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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...

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...

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...