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Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology

 

Over the past few months, Laing O'Rourke Professor Ioannis Brilakis, along Dr Kyriakos Kantarakias and Alexander Gillies, have been building a new platform to transform information exchange and management in the construction industry. 

 

Our dynamic graph cloud solution aims to link legacy databases and authoring tools, and over time allow for synchronous cross-platform editing.

Prof Ioannis Brilakis

 

This DigitalTwins venture is called Didimi and offers information curation, multimodal interoperability, security, and trustworthiness for the construction sector.

 

Learn more about Didimi.

 

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