Virtual Viewing recently attended the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. This exhibition brings a wide variety of city officials and experts who are responsible for creating revolutionising cities from across the globe. One of the key challenges of the conference is the how to maximise space within cities that have ever increasing population densities, meanwhile enhancing the quality of life of its’ residents. (more…)
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November 29, 2012
Virtual Viewing visits the Smart City Expo in Barcelona
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November 14, 2011
Vote for us in the Computer Weekly Social Media Awards 2011
Posted by Virtual Viewing under 3d modelling, city models, e-marketing, web development | Tags: Computer Weekly, smart grids, Social Media Awards, Western Power Distribution, WPD |Leave a Comment
We’re thrilled to announce that our WPD Smart Grids animation has been shortlisted for “Best IT video of the year” in the Computer Weekly Social Media Awards 2011! Computer Weekly is one of the largest and most widely circulated computer and IT magazines in the UK: to be shortlisted for this award is superb news, and we’re hugely proud of everyone in the team who worked on the project.
We’re already hugely proud to have won the Socitm 2010 Local Government IT Excellence Award for Supplier Excellence for our collaboration with the London Borough of Redbridge on the Ilford Blueprint project, since when we’ve also Local Government Supplier of the Year and been listed as “best practice” by the Royal Town Planners Institute.
If you’d like to help us add another trophy to our mantelpiece, you can vote now at the Computer Weekly website – please note that voting finishes on November 25th.
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September 30, 2011
Join us at the Designing for Counter-Terrorism Conference on 6 Oct
Posted by Virtual Viewing under 3d modelling, city models | Tags: 3d video, architectural modelling, built environment, conference, counter-terrorism, local authorities, NaCTSO, presentations, RIBA, risk assessment, security, video flythroughs, virtual city modelling, virtual reality, VSAT |Leave a Comment
Limited places available
Thursday 6 October 2011
RIBA London
66 Portland Place
London W1B 1AD
Join us for a senior level conference discussing design, construction,
3d visualisation, future planning and key counter terrorism
initiatives for the built environment.
Having already been commissioned by the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) to produce a 3d animated video to support the promotion of the Vulnerability Self-Assessment Tool (VSAT) – a project to assist owners, operators and those responsible for the security of crowded places in minimising their potential exposure to terrorist attacks – we will be joining a wide range of leading built environment and security organisations at the one-day Designing for Counter-Terrorism conference.
Driven by the Home Office, and organised in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Designing for Counter-Terrorism brings together government ministries and agencies, occupiers and built environment professionals to discover how new policy will affect their treatment of security and resilience.
The conference will explore a range of design issues in relation to counter terrorism, including:
- An overview of the key points in the government’s policy and guidance for safer places
- The benefits of incorporating security early on in the design process
- Why 3d city models can empower policy making
- Protective security: why and where it matters
- Technologies of resilience: Materials and structural design
- The final debate: “Is security at odds with the public space?
Stewart Bailey, Virtual Viewing’s MD, will deliver a presentation as part of the conference – Virtual Reality: Protection with visualisations – that will address a number of key issues where virtual reality and 3d City Modelling can be deployed to support a range of professions in assessing and reducing public risk:
- How can VR help us understand the risk in the real world?
- How scenario planning can be visualised and trained for
- Making CT guidance more accessible
- Multiple scenarios, multiple threats, one model
Download a copy of the Designing for Counter-Terrorism Conference Programme (PDF)
For information on the conference, or about Virtual Viewing’s 3d City Modelling services, please contact Yve Wallace by email or by telephone on 01908 933933.
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May 18, 2011
Saying ‘Sayonara’ to John Best
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In a world where nothing stands still, Virtual Viewing is saying “bon voyage”, “sayonara”, “adios”, “auf Wiedersehen“, “ciao” – and a very fond farewell – to John Best.
John has been involved for three years in developing Virtual Viewing’s 3d modelling work, and has helped refine our product range into something that is second to none in meeting development industry and public authority needs.
John has done an outstanding job juggling his Virtual Viewing duties with his other extensive interests, including growing an international consultancy practice that is involved in several Far East and Middle East projects. This workload has finally become too much and, as a result, John is now bowing out from his Virtual Viewing role.
We wish him well for the future, although we will see a bit of him as he hands over his existing responsibilities, and wish to say a big “thank you” for all his efforts, input and impact.
October 18, 2010
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No … it’s an Award!
Posted by Virtual Viewing under 3d modelling, city models, e-marketing, web development | Tags: ilford blueprint, judith carlson, local government IT excellence awards, london borough of redbridge, peter parkes, socitim, socitim 2010 |Leave a Comment
With many people, success goes to their heads. As you can see, in the case of our Project Manager, Peter Parkes, it’s gone straight to his cummerbund.
(Even Judith Carson, Capital Projects Development Manager at our project partner, the London Borough of Redbridge – seen right – seems politely surprised at his sartorial choice.)
Personal styling aside, we reckon Peter has grasped one important things about awards – in this case the Socitm 2010 Local Government IT Excellence Award for Supplier Excellence (read more about our recent vistory here): the most gratifying place to have them is under your belt!
October 13, 2010
Winners at the SocITM 2010 Local Government IT Excellence Awards
Posted by Virtual Viewing under 3d modelling, city models, web development | Tags: architectural modelling, brand positioning, e-marketing, ilford blueprint, local government IT excellence awards, london borough of redbridge, massive scale modelling, socitim |1 Comment
© Socitim Press Office, 2010
We’re delighted to announce that our project in partnership with the London Borough of Redbridge, the Ilford Blueprint (visit the website or download a Case Study (PDF)), has won a Socitim 2010 Local Government IT Excellence Award for Supplier Excellence at the Socitim Annual Conference in Brighton. The competition highlights public sector IT projects that improve the efficiency and delivery of services within local communities.
The Ilford Blueprint Online – which already created a major splash at the Property Lynx conference – is a web-based marketing tool that incorporates 3D visualisation of development potential in the borough using Virtual Viewing’s Massive Scale Modelling technology. Socitm said the project team has combined web based commerce and gaming technology with planning policy and regeneration, to promote development opportunity sites identified in Ilford’s Area Action Plan.
Judith Carlson, project manager for regeneration at the London Borough of Redbridge, said the project represented a “cutting edge approach to promoting Ilford, the borough’s main town centre, with technologies widely used in the film and gaming industries that brings the council’s vision to life”. And she applauded Virtual Viewing as making the Ilford town centre area action plan “more accessible by developing a user-friendly interface for developers”.
[Image © Socitim Press Office, 2010]
September 15, 2010
MKSmart2020: 3d modelling shows what our low carbon energy world could look like…
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Meeting the UK’s bold target of an 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 will require widespread changes in the way that we generate and use electricity. Milton Keynes – and Virtual Viewing – is at the forefront of some of these exciting and innovative changes.
Through the MKSmart2020 partnership, we are working with E.ON Central Networks, the University Centre Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes Partnership, Milton Keynes Council, the Open University and Cranfield University to help Milton Keynes through an evolution of the way that we all use energy. This will include SmartGrids, electric vehicles, ground heat sources, intelligent appliances, and integrated energy generation systems (wind farms, solar panels, advanced recycling plants) – and all of this work is being undertaken in conjunction with Milton Keynes Council’s Low Carbon Living Programme. (more…)
July 28, 2010
Virtual Viewing’s Interactive Development and Investment Website creates a splash
Posted by Virtual Viewing under 3d modelling, city models, content management, e-marketing, hosting, web development | Tags: 3d video, architectural modelling, Chris Berry, content management, development, e-marketing, investment, local authorities, london borough of redbridge, marketing, massive scale modelling, planning, presentations, project management, regeneration, video flythroughs, virtual city modelling, web content management, web design |Leave a Comment
As you may have already read in an earlier post, we were proud to recently jointly unveil the Ilford Blueprint website with our development partners in the Planning and Regeneration Unit at the London Borough of Redbridge.
The product of several months’ working in a highly embedded way with the Unit on a true joint venture basis, the site combines our OSCAR content management system for ease and flexibility of up-date with groundbreaking use of our 3d modelling technologies. The whole project was supported throughout by our skills in project management, place making and urban design, as well as our in-depth technical capabilities.
The result – in the words of Chris Berry, the Borough’s Chief Planning and Regeneration Officer – provides:
… focussed, reliable, detailed and accessible technical information to a level not previously provided by a local authority. Virtual Viewing’s contribution to the Borough initiative cannot be underestimated: their services and capabilities extended far beyond technical expertise, to include 3d modelling, urban design and bringing reality to policy-making, all of which were provided as a true ‘joint venture’ operation.”
You can download (in PDF format) a copy of a promotional mailer that has subsequently been sent to several hundred members of the London investment and development community, providing a powerful testimonial for a project about which we are as proud as our development partners.
