Empowering Sustainability with GPT: Streamlining ESG Initiatives in the AECO Industry

By Dr. Jeff Chen, Director of Digital Transformation and George Broadbent, VP of Asset Management, Symetri A Symphony of Sustainable Endeavors In the multifaceted and dynamic landscape of the AECO industry, documents form the harmonious melodies of progress. Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) conducts these chords and orchestrates them into a seamless symphony of sustainability and […]

Unlocking AECO Knowledge with GPT: Natural Language Queries for Document Management

By Dr. Jeff Chen, Director of Digital Transformation and George Broadbent, VP of Asset Management, Symetri A Mountain of Documents Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) stands as one of the most document-intensive industries in the world. From early design sketches to finalized contracts, and comprehensive Operations and Maintenance (O&M) manuals, stakeholders are inundated with […]

The Center-Hub of Data Integration

By Dr. Jeff Chen, George Broadbent, and Dr. Eve Lin of Microdesk with Kai Yin, and Jiayi Yan of ZhiuTech Introduction In previous installments of this series, we tracked the journey of digital twin development from a high-level design philosophy to how to fulfill multi-stakeholders’ demands; design a modularized scoring system to evaluate building performance […] The post The Center-Hub of Data Integration appeared first on Civil + Structural Engineer magazine.

The Center-Hub of Data Integration

By Dr. Jeff Chen, George Broadbent, and Dr. Eve Lin of Microdesk with Kai Yin, and Jiayi Yan of ZhiuTech Introduction In previous installments of this series, we tracked the journey of digital twin development from a high-level design philosophy to how to fulfill multi-stakeholders’ demands; design a modularized scoring system to evaluate building performance […] The post The Center-Hub of Data Integration appeared first on Civil + Structural Engineer magazine.

Sustainability in Facility Management

By Kai Yin, and Jiayi Yan with George Broadbent, Dr. Jeff Chen, and Dr. Eve Lin Introduction In this five-part series on Practical BIM Implementation for Facility Management (FM), we introduced the 3×3 principle as the fundamental digital twin framework in the first article. The 3×3 principle framework breaks down the level of information needed […] The post Sustainability in Facility Management appeared first on Civil + Structural Engineer magazine.