Digital transformation is occurring at pace throughout our industry and we're ensuring our customers benefit from all that digital engineering can offer. One such innovation is a powerful marine construction simulator, which we developed in-house. 

Our digital engineering team are experts at building applications using 'Unreal Engine' -  one of the world's most advanced 3D graphics game engines. We've used Unreal to develop a traffic simulation tool to test temporary traffic management schemes before rollout, and simulated construction works in an operational airport with AI driven crowd behaviours. 

Our marine construction simulator combines intelligent 3D plant models and reality capture data to accurately place marine plant in a virtual environment and replicate its real-world capabilities. 

The tool enables our teams to simulate methodologies and iterate the positioning of plant and equipment around the design models. This is all done in a realistic environment with features such as accurate bathymetric data, reality capture point-cloud models, and real-world tide levels.  

The permanent works build sequence can be tested to ensure we avoid clashes during construction. Plant and equipment is programmed with its real-world performance and dynamic constraints to enable equipment limitations to be established and enabling features such as crane hook capacity to be determined in real-time.

We are leading the industry in simulation -  identifying and mitigating constructability issues during the design phase, driving program and cost certainty for our customers.