Chris is responsible for the development and implementation of digital engineering across regional projects as well as assisting in development of overall hub DE strategy for the region. Chris has been with Laing O’Rourke for five years after previously spending 27 years working for Arup across the UK, SE Asia and Australia. At his time in Arup, Chris help lead the adoption and implementation of 3D and BIM across the firm.
The NZ Institute of Building is a pan-industry membership organisation for individuals in New Zealand’s building industry to connect, belong and give back. We are focused on innovation in the industry, inclusion of a range of roles and people, and encouraging the next generation.
We are here for our members as their career grows and evolves through different roles and organisations.
Our members come from all over Aotearoa and include Construction Managers, Project Managers, Site Managers, Design Managers, Sustainability Managers, Digital Managers, Property Managers (just about any role with manager at the end of it), Architects, Engineers, Quantity Surveyors, Suppliers, Academics, and Students.
Cupix is a Spatial Digital Twin software company on a mission to enable the construction industry to maximise project outcomes by mirroring construction sites into virtual spaces in minutes.
Combining AI and BIM technologies, Cupix’s flagship product, CupixWorks, is a SaaS platform which transforms 360 photos taken by off-the-shelf 360 cameras into a virtual 3D space and provides a cloud based unified platform for industry data formats.
Many of Australia’s largest construction companies rely on CupixWorks to enhance collaboration, speed up decision-making, reduce risk, and improve overall project outcomes.
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Smart Cities Council is dedicated to building cross-sector capability, capacity and collaboration.
With Regional Leads on the ground in over 30 countries, our unique Global Thought Leaders Program and a global network of over 400,000, SCC delivers positive, self-sustaining social, environmental, and economic outcomes for people, place and planet.
www.smartcitiescouncil.com
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The Nemetschek Group is a forerunner of digital transformation in the AEC/O industry and covers the entire life cycle of construction and infrastructure projects. With intelligent software solutions, we lead our customers into the future of digitalization.
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CONNECTED CONSTRUCTION.
Autodesk Construction Cloud combines connected technology, a robust network of builders and powerful predictive analytics to help your business thrive across all phases of construction.
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The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) is the oldest, largest and most diverse national retail body. We represent a $420 billion sector that employs more than 1.4 million Australians and is the largest private sector employer in the country. As Australia’s peak retail body, representing more than 120,000 retail shop fronts and online stores, the ARA informs, advocates, educates, protects and unifies our independent, national and international retail community.
Learn more: https://www.retail.org.au/
A global leader in Location Master Data Management software, 1Spatial‘s pioneering solutions in data governance, cleansing and validation deliver significant cost-savings and efficiencies. Our technology integrates multiple data sets into a single view, assessing and validating large, dynamic data sets against pre-defined criteria while auto-correcting logical errors. Our clients include providers of utilities, transportation, mapping, land management and mining operations.
Birdi is a scalable aerial intelligence platform that’s easy to use for everyone. We enable organisations everywhere to make better business decisions through complete aerial visibility via drones – from safety on-site, to asset maintenance, to tracking the progress of a site or build.Fly your own drones or have our pilots fly for you, then process and visualise the drone-captured data on a map within Birdi’s cloud platform for insights.
Position Partners is Australia’s premier provider of positioning and machine control solutions for surveying, civil contracting, earthmoving, mining and building activities. At Position Partners, we are committed to increasing productivity for our customers and building lasting business relationships around high caliber positioning activities.
We build business relationships by providing machine control and positioning solutions to enhance our customers’
productivity.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. For over 16 years, AWS has been delivering cloud services to millions of customers around the world running a wide variety of use cases. AWS has the most operational experience, at greater scale, of any cloud provider.
Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
AWS has significantly more services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, end user computing and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. This makes it faster, easier, and more cost effective to move your existing applications to the cloud and build nearly anything you can imagine.
With AWS, you can leverage the latest technologies to experiment and innovate more quickly. We are continually accelerating our pace of innovation to invent entirely new technologies you can use to transform your business.
To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com
Willow is the “digital twin” for the built world. Through its software, Willow creates a digital replica of a built asset, that collects and aggregates data into a “twin”. Through this approach, Willow helps customers achieve operational efficiency and cost reductions, streamline sustainability management, along with improving IoT and Operational Technology security. For more information head to Willow’s website.
Hexagon is the global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies. Our solutions free our customers to harness the rapidly-increasing amounts of data, putting it to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector and mobility applications.
Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world’s most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people.
United by our passion for creating a sustainable future in energy and the built environment, we lead the charge, our actions transform challenges into solutions, and our curiosity keeps us pushing, innovating, making the impossible… possible.
We have the size and scale to create competitive advantage and assure our customers that we can take on the largest and most complex projects.
Established in 1998, Glodon Company Limited was listed on the A-share market in May 2010 (abbreviated as Glodon, Stock Code: 002410) in China, being the first listed company in the field of construction engineering information in China. Glodon provides more than 100 “Terminal + Cloud + Big Data” based products/services, industry big data, industry new finance, and other value-added services as the provider of a digital building platform, which centres on the entire life cycle of construction projects with the professional applications of construction engineering as the core support. With more than 8,000 employees, currently, Glodon has established more than 80 branches around the world, providing services to customers in over 100 countries and regions. Its sales and service network covers more than 200 cities worldwide, providing professional applications and services to over 310,000 professional clients globally.
