Automating the processes around data acquisition, visualization, and analysis to provide near real time insights into the state of a project including progress monitoring and defect detection…

Raffi Holzer, CEO of Avvir (using LIDAR technology to help construction BIM experience) joins Thomas Kutzman and Scott Pollack in the MouthMedia Network studios powered by Sennheiser. Presented by Prevu.

In this episode:

• Raffi Holzer on LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging, measure ranges via a remote sensing method using light in the form of a pulsed laser) and BIM (essentially a 3D blueprint)


• How things change when construction begins, and without updating then the BIM becomes outdated


• How a model can get so far off during construction


• Making it more than a 3d rendering of a building.


• BIM was a digital twin of a building


• Preventing rework


• The importance of having a spouse on board in a startup


• Figuring out who user is, and building the right product for them


• Talking to people who will be using a product and learning what they need


• Major impact – BIM becoming a digital twin, becoming a centerpiece to manage a facility long term


• Data and visualization of a product


• Accurate building information model (instead of just spreadsheets)


• New buildings installing sensors for IoT, need a system to enable sensors to talk to one another


• Looking at climate control, safety


• How Avvir can catch mistakes quickly after done, making them more easily corrected, and an accurate model to be able to tie sensors together and make them viable


• Be able to do predictive analytics, make suggestions to avoid errors


• Avvir is hardware agnostic


• How the marketplace is less of a competitive one, more educational


• Inventory control, asset management and facility management


• How Holzer created Peeq – reversible sunglasses


• The goal of a political podcast

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