Holdfast Training Services Trial Blog

Tom I remember you asking about companies using VR technology. Below is a still from SMEC’s internal blog.

The image is a still from a VR model developed by Snowbal’s programmers as part of a JV with SMEC to push the boundaries of their current VR technology. From an inital glance it looks pretty convincing.

We have a team of programmers based in the office as well as VR technology including a driving simulator (think arcade racing car set up). This enables Clients to get a immersive VR presentation of a design or for the engineers to asses and improve different design options.

I can see this being really useful for highway/rail/building and services design. Is anyone experimenting with this on Phase 3?

Did anyone have any interesting issues thrown up during their phase 2 relating to historical artifacts or heritage? We had a few items discovered on my Batemans Bay project.

A key part of sustainability is reducing the negative impact of our engineering on society. I remember Dave and Tom providing earlier blog posts discussing the reuse of building facades vs entire reconstruction. On Sunday I came across this gem so thought I’d share. Sorry for the double picture but I couldn’t get it all in one shot.

This is a historic building that used to be a lead pipe and shot factory that now sits inside one of Melbourne’s shopping centers that is built above Central Station. Clearly there was some kind of preservation order on the building so the new construction was built around the old to preserve it and transition to commercial use. I’m sure there were contamination issues to overcome but an interesting way of preserving the building for the future.