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3Jul/15Off

Virtual and Augmented Reality Innovation Contest

Funding

Smart construction 

Partner

Crossrail

Award

£35,000

Crossrail is Europe's largest infrastructure project.  Stretching from Reading and Heathrow in the west, across to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east, the new railway will cover over 100km of track including 21km of new twin-bore rail tunnels and ten new stations.

Crossrail and its partners are already pioneering the use of Augmented Reality (AR) and the production of 3D Building Information Modelling (BIM) models is a handover requirement from each of their construction contracts, to support visualisation of project delivery.  This means that Crossrail already has access to rich environments to support AR or Virtual Reality (VR) applications.

In this context successful applicants might consider how:

●      AR could be used for daily site briefings, safety briefings, and to show progress against plan.

●      AR / VR could be used to plan testing, allowing visualisation of the systems and assets, as they are integrated to operational level.

●      AR / VR might be used to improve visualisation of intended operating parameters, and comparison with actual asset operation.

●      AR / VR could be used by the operator to potentially assure their own readiness through training staff

●      AR/VR could be used to plan maintenance activities, giving consideration to safety of the working space, and complexity of maintenance activity

Successful applicants should also consider how their solution could be commercialised for other engineering and construction projects.

See the full posting here: https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/virtual-and-augmented-reality-innovation-contest/crossrail

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