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September 2009

3 Reasons to visit Stand F10 at Civils 2009

·  Cities & Regeneration

·  Transport

·  Low Carbon Civilisation

The above three bullets are the principle subjects of this year’s

CIVILS 2009 25th – 26th November, London, Earls Court 2

Forum 8 – the Japanese 3D Visual Interactive Simulation Specialists will be demonstrating their award winning 3D VR software UC-win/Road and showing how it encompasses all three of this year’s exhibition subjects.

FORUM 8 produces state-of-the art 3D VR software and is at the forefront of 3D Visual Interactive Simulation technology.

Established in 1987 this award winning Japanese company has offices and partners on every continent. UC-win/Road is the company’s premier product leading the way in interactive high resolution 3D virtual reality transport, urban and emergency simulation markets worldwide.

Users can dynamically manipulate 3D space, import and edit 2D & 3D CAD data, build and texture block models, automatically build roads, tunnels & bridges, view multiple design alternatives in real-time, control the weather, as well as being able to visualize and edit intelligent traffic in ways previously not possible & much more… An ideal tool for urban, traffic and pedestrian planning and stakeholder consultation.

There are many plug-ins available including the Drive Simulator and Eco-Drive (for calculation of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of virtual vehicles).

In addition there are plug-ins that allow third party products to benefit from UC-win/Road’s unique visualisation capabilities. These include microsimulation products such as EXODUS as well as the popular transport microsimulation systems. A software development kit is also available as is a web interface that allows for online viewing and manipulation of the Forum 8 3D environments.

More information contact: Brendan Hafferty

Forum 8 European Office, Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn, London WC1V

T: +44 (0)20 7203 8300 M: +353 86 858 4873 W: www.forum8.com