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CRC for Construction Innovation. Automatic Estimator.
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Construction Innovation
Building our Future
Automatic Estimator
Project Leader: Robin Drogemuller (CSIRO)
Leading the Australian property and construction industry in collaboration and innovation
Our Vision Our Vision
To lead the Australian property and construction
industry in collaboration and innovation
Our objectives Our objectives…
• Develop and implement technologies and system
• Exploit research for commercial outcomes
• Enhance education and training opportunities
• Champion cultural change
Our partners
Our partners….
Automatic Estimator Automatic Estimator
Project Leader: Robin Drogemuller, CSIRO
• reads a 3D building model
• creates a bill of quantities (BoQ) that can be linked into unit costs for estimating purposes.
• requires a valid 3D model of the building and a
description of the items in the required BoQ
Underlying Information Underlying Information
• textual description of item (for human interpretation)
• database query that matches the textual description
• database query that matches the textual description but extracts the requisite data from the underlying Object-oriented database
Object o e ted database
• units that the item should be measured in
• a unit rate (cost) that is applied to this item. a unit rate (cost) that is applied to this item.
Automatic Estimator
Wh t d th E ti t t Q tit S ? What does the Estimator mean to a Quantity Surveyor?
John Oliver, Managing Director, Rider Hunt, Sydney
