Winvic Finalist for Two Digital Construction Awards

Winvic Construction Ltd is up for two Digital Construction Awards. The winners will be revealed at a ceremony on 4 July being held at The Brewery in London.

The Digital Construction Awards are produced in partnership with Digital Construction Week, BIMplus, Construction Management and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).

Delivering Net Zero with Digital Innovation Award – AI-based Embodied Carbon Calculator (ECC)

Having the ability to optimise schemes by seeing real-time embodied carbon costs in a design and applying material changes will naturally lead to quantifiable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and will make the delivery of many project tasks much faster. Enhancing technologies and utilising the most up-to-date AI and advanced big data analytics techniques in a way that has never been done before is transformational for Winvic’s green agenda and will pave the way for significant changes across the whole industry.

Winvic’s AI-based Embodied Carbon Calculator will therefore help to propel contractors and material manufacturing firms to meet the UK government target to remove 10MT of carbon dioxide by 2030. Users can upload a 3D BIM file – a Revit model – to the web-based system and it will calculate the building or project’s carbon output within minutes. Materials can then be altered within the calculator to directly affect the real-time calculations of the carbon data – this allows construction schemes to be designed in a ‘green first’, non-time-consuming approach for the very first time.

The tool is integrated with the Government Green House Gas conversion factors, Inventory of Carbon and Energy (ICE) and the Environment Agency (EA), making it the largest database of environmental construction data in the world. Furthermore, the system also allows users to upload their own materials databases which will work alongside the data points already available.

Digital Innovation in Health Safety and Wellbeing – The future of modern contracting: Winvic’s VR health & safety training

Winvic is driven by a focus on digital effectiveness and an ambition to lead the industry in the way it uses technology in all areas of its business operations. In September 2019, Winvic launched its in-house Centre of Innovative Construction and in October 2021, the first on-site Sustainability and Innovation Hub was unveiled. These facilities have been pivotal in creating an engaging health and safety training programme; Winvic recognised the tremendous potential of its BIM CAVEs and Virtual Reality (VR) technology to deliver Health & Safety training more creatively than ever. Not only is training available the Winvic workforce, the one-team approach extends to all activities, including training. Subcontractors are brought along Winvic’s digital journey and they regularly use VR to prepare for specific tasks on live projects and undertake general health and safety training.

In 2020, Winvic launched its ‘Doing it Right’ cultural change programme, designed to achieve a positive health and safety culture and drive continual improvement through a three phased strategy: Activate, Motivate and Cultivate. To help Winvic achieve its aims and enhance engagement Winvic developed immersive VR training sessions on three focus topic areas: Slips, Trips & Falls, Service Strikes and Falling Objects. For example, as part of the service strikes training, the VR goes through the site-specific induction process, permit process, and CAT and Genny skill fade test. It is followed by a real-life scenario of an operative on site, ending in a service strike and highlights the consequences to leave an impactful and lasting final thought.

VR live action training videos have been deployed to site teams across the business as part of its mandatory training. The highly immersive and realistic experience can be tailored to specific job roles, skill levels, and learning objectives, resulting in a more effective and efficient training process. The results have shown that immersive learning is ideal for behavioural skill training and the process promotes the formation of habits that can be applied directly to the real world.

Arun Thaneja, Winvic’s Technical Services and Sustainability Director, said: “It’s a real achievement for Winvic to be recognised for its continued digital innovation and be shortlisted for these awards. Many talented people across Winvic who are committed to developing technology for new and exciting uses have contributed to the embodied carbon calculator project and VR training initiative, so I’d like to thank them for their passion. From safety to sustainability, we will continue to look to the future, challenge current processes and strive for innovation excellence.”

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