UC San Diego

• 210,000 sq ft documented
• Gateway to UCSD campus
• 2,000-bed student housing

For UC San Diego's 2,000-bed undergraduate housing project, a roughly 210,000-square-foot development positioned as a major public gateway to the campus, the project team needed a production partner capable of carrying a large, detail-heavy documentation set through construction while staying coordinated with multiple outside consultants and design studios. /slantis, a production studio built by architects for architects, was brought in to develop the required Revit documentation.

AVAIL supported that work by giving the production team a centralized way to manage and reuse Revit content, including drafting views, schedules, and system families, across a project of this scale. With AVAIL's library and project-search tools available in Revit, the documentation team could locate and standardize shared content more efficiently while multiple studios worked on different parts of the same large housing project at once.

The project's biggest challenge was managing complex construction details while meeting the client's standards on a 2,000-bed, roughly 210,000-square-foot undergraduate housing development serving as a major public gateway to the UC San Diego campus. Detailing at this scale required a level of precision that had to hold up across every phase of construction documentation.

A second, equally significant challenge was coordination: multiple consultants and design studios were working on the project simultaneously, which meant keeping shared Revit content, drafting views, schedules, and system families, consistent and up to date across every team working on the same large housing development.

Before bringing in a dedicated production studio like /slantis, a project of this scale and complexity would typically fall to an in-house documentation team, or require hiring additional staff for the duration of the project. For a 2,000-bed, roughly 210,000-square-foot student housing development serving as a campus gateway, that kind of internal staffing model can strain a firm's capacity, especially while coordinating with several outside consultants and design studios working on the same site simultaneously.

Managing the shared Revit content that a project of this size generates, drafting views, schedules, system families, and similar library assets, without a centralized content management platform like AVAIL would also mean teams tracking and standardizing that content manually across every studio involved, adding time and inconsistency to an already complex coordination effort.

Producing complete documentation for a 2,000-bed, roughly 210,000-square-foot undergraduate housing project positioned as a major public gateway to UC San Diego required a level of coordination that few in-house teams could absorb without strain. Bringing in /slantis as a dedicated production studio meant the detailed construction documentation could be carried through consistently, even while the client's standards demanded precision on every drawing.

AVAIL played a supporting role in that effort by giving the documentation team a centralized way to manage, search, and reuse shared Revit content, drafting views, schedules, and system families, so that content stayed consistent across the multiple consultants and design studios working on the project at the same time. That combination helped keep a large, multi-studio housing project coordinated through to completion.