Oh hey, it’s the Re/Cap Podcast with Ellis Malmgren!

This week’s cappenings:

• Capturing a 4th-century BCE Greek shipwreck…20 years ago

• A Titanic digital twin we’ll never let go of, Jack

• 300,000-image Gaussian splatting

• A tacklebox of tech for offshore wind farms and the life around them

• Four contech firms proving AI ain’t no buzzword

• An AEC error of the Week in which the world’s tallest library threw a brick fit 

  
  

Quick caps:

[Article] The Competitive Edge of Innovation in Architecture https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/design-beyond-tradition-the-competitive-edge-of-innovation-in-architecture

[Video] Engineering The Future With Digital Twins at LSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJraGVZqAkk

[Article] Disaster recovery is just the start for this Bentley-Google collab https://www.engineering.com/disaster-recovery-is-just-the-start-for-this-bentley-google-collab/

[Video] Drone News: Zipline Expands, Drone Detectors at Border, BRINC Raises 75m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYOdEjQHaxs

[Article] Revit 2026 marks 25 years of BIM innovation—What’s New

https://architosh.com/2025/04/revit-2026-marks-25-years-of-bim-innovation-whats-new/

[Case Study] Kentucky Students Use VR to Enter Demanding Workplaces https://www.xrtoday.com/virtual-reality/kentucky-students-use-vr-to-enter-demanding-workplaces/

Timestamps

0:00 Topic overview

0:26 A sneak peek

0:44 Pre/Cap: Capturing a 4th-century BCE Greek shipwreck…20 years ago

3:02 Quick cap stories

3:20 Leo, If You Were King of the World, This is the Digital Twin of the World

5:13 A New Tier of Gaussian Splatting is Taking Imaging Beyond Imagination

7:21 Birds and the Buoys: AI LiDAR, Geo Data, and Smarter Offshore Wind Farms

9:04 Four Contech Firms Are Bulldozing Old Workflows with AI

13:41 AEC Error of the Week: University of Massachusetts Amherst W.E.B DuBois Library’s Brick Spalling

Main Re/Cap sources:

https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/autonomous-underwater-vehicle-maps-ancient-greek-shipwreck/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy6gjwd0g6o

https://radiancefields.com/infinite-realities-the-future-of-imaging

https://www.tomorrowsworldtoday.com/artificial-intelligence/new-ai-monitoring-protects-birds-supports-offshore-wind-farms/

https://www.constructiondive.com/news/contech-firms-ai-offerings-robot/744639/

http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=d:du_bois_library

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