Successful cooperation between ODS and Leonhard Obermeyer Center

Leonhard Obermeyer Center

The Leonhard Obermeyer Center bundles the scientific expertise of over 80 researchers at the Technical University of Munich. It is considered a think tank for strategic developments for questions about digital methods in architecture, civil engineering, geodesy and geoinformatics.

The role of the ODS

Markus Hochmuth, CEO of OBERMEYER Digital Solution, represents the interests of the OBERMEYER Group as the central contact person on behalf of OBERMEYER Holding, including at the LOC Day and the LOC Round Tables. In 2025, OBERMEYER hosted the LOC Summer Round Table on the topic of "Gen. AI for the Built Environment".

Dr. Marco Häußler, CTO of OBERMEYER Digital Solution, represented OBERMEYER at the Software Lab 2025.

The ODS maintains contacts with the professorships as well as with the management of the LOC.

Software Lab 2025

In 2025, ODS accompanied two groups, each consisting of 3 students, who had to solve a problem formulated by ODS. The core idea of this course is that students implement a typical technical application to solve a real-world computational problem.

Project AI-VIS

Task: "Develop a prompt-based AI visualization tool for infrastructure BIM models that converts raw model data into realistic renderings and animations by adding various objects and settings to the scene."

Result: Realistic renderings were created from graphically simple-looking 3D geometries created from BIM tools such as ProVI, Siemens NX or Revit with the help of various technologies. The tools used included Nvidia Omniverse, Cesium and various freely available AI tools.

With the help of such technologies, information materials for public participation and stakeholder management can be produced more easily and of higher quality than was previously possible.

Project RoboCon

Task: "Development of a technology for real-time interaction between BIM and robots on construction sites. The aim is to support construction site logistics with autonomously driving robots that transport freight on the construction site."

Result: The initial situation was assumed to be that building materials would be available at a central storage location near the project area and then automatically transported to a storage area near the actual installation site at the right time. The planned quantities are determined from 3D data. Based on the available time information (4D), the created technology can independently determine which component must be available at which time at which sub-storage area. The robot used drives the building materials to the corresponding sub-storage area on time and autonomously.

The automation of selected logistics processes can help to plan and prepare construction sites more efficiently. For OBERMEYER, robotics can become a unique selling point in the competition between construction planning service providers, as the interaction between robotics and infrastructure construction sites has various dependencies that can be optimized through forward-looking planning.

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