How To Make The Most Out Of The Speckle Viewer?

Productivity and collaboration are the building blocks of successful projects in the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry. Speckle provides a foundation for knowledge sharing and coordination among key stakeholders, encouraging effective workflows.

The following examples highlight different ways to improve productivity through real-time collaboration and data visualization. Here’s how different teams used our Speckle Viewer to do just that!

Carbon Transparency: Leveraging Speckle Viewer to Communicate Emissions

Ashkan is a computational designer specialist at Henning Larsen (HL) who’s passionate about tech and 3D data to create an impact in the AEC industry.

Ashkan told us about a recent project the HL team developed as part of an exhibition in Berlin. The team wanted to showcase the importance of calculating carbon impact in the early stages of design. They wanted to show how Lifetime Carbon Analysis (LCA) works in Denmark. It started as part of a competition project and ended as an impactful standalone product for HL’s strategy.

Not only were they able to highlight the importance of LCA projects, but they were also able to strengthen internal collaboration and communication. Communicating value and benefits with clients has never been this easy:

Here's what Henning Larsen’s Urban Decarb App that uses the Speckle 3D Viewer looks like - can check it out here!

urban decarb app

Thank you to Henning Larsen for sharing this with us.

Enabling Quick and Effective Collaboration

Time waste is a critical challenge in the AEC industry.

💡 Poor project data and miscommunication cause 52% of all rework in U.S. construction.

Ashkan highlights how Speckle makes it easy to share project results and gather feedback quickly. Its Open Source nature encourages collaboration and learning at scale, connecting professionals across industries for 3D modeling and visualization.

Sharing BIM Models Easily

Fabiana is a structural engineer specializing in BIM and Revit workflows. While consulting companies like GoVR, she discovered Speckle Viewer as an efficient way to share BIM models.

Speckle allowed her to embed models for direct collaboration, simplifying feedback collection.

With Speckle Viewer, teams can share models without sending PDFs or complex attachments—just a link or embedded viewer.

Taking Advantage of Speckle Viewer’s Open-Source Nature

The Speckle Viewer is an Open Source tool, meaning it is free to use and can be customised to fit your specific needs. A great example of this is Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s AI.sthetic built.

Victor Wonderley Barbosa (or VWB) is the Digital Practice Lead at SHL. He shared with us the impactful work of his team as they wanted to give performance feedback for facade images produced by AI or taken from a phone. Victor and his team used Speckle to deliver the following project which was presented at the AEC Hackathon earlier this year.

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Conclusion

There’s even more: the Speckle Viewer is capable of displaying geometry and data that come from more than 25 different applications, as well as IFC files.

Not only can you visualize them, but you can also overlay them to create federated models. Summing up, the Speckle Viewer is a powerful tool for visualizing, collaborating, and sharing 3D models in real-time.

By leveraging its capabilities, you can improve productivity and collaboration and drive innovation in the AEC industry - what will you do with it?