For a long time, Robert Yuan has engaged in studying technologies and products in the field of Computer Graphics, CAD and BIM. And he owns 2 technology patents in U.S. (Primitive quadric surface extraction from unorganized point cloud data; Pipe reconstruction from unorganized point cloud data).

He has abundant experiences of business researching, development managing, and international teams leading. He has worked for GLODON for seven years and worked for AUTODESK INC. and MONTREAL UNIVERSITY as Senior Development Manager and Postdoctoral Researcher.

Considering the development needs of the AEC industry and related technologies, QS BIM software companies in China are driving two trends of QS BIM software’s development for the future.

• Extend its application to the whole life cycle of building projects
  • Now QS BIM software is used mainly in the bidding phase, because it still cannot meet the requirement in the design and construction phases.
  • As we can see, some large construction companies have been acquiring design companies, and the integration of design and construction is a probable trend of this industry. So, QS BIM software has to be strengthened, so that it can be applied in all the phases (design, bidding, and construction). This will be quite necessary for improving the effectiveness of construction companies’ work.
• Combine with Big Data
  • The Big Data concept is developing rapidly now in all fields. It will also change the QS work of this industry. Combining the Big Data concept and QS BIM software, enormous data of a great number of building projects (price lists, material quantities, BIM models, construction workers' time input, building components and equipment, etc.) will be collected and accumulated into a database. With this, before the QS work on a new project starts, the QS BIM software can first analyze those data. With the analysis results, the subsequent QS work across the whole building life cycle will be rather easy and accurate. This will mean “Smart QS”.

Dr Yuan will give a detailed update of the above development.