Extended reality
Virtual, augmented and mixed reality for design review, training and customer experience, grounded in the engineering data that already exists.
Dormant / Active 2023 / Dubai, UAE
Extended reality, explained for the built world
EnableXR was a one-person consulting practice that helped engineering, construction and professional-services teams make sense of CAD, PLM, BIM, GIS and XR. The practice is dormant now, but the door is still open.
01 / The practice
New technology arrives wrapped in vendor language. EnableXR existed to unwrap it: to show leaders what digital twins, immersive tools and connected models can really do, what they need underneath them, and where to start.
02 / Fields
Seven technologies, one connected picture
Each of these is a discipline in its own right. The value shows up when the data flows between them.
Digital twins
Master data and live sensor information brought together into a working model of an asset, so decisions are made on what is happening now.
Computer-aided design
The 3D geometry everything downstream depends on, and the tools and hardware behind it.
Product lifecycle management
One controlled source for product data, change and process, from concept to retirement.
Building information modelling
Shared, structured models and the modern working practices that come with them.
Geographic information systems
Location as the common thread: placing assets, networks and buildings in their real geographic context.
Smart cities
What happens when BIM, GIS and live data meet at district and city scale, and what that means for the people who plan, build and advise on them.
03 / Approach
Consultative, not promotional
A
Education first
Start by making sure everyone in the room understands the technology and the vocabulary. Good decisions follow from that.
B
Past the hyperbole
Independent of any vendor. The job was to separate what works today from what is still a slide.
C
End users in the loop
Technology only lands when the people using it are engaged and properly trained in both the software and the process.
Executive briefings
Industry briefings
Conference speaking
Market research
Advisory
04 / Engagements
Education and research
Education engagement
Clyde & Co
Helping a global law firm understand BIM and the modern working practices behind it.
The engagement was educational by design: what BIM is and how project teams work with it, and what is now possible with digital twins and smart cities.
BIM
Modern working practices
Digital twins
Smart cities
Research project / Client confidential
The BIM market beyond Autodesk
A study of the new technologies reshaping the BIM market, for an organisation planning its transition away from Autodesk products.
- Review of the emerging technologies affecting the BIM market
- A two-year vision plan for moving to lower-cost alternatives
- A radar map of the notable AI tools on the way
BIM
Market research
AI radar
Research project / Client confidential
AI for CAD drawing and model generation
A study of the arrival of AI that generates CAD drawings and CAD models, and how a company can put those tools to the test.
- Review of the market and of the startups building in it
- A strategy for assessing and trialling the tools in a sandbox environment
- Assessment strategies for comparing them
- Brokered discussions with AI startups
CAD
Generative AI
Startup review
05 / About
Paul Empringham
Managing Consultant
Paul is a consultant and programme manager for enterprise-scale digital initiatives in the engineering, energy, architecture and construction industries.
He has over 20 years of experience delivering end-to-end, multi-million-dollar projects: coordinating business process design, agile software development, acceptance testing, change management and building DevOps teams. He also works with C-suite leaders on process improvement, capability reviews and technology maturity.
Career highlights include the on-time, on-budget programme management of a mission-critical upgrade for 1,200 users in UK defence, covering CAD, enterprise PLM, user hardware and the server stack; and the business case and delivery of server-based remote GPU workstations to keep data secure at globally remote sites.
20+
years in digital transformation
1,200
users in a single mission-critical upgrade
$100k+
saved for AEC firms on specialist software licences
07 / Contact
Still happy to talk
EnableXR is not taking on new engagements, but questions about digital twins, BIM or XR are always welcome.
info@enablexr.ioDubai, United Arab Emirates