

BCC chose to augment their deck rebar crew with TyBOT meaning they did not reduce the level of manpower performing the installation. Not having to perform the 

bulk tie sub-activity allowed the crew to focus manual efforts on the remaining sub-activities associated with deck rebar installation. This allowed these activities such as carrying and placing the rebar to occur faster and more efficiently.

The use of TyBOT also prompted the operations team to perform more pre-planning of the deck rebar work to ensure the time TyBOT was waiting on placed rebar to tie was minimized. Typically, deck rebar work planning is done in the field where the crew often reacts to the daily changes and challenges that are frequent on construction projects. When using TyBOT, the manual labor was very focused on planning the work to make sure that “the robot didn’t catch up to them”. This created a sense of competition between the robotic TyBOT and the crew, pushing the work along faster.

With BCC augmenting their crew with TyBOT, the project realized both a 34% manhour savings and a 34% savings in the duration of the work. Experiencing schedule and productivity improvements that result in manhour savings is a great example of the power of utilizing robots in construction. With widespread shortages in skilled labor, using TyBot to augment and not replace the rebar crew is the best way to accelerate projects, meet tough schedule constraints, and best utilize the skills of workers.

Who was/is Involved:
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation: CLIENT

Brayman Construction Corporation: MAIN CONTRACTOR

Advanced Construction Robotics: SUBCONTRACTOR

Awards:

Associated Bridge for Construction & Design awarded the Koppel Bridge Project two awards: 

(1) Outstanding New Major Bridge Award (Brayman Construction as the main contractor) (2) Outstanding New Special Purpose Structure Award for Permanent Sheet Pile Wall System – Brayman Construction (Brayman Construction as subcontractor & Trumbull as the main contractor)

Source: https://www.constructionrobots.com/post/tybot-case-study-koppel-bridge

Koppel Bridge

ACR is a world leading innovator of autonomous robotic equipment. Our robots are transforming the construction industry by filling the skilled labor gap and increasing overall productivity of the construction industry. Our products give construction firms the ability to meet a rapidly growing demand.

Check out more case studies at: https://www.constructionrobots.com/projects

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