Mass Timber
Urban Housing
Pioneering a sustainable future, one building at a time: Discover how Intelligent City’s mass timber technology is setting new standards in affordable, carbon-neutral, urban living.

Our product platform offers a scalable solution for a faster and more sustainable housing supply. Join us in building smarter, greener communities for a sustainable tomorrow.

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Intelligent City has developed a variety of livable, sustainable, and affordable housing solutions

Intelligent City's technology is based on automation, both in software and manufacturing

Intelligent City

Intelligent City buildings are made from prefabricated mass timber building components

Intelligent City is a technology driven company. Founded in 2008 in Vancouver BC, Intelligent City follows the mission to create highly integrated and generative mixed use housing systems. Our buildings combine high quality livability, enhanced affordability, advanced sustainability, and community engagement into one consistent, replicable and adaptable solution for highly desirable living in metropolitan areas in the challenging context of urban densification, global warming and profound lack of affordable housing.

Monad Granville is a 9-storey mixed-use development located in Downtown Vancouver. Our vision for this project is to create a functional and economically viable building that would have both a positive impact socially, environmentally, and on the real estate industry.

Monad Granville

Founded in 2008, Intelligent City’s mission is to build smarter, and to empower people to live better urban lives.

We are a housing technology company that takes a product and platform-based approach to delivering buildings. There are 3 key aspects to wh

Transforming construction with Intelligent City

Platforms for Life

Taisei Corporation

TAISEI decided to deploy a paperless process with DWG files centralized in the cloud, using Microsoft OneDrive for Business. This enables real-time synchronization of DWG files between the design teams, who produce the DWG drawings using ARES Commander, and the construction workers, who view the drawings on iPads. But the next challenge was to deploy a Mobile CAD solution on more than 4,000 iPads to enable the construction workers to read, annotate, and eventually modify these drawings on site.

Taisei Corporation Deploys Mobile CAD on 4,000+ Ipads

ARES is the modern alternative for 2D/3D CAD in DWG, already used by 3 of the top 5 construction groups in Japan, as well as leading manufacturers such as LG, Hyundai and Samsung.

Modern workflows leveraging cloud and mobile to synchronize the work across all your users and devices.

CAD Anywhere: Desktop CAD (Windows, Mac, Linux), Cloud CAD (runs in your Internet browser), and Mobile CAD (Android tablets/smartphones and iOS iPhone/iPad).

With the DWG for BIM features in ARES Commander, users can create smarter CAD drawings whose geometry can be extracted and updated from Revit and IFC BIM projects.

ARES Commander - Desktop CAD: All the 2D and 3D features needed to create and modify DWG drawings on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

ARES Kudo - Online CAD: Create and modify DWG drawings online, and enjoy new collaboration features to comment with voice, photos, text notes, and stamps.

ARES Touch - Mobile CAD: A full set of 2D features to create, modify, and annotate DWG drawings on your Android smartphone/tablet and iOS iPhone/iPad with unique collaboration features to markup with voice, photos, text notes, and stamps.

The ARES Trinity of CAD software by Graebert

The ARES Trinity of CAD software encompasses three integrated software products: ARES Commander, ARES Kudo, and ARES Touch.

Automating Solar Mounting Designs

SkyCiv provides engineers powerful and easy-to-use structural analysis and design software - all on the cloud. No downloading or installing, it's as simple as login from a web browser, anytime, anywhere.

In a few simple clicks you can have instant access to powerful Structural Analysis and Design Software that can handle:
- 3D Structures including beams, frames, plates and cables
- Full Section Builder for custom shapes, built-up sections and US, UK, Aus and Canadian libraries
- AISC and other design code checks
- Powerful PDF reporting with custom logos

With all this included in a single subscription, you can handle any structures that come your way!

SkyCiv

Best for individuals assessing the software

Basic: Best for individuals or short term projects

Professional: Best for medium-large companies with specific needs

Enterprise: Best for medium-large companies with specific needs

Cantilevered Solar Array Prototype

HVAC plant mounting systems 

TBI Hazenberg Bouw

Hazenberg developed Vredeoord in collaboration with Sint Trudo: a special neighborhood with about 250 homes. 

Problem:

Collecting and classifying the data from the  different subcontractors was one of the challenges for  Hazenberg Bouw. Importing and converting files in different  formats was even a bigger one: bringing .IFC files to  Navisworks or Solibri resulted in loss of data and details.  Merging different Revit models (creating federated models) and model coordination (making sure all project  participants have the latest version) was another issue  they wanted to address. A coherent, integrated  workflow with their already existing Common Data  Envronment was high priority as well to improve communication during the design and pre-construction  stage. Another issue mentioned by Hazenberg Bouw was  synchronizing files from Autodesk BIM 360 to Navisworks  and Solibri - every time a new update was available, the files  had to be manually synced.  

Solution:
 
Verifi3D by Xinaps was the perfect choice for  Hazenberg Bouw’s needs as it optimizes and automates  model checking. Offered as a cloud-based SaaS, Verifi3D  allows classifying building design data, conducting  automated checks in compliance with regulations and  reporting issues real-time, all in one platform. 


Advantages Verifi3D

Xinaps was recently acquired, and Verifi3D has been rebranded as Solibri Checkpoint. 

Are you struggling with inefficient workflows, disconnected teams, or complex model checking tools? Whether you're managing large-scale construction projects or checking federated models, Solibri CheckPoint integrates into your workflow, saving you time, reducing errors and streamlining collaboration.

Ensuring quality within your models before going to build has never been easier. 

Solibri CheckPoint is a cloud based, model checking solution that seamlessly connects with your ACC or Procore account. With our plug-and-play solution, you can run automatic model checking within minutes. 

Simply create and share model issues directly to your stakeholders, all whilst staying within your ecosystems’ workflow.

Easy to deploy, quick to run, quality checked.


Connect directly to Autodesk Construction Cloud, BIM 360, or Procore. Import and load BIM models without disrupting your existing workflows. Share results consistently across teams, ensuring everyone stays aligned.

Check both native Revit and IFC files together, saving considerable amount of time and effort, without the need for export or file conversions. Collaborate on the same models and achieve consistent results faster.

Identify, assign, and track issues directly within the platform. Sync with external issue trackers or export as BCF files. Add priorities, due dates, and screenshots to ensure resolution clarity amongst multidisciplinary construction stakeholders.

How Helena simplifies her model checking workflow with Verifi3D

Verifi3D

AUDA (Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority)

Mummadpura Flyover project has been implemented by Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) as a project management consultancy and Ranjit Buildcon as a general contractor. The aim of this project was to improve traffic management on the outer ring road of Ahmadabad city. 
In VisiLean, BIM model elements are linked to executable tasks, so any updates from site are applied to the model. It’s like a LIVE 4D representation of the construction project. This platform enables live monitoring and comfort for sharing data.

Another amazing VisiLean feature is enabling project managers get to review the Planned vs. Actual statue with a slider! Also by enabling real-time updates from site, you can get weekly and monthly progress reports (include progress updates, visualizations of project statue on the BIM model and site images) at the click-of-a-button. By VisiLean, the team can report on Constraints directly from the app; Therefore, the relevant stakeholders can take action and provide resolution.

source: https://visilean.com/bim-based-pmc-driving-infrastructure-development-a-case-study/


Mummadpura Flyover

 VisiLean is a construction planning and control application that includes BIM integration; While it can also be used for construction planning without BIM.

VisiLean

The Rail Implementers forum was established to allow railway stakeholders and software vendors to work together to test the implementation of the IFC 4.3 standard.  The forum was part of the  international project of BuildingSMART International to extend the IFC standard to the railway sector, the IFC Rail project, and the objective of the Forum was to test and validate the IFC 4.3 standard.

In this context, railway stakeholders, software vendors and IFC technical experts worked together to test the standard through some real life use cases. For each use case, the stakeholders supported by the experts defined information requirements (specification) for the BIM models and the software vendors produced the models according to those requierements.
regola was used both to create the model specification by selecting rules that described the expected content and behavior of the BIM models, and to validate the models against the specification.
The result was the production of high quality BIM models and the thorough testing of the IFC 4.3 standard. 


IFC Rail Implementers forum

regola is a web-based platform that allows clients to specify their information requirements , to share them with their suppliers and to validate openBIM models. 

The suppliers can check their IFC models against the specification provided by the client and the same can do clients when they receive the models.

The ultimate goal is to provide clear visibility over a specification, plus a validation capability available to both parties. This will allow to produce high quality BIM models.


regola

NBBJ

Serving as the centerpiece amenity of Amazon’s new urban campus is a four-story, 65,000-square-foot, glass-enclosed “urban forest,” located on Block 19. Standing variably at 85 to 95 feet tall, the three interconnected domes feature a steel frame with Catalan-inspired geometric patterns, made to resemble sprouting, intertwined vines. The concept for the spheres relies on the well-documented effects of natural light, plant life, movement and visual stimulation on employee productivity, sleep and wellbeing. Data was employed for every step of the Spheres’ design process, from the shapes of the structure, to the delicate combination of natural and indoor lighting, to humidity and temperature controls for people and plant life, to the workplace strategy design. 

The plants in the spheres are unique species from around the world. Many of them require more daylight than is achievable in an all glass building in Seattle, so supplemental lighting was required. The NBBJ team worked with horticultural experts to understand the calculations to determine usable light from the sun and a variety of different fixtures. A custom daylighting tool was created in grasshopper to simplify the lighting calculation to allow the lighting designers to test the impact of adding or removing lights in real time. This enabled our designers to quickly craft a custom solution that provided the right amount of light in each of the planting areas with the least amount of fixtures.

Parametric tools were also created to optimize the Spheres’ structures, which resulted in a highly efficient manufacturing and construction process. The steel fabricator said significant money could be saved if the sweeping free form curved steel could be rationalized into 3 distinct radii. The engineer said that the steel would lose too much strength if the steel curved tighter than an 8' radius. The team used Galapagos in Grasshopper to iteratively divided each curve into three tangent arcs and measured their deviation from the original curves until the optimal division points were located.
A custom Grasshopper tool was also developed to rationalize the glass and steel geometry into to fabricatable pieces. Our subcontractor told us that we could reduce the cost of the glazing system if we standardized the glazing pieces within specific extents. The custom tool dimensioned the glass pieces that would not fit on the standard sheet. It also allowed the designers to push points in 2d while projecting the glass shapes back into the 3d which made the modification process much faster. Creating the tool, and modifying the glazing scheme took only 3 hours.

Amazon in the Regrade, Spheres

Grasshopper is a visual programming language and environment that pairs with Rhino 3D, a software program also developed by Robert McNeel & Associates. Grasshopper allows users to build algorithms by dragging and connecting components on a digital canvas. From parametric modeling and fabrication, lighting performance analysis, to building energy consumption, Grasshopper provides an intuitive way to explore design without requiring programming experience.

Grasshopper

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

Autodesk Revit is a building information modeling (BIM) software used by architects, landscape architects, structural engineers, NEP engineers, designers, and contractors. 

Revit

Ladybug Tools is a collection of free computer applications that support environmental design and education. Of all the available environmental design software packages, Ladybug Tools is among the most comprehensive, connecting 3D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) interfaces to a host of validated simulation engines.

Ladybug

NBBJ, in partnership with CCDI, designed the Hangzhou Sports Park on a 400,000-square-meter site on the Qian Tang riverfront opposite the city’s new Central Business District. The main stadium broke ground in 2011 and is slated for completion in 2017.

As worldwide demand for steel increases — by 78% in the last decade alone — so does the cost, which has skyrocketed 217% since 2007. That’s why we use parametric design to cut waste while creating functionality and form.

Our designers leveraged advanced parametric scripts and modeling techniques to develop and optimize the exterior shell of the Hangzhou stadium. The steel shell and concrete bowl systems were coordinated and linked for stability and optimized steel use. Because the model was parametric, design changes could be made with an extremely short turnaround, eliminating the “build-test-discard” method common in traditional modeling.

The parametric model was used as the basis for cross-disciplinary collaboration with engineers and material consultants. The engineers and consultants could use the design team’s output directly for performing their specialized design and analysis operations. The close communication between disciplines enabled the design team to ensure quality control and also find opportunities for further optimization.

The end result? We achieved a 67% steel savings over similar arenas like the famed Bird’s Nest, the Beijing National Stadium.

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Taisei Corporation Deploys Mobile CAD on 4,000+ Ipads

Taisei Corporation

Automating Solar Mounting Designs

Cantilevered Solar Array Prototype

HVAC plant mounting systems

Advantages Verifi3D

TBI Hazenberg Bouw

Mummadpura Flyover

AUDA (Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority)

IFC Rail Implementers forum

Amazon in the Regrade, Spheres

NBBJ

Hangzhou Sports Center

NBBJ

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