DC3

The Digital Construction Capability Centre (DC3) is a full-scale laboratory and demonstration centre (‘capability centre’) of the most advanced digital technologies applied to the lean management of construction processes. Therefore, it is used both for research purposes and to host operators of the construction industry by involving them in situations that simulate the management of typical construction process scenarios, but with the aid of digital technologies and advanced management methods (e.g. augmented reality, “digital twin”) for the benefit of management efficiency. Such situations can be reproduced for any of the macro-phases of the construction process.

Activities

Construction Digitisation

Digitisation for workflow optimisation in the execution and management phases of construction
Digitisation of the built environment and Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Augmented Reality” and “Mixed Reality” systems for construction
Integration of drones for surveying, digitisation of buildings and control of construction processes

Development and testing of Digital Twin for Construction

Reality-mirroring through IoT and AI systems
Sensor networks and other tracking systems (e.g. smart cameras) to support reality-mirroring

Workshops and seminars on Digitalisation and the Digital Twin

Health & Safety in Construction
Automated workflow management in construction
Systems for ‘real-time’ decision support for emergency management in complex domains

Equipment

Lightweight drones for collecting images and point clouds for digitising outdoor environments, infrastructure and building complexes
Drones for supporting building and infrastructure monitoring operations
Lidar scanners for outdoor and indoor data collection
360 cameras for collecting high quality spherical photos
Hololens mixed reality viewers
Oven for IoT device prototyping
Depth camera for developing mixed reality and artificial intelligence applications
Software for processing and aligning point clouds and photos
Software for causal inference based on Bayesian models
Videowalls for visualisation during workshops and seminars
Workstations for simulations and development of artificial intelligence applications