BIM Revolutionizing South Africa’s Built Environment: From Rural Bridges to Smart Villages

What smart tech?

Okay.

Right.

Um, BIM being the backbone, remember BIM would be the vehicle to collect the data

for those

areas.

So the first thing that we need to look at is the people that are working in those areas currently, the type of tools that they have.

So for me, the first thing is always education, empowering the influencers of those communities, right? And that obviously involves geographical information systems and your information models.

So that's a vehicle for me that collects the data.

That's the first part to create and get that digital trend.

And I'm looking at an area that's rural like that, but with a lot of opportunities specifically.

I'm sure it's an agri-village because there's a lot of farming, et cetera, et cetera.

We're able to...

We introduce solar with patches, right? We can run analysis using BIM, right, to see how much power can go in there, how much power can be generated back to the grid as well.

Right.

There's a thing on microgrids with those solar roofs, etc., etc., solar panels.

We start creating microgrids around the community where it starts serving itself, right? Something that's already being done in probably in the suburban areas is smart metering, right? For electricity that can get connected back to your digital twin, right? So as a city,

your municipality, instead of,

I don't know if they still walk around and read meters,

smart metering basically

connects back to your, Municipality.

Municipality and how the

guys control the usage of power in the area.

Right.

Another very nice thing that's coming up, because we're creating these 3D models, right, and It's a technology that's not very popular yet in South Africa, right? And something that we've been working on at Modena, right, is assisting guys with like modular housing.