Success Story
Reid Engineering is an Environmental and Civil Engineering consulting firm headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA. Reid Engineering was looking to move from AutoCAD to Revit for piping, tank, and equipment design to be used on projects involving wastewater facilities. This presented a need for a Revit solution using as much of the “out of the box” content as possible, but with some customization to achieve their standards for design and documentation.
Reid Engineering needed their team trained on how to use Revit for their designs. The company usually does not have an architect working on the building shell itself and required the users to draw up the utility building to complete their pipe designs. This meant the Revit training would need both MEP and architectural components reviewed. They also needed to customize their Revit template for their specific use.
To prepare for the training class, the CADD Microsystems Consultant reviewed the customer’s sample drawings, and did some discovery around user requirements. With this information, the CADD Consultant created a custom Revit class for the team that reviewed the architectural components and piping aspects of Revit. During the 3-day class, the Consultant reviewed how to set up a project, the overall interface, and used one of their existing projects to show how to set up architectural and piping elements. The class was delivered virtually to accommodate scheduling constraints.
During the training class, the CADD Consultant used the time to truly understand the needs of the users, and how Revit could be customized to fit their specific requirements. Getting this feedback directly from the users, they were able to brainstorm together and define the particular way they needed to work the content in their roles. After delivering the class, the CADD Consultant then worked with the Reid Engineering stakeholders to create what they required in their Revit template.
Reid Engineering had specific needs for their design team, and how they needed to utilize Revit. By understanding what their unique uses were, CADD was able to tailor services to fit exactly what they needed to successfully use Revit for their drawings.
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Ferguson Enterprises is a large wholesale supplier of commercial and residential plumbing services located in Newport News, Virginia. Their facilities management group was expanding, and their facility manager came across a challenge. A small team within their group was working with a general contractor on a project, who was using the Autodesk software PlanGrid. The team had not used PlanGrid before and did not have access to the software.
Transitioning to Autodesk Build to Increase Communication and Visibility
InstallNET provides professional project management services for the installation of office furniture across the United States and Canada. InstallNET has used PlanGrid for quality reporting and project management. Their subscription to PlanGrid was expiring, and they wanted to explore solutions that could provide more robust capabilities for issues management and improve their overall workflow and efficiency.
Transitioning to Autodesk Build
A Morton Thomas & Associates (AMT) is a multidisciplinary engineering and design consultancy headquartered in Rockville, MD, with 20 offices throughout the eastern US. AMT holds contracts with multiple states in the Mid-Atlantic region to provide construction engineering inspection and construction management of highway construction projects for each state’s respective Department of Transportation. As part of their contract requirements for their Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) contract, AMT had standardized on Autodesk PlanGrid for project and field management. When their current PlanGrid contract was up for renewal, AMT worked closely with CADD Microsystems and Autodesk to ensure that they procured the correct solution to meet their current project requirements and to ensure they had the right solution for the future, as they anticipate the potential future contract requirement changes with their DOT clients.
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