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  Day3 11/15 Fri. The 13th Design Conference
IM&VR i-Construction session

Precious lecture on the latest cases of construction ICT

Following the greeting from the FORUM8 President and CEO Yuji Ito, Design Festival Day3 (on Nov 15, 2019) started from the special lecture named "Technology development of autonomous operation of construction machine by using UC-win/Road" by Mr. Hiroaki Aoki from Smart Technology Development Group, Production Engineering Technology Dept., Taisei Advanced Center of Technology, Taisei Corporation. He described that the automation of construction machine will decrease serious accidents by construction machine in addition to improving the labor productivity. Since he thinks the background of simulation is important for technology improvement in automobile industry, he applied simulation to heavy machines to support development and works (monitoring and control). Front-loading of in-vehicle PC verification and overall management seen from perspective image are very significant advantages, according to him. He also explained future prospects including CPS promotion, digital twin, and simulation considering the soil deformation.

Following this lecture, a developer and an executive officer of FORUM8 did a presentation named "IM&VR solution - Utilization of design data and correspondence to the latest standard of BIM/CIM -". They explained the FORUM8's latest products and examples including UC-1Cloud automatic design series web apps, data collaboration between UC-1 programs and addition/accounting cloud system, utilization of design data linked with 3DCAD software to integrated model, construction simulation using VR Design Studio UC-win/Road and 3DCG software Shade3D. They also talked about the current FORUM8 products supporting CIM guideline.

Mr. Hiroaki Aoki
Leader of Mechatronics Team,
Smart Technology Development Group,
Production Engineering Technology Dept.,
Taisei Advanced Center of Technology,
Taisei Corporation

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Masakichi Yanagi, Analysis Support Group Leader, FORUM8
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Brent Fleming, Director in charge of development, FORUM8

The former half of Day3 afternoon started with an exciting lecture named "Play the Future" delivered by Prof. Scot Osterweil, MIT Comparative Media Studies Program Creative Director, Education Arcade and the Game Lab. After examining the relationship between humans and playing in the Middle Ages and the modern times from the anthropology view, he explained that the game is not only a leisure but a powerful tool for thinking, planning, and creating. At last, he told that games can be a tool to train abilities to understand rules and mechanism or to analyze massive data at once and emphasized the significance of learning logics that are useful in the real world through games.

Following that, a FORUM8 development staff did a presentation titled "FORUM8 FEM analysis solution". Showing demonstrations and latest analysis examples, he explained Engineer's Studio® that covers the on-site verification, performance design, and seismic reinforcement and the geotechnical analysis software GeoEngineer's Studio®.

Prof. Scot Osterweil
MIT Comparative Media Studies Program
Creative Director, Education Arcade and
the Game Lab

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Hiroaki Sano, Leader of FEMLEEG / Geotechnical Team, System Development Group, FORUM8
          The 6th National Resilience Design Award   Day3

Rational and proprietary technical proposals accumulate, expecting further expansion

In the second half of the afternoon, the awards were announced and the award ceremony was held for the 6th National Resilience Design Award (NaRDA).

We received a large number of works related to structural analysis (civil engineering / architecture), geotechnical engineering, water engineering, and disaster prevention by October 8 and nominated 8 works at the 1st round selection meeting on October 11. On November 12, the jury chairman Prof. Hiromichi Yoshikawa (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo City University), and the jury members Prof. Masaru Morita (Vice President and Professor of Urban Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Civil Engineering Department, Shibaura Institute of Technology), and Prof. Akihiko Wakai (Professor of Science and Engineering Department, Gunma University) conducted a final review at the FORUM8 Tokyo head office and decided each prize.

The Grand Prix is "Development of a simple measurement technology for steel structures- Constructing a convenient soundness monitoring system for structures using piezo limit sensors -" by Akita Prefectural University Faculty of Systems Science and Technology.

Juries (from left): Prof. Yoshikawa, Prof. Morita,
Prof. Wakai


In light of the Great East Japan Earthquake, in order to evaluate the soundness of steel structures, it is necessary to construct a monitoring system that enables long-term, inexpensive and simple measurements using autonomous limit sensors. The results of verification of analysis technology that enables prediction of displacement and load from the output of the new sensor were announced. "Engineer's Studio® is used for verifying the experimental results. We were selected this work for the Grand Prix because we evaluated this original and orthodox usage method," said Prof. Yoshikawa, Chair of the juries.

Semi Grand Prix (Excellence Award) is given to "Flood analysis of rivers in mountain area - Reproducing the dynamic behavior of flood water -" by F-tech Inc. The company conducted an analysis focusing on the reproducibility of actual phenomena, based on the idea that showing the dynamic behavior of the inundation water rather than the inundation area would be able to provide more realistic information in the case of a flood along steep excavated river channels. The company commented, "The content was very difficult, but we could get satisfying results with the improved analysis software." One of the judges Prof. Morita also expressed his expectation for using xpswmm in mountain rivers and analyzing the impact of mountain river transformation.

In addition, the juries announced each award: the Honorable Judge Award Elaborated Bridge Design Award (SHO-BOND CORPORATION), the Honorable Judge Award Water Supply Resilience Award (Knowledge Fusion Co., Ltd.), and the Honorable Judge Award Performance-based Design Award (Kyushu Civil Engineering). Lastly, Prof. Yoshikawa, summarizing the significance of NaRDA, expressed his hopes for further participation in the coming year. With this, all three-day sessions this year have ended.

Award winners

System exhibit at Foyer, Networking Party

We exhibited our systems at Intercity Hall Foyer during the Design Festival, and a lot of visitors attended the network party on Day1 and Day2.

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