CADsoft Consult has a proven track record of helping customers implement Autodesk Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions. Through the integrated BIM process, architects, engineers, builders, and owners have the ability to explore a project’s key physical and functional characteristics digitally—before it’s built. This allows them to design, analyze, document and deliver designs from the conceptual phase through the construction phase, and beyond. By using coordinated, data-rich information models, all members of a project can contribute to its success through improved accuracy, less waste, and the ability to make informed decisions earlier in the process.  

The Autodesk approach to BIM provides a broad portfolio of integrated, state-of-the-art applications that help deliver projects faster, more economically, and with reduced environmental impact. Through comprehensive training and support, CADsoft Consulting helps you leverage BIM to truly experience your ideas before they’re real.

Renovations and Retrofits

Energy retrofits and renovations contribute positively to sustainability. In most areas of the world, buildings are the largest consumers of energy and contributors to carbon emissions. Making buildings more efficient is one of the fastest, most cost-effective ways to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.

Renovations and energy retrofits can also help to lower utility costs for owners. A recent report by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) found that owners can save 90 cents a square foot annually after energy retrofitting. Additionally, the report notes that owners can earn back their investment in as few as two years. Beyond the desire to save on utility costs, owners are beginning to face investor and regulatory pressure to make their buildings more environmentally friendly. These factors are contributing to a potentially booming market for renovations and energy retrofits. With your help and Autodesk building information modeling (BIM) solutions, your architecture, MEP engineering, and structural engineering customers will be better positioned to win renovation and energy retrofit work.

Autodesk offers a comprehensive portfolio of BIM solutions that can help you create intelligent, detailed design models. For renovation and retrofit projects, architects and MEP engineers can leverage BIM in the creation of simple energy models that help enable faster, more accurate energy analysis of existing buildings. Structural engineers can use structural design models as the basis of structural simulation and analysis.

With Autodesk BIM solutions, you can:

• Quickly generate precise 3D models of existing buildings for energy analysis
• Help owners optimize improvements for energy efficiency and return on investment
• Design projects that achieve code compliance more seamlessly
• Deliver renovation and retrofit projects faster, more economically, and with reduced environmental impact
• Use the building information model for operational and verification purposes

Sustainable Design

Autodesk BIM solutions help make sustainable design practices easier, more efficient, and less costly by enabling project participants to create coordinated, digital design information and documentation. This information can then be used to more accurately visualize and simulate performance, appearance, and cost, thereby helping to deliver the project faster, more economically, and with the potential for reduced environmental impact. Much of the specific information required for sustainable design, analysis, code compliance, and certification becomes routinely available as a by-product of the design process, helping to save time and money.

Integrated Project Delivery

Integrated project delivery (IPD) is an emerging business model in the building industry that allows for the entire extended team to collaborate early in the process to make the most effective decisions together. The IPD process is built on behavior and contractual relationships that are greatly enhanced by incorporating the technology-based process of BIM. BIM helps project teams use consistent, reliable information in a common collaborative environment, increasing understanding of design intent, improving efficiency, and enabling new ways of working that inspire more sustainable design and construction.

Architecture

 BIM helps architects stay competitive in an increasingly complex business climate by giving them the ability to better predict the outcome of a building before it’s built. It enables the creation of more sustainable, accurate designs with fewer errors and less waste, which can result in higher profits and more satisfied clients. And through the delivery of reliable, coordinated building information, BIM helps architects collaborate with team members more easily.

MEP Engineering

BIM gives mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering professionals the ability to better predict the outcome of their systems before they are built. By creating and analyzing designs in a model, MEP professionals can deliver sophisticated, sustainable building systems more quickly and economically than ever before. Plus, increased visibility facilitates coordination and collaboration with architects and other engineers to significantly reduce errors and improve the accuracy and reliability of MEP engineering design and documentation.

Structural Engineering

BIM helps structural engineers stay flexible and competitive by giving them the ability to better predict the outcome of their structures before they are built. With BIM, structural design and documentation can be integrated earlier in the process, so design interferences can be addressed before construction begins. And bidirectional linking to analysis applications from leading industry and regional partners helps reduce coordination errors and improve accuracy. BIM also helps to more efficiently accommodate design changes as they occur, and improves coordination with extended teams.

Civil Engineering

BIM helps civil engineers predict the outcome of their land development, transportation, and environmental projects before they are built. By creating coordinated, reliable design information, civil engineers are able to respond to changes faster; optimize designs with analysis, simulation, and visualization; and deliver higher-quality designs and construction documentation. Plus, BIM enables the extended team to extract valuable civil data from an information model, which facilitates earlier decision making, more sustainable designs, and faster, more economic project delivery.

Construction

BIM helps construction professionals visualize, simulate, and analyze a project before construction even begins. BIM solutions can be used to perform quantity takeoffs, visualize construction processes through 4D simulation and clash detection, improve communication and collaboration among project stakeholders, and optimize execution in the field. Constructability is communicated and issues are flagged early on when changes are less expensive to make, thus minimizing material waste on-site, increasing productivity, and potentially lowering costs.

Real Estate (Commercial)

BIM provides unprecedented value to owners by helping them coordinate information, processes, communication, cost, and schedules across the building lifecycle. Owners can visualize options, analyze environmental impact, and evaluate costs of their projects before the onset of construction to help accelerate project delivery, manage budgets, reduce waste and risk, optimize building performance, and improve ongoing operation.

Government

BIM helps government agencies increase productivity and collaborate more effectively across design and construction teams. By using BIM, agencies can more quickly evaluate and better predict design alternatives so they can keep up with fast-changing policies—such as sustainability mandates. Because the best decisions can be made earlier in the process when changes are less expensive to make, agencies save time and money, minimize on-site waste, and improve the on-time delivery and utility of projects.