Reducing Construction Risk in the Metaverse

What if you could walk your job site before construction begins?

In construction, walking the job site has long been an important way for contractors and representatives from every trade to collaborate, identify clashes, and find solutions. The problem is that you can only do this after construction has begun, when clashes can only be solved with change orders—adding risk to the schedule, the budget, and overall project quality. But what if you could walk the job site before construction began? Len Klein, programmatic tech lead overseeing data center construction at Meta, shares an approach that uses VR to enable immersive virtual job walks through BIM models. With the latest generation of VR technology, which is accessible, comfortable, and easy to use, construction professionals of all kinds can navigate intuitively and do the collaborative problem solving that they used to do on the physical site during the design phase, when it’s easiest and most cost effective to resolve the problems.

About the speaker

Len Klein is a former programmatic tech lead for Meta. A mechanical engineer with over 35 years in the industry, Klein oversaw design and construction of data centers. He currently is an evangelist for VR/XR within the construction industry and an advocate for VR for education, therapy, and as an interface for people in rural and remote communities.     

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