Wow! Presagis have made this rather spiffing video of the Brindley Place building site we created for our ACT-UK project.The finshed project recreated two seperate building sites, each one at 5 different moments in time. Over 50,000 photos were taken for the project and we built 500 3D models.

Makemedia Act-UK 3D site time slices

The finished virtual environment is projected onto a massive screen – 12 metres wide and 3 metres high – that curves 180 degrees around the viewer to create a realistic and immersive environment for training site managers in. It’s all very realistic for the trainee… ACT-UK even have proper portacabins with live phone systems and actors to realistically recreate the stresses and strains that might be faced on the job. The trainees are given a scenario where something goes wrong and they can then go “on site” in the virtual site to look for health and safety issues and the like. Their efforts are recorded and scored using a scoring system also created by Makemedia.

Makemedia Act-UK training building site

At the end of last year Makemedia won the the Presagis ‘Best Visualisation Application’ at the worlds largest simulation, training and education conference – I/ITSEC, in Orlando Florida for this very project.

I’ve posted a video below showing our Account Director Nick Wood testing the project on the big screens. The site you see there is the Alderman Green building site, the other of the two sites we recreated for this project.

We’d love to hear feedback from anyone in the building, training or 3D visualisation industry – what do you think of the project?