Associate Director, 2019–26Open to senior roles and contract workLondon, UK
A lot of infrastructure decisions are still made from reports about what happened last week. I build engineering-grounded digital twins for transport, energy and major infrastructure, so teams can decide what to do next.
Air-gapped by defaultBIM to real-timeDesktop, web & VR
Client work is anonymised. Independent R&D is marked.
THE WORKDrive, fly or walk through the tunnel at any point in the 4D construction programme, with virtual CCTV cameras placed along the tunnel, showing simulated traffic. One environment served engineering review, public consultation and operator training.
DECISION VALUEThe same asset carried the project from design through to operations.
THE WORKEvery vehicle from a VISSIM run, replayed in Unreal Engine 5 on its recorded path, with pedestrian, fly-through and vehicle-follow views.
DECISION VALUEPlanning committees and local communities can watch the modelled traffic before anything is built.
THE WORKA fictional 18-turbine North Sea wind farm in Unreal Engine 5. Live weather drives it, and scripted scenarios cover a storm-access call and a main-bearing fault.
DECISION VALUEPuts a revenue-at-risk figure on a storm-access call and a fault isolation while the decision is still open.
// DELIVERED WORK / CLIENT PROJECTS 2013–2026
These projects were delivered for clients in a previous role. The imagery isn’t mine to publish, so here is what each one did.
4D construction models converted into a self-contained environment that runs inside a secure network, with no internet connection.
Interactive inductions for power-generation and carbon-capture facilities across VR, web and mobile, so workers knew the site before they set foot on it.
A vendor’s baggage-handling simulation turned into a real-time environment for a major international airport, so coordination issues were resolved before installation.
Motorway scenarios for a national road operator, testing how roadside activity affects driver attention without closing a live road.
Masterplans and construction schedules for overseas port authorities turned into interactive environments, so each phase could be seen before it was committed to.
// PROVEN IN PRACTICE
CGI first, real-time simulation since 2016
Set the technical direction and led delivery
Across transport, energy and ports
Several environments are still in use. The oldest is nine years old.
DYNAMIC 3D COMMUNICATION (D3C)
I call it Dynamic 3D Communication. I take the engineering and project data a team already has and turn it into an environment they can explore and question.
One shared model where engineers and non-specialists test assumptions before anyone commits.
Inductions and operator training that stay in use long after handover.
Everything runs locally, with no cloud dependency, for secure and critical sites. I’m eligible for SC clearance.
CARLOS OLIVEIRA LOPES
I joined a global engineering consultancy in 2013 as a visualiser and left in 2026 as Associate Director of its immersive simulation practice. Between 2017 and 2020 I won most of the team’s work and grew it from two people to eight at peak. Before that, I spent six years co-running a visualisation studio in Porto.
I use AI-assisted and agentic workflows, with cloud models where a site allows them and local ones where it doesn’t.
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