[Bldg-sim] Fw: Google Project Tango

[AChapin at sriregistrar.com]

I just had another idea. What if the app could let you walk through a new 
building in the process of being constructed and it would automatically 
detect studs, ducts, etc. that are located in a different location from 
that of the BIM model (I understand that the building isn't constructed to 
perfectly reflect the BIM model, but it might be helpful in the 
commissioning process or for construction management).

It could also help contractors and sub-contractors visualize the BIM model 
in the field, instead of having to worry about translating the 3D BIM 
model to 2D drawings or carrying around a mobile device with the 3D BIM 
model and trying to navigate it based on where you are standing on the 
site/within the building.

Note that I don't have any actual construction experience, but these are 
ideas I came up with based on what I hear about the construction 
industry/process.

Alex N. Chapin
Sustainability Program Engineer
SRI Green Building Certification, LLC
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From:   Alex Chapin/SRI
To:     bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Date:   02/21/2014 11:52 AM
Subject:        Google Project Tango


Can someone with the knowledge and experience necessary to build a 
smartphone application allowing a person to walk through an existing 
building and create a 3D model with Google's new Project Tango phone go to 
this website, http://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/, and request a 
prototype dev kit?

If you haven't watched the video yet, you should check it out (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe10ExwzCqk). This would be a great tool 
for creating existing building 3D geometry models. Maybe it could even be 
accurate enough to recognize light fixtures in the ceiling/on the wall and 
the app could ask you to input the fixture wattage while you are in the 
building.

I'm hopeful that this technology will be able to help the AEC industry. 
What do you think?

Alex N. Chapin
Sustainability Program Engineer
SRI Green Building Certification, LLC
300 Northpointe Circle ? Suite 304
Seven Fields, PA 16046 ? USA

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