On Thursday, 18 May 2023, the international round of the Student Scientific and Professional Activities Competition (SVOČ) 2023 took place. This year, the international round took place at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. In the Geodesy and Cartography section our faculty was represented by Bc. Martin Chladil and Bc. Adam Kocourek with their work 3D modeling of historical building for BIM.

In the Geodesy and Cartography section, a total of seven competition papers were presented:

- 3D modelling of a historical building for BIM (Bc. Martin Chladil, Bc. Adam Kocourek - BUT in Brno)

- Spatial data in the next dimension: 3D printing and GIS (Bc. Jakub Šperka, STU Bratislava)

- Comparison of GNSS measurement results using EGNOS and EDAS systems (Josef Jehlička, CTU Prague)

- Testing of standard deviations of total station measurements with automatic targeting within a geodetic microgrid (Bc. Hana Váchová, Czech Technical University Prague)

- Elaboration of documents for a tourist guide in a selected region (Alžbeta Kavecká, ŽU Žilina)

- Assessment of the suitability of UAV data for the creation of a quarry base map (Peter Otruba, Žilina University of Technology)

- Arrangement of land ownership in Slovakia (Kristína Drdáková, STU Bratislava)

The first place went to our students' work on 3D modelling of a historical building for BIM. Within the work, a point cloud of the historical building of the rectory in Cetkovice was taken by laser scanning. Based on this point cloud, a BIM model of the rectory was subsequently created in Revit. From this model, not only the construction documentation was generated, but also the visualization of the interior and exterior with the addition of realistic PBR (reality-based rendering) textures.

Due to the large articulation and irregularity of this baroque building, the whole process of creating the model and subsequent visualisations was very time consuming. The students reported that this work took them more than a thousand hours!

We congratulate both of our students on their great success and wish them a successful completion of their state final exams.