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Engineering Consultants

LWK + PARTNERS designed the Crown Jewel

of Emaar’s Downtown Dubai “Burj Crown”

LWK + PARTNERS has completed the design
package for the latest project “Burj Crown” by
Emaar.The luxury residential development is the
fi nal addition to Dubai’s renowned Downtown
Skyline.A unique urban residential destination
that was launched at the beginning of 2020 by
His Excellency Mohamed Alabbar, Founder and
Chairman of Emaar Properties.
The 44-storey tower has Dubai’s iconic landmarks
including world’s tallest Burj Khalifa, largest
performing fountains and Dubai Opera as its
backdrop. Designing with close proximity to such
energizing and iconic sites is both challenging
and exhilarating, however the experienced design
team developed a resolved scheme that unities the
intriguing synergies of this city and complements
the regions’ urban style with panache.Burj Crown
comes with endless possibilities and experiences.

Khatib & Alami partners with Canada’s

vGiS to expand its GIS and BIM capabilities

visualize digitally created objects within the
real-world view, a statement from K&A said. AR
can also offer the ability to interact with these
objects via smart phones and headset devices, it
added.
Through its strategic partnership with vGIS, K&A
can provide clients with accurate AR views of the
surrounding infrastructure at project sites, such as
utility networks or proposed engineering designs.
This will signifi cantly enhance the detection of
potential clashes or other errors which can lead
to delays or cost overruns, while supporting
stakeholder collaboration, the consultancy said in
its statement.
“GIS, BIM and AR can be used together to display
Khatib & Alami (K&A), the international infrastructure and utilities in-fi eld and in real-time,
multi-disciplinary consultancy, has announced that helping designers, project managers and fi eld
is has further extended its Geographic Information workers to locate the right assets faster, saving
System (GIS) and Building Information Modeling time and preventing costly errors and delays,”
(BIM) capabilities after partnering with says Manal Sayed, Senior Director of GSI at K&A.
Canada-based vGIS, a specialist fi rm in visualizing “By incorporating AR into enterprise GIS data that
hidden infrastructure through Augmented Reality can be viewed as a natural extension of the real
(AR) technology. world, users will be able to see their geospatial
AR provides users with an interactive experience data around them in the most understandable way
of a real-world environment, enabling them to possible,” he concluded.

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