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My name is Fred Meeske, Corporate while keeping our goal front and center to not only continue this process
Director of BIM Services at Rosendin. that is “achieving exceptional results for improvement but most importantly
to provide our CEO with one thing he
our customers.”
As Sam mentioned, when he and I went
TURNING AR/VR to Hollywood it was an experience From these collaborations, we created has been asking from us for almost
ten years - real and verifiable savings
for sure, and there was one big
game-changing moment for us both,
Virtual Reality was not just for gamers tools and processes, in whole or in part, by using technology over our current
that includes:
processes to lower Rosendin’s overall
anymore. VR was finally tangible,
installed cost.
• Remote project coordination with
ENTHUSIASM something we could see, and it could augmented reality allowing project In response, we have created an
potentially provide value for Rosendin’s
teams to be located in different
Internal Development Team (IDT)
places while still working together
culture! We immediately realized that
as one.
INTO REALITY we needed to change our relationship • Our engineering teams have to whose primary responsibility is to
develop, train, validate, and implement
with VR. That was our moment.
our “application” for the business.
ability to design work while being
We knew, however, that blending
disciplines between Information
field and operations teams.
Technology, BIM Technologies, and close and fully integrated with our One of these tools utilizes an iPad and
3D models, created by our internal
Office and Field Operations would be • Our project teams are laying out BIM team, combined with remarkable
PART 2 - THE JOURNEY CONTINUES a challenge. But we were up for it! electrical devices in walls, not with programming and procedures that
bring the real-world and a 3-D model
Once we realized that AR/VR could
a tape measure, but by utilizing a
potentially be a real tool, one that we virtual headset to locate with. together. This is done in spatial
could hold and utilize in positive and • Our staff and potential employees relationship to each other, while
new ways, we began Phase II of our are completing safety assessmens allowing interaction by the user with
journey and this is where our story through VR without the risk of the modeled content. A significant
continues. injury. part of this is that there is not a need
By Sam Lamonica, CIO, & Fred Meeske, Corporate Director BIM Services for GPS, Wi-Fi, or other connection for
AT ROSENDIN, WE HAVE SPENT the application to work. The accuracy
My friend and colleague Fred Meeske, 100 YEARS WORKING ON HOW is surprisingly good at closer distances
Corporate Director of BIM Services, and TO LEVERAGE EXISTING AND and, with new hardware on the horizon,
accuracy will only improve with each
I embarked on a mission a while back to NEW TOOLS FOR IMPROVED camera.
figure out how we can best leverage EFFICIENCY AND SAFETY. The IDT consists of programmers, field

Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) general foreman, lead modelers, I/T
within our multi-billion-dollar electrical Several years ago, • Training for electrical shutdown personnel, and management. A primary
procedures include checklists
list of metrics has been pre-defined by
VR/AR/MR was
contracting company. not on our list, shown on a visor helmet. the team that relates to our specific
much less a • Re-work and/or incorrectly processes, some to the user and others
thought. Sam and installed work is greatly reduced or related to the application itself that
In Chapter 1 of our journey, chronicled in a previous I began working eliminated. includes:
article, we ventured off to Hollywood to get a big dose side-by-side with • Training of the application,
of how the entertainment industry leverages A/R and V/R. We returned major universities, In several recent pilots, we found that • Time of use by the individual and
home with many visions of opportunities for these technologies. Fast leading manufacturers, leveraging these technologies allowed how often it is used.
forward to today where we can now share the fruits of our labor.
and software us to see conduits being stubbed up • Process-related validation (Was a
developers to design, into the wrong place or outside of mistake caught with our application
Fred and I are going to share one of the exciting new developments develop and integrate proper equipment locations. If not but not the traditional method?
we have come up with to show that these technologies are not better tools, caught early, this would have led to Was a mistake caught with the
merely buzzwords. We will show how we have created a solution for processes, 100’s of thousands of dollars in cost conventional method but not our
our business that can both increase efficiencies as well as improved and ways of to remove concrete and re-install application?
quality with the expectations of lower costs and reduced schedule communicating conduits, not to mention schedule
durations. for our delay challenges. As our BIM Technologies team at

lagging Rosendin continues to grow, a second
We plan to pilot this solution in multiple job site locations in the east, west, electrical We recently launched new pilot technology building recently opened
and northwest and we will share what the future holds for Rosendin.
industry projects on the east and west coasts in Phoenix, Ariz. that is within one mile

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