Scientifically backed benefits of #VR for construction!
🔬 Earlier this year, a research paper was published in a American Society of Civil Engineers journal and it evaluated the efficacy of finding operability issues using #VR. Spoiler alert: VR was *very* effective. 📝 The research seized a rare opportunity to scientifically compare two instances of the same building. One building was a control that didn't use VR and the other used VR. ⚠️ On the $600M project, the research found that 93% of the operability issues found in VR were not found by traditional methods. “the identification of 86 previously unidentified issues added value to the MEP coordination process by increasing the quality of the facility design and, more importantly, preventing issues during the building’s operations phase.” Girgin et al. (2023) This research is groundbreaking progress in quantitatively demonstrating that XR reduces late stage changes on construction projects, especially in mission critical projects where operability after turnover is of high importance. I'm excited for the industry to continue reducing project risk using immersive tools like Resolve and even more excited to see more quantitative data backing up the use of the technology!
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2moThis is really cool! Excited to share this with folks at my firm.