Kurt Maldovan is a Director of Practice Technology at Jacobs Buildings and Infrastructure, where he develops and implements technology based strategies to continuously add value and reduce waste within the practice.
As a recognized leader in the AEC industry with over 10 years of BIM and advanced visualization experience, he has been instrumental in the adoption of Virtual and Augmented Reality, interactive workspaces including CAVEs and visualization labs, and promoting collaboration through Big Room environments.
He has served as a panelist, moderator, and featured presenter at over 50 national and international conferences where he promotes the importance of forward thinking technology approaches and advanced BIM workflows. Kurt is also actively engaged with academic outreach and research including the advisory board for Penn State’s BIM project execution planning (PxP) and the BIM Planning Guide for Facility Owners.
How does a global engineering, design, construction, operations and maintenance firm with 77,000 employees in offices all over the world use AR and VR? Jacobs’ Kurt Maldovan shares his personal and company story of adopting XR for design visualization. For Jacobs, VR was a destination. Today, the company uses VR headsets for design review and validation, allowing all project stakeholders to walk through the same virtual model in real time, consider different scenarios, and make decisions. Jacobs is also taking AR out to the job site for stadium-scale projects, quality reviews, and safety procedures.
