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Hamish Visser

Tools

Things built to remove manual effort, and the standards that decide whether they get used. FME pipelines, Grasshopper definitions, internal systems, and workflows that turn a week of someone's time into a process that runs in seconds.

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    Parametric Earthworks Modelling

    Parametric DesignEarthworks / Geotechnical 2026Earthworks volumes that recalculate the moment the geometry moves, benchmarked against Civil 3D, InfraWorks, OpenRoads and 12d Model. It is the only one of them that reads borehole logs and puts a number on how much rock sits above formation level before the price goes in.
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    CAD to GIS Workflow

    GISData Automation 2025The workflow that took asset delivery on a major London infrastructure scheme from several weeks to the same day. CAD drawings in; schema-compliant GIS files, a live web map and attribute-driven 3D asset models out. Runner Up in the VINCI Group Innovation Awards.
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    Design to Unreal Engine Pipeline

    GIS3D Visualisation 2023A complete Unreal Engine world generated from geospatial and design data in under an hour, as native landscape rather than mesh, so collisions, splines and drive-throughs all behave. Visualisation stops being a one-off commission and becomes something worth re-running every time the design moves.
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    Drawing Checker Tool

    Data AutomationQuality Assurance 2026Title block QA that most UK contractors still do by hand, done in FME instead. A 462-drawing package is read, validated against project-specific rules and reported pass or fail with error detail, in 2.8 seconds.
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    GIS Process Guide

    Standards / GovernanceISO 19650 2026The document that decides how spatial data is produced on every Taylor Woodrow project. ISO 19650 aligned, eight steps from CDE setup through to archive, named roles either side of a peer review gate. Authored solo, peer reviewed and formally approved as the company standard.
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    Pavement Quantity Tool

    Earthworks / GeotechnicalComputational Design 2026Pavement quantity take-off straight from design surfaces, survey data and CAD layouts, with no corridor model to build first. Assessments that took days run in minutes and re-run as the design moves, the output has been reconciled against client figures, and a draft quantity report comes out of the same run.
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    Public Data Scrape

    GISAutomation 2026Draw a site boundary and get back a written constraints report. The workflow queries every public REST service covering the area, heritage through to gas infrastructure, and hands the features to an LLM, which also states which datasets it could not reach.
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    Automated Document Compliance

    Data AutomationQuality Assurance 2025Two FME workflows that audit an entire project document register: 17 information standards applied to every document in the CDE, then 13 further checks against the TIDPs. The first run flagged over 600 non-compliant documents, 100 duplicate TIDP entries and 3,000 unmatched codes, in under a minute.
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    Semi-Automated Retaining Walls

    Parametric DesignComputational Design 2022The script that let a social housing team deliver in 3D on a fee quoted for 2D drawings. Wall type is chosen from height and design ground level, and concrete volume, price and embodied carbon travel with each wall object through Speckle into the federated model.
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    Point Cloud Floor Plan Extraction

    Point Cloud ProcessingAutomation 2021Floor plans pulled out of a building scan with a slider running from true as-built fidelity through to perfectly orthogonal geometry. Commercial scan-to-BIM tools make that decision for you at the point of extraction. This one leaves it as an input.
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    Company GIS Portal

    GISPortal Development 2026A GIS portal homepage written by hand in HTML and CSS instead of assembled from an Experience Builder template, so it does not look like every other Esri portal, and curated so an engineer who has never opened GIS can still get something out of it.
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    Healthy Eateries Map

    GISAutomation 2026Four systems wired into one pipeline for a wellbeing week. Staff rate a restaurant in Microsoft Forms, a nightly FME job scores it, and an ArcGIS dashboard updates the map and the leaderboard. Used by 20 colleagues in its first week.
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    Cottons Farm

    GISAsset Management 2025Every asset in a school geolocated, from boilers down to first aid kits, fed live from the spreadsheet the client already kept. A Matterport walkthrough sits in the same interface, with each asset located in both views off a single record.
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    Automatic Wind Farm Road Network

    Parametric DesignTerrain Analysis 2022The travelling salesman problem with a hillside attached. A Grasshopper tool that permits a road segment only where the ground grade allows one, then runs generative design through what is left, so the route across a 100-turbine wind farm comes back buildable rather than merely short.
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    Parametric Cross-Section Tool

    Parametric DesignPoint Cloud Processing 2021Cross-section sheets that regenerate rather than being rebuilt. A Grasshopper tool that slices any 3D geometry along an alignment and packages each section into a finished PDF with title block, legend and scale bar, without the geometry restrictions the standard section-view tools impose.

Also

  • 3D Camera Icons2024
  • Survey to 3D Model2024
  • Geolocated PDF Markup Extraction2022
  • Turbine Hardstand Alignment2022