February 2017

24 BUILD / February 2017 , Waldeck: Dedicated to Digital Waldeck is a specialist multi-disciplinary Technical and RiskManagement Consultancy supporting private and global blue-chip corporations succeed with heavy infrastructure, industrial andmajor building projects. The firmhas recently been honoured with the title of BIMFirmof the Year. Founder Paul Waldeck discusses the techniques the firmhas employed to achieve the success andmarket leading position it enjoys today. Founded over twenty years ago, Waldeck are a unique project delivery and engineering biased specialist Strategic Advisory Consultancy offering fully integrated BIM based Enterprise Lifecycle Management (ELM) solutions across all facets of BIM deliverables and services, encompassing open BIM (Industry Foundation Classes), Uni-class, Constructions Operation Building information exchange (COBie) and Government Soft Landings (GSL) aligned with 3D, 4D, 5D, 6D and 7D solutions. Paul outlines the importance of BIM and discusses the various digital innovations his company offers. “Digital is at the core of everything we do at Waldeck, which is showcased through our market-leading use of BIM and its best-practise standards, processes and protocols. The interfacing of BIM and traditional Product Lifecycle Management allows us to offer a 7D cradle to grave solution to clients called ‘Enterprise Lifecycle Management’, which adds value, creates efficiencies and reduces risk right from the very beginning of project conceptual and feasibility stages. Delivering 7D BIM construction solutions, enables our clients to manage the operation and maintenance of a facility throughout its lifecycle even more efficiently and safely than traditional construction methods would otherwise provide, whilst also giving them the potential to continually optimise the performance of their built assets with certainty of outcome over the life of the built asset. Our way of working drives value at every stage, no matter what key performance indicator one applies. “As the mainstream of the construction industry continues the transition from traditional paper-based and CAD drawings to high-resolution digital modelling, and beyond, we are continually looking for better ways of doing things, transforming both the technologies we use and the cutting-edge blended software solutions we create for our clients to deliver the necessary results. “Indeed, new for 2017, through our continued investment in R&D, training and innovation, we have developed a game changing new site monitoring product and risk management solution for the construction industry called: Digital Surveillance to BIM. This efficient combination of proven digital technologies and new capabilities leveraged through flying UAV’s autonomously, laser scanning and photogrammetry has been developed in conjunction with our R&D partners, the University of Huddersfield. The process uses specialist aerial photogrammetry deployed from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to capture progressive on-site data, which will deliver substantial benefits for clients, across the entire lifecycle of a project. We are continuing this collaboration into 2017, where we will be looking to further develop our research and capability on the subject of reality computing for construction, which leads us onto our investment in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). “We first showcased our AR capability at last years’ Multimodal logistics show sharing with delegates wide tailed animations at the swipe of a smartphone, but this year we will be delving deeper into the virtual world, by allowing delegates to step inside a digital model, showing how we design, co-ordinate, interrogate and showcase our client’s federated digital models. Being ‘inside’ a digital model means our clients can see things first hand, and we are able to make changes in real-time, taking our decision making and design revisions to the next level. “As we continue to be ahead of the curve, we are also rapidly progressing with a niche BIM to Field cloud-based service, combining mobile field technologies for on-site use with cloud-based collaboration and reporting. “Embracing the latest disruptive innovations and continually looking for leaner and more efficient ways, we see these digital advances as an enhancement to our way of working and provides important opportunities to drive forward innovation that are critical to the future of not just the company but the industry as a whole.” The vast array of digital solutions that Waldeck offer, highlights their continual commitment to providing clients with the services they need despite the ever evolving, increasingly digital nature of the market. The firm is well on course in its vision of being ‘best in class, to be the digital leader providing multi-disciplinary strategy, design and delivery project solutions, as measured by client profile in their chosen markets, value delivered and considered by their staff to be the employer of choice’. Waldeck’s focus on digital as the core driver for the business has re-positioned what was historically an engineering consultancy into a world class leader in digital project and lifecycle management solutions with significant double digit year on year growth which attracts some of the best talent in the market. Tom Greatrix, CEO of the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) shared at their recent Bristol Centre of Excellence Launch event “Waldeck was a very different company not that very long ago, and it takes a lot of courage and tenacity to make that quantum shift, and I think something that Paul, and everybody involved should be very, very proud of because that 1612BU42 “Fundamentally, the future is bright…… the future is digital.”