Oh hey, it’s the Re/Cap Podcast with Ellis Malmgren!
This week’s cappenings:
Capturing a 4th-century BCE Greek shipwreck…20 years ago
A Titanic digital twin we’ll never let go of, Jack
300,000-image Gaussian splatting
A tacklebox of tech for offshore wind farms and the life around them
Four contech firms proving AI ain’t no buzzword
An AEC error of the Week in which the world’s tallest library threw a brick fit
Quick caps:
[Article] The Competitive Edge of Innovation in Architecture https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/design-beyond-tradition-the-competitive-edge-of-innovation-in-architecture
[Video] Engineering The Future With Digital Twins at LSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJraGVZqAkk
[Article] Disaster recovery is just the start for this Bentley-Google collab https://www.engineering.com/disaster-recovery-is-just-the-start-for-this-bentley-google-collab/
[Video] Drone News: Zipline Expands, Drone Detectors at Border, BRINC Raises 75m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYOdEjQHaxs
[Article] Revit 2026 marks 25 years of BIM innovation—What’s New
https://architosh.com/2025/04/revit-2026-marks-25-years-of-bim-innovation-whats-new/
[Case Study] Kentucky Students Use VR to Enter Demanding Workplaces https://www.xrtoday.com/virtual-reality/kentucky-students-use-vr-to-enter-demanding-workplaces/
Timestamps
0:00 Topic overview
0:26 A sneak peek
0:44 Pre/Cap: Capturing a 4th-century BCE Greek shipwreck…20 years ago
3:02 Quick cap stories
3:20 Leo, If You Were King of the World, This is the Digital Twin of the World
5:13 A New Tier of Gaussian Splatting is Taking Imaging Beyond Imagination
7:21 Birds and the Buoys: AI LiDAR, Geo Data, and Smarter Offshore Wind Farms
9:04 Four Contech Firms Are Bulldozing Old Workflows with AI
13:41 AEC Error of the Week: University of Massachusetts Amherst W.E.B DuBois Library’s Brick Spalling
Main Re/Cap sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy6gjwd0g6o
https://radiancefields.com/infinite-realities-the-future-of-imaging
https://www.constructiondive.com/news/contech-firms-ai-offerings-robot/744639/
http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=d:du_bois_library
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