Launching Connect Configurator: a game changing digital platform to accelerate the design process
Tilbury Douglas has launched a first of its kind digital solution with Unity (NYSE: U), the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content, to help drive digital innovation within the construction industry.
The Connect Configurator is a gamechanger for designing buildings, as it provides a web-based application for smarter and more efficient creation of concept designs using approved standardised layouts. The flexible platform can design whole buildings, by placing individual rooms which include building components.
Using prefabricated models and the latest 3D technology, Connect Configurator allows for more detail and information to be created earlier in the project. This gives Tilbury Douglas’ clients data at their fingertips, so they can make informed data driven decisions, based on live cost, carbon and time estimates provided by the Configurator as you design the building.
With the Connect Configurator providing editable RIBA stage 3 building layouts, it is also able to reduce the rework typically seen in the development of detailed designs, streamlining what is normally a very iterative design process – therefore, significantly reducing design time!
Mark Buckle, Technical Director at Tilbury Douglas, commented: “Collaborating with a pioneering, digital expert like Unity, we have developed a platform which demystifies construction design for those not familiar with construction drawings. The technology utilises a centrally managed, web based common object library for platform construction, materials and parts. This means the system can create and export the base for a digital twin with all the data embedded, that is not tied to any specific design software.”
“Ultimately, the configurator is just one part of our Connect digital strategy, and our investment in platform design setting the stage for digital twin delivery, launching early 2023,” added Mark Buckle.
“This collaboration with Tilbury Douglas, will help open up construction design for a host of brand-new users, those across government agencies, architects, and engineers, who envision, evaluate, and analyse how certain changes in a city will look and how these changes can meet the needs of the future generations,” said Dave Rhodes, Senior Vice President Digital Twins at Unity. “As we all know, there has been a major shift not only in the global labour market, but also in how we work. Therefore, it’s more important than ever to connect people with the new skills needed for future jobs.”
Alan Moylan, Solutions Manager at Tilbury Douglas, added: “The Connect Configurator is a natural technological step forward for the construction industry. It empowers our clients to make quicker and more informed decisions on their projects at concept stage, while also creating large time savings and more certainty. By partnering with Unity and embracing the power of their real-time 3D engine, we have created a rich and easy to use web application with the principals of product platform construction at its core.”