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The building industry is facing an all-time increase in technological-driven innovations. From 3D renderings to walkthroughs, photo-realistic images, and virtual reality – there are abundant options to choose from. However, a fully immersive experience is what stands out today. Immersive technology has gained popularity and is of significant relevance in the building industry; rightly so, as there is heavy dependence on visual communication in design. Virtual Reality has made collaboration and understanding of the design and associated scale rather easy, which has resulted in a reduction of time and cost overruns. There is a huge demand from architects to invest in immersive design experience, and hence, there is a change in their method of presenting design solutions to clients. This approach uses a mix of augmented and virtual reality, and gone are the days when there was a need for repetitive site visits, and thereby loss of time in commute and coordination. Today, there are a n...

The key to overcoming challenges of communicating design intent, collaboration and revolutionizing the future of the AEC industry Technology has created significant efficiencies and opportunities to stretch the boundaries of productivity and possibility across every industry. The limitations faced by businesses until recently form today’s foundation of radical disruption. Industries are fast adopting and inculcating these new technologies into their regular business operations, enhancing customer experience, increasing productivity and challenging the status quo of their respective industries. The AEC industry is no different. One of the technologies revolutionizing the AEC space today is virtual reality (VR). VR in architecture has been able to overcome one of the biggest challenges of architects – communicating design intent and collaborating effectively with multiple stakeholders. A common question usually asked by architects is: how do we make sure that all participants collab...

Background Established in 2000, GeoDesigns is a full-service interior design and architectural firm based in India, one of the country’s most recognized names in office interior design services. With its head office in Delhi and branch offices in almost all major cities, its has provided interior and architectural design services to thousands of small and large businesses across the country in sectors as diverse as hospitality, office, retail, IT and several other small, medium and large businesses. GeoDesign’s interest in using Trezi was a natural extension of its innovative and unique service solutions that are in step with the evolving demands of its clients. Challenges faced GeoDesigns wanted to go beyond static visuals and 3d rendering software alone to present its design to a client. The challenge was to give the full picture of the designed space, where static visuals would show the views only from a limited number of pre-defined positions. GeoDesigns, like much of t...

Let me start with a fundamental question: why Trezi? And why a product for the AEC industry? Hi. To answer your question, SmartVizX, the organization that created Trezi, has intrinsically been an architecture and design-focused company since its inception. Tithi and we are architects with over four decades of combined experience. The problems we are solving are actually problems we have faced right through our professional careers. We do not want to solve these challenges only for ourselves because our passion and critical focus is on solving the problem for the entire industry. Having faced issues due to limited and static tools as a means to communicate our designs to clients, we conceptualized Trezi. Trezi is a Virtual Reality solution, a culmination of architects struggling to explain their design ideas with 2D layouts and static 3D stills created using 3d rendering software , which repeatedly results in errors creeping into construction. And this is when clients really sta...

Today, technological advancements enable us to work remotely and still be connected in real-time. For professionals in the building industry, Virtual Reality (VR) is a revolutionary, new technology that ensures a real-time relay of communication to multiple stakeholders. This disruptive nature of VR for architects is making huge strides in design experience and communication. While design communication traditionally comprised of sketches, drawings, models and semantic descriptions, we have expanded our understanding to explore alternative dimensions to such outputs. VR is the only advancement in the design sector which acts as a technique and gives an output. It is a one-stop solution that reduces multitasking. Through VR for architects we no longer see what we want to see – rather, we see what will eventually be and as was designed. Trezi is India’s VR-first architectural design communication and collaboration product that generates an immersive computer-based project en...

Most people believe the construction process is an organized, linear and predictable phenomenon planned top-down into design, contracts and execution packages. But, in reality, the disputed factors of a building project include design decisions, deadlines, man-hours, cost-cutting, material decisions, and client satisfaction, among others. Virtual Reality (VR) is a contemporary, tech-enabled solution that resolves such disputes by addressing the limitations of design, time and money in relation to project stakeholders. As a virtual meeting platform for the building industry, all project stakeholders can virtually be in the same project space on a 1:1 scale, irrespective of their real-time locations. Among the available architecture software options, Trezi is a VR product that allows as many stakeholders as are needed to collaborate on a project in a virtual work-space. The multi-user collaboration feature in Trezi replaces complications in coordinating physical meetings among pr...

SmartVizX is a company founded by two experienced architects, Gautam and Tithi, who have a combined experience of more than 40 years. As a result, we have a first-hand experience of the problems faced by the AEC industry and aim to solve that with Trezi which uses virtual reality in architecture , construction, and engineering to change the design experience for all stakeholders in the industry. Right from collaboration issues between stakeholders arising due to the absence of a single version of the truth to the difficulty in effectively communicating design intent, it has been pretty clear that the community, as a whole, is in urgent need for a solution that aims to resolve the innate problems existing currently within the AEC industry. With Trezi, we aim to transform the design experience and address a number of current challenges, as mentioned below. Collaboration AEC, unlike many other industries, has a large and diverse set of stakeholders: architects, designer...

VR disruptions are transforming the way building product manufacturers are showcasing, marketing and selling their products The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry consist of multiple stakeholders working together to bring a project to fruition. Building product manufacturers and suppliers play a crucial role in supporting architects and designers. Traditionally, building product manufacturers and suppliers have reached out to design and architecture firms through a tedious process of marketing that includes preparing, stocking and distributing samples and catalogs which regularly became outdated with the introduction of new product lines, creating multiple physical mockups, and organizing lunch-and-learn sessions at their premises to showcase their products to architects and designers. This process has led to a lot of wastage in time and costs, as well as loss of additional revenue opportunities. Most smaller suppliers have found it difficult to showcase t...

Collaboration is the key to successfully delivering projects in any industry, and it matters all the more in industries such as Architecture-Engineering-Construction (AEC) which are fragmented, and where there are a number of stakeholders involved. Better collaboration not only reduces the time taken for projects but also reduces errors and result in significant cost savings to help bring the vision of the client closer to reality, faster. And in the AEC industry , efficient collaboration between the client and all other stakeholders is critical to reducing iterations to manifest designs into physical form with minimal errors. There are several issues that the industry faces where better collaboration is required. To understand in detail, we studied several projects to gain a better understanding of the issues. Here are the key pain-points we address with Trezi: Visualization One of the key issues that adversely impact a fabulous design experience is a lack of understan...

Immersive collaboration is helping stakeholders produce better work, reduce inefficiencies and save costs across the delivery value chain. The AEC design environment is characterized by its reliance on multifarious collaborating parties spread across many different organizations and the entire project delivery lifecycle. In the AEC industry, collaboration typically involves interactions and collaborative decision-making amongst architects, building owners and operators, facility managers, construction professionals, contractors, engineering consultants, and building product manufacturers. Today, the mode of collaboration relies primarily on the use of blueprints and 3D modeling software that lead to considerable back-and-forth iterations on meetings, emails, and calls. Design teams have increased in size and geographically dispersed; design cycle time has become more compressed, project deadlines are rigid, the amount of overall project data has become unwieldy, and in many c...

As a practicing architect, I often found it difficult to communicate design intent to our clients. While working on a building project, we often used 3D modeling software /authoring tools but communicated the schematic and conceptual designs to clients and other stakeholders by generating 2D static renderings from fixed viewpoints on paper, Powerpoint presentations or renders on a flat computer screen. I realized that what we visualize, understand, interpret  and absorb from these traditional tools to communicate design intent – the images on our screen, the 2D static renders, or the floorplans and elevations on paper – are often disconnected from the reality of what’s planned to be built inside and outside of the front door, and none of the architecture software programs available could solve this problem. Since this medium is neither to-scale nor immersive,  clients often do not fully understand an architect’s design intent, leading to significant collaboration-base...