In this article, we will share with you the experience of one successful Irish company about BIM Collaborate Pro.
Alan Woods, head of the company’s engineering department, and Eoghan Keenan, talk about the core values of the program, which significantly increases the effective work of their teams in one space.
,,The construction industry, it’s a very fast-paced industry. To continue to be competitive, to win projects, you have to be constantly looking for new innovation, new efficiencies.
In our office, we have a great engineering and BIM team. We’re producing very detailed Revit BIM models. And there’s no point having it here in the model and not having it out on the site, so for us one of our main ambitions is to get the site teams using the BIM model. We started our collaboration with Autodesk almost a year ago. We started to investigate the use of BIM Collaborate Pro, so we took a small case study of one of our projects, the model was hosted on our Revit server here in our head office. There was a lot of Linked files and on the server, you have to sync everything.
With BIM Collaborate Pro, it recognized the changes and only pushed those up to the cloud, so half-an-hour sync beforehand was reduced to maybe five or six minutes.
We overall had a 12000 EUR saving.
Collaboration, that’s the most important piece of construction. Everybody has access to the latest information.
We’re able to have people working remotely. We can work on the live models together. We have access throughout the world to our models. We’ve teams in India and in the UK, and we will all be pushing and pulling from the same kind of project, so it kind of reduces the silo. BIM Collaborate Pro also allows for a hybrid working system. When you give someone a task, you see that he’s completed it, and you get a notification back down, and also it kind of creates a to-do list, if you like, where it’s a live feed. The whole project team can see this and update it as necessary. We’re not waiting weeks, we’re not sending emails left, right and center to everybody to get their files in, and then organizing them and uploading them somewhere.
Currently, we are working together with the Autodesk team moving away from the server, and we’re looking to host all our CAD files within BIM Collaborate Pro. At the moment, we’re using it a lot at the start of the projects for our collaboration, our coordination.
We want to now bring along the journey with us capturing the As-Built information and finishing off the project. So we have a full circle of BIM Collaborate Pro, from the start to the very end of the project. That’s a really key driver for us as part of our 2025 strategy to reduce our paper waste on-site. We mainly focused on the BIM team. We got our BIM technicians and coordinators up and using the software. Now we’re starting to cascade it down amongst the teams. Our project engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers are using BIM Collaborate Pro. We want to make sure that our people are using the best software, the best technology and their time is being used as most efficiently as possible. We’re getting our information quicker, which means we’re producing our drawings quicker, which means the site installation is getting done quicker, which will make us more competitive for future projects.
Therefore we recommend it to you:
- Improve Collaboration.
- Increase Workload Capacity.
- Improve Data Exchange.
- Be More Competitive.
Use BIM Collaborate Pro’’.
source: www.Autodesk.com