Sony's 3LCD laser projection promotes immersive visual collaboration in engineering BIM projects

Odeh Engineers, engineering consultancy specializing in the design and analysis of commercial buildings, has chosen Sony's laser light source 3LCD projectors to create a large immersive video panel, where your professionals and customers can immerse themselves in every detail of the structure with the Building Information Modelling system (Bim).

Structure engineering consultancy Odeh Engineers, based in Rhode Island, has taken another step in adopting technological visualization systems to improve its work in designing and analyzing commercial buildings with the installation, in your conference room of a large immersive video panel (10×3 metre) that allows the team of engineers and customers to see and comment on all aspects of creating a new structure.

This immersive video panel is based on the manufacturer's laser light source 3LCD projection technology Sony, in particular on ten VPL-FHZ55 systems, fluidly combined to create a single ultra-high-resolution image (UHD) of 18 megapixels, no junction zones, lines or color or brightness variations that distract, ensuring that Odeh's team's work meetings with their clients are more collaborative, efficient and rewarding.

Replacing conventional projection

The set of ten VPL-FHZ55 laser projectors has replaced the same number of conventional systems that the company previously used in its meeting room, where the computer had to be grouped around multiple monitor configurations for their desktops, and that at the time it was a revolutionary system.

That's what David Odeh remembers, president and director of Odeh Engineers: "yesteryear, our projectors were the latest in technology. However, his images began to degrade, each at a different rate, so that differences in brightness and color became apparent. You saw ten different patches and the lines between them".

Another reason to adopt this advanced Sony technology has been the costly maintenance of conventional projectors. Odeh's managers estimate that the company purchased between three and four new lamps a year for the projectors, which was an expense of more than 400 euros for each of them.

In addition, maintenance was difficult and, Sometimes, dangerous: "we used to use stairs, a method that is not certain," Says President Odeh. Every time we changed one of the lamps, the projectors moved and we had to align them again".

Laser projection technology as a solution

Looking for a better alternative, Odeh learned the advantages of the VPL-FHZ55 model, Sony's first 3LCD projector with laser light source, which offers a brightness of 4.000 Lumens, in addition to an estimated lifespan of 20.000 hours for laser light, one aspect significantly reduced maintenance needs.

Odeh uses the video panel in combination with a powerful display system called Building Information Modelling (Bim), that allows architects, engineers and contractors collaborate to 'create and design' a highly detailed virtual model of a new structure before the first brick has been placed.

Complex and detailed 3D models faithfully and accurately capture each beam, conduit and structural detail of a new building, making it easier for Odeh engineers to detect, analyze and fix potentially costly design issues before construction starts.

The images of the ten projectors deftly form a mosaic using the American specialist's edge fusion software Scalable Display, which generates the huge image of 18 megapixels for use by up to forty participants in the company's conference room.

Collaboration and efficiency

The result of this innovative system is an extremely uniform video image, of 10 meters wide, no lines, junction zones or visible difference in brightness between adjacent projectors. "When you feel so immersed in a screen, you can see more details of the project," says David Odeh. We can solve problems more easily and in less time".

Another advantage of installing this system, as his top manager points out, is that it greatly improves the collaboration and efficiency of each meeting and project, while opening up new possibilities for the future in your sector.

"With the upgrade to Sony laser projectors, it is now a practical reality that the sector is sure to adopt widely. I estimate that the 75% the use of this space is dedicated to customers who request it, and we're happy to do it because it helps them, helps us and helps all involved", Odeh says.

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