CIFE - Center for Integrated Facility Engineering

Last week we concluded another successful CIFE Summer Program. Wednesday was Day 2 of our event and the topics discussed included: 3D Generative AI, AR/VR, VR in AECO, and Applications of Robotics in Construction. Our keynote speakers were Gordon Wetzstein, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, and Oussama Khatib, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University. Guest panelists for day 2 included speakers from Meta, HOK, DPR Construction, SafeAI, Inc., Hilti Group, and HENSEL PHELPS. Following the speakers and discussion, we invited guests to our annual CIFE Poster Session allowing guests to review and discuss the research conducted over the last year of the program. Thanks to our guests for attending, and all speakers for their contributions to the program and research. #ai #robotics #cife #construction #vr #virtualreality #architecture #engineering #robotics #aeco

Day 1 of the 2024 CIFE Summer Program was a success! Our topics of the day were AI Applications & Innovation and Sustainability. We enjoyed insights from keynote speakers Guido Appenzeller (Partner, Andreessen Horowitz) and Bill Barnett (Professor, Stanford University Graduate School of Business). We also heard from panelists representing DPR Construction, KLA, iDRC, HD Lab, BAUHERR, Atelier Ten, C.Scale, John Rewolinski, Autocase and EHDD. Following the presentations, we held an evening reception. Thanks to the speakers and guests for making it a rewarding first day of our Summer Program! #ai #aiapplication #architecture #construction #AECO #engineering #innovation #sustainability #CIFE #Stanford #decarbonization #vr #openai

Please join us in-person or online at the annual 2-day Summer Program hosted by CIFE - Center for Integrated Facility Engineering on Sept. 17 and 18. The conference will provide broad and specific insights into the following four timely and critical topics: (1) the application of AI to designing, constructing, and operating the built environment,  (2) sustainability and innovation,  (3) collaboration supported by VR and related technologies, and  (4) construction robotics.  World-renowned keynote speakers from outside the construction industry will offer their broad perspectives and vision for each of the four topics. Leading practitioners will complement the keynotes by showcase their recent advancements and sharing their vision. Register for one or both days here: https://lnkd.in/g82N-bzS Hrishi Maha, Melody Spradlin, Yan-Ping Wang, John Rewolinski, Niels W. Falk, Peter Fangel Poulsen, Claire Maxfield, Caroline Quinn, David Kirk, Brad Jacobson, FAIA, Matt Breidenthal, SE PE, LEED AP, Varun Raju Sivaram Raja, LEED GA, Terry Raby, Gabor Nagy, Ph.D. MCR, Cynthia Brosque, Uriel Engle, Mihir Somalwar, Simone Zatti #innovation #sustainableconstruction #aiinaec #constructionrobotics #virtualreality #sustainability #ai #aec #construction

BDLA Monthly Webinar Coming Up: Transitioning California and the World to 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything, September 13, 2024 11am-12pm PT with Mark Jacobson (speaker) Global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity are three of the most significant problems facing the world today. This talk discusses the development of technical and economic roadmaps to solve these problems across 149 countries and all 50 states, including California. Please see link for more details on the webinar and how to attend! #cife #bdla #decarbonization #energy #sustainability

Bochen Zhang and Prof. Martin Fischer from CIFE - Center for Integrated Facility Engineering recently presented at Project Production Institute's 2nd Technical Conference, sharing insights from their case study on implementing the Production System Optimization (PSO) framework to offsite construction production management. As offsite construction offers solutions to challenges like housing shortages, it also presents complex management issues by producing with assembly lines and supplying the parts to the construction site. PSO is the practice of mapping, modeling, analyzing and simulating a production system and achieve the best desired performance. This case study applied a PSO approach, using a production process digital twin to model and optimize the production capacity, inventory, and variability, aligning offsite modular part supply with onsite installation demand. The analysis results provided deeper insights into production processes to enhance efficiency, predictability, and profitability in the modular offsite project. #OffsiteConstruction, #SupplyChainManagement, #ModernConstruction, #OperationsScience, #ProjectProductionManagement

The best and brightest minds in building and construction in Australia and from around the world will come together to discuss and debate the key challenges facing our industry at the Building 4.0 CRC Conference 2024.

Please join us for the UPCOMING 2024 CIFE SUMMER PROGRAM at Stanford on Sept. 17 and 18, 2024. The program covers four topics critical to advancing the construction industry: AI and data-driven methods Innovation and sustainability Collaboration and virtual reality Construction robotics Event Registration Below!

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Check out our paper https://lnkd.in/ghekduR2. 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: 𝑉𝑖𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑣𝑖𝑜: Conditional Variational AutoEncoder (CVAE) to generate building meshes via single perspective sketches 🏗️ 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭: At the beginning of a project, architects convey design ideas via quick 2D diagrams, front views, floor plans, and sketches. Consequently, many stakeholders have difficulty visualizing the 3D representation of the building mass, leading to varied interpretations thus inhibiting a shared understanding of the design. To alleviate the challenge, this paper proposes a deep learning-based method, 𝑉𝑖𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑣𝑖𝑜, for creating a 3D model from a single perspective sketch... 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬: • This research investigates the effect that the 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 has on the reconstruction quality, discovering that 𝑉𝑖𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑣𝑖𝑜 can capture fine-grain details in complex buildings when their native orientation is preserved during training, as opposed to processing canonical pose datasets or using SE(3) or SO(3)-equivariant architectures. • We introduce a fast and scalable conditional-variation autoencoder (CVAE) for single perspective sketch-to-3D building meshes (.usd) applications in the AEC industry.  𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬:  Please note that the results are still dependent on the view and style. For more details, refer to the supplementary material. 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬:  Test on a larger dataset of buildings and gather authentic sketches from professional designers. 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨: https://lnkd.in/gydUmivy  𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭: https://lnkd.in/gJqCjqmJ 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞: https://lnkd.in/gymZiH-9  𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐭/𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐖𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: https://lnkd.in/ggviU2Uc Thanks again to my advisor, colleagues, and reviewers. Deeply grateful to 𝐂𝐨-𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫: Martin Fischer, Ashwin Agrawal, Yaojing H. 𝐀𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: Yulia Gryaditskaya, Joseph Leybovich Special credit for the support to: GOLDBECK US Inc. Tim Schönheit, Computational Design Institute team and CIFE - Center for Integrated Facility Engineering for this specific project, submitted in 2022. #sketch23D #BIM #USD #VAE #Sketch #deeplearning #GenAI #Augmentation