BANC3 Engineering. Inc.

BANC3 Engineering, as the Construction Manager as Advisor (CMa) for the General Services Administration, recently completed the demolition and renovations to the 6th Floor (approximately 30,000 SF) of the Ted Weiss Federal Building at 290 Broadway in New York City. The new, high technology workspace was designed for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The space is expected to receive at least LEED Silver once certified.

The majority of the build-out was private offices. Special spaces in the design included interview and negotiation rooms, Bloomberg rooms, joint-use conference rooms on the 30th floor, a mothers' room, gender neutral bathroom, lobby space, pantries, copy and print centers, and large and small team conference rooms. In addition to our construction management services, we also managed the special inspections, standard commissioning, and enhanced commissioning.

BANC3 Engineering offers an innovative technology solution, Augmented Reality/Mixed Reality (AR/MR) X2 smart glasses, that provides unprecedented efficiencies while delivering compelling customer experiences - during these challenging times of the current and post COVID-19 pandemic.

The glasses allow the user to communicate directly with others in varying locations, sharing their visual viewpoint with live annotations, documents, and verbal and graphical instruction. It allows communication on a whole new level in terms of quality and without the expense or exposure of travel. BANC3 recently performed a virtual walk-through of our project in New York City for the General Services Administration (GSA). The participants in the virtual walk-through were spread throughout the region, but each were afforded a detailed inspection of the project site through the X2 glasses and the MR Workspace suite of applications. The entire team, from each of their locations, shared their voices and their vision on the project's progress through the technology interface including screen-shots of the video with annotation and digital feed. This reduces cost by allowing more efficient use of resources, eliminating unnecessary travel, and increasing transparency with stakeholders, while improving Project Management and enhancing e-Construction. All session data is recorded and archived on the cloud. In this way, if there is any claim down the road, the info can be easily retrieved for future reference.

• The investment in the X2 AR/MR smart glasses is recovered within 1 to 2 trips due to the cost savings of reduced expert time and travel costs to train a field engineer, not to mention the current social distancing and other "new normal" requirements.

• More benefits will follow – Overlaying 3D Drawings, Distance Training, Enhanced Work Safety, Asset Management, Construction Inspection, Assessments, and Generating Instant CAD drawings, among many more.

The benefits of X2 AR/MR smart glasses were presented for Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) at Turner Fairbanks Highway Research facility in Washington and were acknowledged for their capabilities in enhancing work processes in the A/E/C industry.

In addition, the X2 glasses have an Open Architecture Platform to use with applications instantly such as AutoCAD, Bentley, BIM, and others.

BANC3 Engineering will be glad to assist your firm to be familiar with and deploy this game-changing digital AR/MR solution, presenting a whole new world of possibilities for the A/E/C industry by increasing quality, enhancing safety, and higher profitability.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Brian Duke via email or phone at 609.436.5800 x305.