SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble
(NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that it is partnering with the
University of Cambridge to collaborate
on research to advance technology development in the engineering
and construction industry. Trimble will work closely with the Laing
O'Rourke Centre's Construction Information Technology Laboratory
(CIT). CIT is a state-of-the-art research facility with a mission
to solve complex engineering problems and automate difficult
construction tasks through decision support tools. These tools
would recognize data patterns, retrieve useful information and
generate knowledge of the built environment.
The construction industry is highly information-intensive and
requires extensive data and information exchange during the
construction process between project stakeholders. To enhance
competitiveness and efficiency, engineering and construction
companies are adopting new forms of information technology to
improve productivity, scheduling, quality and costs of a project.
The goal of the Trimble Sponsorship Program is to enable research
focused on advanced, accessible and intuitive technologies that can
drive increased collaboration for the Design-Build-Operate (DBO)
lifecycle of buildings and infrastructure.
The Trimble Sponsorship Program will support cutting-edge
research in construction information technology. The initial focus
of the collaboration is to:
- enable world-class academic research that has the potential to
achieve a significant impact across the construction industry to
improve safety, reduce costs, and increase predictability and
operational efficiency;
- provide educational and professional development to encourage
and champion construction information technology research in
academia and industry; and
- focus on accelerating the advantages of Building Information
Modeling (BIM) in construction as well as the use of computer
vision and augmented reality technologies to simplify a wide
variety of common construction problems in practical
applications.
"The research interests between the University of Cambridge Construction Information
Technology Laboratory in the Laing O'Rourke Centre and Trimble are
truly aligned," said Bryn Fosburgh,
sector vice president at Trimble. "Working closely with the
research teams at Cambridge, our goal
is to foster innovation and enable academic research in information
technologies that can affect and transform the way the industry
designs, builds and operates buildings and infrastructure."
"The construction sector is undergoing rapid transformation as a
result of the revolution in digital engineering. Cambridge University has a wide portfolio of
research projects which aim to solve problems in the construction
sector," said Professor Campbell Middleton, head of the Laing
O'Rourke Centre at the University of
Cambridge. "This exciting new relationship with Trimble will
enable us to work together to push forward our agenda to develop
new, transformative tools and technologies to deliver a much safer
and more productive construction industry and help build the
infrastructure on which the well-being of society depends."
About the Laing O'Rourke Centre's Construction Information
Technology Laboratory at the University of
Cambridge
The Laing O'Rourke Centre's Construction Information Technology
(CIT) Laboratory at the University of
Cambridge is committed to providing high-quality leadership
on research, education and technology transfer to address issues
related to infrastructure sensing (from the construction phase and
beyond), data analysis, and knowledge generation. CIT works with
international, national, and local public and private agencies to
solve research problems of great significance, and creates feasible
and sustainable methods that gradually advance the body of
knowledge in construction IT, while always looking for the next
leap. The CIT's strategic objectives aim to solve complex
engineering problems and automate laborious inspection, control,
and monitoring tasks through decision support tools that recognize
data patterns, retrieve useful information, and generate knowledge
of the built environment.
For more information, visit: http://cit.eng.cam.ac.uk.
About Trimble
Trimble is transforming the way the world works by delivering
products and services that connect the physical and digital worlds.
Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data
analytics enable customers to improve productivity, quality, safety
and sustainability. From purpose built products to enterprise
lifecycle solutions, Trimble software, hardware and services are
transforming a broad range of industries such as agriculture,
construction, geospatial and transportation and logistics. For more
information about Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB), visit:
www.trimble.com.
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