The groundbreaking ceremony for Roxbury, Mass.,-based Suffolk Construction's new 40,000-sq.-ft. headquarters expansion included a hologram — which could only be seen through virtual-reality glasses — projected in the lobby that allowed visitors to walk around and examine the planned expansion.
“We are going to be front and center on the new technologies,” said Chris Mayer, Suffolk’s chief innovation officer. “Core to all of that is really our virtual design and construction process.”
Mayer said the focus will be on virtual and augmented reality, technologies he said will make planning and design easier and better. Augmented reality — where an image is superimposed on a real world scene — could be used to see how an in-progress project will look when it’s finished.
