For the St. Vincents University Hospital project, Scott Tallon Walker has designed new out patients areas, accident and emergency facilities, and consulting rooms. The project also includes a partly underground car park. The building construction is now well underway, following extensive use of RenderDrive created images throughout the design and planning stages.

Scott Tallon Walker has been producing 3D renderings using 3dsmax for a number of years, but had been frustrated by the limitations of the various visualization tools that they tried. Once introduced to ART’s 3D rendering solutions, Scott Talon Walker realised they could get both the realism they were looking for and the productivity and flexibility they demanded.

Mark Spelman, visualization manager at Scott Tallon Walker, explains, “The software solution we were using previously forced us to model in a certain way to avoid rendering problems, and then came to a grinding standstill when dealing with the size of models that we create. RenderDrive gives us the realism we were looking for, and it copes with all the geometry that we can throw at it.”

Other projects where RenderDrive is playing an important role for Scott Tallon Walker include a new 20-Acre development in the Dockland area in Dublin containing a mixture of office, retail and residential developments, and a Motorway Services scheme including hotel, food halls and restaurant located on the M1 motorway north of Dublin.

Scott Tallon Walker employs almost 100 staff in its offices in Dublin, Galway and London. The practice uses Autodesk AutoCAD software as its principle CAD design tool, running on around 60 workstations. These CAD models are then imported into 3dsmax where Mark Spelman and his colleagues create visualizations with RenderDrive. “Architectural models are, by their nature, polygon intensive”, comments Spelman. “RenderDrive has given us the flexibility to model what we want, and the clients love the results.”