MBS SOFTWARE: TRUSTED SOLUTIONS
FOR DAYLIGHT & SUSTAINABILITY
Founded in 1997, MBS Survey Software Ltd is an independent
company specialising in providing bespoke software, expert
analysis and training for professionals within the built
environment.The business employs a small and highly motivated
team of software developers and analysts, led by Managing
Director David Maltby and Software Director Jason Bird, both
of whom have been with the company since its infancy and
continue to play hands-on roles.
“MBS products are the most widely used software
solutions of their kind in the UK and are increasingly
used all over the world. They are fully in line not just
with BRE guidelines and compliance tests, but also with
the latest climate-based modelling.”
MBS Products include the best selling Waldram Tools for
AutoCAD®; the recently developed Daylight for SketchUP®;
and Surveying Software. The Revit plugin is also soon to be
released.
These are enabling customers to carry out a range of tasks,
quickly and efficiently, within a familiar and intuitive software
environment. Tasks include:
• Master planning • Facade analysis • Solar glare studies
• BREEAM analysis • Transient shadow studies • Rays oflight.
MBS supports its range of software solutions, with
comprehensive training and information services designed
to get the most from the software, as well as professional
analysis, consultancy services and development of bespoke
solutions.
The company can also provide Laser Scanning and 3D modelling
services, in consultation with leading specialists in this field.
For further information about MBS Survey Software Limited
and its range of products & services, please contact David
Maltby or Jason Bird, on 020 3176 0984.
ETL Visual Services offers smarter virtual
show-rounds for the property market
ETL Visual Services, the computer graphics, videography and stills
photography division of digital forensics specialist Evidence Talks, has
used its experience with leading retail brands to develop a service for the
commercial and residential property market.
The company’s showreel includes examples of computer-generated
imagery (CGI), along with a portfolio of stills photography and product
shots.
Most focus, however, for architects and developers is likely to rest on the
ability to rapidly convert 3D models and to produce smart, ‘fly-through’
virtual show rounds for both commercial and residential property.
Computer-generated imagery allows models to be animated and keyed
within captured video footage, in turn enabling real world simulations,
step-by-step animations and exploded view sequences.
Company spokesman Jack Howell commented “CGI showcases building
designs that may otherwise prove challenging to show either in tradi-
tional drawings or as a physical 3D model. The most exciting and exact-
ing part of our work continues to be the production of computer-gener-
ated visualisations with realistic lighting effects and textures.”
Clients are already seeing benefits at both the concept stage, where
designs and layouts can be tested on a virtual platform to optimise costs
and reduce the time to market, and also in the marketing of property,
with virtual show-rounds providing a cost-effective sales aid.
The company’s range of related services, including a portable infinity
wall, is available to clients or agencies either on-site or at its own studios.
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