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The client loves the scheme, then asks what the facade looks like in brick instead of stone, and the meeting stalls because the only honest answer is "let me render that and get back to you." Every architect knows that stall.&nbsp;
At AEC+Tech, we've watched the AEC tools we cover get very good at making the picture look real. What's changing now is where that picture sits in the process, moving from documentation into the decision itself.&nbsp;
For most of the last decade, progress in architectural visualization has been measured in image quality. Physically accurate lighting, richer material systems, and real-time ray tracing have closed much of the gap between a render and a photograph. What used to count as exceptional is now the baseline clients expect.
Rendering has improved fast. One part of the workflow has barely moved.
Design reviews still lean on static images, pre-rendered animations, and fixed camera paths. Those outputs record decisions well enough, but they sit outside the conversation. The moment a meeting turns toward a different material, a new lighting condition, or an alternate scheme, the presentation stalls while someone prepares fresh visuals elsewhere.
That gap matters more as practice becomes more collaborative. Clients, consultants, engineers, and developers now weigh in across the whole design process, not only at the end. Meetings have turned into working sessions where decisions take shape in the room. The way architecture gets presented has to keep up with that.
So visualization is starting to play a different part. Beyond the final picture, it is becoming a medium for discussion, comparison, and decisions made on the spot. The next step forward may be interaction as much as realism.
Every architect knows the moment a client asks to see it another way and the room goes quiet waiting on new visuals. D5 says 3.1 closes that gap, and will <a href="https://www.d5render.com/webinars/whats-new-in-d5-3-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prove it live on July 21</a>
<h2 dir="ltr">Answer "Can We See It Another Way?" On the Spot&nbsp;</h2>
This is the thinking behind <a href="https://bit.ly/d5-3-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">D5 3.1.</a>
Plenty of tools compete on how convincing the picture looks. Fewer ask what happens to it once a room full of stakeholders starts pushing back.&nbsp;
The release starts from a practical question: how does visualization stay useful once the meeting starts?
D5's answer is Interactive Presentation, a workflow that lets architects organize a review like a slide deck while keeping the live project open behind it.
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Instead of preparing several image sets or separate animations ahead of time, teams can move between design schemes, materials, lighting, weather, viewpoints, and object visibility inside a single presentation. A question that used to interrupt the review can be explored right away. Real-time scene switching runs through slides and 3D triggers, so the flow of the meeting holds together.
The presentation becomes a working space for the design, one the team can steer as the discussion moves.
<h2 dir="ltr">Let Clients Walk the Space Before It Exists&nbsp;</h2>
Interactive Presentation sits inside a wider set of tools aimed at making review more interactive and easier to adapt to the room.
Stereoscopic Panorama brings depth-aware panoramic views to VR, which helps clients and project teams read scale, materials, and how spaces relate to one another. Better VR navigation and controller handling make VR walkthroughs steady enough for everyday reviews rather than occasional demos.
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Spatial Tour has moved along too, with faster scene generation, smoother transitions between indoor and outdoor spaces, and dollhouse views that make it simpler to move through a complicated project.
These tools sit alongside still renders and animations and widen the options, so a team can pick the right way to explore a design based on the audience, the project stage, and what the review needs to settle.
<h2 dir="ltr">Start Seeing the Design the Moment You Model It&nbsp;</h2>
The quality of any review depends on everything that happens before it.
As visualization gets pulled deeper into design work, architects increasingly want to test ideas while those ideas are still moving, instead of waiting for documentation to finish. In that sense, presentation begins earlier than the slide deck. It begins when a team first tries out form, light, material, atmosphere, and how a space feels to move through.
In practice, the visual thinking usually happens long before anyone opens presentation software, and tools have been slow to meet designers there.&nbsp;
That continuity reaches past D5 Render itself. After its earlier SketchUp release, D5 Lite now works inside Rhino and Revit, bringing real-time visualization into more of the tools architects already use. Designers can preview materials, lighting, and visual direction without leaving the modeling environment, which supports quicker exploration during concept work, massing studies, facade development, and iterative testing.
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D5 Lite is built for that early work, making design decisions more visual from the start. When a project needs higher-end imagery, animation, or an interactive presentation, the work carries on into D5 Render. Paired with Cloud Collaboration, distributed teams can review and share work with less reliance on manual file swaps or local hardware, which keeps things continuous from concept through client review.
<h2 dir="ltr">Photoreal That Holds Up When Clients Look Closely&nbsp;</h2>
As presentations get more interactive, the visuals behind them matter even more. A live scene only works if it holds up when someone leans in.
D5 Render 3.1 adds a set of production-focused improvements that strengthen realism while keeping real-time response.&nbsp;
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The move to an ACEScg working color space brings in a production-grade color pipeline, the kind used in film and visual effects, which improves color consistency across visualization and post-production. HeightField Tracing gives displacement materials richer surface relief without adding geometric weight, so brick, stone, and timber keep convincing physical depth even in large scenes.
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Landscape work gains more nuance through Seasonal Vegetation, which lets foliage and branch structure change by date and previews a full year of a planting scheme in one scene. A run of smaller refinements rounds it out, including Custom Pivot, MeasureLine, improved City Generator controls, smarter Auto Exposure, and wider Gaussian Splatting support. Each one trims repetitive adjustments and keeps production moving.
It adds up to one point. An interactive presentation is only as good as the rendering underneath it, and that rendering has to hold both fidelity and speed at once.
<h2 dir="ltr">From Better Images to Better Decisions&nbsp;</h2>
Architectural visualization has spent years chasing realism. That work continues, though realism on its own no longer defines the field.
As projects get more collaborative, the ability to move between options, respond to feedback, and explain a design in context is becoming just as important. Presentations are becoming part of the design process itself.
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D5 3.1 reflects that direction. It builds presentation into the design work, making visualization a place where ideas can be explored, compared, and refined with the people in the room.
Whether this turns out to be the next phase of the discipline is still an open question. The goal is clearly shifting, from producing better images toward better conversations about the work.
The biggest change in D5 3.1 sits outside the render itself. Visualization now stays in play through the whole conversation, long after the image is done.
<h2 dir="ltr">See it live&nbsp;</h2>
D5 will demonstrate the 3.1 workflow in a live webinar on Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 1:00 PM UTC, hosted by Jeff Espinoza, D5's Director of Customer Success and Services. The session covers D5 Lite for Rhino and Revit, Interactive Presentation, VR review, Stereoscopic Panorama, ACEScg, HeightField Tracing, and Seasonal Vegetation.
You can register using&nbsp;<a href="https://www.d5render.com/webinars/whats-new-in-d5-3-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this webinar page</a>, and anyone who registers but cannot attend will receive access to the recording.
To learn more about D5 Render, visit their <a href="../../../tools/d5-render" target="_blank" rel="noopener">page on aec+tech&nbsp;</a>or explore the latest features on the official <a class="_ymio1r31 _ypr0glyw _zcxs1o36 _mizu194a _1ah3dkaa _ra3xnqa1 _128mdkaa _1cvmnqa1 _4davt94y _4bfu18uv _1hms8stv _ajmmnqa1 _vchhusvi _kqswh2mm _ect4ttxp _syaz13af _1a3b18uv _4fpr8stv _5goinqa1 _f8pj13af _9oik18uv _1bnxglyw _jf4cnqa1 _30l313af _1nrm18uv _c2waglyw _1iohnqa1 _9h8h12zz _10531ra0 _1ien1ra0 _n0fx1ra0 _1vhv17z1" title="https://www.d5render.com/" href="https://www.d5render.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-renderer-mark="true" data-is-router-link="false" data-testid="link-with-safety">D5 Render website</a>.
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Niknaz Aftahi is the founder of AEC+Tech. This article was produced with materials from D5 as part of a partnership, and independently edited for the AEC+Tech community.
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D5 3.1 Wants to End the "We'll Render It Tomorrow" Moment

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<div>Most conversations about AI in construction start with speed.&nbsp;</div>
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<div>But a recent aec+tech conversation on AI-driven plan review made a more useful point: the tools save time, but the real reason to adopt them is risk.</div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0nEGFxC7as">This conversation</a> brought together Colton Johnson, Principal Engineer at Flint Engineering Company; Aakash Prasad, Co-founder and CEO of InspectMind AI; and Simon G. Solorio, President of Solorio Inc. Much of the discussion centered on InspectMind AI's plan-checking tool, though the takeaways apply to any firm weighing this kind of software.&nbsp;
In this article you&rsquo;ll see where AI plan review helps, where it falls short, and why a firm with weak internal processes will not get much out of it no matter how good the software gets.
<h2 dir="ltr">Reading a Pictorial Language</h2>
Plan review is not just about reading text. Construction documents carry meaning through symbols, callouts, line weights, and schedules that change from one project type to the next. An industrial set does not look like a large residential set. Every new hire has to learn how to read that visual system before they can review anything in it.
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"Construction documents are a language, and on top of that they're a pictorial language. You're relying on graphic and visual cues to display the information, translating heavy analysis and code requirements into those pictures."
&mdash; Colton Johnson, Principal Engineer, Flint Engineering Company
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Solorio described the second half of the problem: volume.&nbsp;
Even with tools like Revit and virtual walk-throughs on Meta Quest headsets, engineers still check ever-changing building codes by hand and coordinate across disciplines. Holding hundreds of pages of drawings against dense architectural, structural, mechanical, and civil specifications is a cognitive load that does not scale. There is only so much one person can keep straight at once, and plan sets keep getting bigger.
That is the gap AI steps into. Not the design work or the engineering judgment, but the slow, repetitive cross-checking that wears people down and still lets errors slip through.
A Third-Party Reviewer That Works Through Lunch
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AI is a third-party reviewer. It&rsquo;s not a replacement for the engineer or the plan checker, but an extra set of eyes that never gets tired and never skips a page.
Prasad said InspectMind AI can typically review a 100- to 200-page project in one to two hours. In that window it catches discrepancies between drawings and specs, flags cross-discipline coordination issues, and checks against selected/applicable codes and references. It surfaces a prioritized set of findings while the team continues other work.&nbsp;
InspectMind AI has flagged a water main running straight into a 12-inch concrete pipe. It has caught a storm sewer drawn with no slope, which means it would never drain. These are the errors that hide on page 140 of a set and get expensive once they reach the field.&nbsp;
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"This isn't replacing your own diligence or your own quality of work. It's a useful automated review tool that helps you reduce risk and liability and improve quality overall."
&mdash; Aakash Prasad, Co-founder and CEO, InspectMind AI&nbsp;
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The discussion was honest about the limits, too. AI still struggles to read the purely graphical parts of a drawing when there are no words or numbers to anchor it. That should improve over the next few years, but for now InspectMind AI is strongest where drawings, specs, and code references can be grounded and cited. Purely graphical meaning, where the intent lives only in the picture, is still an area where human review matters.
<h2 dir="ltr">From Months of Back-and-Forth to Days&nbsp;</h2>
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A minor discrepancy on a drawing is not just a quality problem. It is a liability problem. Prasad pointed to ADA compliance as an example. A ramp drawn with a 2.2 percent slope instead of the required 2 percent maximum is a small number on a sheet and a frequent target for litigation. Catching it before construction starts is worth far more than the hour it saved.
The same logic runs downstream. Errors that survive review become Requests for Information (RFIs) and change orders once contractors are on site. Each one costs time and money and strains the client relationship. The financial case lives in catching those errors early.&nbsp;
A church project in California shows how that plays out. The design firm ran its full drawing set (architecture, civil, structural, and specs) through InspectMind AI before submitting to the city. The AI flagged around 300 issues. The team fixed them first. When the city's review came back, the comments were mostly minor, and the firm closed them out in days rather than the weeks or months a project like this can take.
That is the payoff that matters. Not the hours saved running the review, but the weeks of back-and-forth with the jurisdiction that never happened, and the rework that never reached the field.
Garbage In, Garbage Out Still Applies
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The strongest warning has always been against leaning on the tools too hard. The old 'garbage in, garbage out' rule still stands.
The software is powerful, but it sits on top of a firm's inputs, its standards, and the judgment of the people running it.
Solorio made the case for foundational knowledge. Junior engineers still need to learn the basics through hand calculations and free-body diagrams so they understand how loads travel and what a structural member is actually doing. Without that, an engineer cannot tell when the AI is wrong.
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"If you put in garbage, you're going to get out garbage, and that's still true with these new programs. If you put in something wrong, it gives you something wrong. You have to know the basics to know when it's giving you wrong information."
&mdash; Simon G. Solorio, President, Solorio Inc.
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Johnson framed the same idea as a sequence. He sees a working AI workflow as a three-tier system.&nbsp;
A firm establishes good internal processes first. Then it introduces standard automations. Only then does it put AI at what he called the tip of the spear. Skip the first two steps and there is nothing solid for the AI to stand on. When a firm's drawing standards and inputs are inconsistent, there is no realistic way to scale an AI workflow on top of them.
<h2 dir="ltr">Own the Output</h2>
Accountability is the other side of this. When an engineer signs off on a design, they own it, whatever tools helped produce it.
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"The motto we live by with AI is own the output. Just because you have a cool tool doesn't mean you get to say that the tool is the reason something was wrong. You own the output."
&mdash; Colton Johnson, Principal Engineer, Flint Engineering Company
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That has a practical edge. Johnson raised data security, pointing out that client information needs to stay protected under NDAs when a firm runs it through a third-party AI platform. Owning the output means owning the data path, too. Before uploading project documents, firms should evaluate the data path and the platform's NDA and security requirements. That is a question to settle before the first project goes up, not after.&nbsp;
<h2 dir="ltr">Built by the People Who Use It</h2>
The panel closed on what actually makes these tools better, and the answer was feedback from the field rather than anything happening in a lab. Solorio and Johnson both pointed to the value of a simple thumbs up or thumbs down on each flagged issue. That input teaches the model the difference between a real problem and an irrelevant false positive, which is the difference between a tool engineers trust and one they learn to ignore.
Because AEC technology moves quickly, the tools that respond to this feedback can change almost daily. Johnson offered an example from a job site. He floated the idea of having the plan checker automatically generate a targeted field observation checklist based on the specific materials and structural elements it found in the drawings. Within hours, the development team had piloted a connection between the plan checker and a site inspection app.
That speed of iteration is the point underneath the whole conversation.
The AI plan review tools that earn a place in AEC workflows will be the ones built and shaped by the people doing the work, not the ones that promise to do the thinking for them. The engineers on this panel were not looking for software to replace their judgment. They were looking for a reviewer that helps them protect it. That is a smaller promise than replacing an engineer, and a far more useful one.
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Editor's Note
<img src="https://aecplustech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/c3806924-0521-483d-b74d-a01f09ed330e.png" alt="Niknaz Aftahi" width="160" height="160">
This article was independently reviewed and edited by Niknaz Aftahi, Founder of AEC+Tech, drawing on InspectMind AI's product documentation, direct conversation with the panel participants, and hands-on knowledge of plan review and QA/QC workflows. Figures drawn from the panel rather than published material were checked before publishing.
&mdash; Niknaz Aftahi, Founder, AEC+Tech
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Learn how Ideate StyleManager, Explorer, and BIMLink reduce Revit inefficiencies with automated QA/QC workflows, cleanup tools, and bulk parameter editing.

How Ideate Software Improves Revit Data Management and QA/QC

In this article, Kestrel Labs explains how AI powered building code compliance can help architects check code directly inside the BIM model, reducing manual review, rework, and permitting delays. The conversation explores how computable building codes, Revit based workflows, and traceable compliance results can support faster design decisions, stronger code confidence, and a more efficient future for AEC permitting.

How Kestrel Labs Is Bringing Code Compliance Inside the BIM Model

Solibri, a Nemetschek Company, is the global leader in model quality, BIM validation, and digital quality assurance for the construction industry. Solibri helps architects, engineers, contractors, owners, infrastructure teams, and public-sector organizations ensure that digital building models are accurate, reliable, and ready for confident decision-making before construction begins.

Digital construction depends on trusted model data. As buildings and infrastructure projects become more complex, teams need more than visual model review. They need structured, repeatable quality assurance that verifies geometry, information, classification, coordination, and compliance across every project stage. Solibri embeds rule-based BIM validation into digital construction workflows, helping teams identify and resolve issues early, before they create costly rework, delays, or downstream risk.

With Solibri, project teams can check multidisciplinary BIM models systematically, detect clashes, validate data, review classifications, manage issues, and enforce project or organizational standards. This supports a more reliable model-based process where decisions are made using verified information rather than assumptions. By improving model quality before construction, Solibri helps teams strengthen collaboration, reduce financial exposure, protect schedules, and improve the quality of building information across the entire building lifecycle.

Solibri supports BIM quality assurance from design through long-term operations. 

- In design and architecture, teams can validate models early to prevent inconsistencies before coordination begins. 
- In BIM coordination, Solibri helps multidisciplinary teams detect clashes, verify standards, and align around trusted model data. 
- During construction and handover, validated BIM information supports contractors in planning, delivery, documentation, and project handover. 
- In operation and maintenance, accurate model data helps owners and facility managers maintain buildings and infrastructure more efficiently over time. 


The Solibri platform is available through a structured product portfolio designed for different levels of BIM maturity, team size, and validation needs. 

- Solibri Starter gives individual professionals and small teams reliable IFC model review, federation, visual inspection, and model-based communication. 
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- Solibri Advanced enables organizations to enforce digital quality standards across projects with custom rules, clash detection matrix control, IDS workflows, Quantity and Information Takeoff, repeatable validation practices, and automation-ready workflows. 
- Solibri Premium supports portfolio-level governance, compliance assurance, scalable automation, point cloud checking, centralized validation frameworks, AI-powered assistance, and extended IDS management. 

For secure and regulated environments, Solibri Security+ provides fully offline, air-gapped validation for government, defense, and sovereign infrastructure use cases. 


Built on openBIM, interoperability, and decades of BIM quality assurance expertise, Solibri integrates into connected digital construction ecosystems and supports collaboration across disciplines, organizations, and project phases. Active in over 100 countries, Solibri serves construction developers, infrastructure projects, design and engineering teams, contractors, owners, and public authorities working with digital permitting and model-based project delivery.

By raising the standard for model quality and information reliability in BIM, Solibri helps the construction industry move from reactive issue resolution to proactive quality assurance. Solibri enables teams to reduce rework, improve collaboration, ensure compliance, and deliver better buildings and infrastructure through trusted digital models. 

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Unanet Company Overview

Unanet is a leading provider of AI-first ERP and growth software for project-based businesses, with a strong focus on architecture, engineering, and construction firms. Built specifically for the way AEC companies operate, Unanet helps organizations manage the full lifecycle of work — from business development and client relationships to project delivery, financial management, and long-term growth.

Built for the Way AEC Firms Work

AEC firms face a unique set of challenges. They need to balance project delivery, staffing, utilization, profitability, client relationships, and business development — often across multiple systems that do not work well together. Unanet is designed to solve that problem by giving firms a purpose-built platform that connects the critical parts of the business in one place.

Rather than forcing AEC companies to adapt to generic enterprise software, Unanet delivers technology tailored to the realities of project-based work. That means better visibility, stronger collaboration, and faster decision-making across teams.

One Connected Platform for Better Visibility

Unanet helps unify financials, projects, and pursuits in a single intelligent environment. With built-in automation and real-time visibility, leaders can monitor project performance, understand resource needs, track profitability, and make informed decisions using current data instead of outdated reports or manual spreadsheets.

For AEC firms, this kind of connectivity matters. Margins, timelines, staffing levels, and client expectations are tightly linked, and even small gaps in visibility can affect performance. By bringing essential business functions together, Unanet helps firms operate more efficiently while creating a stronger foundation for growth.

ERP Designed for Project-Based Operations

A major part of Unanet’s AEC offering is its ERP solution for architecture and engineering firms. The platform is built to support the operational and financial needs of project-based organizations through capabilities that help teams manage:

Prospects and project pipelines
Active projects and resource plans
Time and expense tracking
Accounting and financials
Reporting and analytics

The result is a shared source of truth for project managers, finance leaders, and business development teams. Instead of working in silos, teams can align around the same data to improve planning, execution, and profitability. For firms looking to gain tighter control over utilization, staffing, and project-based accounting without adding unnecessary complexity, Unanet provides a modern, easy-to-use solution.

CRM That Supports Growth

In addition to ERP, Unanet offers CRM capabilities built specifically for the AEC market. Its CRM platform is designed to help firms strengthen relationship management, improve pipeline visibility, and support more strategic pursuit decisions.

For marketing and business development teams, this means easier access to the client, project, and opportunity data needed to create stronger proposals and presentations. For firm leaders, it means better insight into where opportunities are coming from, how relationships are developing, and which pursuits are most likely to drive profitable growth.

Practical AI for Smarter Decisions

Unanet’s position in the market is also shaped by its focus on AI and smart technology. The company’s AI-first approach is centered on practical automation, faster insights, and better business decisions. For AEC firms, that is especially relevant in an environment where teams are expected to do more with fewer resources while maintaining high standards for delivery and performance.

Rather than treating AI as a standalone add-on, Unanet presents it as a layer of intelligence built into the way the business works. This helps teams streamline tasks, improve forecasting, and focus more time on high-value work across project delivery, marketing, finance, and operations.

Trusted by Thousands of Project-Driven Firms

Unanet’s scale reinforces its position as a trusted technology partner. The company states that more than 4,200 government contractor, architecture, engineering, and construction firms rely on Unanet to help manage projects, financials, and growth. In addition to software, Unanet emphasizes customer success, training, integrations, and related services that support firms through implementation, adoption, and long-term improvement.

Supporting the Future of AEC

At its core, Unanet is focused on helping project-based businesses unlock productivity and perform at a higher level. That mission aligns closely with the AEC industry, where firms are responsible for designing, engineering, and building the environments that shape communities and industries.

Overall, Unanet positions itself as more than a software provider. It is a strategic partner for AEC firms that want connected systems, stronger operational visibility, smarter growth tools, and technology built specifically for the demands of project-based business.

Unanet

Unanet is an AI-first ERP and CRM platform purpose-built for government contractors and architecture, engineering, and construction firms. It unifies project management, financials, resource planning, and business development in one system.



Empowering the Built World Through Technology, Expertise, and Innovation

With more than three decades of innovation and a global footprint spanning 13 countries, Graitec stands as a recognized leader in software solutions that accelerate digital transformation for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC), and Manufacturing industries. Since its founding, Graitec has remained focused on empowering firms to design, build, manufacture, and operate more efficiently through advanced digital workflows, automation, and intelligent data-driven tools.

As a long-standing Autodesk Platinum Partner—and one of the largest Autodesk partners globally—Graitec delivers industry-leading software, consulting expertise, and technical support to help teams maximize their investments in Autodesk solutions such as Revit, Autodesk Construction Cloud, AutoCAD, Inventor, Fusion, and Civil 3D. Through comprehensive implementation services, training programs, workflow optimization, and digital advisory, Graitec helps organizations adopt and scale technology with confidence.

Over the past decade, Graitec has evolved from a regional Autodesk reseller to a global technology and innovation leader. A defining part of this expansion has been strategic acquisitions, including Microsol Resources in New York—known for its deep BIM expertise and high-touch client engagement—and Applied Software, a premier Autodesk reseller based in Atlanta. Today, both companies operate under the unified identity of Graitec North America, delivering the combined capabilities of a global organization with the personalized service of a trusted local partner.

Innovation sits at the core of Graitec’s strategy. With a team of more than 200 in-house developers, the company continuously advances its growing portfolio of proprietary technologies designed to complement, enhance, and extend Autodesk and industry workflows. Graitec’s ecosystem of solutions includes:

Ideate Software – A suite of Revit plugins used globally to improve model health, auditing, and productivity.

Strucsoft MWF and Onyx – Industry-leading software for wood and light gauge steel framing workflows, supporting both design and fabrication.

Advance Design – A powerful structural analysis and design platform for reinforced concrete, steel, and timber.

Advance Workshop – A steel and sheet metal fabrication management solution connecting design and manufacturing.

Graitec Data Connect – A platform enabling secure data transfer, automation, and system interoperability within Autodesk and BIM environments.

Together, this portfolio enables greater automation, standardization, and efficiency across every project stage—from concept design and engineering through prefabrication, digital coordination, construction, and facility operations.

What sets Graitec apart is its unique position at the intersection of technology development and expert professional services. Our teams include architects, engineers, fabrication specialists, BIM/VDC managers, and manufacturing technologists—professionals who understand industry challenges because they have worked through them firsthand. This alignment of real-world experience and technical capability enables Graitec to deliver actionable guidance, not just software.

Today, organizations across North America and Europe rely on Graitec as a strategic partner for digital transformation. Whether supporting a single office adopting BIM workflows or a global enterprise scaling connected cloud technology and industrialized construction practices, Graitec delivers proven solutions that improve productivity, reduce risk, and support long-term sustainability goals.

As the AEC and manufacturing sectors continue to evolve—driven by digital twins, artificial intelligence, robotics, and sustainable construction—Graitec remains committed to helping the industry build a smarter, more efficient, and more resilient future.

Applied Software Technology, Graitec

Graitec is a global AEC and manufacturing software leader, and an Autodesk and Bluebeam Platinum Partner. With operations in 13 countries and strategic acquisitions across North America—including Applied Software and Microsol Resources—Graitec delivers expert services and innovative tools that empower professionals to design, build, and collaborate smarter and faster.

Pirros is the AI project hub for architects and engineers. Our mission is simple: make managing projects easier for firms. We learned that we can reduce the burden of producing hundreds of details per project by giving designers instant access to everything their firm has developed in the past. Rather than spending hours digging through cluttered folders on a server or rebuilding details that already exist somewhere in the archive, Pirros centralizes every detail a firm has produced and makes them accessible with a simple search.

Pirros was started by two structural engineers turned entrepreneurs. Ari and Peter spent time at a handful of different design firms and kept experiencing the same problems when it came to detail management and retrieval. They watched experienced designers waste hours hunting for content the firm had already paid to produce, and they watched institutional knowledge walk out the door every time someone left. The technology industry has overlooked the AE design space and the strategic importance of details to a firm's success. Pirros is on a mission to change that.

With unified data and context across projects and teams, plus built-in quality control, Pirros reduces documentation production time and downstream RFI risks so teams can focus on craftsmanship rather than operations. The platform grows more valuable the longer a firm uses it. Every new project feeds the system. Every search, every approval, every reuse makes the next decision faster and more informed. Standards stop being a static PDF that nobody reads and start being a living library teams actually rely on. Mistakes caught in one office benefit every other office, and new hires ramp up faster because the firm's best work is visible from day one.

The four pillars of Pirros:

1. No upfront work. Upload and instantly search across projects without the upfront effort of manual tagging or naming conventions. Powered by a direct ACC integration, firms get tens of thousands of details and families onto Pirros within 24 hours. There is no months-long curation effort before the platform starts producing value.

2. Search by composition, not tag. Find details and families based on what the element actually is, not what its tags say. Powered by a proprietary blend of AI, computer vision, and OCR, Pirros indexes content by geometry, annotations, parameters, and visual composition. A designer searching for "curtain wall head" finds the right detail regardless of how it was named.

3. Share universally. Share Revit details and families as universal PDFs with colleagues and partners outside of Revit, accelerating collaboration, content approvals, and new hire onboarding. The platform extends beyond the BIM team to consultants, contractors, and anyone else who needs to review or comment on a detail.

4. Built-in QA workflows. Review and approve standard content that is automatically surfaced based on analytics across projects. Approval workflows are built into the platform instead of relying on committee reviews and email chains. Standards evolve where the work happens.

Pirros is backed by Y Combinator, SOC 2 certified, and trusted by leading architecture and engineering firms across North America, Australia, and the UK.

Pirros

Pirros is the AI project hub for architects and engineers. Find, compare, reuse and standardize Revit details and families across every project, team and office.

Company Overview

Flying Buttress is a specialized managed services provider serving architecture, engineering, and construction firms that rely on complex workflows, high-performance computing, and collaboration across distributed teams. Founded in 2010, the firm was built to address a gap in the market: AED organizations often outgrow generic IT providers but struggle to find partners who understand the operational realities of design and delivery environments.

Rather than positioning itself as a generalist IT vendor, Flying Buttress operates as a vertical-focused technology partner. The company’s work centers on aligning infrastructure, security, and systems architecture with the business objectives of leadership teams. Clients typically engage Flying Buttress when they need more than technical support — they need strategic guidance that supports growth, resilience, and modernization.

Vertical Specialization

Flying Buttress focuses specifically on the AED (Architects/Engineers/Designers) sector, which brings unique demands: large file performance, collaboration platforms, hybrid work environments, data governance, compliance considerations, and uptime requirements tied directly to project delivery. The firm’s specialization enables it to design solutions around tools such as CAD/BIM platforms, rendering workloads, document management systems, and cross-office collaboration models rather than forcing AED firms into generic IT templates.

This vertical depth allows Flying Buttress to speak the language of firm principals, operations leaders, and executive teams — not just IT managers.

Services and Capabilities

Flying Buttress delivers a comprehensive range of services designed for professional services firms that depend on reliable technology:

Managed IT services and infrastructure oversight

Cybersecurity strategy, implementation, and risk reduction

Cloud and hybrid architecture design

Strategic technology advisory for leadership teams

Business continuity and disaster recovery planning

Compliance-aligned security practices

Systems optimization for design and collaboration workflows

The firm emphasizes proactive management and long-term alignment rather than reactive support. Client engagements are typically structured as a joint effort rather than transactional vendor relationships.

Strategic Orientation

A defining characteristic of Flying Buttress is its emphasis on executive-level thinking. The firm’s approach treats technology as a business enabler, not merely a utility. This includes:

Translating technical risks into business risk

Supporting leadership decision-making around growth, mergers, and operational scale

Helping firms modernize legacy environments without disrupting productivity

Prioritizing resilience, security posture, and operational maturity

This orientation makes Flying Buttress particularly relevant to firm owners, managing partners, and C-suite leaders who view technology as part of their competitive advantage.

Reputation and Client Relationships

Flying Buttress has built its reputation through long-term client relationships rather than high-volume churn. Clients tend to stay engaged because the firm demonstrates a clear understanding of their industry, their workflows, and their strategic pressures. The company’s growth has been driven primarily through reputation, referrals, and repeat engagements.

Leadership and Perspective

Flying Buttress’s leadership brings both technical experience and a broader intellectual perspective to the firm’s work. This informs Flying Buttress’s positioning not just as a technical provider, but as a thoughtful participant in conversations about the future of work, professional services, technology ethics, and digital transformation.

Market Position

Flying Buttress occupies a deliberate niche:
Not a mass-market MSP.
Not a commodity helpdesk provider.
But a focused, specialized technology partner for AED firms that need depth, not volume.

This positioning allows us to compete on expertise, clarity, and trust rather than price compression.

Flying Buttress

Flying Buttress is an AEC-focused MSP providing managed IT, cybersecurity, and executive-level technology strategy for firms that need their infrastructure to support real-world design and delivery demands

Vavetek AI is a SAAS startup, developing AI co-pilots to help building developers and turnkey contractors to audit and optimize the design of principal engineer at super fast speed to save cost of construction within deadlines.

Our first product, BAMROC, is a patent-protected AI-Copilot that automatically resolves and removes clashes in BIM. BAMROC has already attracted interest from many of the largest global engineering and construction firms.

BAMROC, is 11x faster than manual BIM methods for clash resolution and offer up to 500% ROI in direct manpower savings. It helps principal architects resolve clashes, optimize building height and remove space wastage, leading to major savings in construction costs.

Beyond speed, BAMROC is designed to help principal architects and engineers achieve better design outcomes. The AI does not simply “push elements out of the way”; it resolves clashes while considering building height, space usage, and routing efficiency. This leads to reduced space wastage, more efficient ceiling voids, and opportunities to optimize building height and construction costs without compromising core design intent. BAMROC becomes a true co-pilot: it suggests and executes clash-free, system-aware design changes, while the human expert remains in full control of approvals.

To support the full clash workflow, Vavetek AI offers two additional products:

BAMDOC is an advanced BIM plugin focused on seamless MEP clash detection. It delivers high-quality detection with automated report generation and an intuitive user experience. BAMDOC is built for BIM coordinators and engineers who want reliable, repeatable clash results with less manual setup and post-processing.

CRDR BIM is a streamlined Navisworks plugin that simplifies the creation of Clash Resolution Diagnosis Reports. It turns raw clash data into structured, easy-to-understand reports that clearly communicate which clashes matter, how they can be resolved, and what the impact is on design coordination. This is especially useful for project teams that need consistent documentation for clients, consultants, and contractors.

Together, BAMDOC (detect), BAMROC (resolve), and CRDR BIM (report) form an integrated AI-powered workflow that addresses the end-to-end lifecycle of BIM clashes, from detection to resolution to communication.

Vavetek AI is a global pioneer headquartered in Singapore, transforming the construction landscape through advanced AI technology.

We deliver AI-powered solutions that redefine building design from the ground up. Our reach spans continents, ensuring that wherever you are, you have access to cutting-edge tools designed audit building designs, optimize efficiency, enhance sustainability, and improve user comfort.

BAMROC is just the first step in this roadmap. Vavetek AI is now building on this foundation with a focused roadmap of three additional AI co-pilots. The company plans to capitalize on large global opportunities in value engineering to further save cost of construction across multiple disciplines:

AI Copilot for Global Structure Design Optimization and Audit
AI Copilot for Global Air Conditioning Design Optimization and Audit
AI Copilot for Global Façade Design Optimization and Audit

Our vision at Vavetek AI is to build the most trusted AI co-pilots for the built environment, auditing, optimizing, and automating workflows from design review and clash resolution to reporting and compliance, so projects are on-time, lean, and waste-free.

Vavetek AI

Vavetek AI is a SAAS startup, developing AI co-pilots to help building developers and turnkey contractors to audit and optimize the design of principal engineer at super fast speed to save cost of construction within deadlines.

Primepoint is a construction intelligence platform built to solve one of the industry’s hardest and most overlooked problems: understanding construction drawings at scale. Construction projects run on drawings—they define scope, coordination, and design intent across every phase of a project—yet the information inside them is buried across hundreds of pages, forcing project teams to search, compare, and connect documents by hand. Primepoint was founded to change that.

Unlike tools that simply store documents or search text, Primepoint is designed to understand drawings the way an experienced engineer does. Its vision-based AI reads linework, tags, and cross-document references, then connects drawings to the specifications, RFIs, submittals, and revisions that relate to them. The result is a construction knowledge graph that maps thousands of pages of project data down to the individual tag level—linking a door tag to its schedule and finish, a submittal to its spec section, and an RFI to the drawing detail it references.

This deep, structural understanding is what powers Primepoint’s core promise: verifiable answers. Every response the platform produces traces back to the exact drawing detail or specification section that supports it, eliminating the hallucinations that make general-purpose AI risky on a jobsite. As one customer put it, in construction “almost correct isn’t good enough.” Primepoint is built for mathematical certainty over approximation.

On top of this foundation, Primepoint prepares the first pass of workflows that project teams normally perform manually. It automatically flags constructability conflicts between drawings and specifications before they reach the field, runs first-pass submittal reviews against project requirements, checks incoming RFIs against the contract documents and drafts new ones, and generates revision narratives and overlays when new drawing sets are issued. Through its intelligence layer, Marvin, teams can ask any project question in plain English and get an instant, sourced answer. Tasks that once took days of manual review can be prepared in minutes, so teams review and refine rather than start from scratch.

Primepoint was built by a team with deep expertise across artificial intelligence, product, and construction. CEO Lubomir Bourdev is a founding member of Facebook AI Research and a pioneer in computer vision; the founding team also includes senior product leaders from Atlassian, Uber, and Microsoft, and construction veterans who managed large-scale projects at firms such as Webcor and Turner. That combination—elite AI research paired with lived construction experience—is central to why the platform understands both the technology and the real challenges of complex jobs.

The platform is trusted by leading general contractors including Sundt Construction, Fortis Construction, Herrero Boldt Webcor, W.E. O’Neil, Milender White, and Bulley & Andrews. It integrates natively with the systems teams already use, syncing drawings, submittals, and RFIs directly with Autodesk Construction Cloud and Procore so there are no manual uploads or disrupted workflows.
Security is enterprise-grade. Primepoint uses a single-tenant architecture with always-on encryption, is SOC 2 Type II compliant, and never uses customer data to train external or shared AI models. Your data stays isolated and yours.

By turning static PDFs and disconnected documents into connected, actionable intelligence, Primepoint helps contractors catch risks earlier, reduce rework and change orders, and give overloaded project teams the leverage to move faster with confidence—from preconstruction through closeout.

Primepoint

Primepoint is a construction intelligence platform that understands drawings, not just text. Built by AI researchers and construction veterans, it connects drawings, specs, RFIs, and submittals into one knowledge graph—catching conflicts before the field and delivering verifiable answers traced to the exact source.

Paradigm is a trusted structural design company delivering comprehensive civil and structural engineering design services for commercial, residential, industrial, and infrastructure projects across the globe. With decades of engineering expertise and a commitment to technical excellence, we help clients transform complex concepts into practical, efficient, and buildable structural solutions. Our multidisciplinary team collaborates closely with architects, developers, contractors, consultants, and project owners to provide engineering support that meets project objectives while maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, and performance.

Our comprehensive capabilities include structural engineering services, BIM services, structural BIM modeling, steel structure design, structural detailing, steel detailing, rebar detailing, precast detailing, and geotechnical engineering solutions. By combining engineering knowledge with advanced digital technologies, we deliver accurate structural designs and coordinated engineering documentation that improve communication, reduce project risks, and enhance construction efficiency. Every project is approached with careful planning, detailed analysis, and a commitment to delivering practical engineering solutions tailored to the client's specific requirements.

As a recognized structural engineering company in India, Paradigm supports projects of varying scale and complexity across multiple industry sectors. Our engineering professionals have experience working on commercial buildings, residential developments, industrial facilities, manufacturing plants, institutional buildings, and infrastructure projects. We understand that every project presents unique challenges, which is why we develop customized engineering solutions that align with project specifications, design standards, and construction requirements while maintaining cost efficiency and structural reliability.

Our structural engineering services focus on designing safe, durable, and economical structures that perform efficiently throughout their intended lifespan. Using advanced engineering methodologies and industry-leading software, we produce optimized structural designs that support successful project execution. Our commitment to precision helps minimize construction issues, reduce material wastage, and improve overall project coordination from concept through completion.

Paradigm's BIM services and structural BIM modeling capabilities enable project teams to achieve greater collaboration, improved visualization, and enhanced coordination during every phase of design and construction. Advanced BIM workflows allow stakeholders to identify potential design conflicts before construction begins, reducing costly revisions and improving project planning. Digital models also facilitate better communication among engineers, architects, contractors, and clients, resulting in smoother project delivery and improved decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.

Our expertise in steel structure design, structural detailing, steel detailing, rebar detailing, and precast detailing enables us to support a diverse range of structural systems and construction methodologies. Every model and drawing is developed with a strong emphasis on constructability, fabrication accuracy, and compliance with applicable project standards. Our detailed engineering documentation assists fabrication teams and construction professionals in executing projects efficiently while reducing delays and minimizing errors during installation.

In addition to structural engineering, Paradigm provides geotechnical engineering solutions that contribute to informed foundation design and site-specific engineering decisions. Understanding ground conditions is essential for developing safe and economical structural systems, and our geotechnical expertise complements our civil and structural engineering services to provide integrated engineering support across various project types.

Our engineering approach is driven by innovation, technical excellence, and continuous improvement. By leveraging modern engineering technologies, proven design methodologies, and efficient engineering workflows, we help clients optimize project performance while maintaining high levels of quality and accuracy. We also provide cost-effective engineering outsourcing solutions that allow organizations to access experienced engineering professionals, improve operational efficiency, and successfully manage demanding project schedules without compromising engineering standards.

At Paradigm, we believe successful projects are built on collaboration, precision, and trust. Our experienced structural design engineers work closely with clients throughout every stage of the project, providing responsive communication, dependable technical support, and engineering solutions that address both current requirements and future project needs. This client-focused approach has enabled us to establish long-term relationships with organizations across global markets while consistently delivering reliable engineering services.

Whether your project requires structural engineering services, BIM services, structural BIM modeling, steel structure design, structural detailing, steel detailing, rebar detailing, precast detailing, or geotechnical engineering solutions, Paradigm is equipped to provide comprehensive engineering support from concept development through final project delivery. Partner with our experienced structural design engineers to achieve safe, efficient, and high-quality project outcomes through innovative engineering design, advanced BIM workflows, and cost-effective engineering outsourcing solutions. Get a quote today: https://paradigm-structural.com/


Paradigm

Paradigm provides structural engineering services, BIM services, structural BIM modeling, steel structure design, structural detailing, steel detailing, rebar detailing, precast detailing, and geotechnical engineering solutions. Get a quote today: https://paradigm-structural.com/

ShapeDo is a venture-backed construction technology company founded in 2014, with offices in Israel and London. It makes two products: ShapeDo, a collaborative design change management platform, and Purple Hammer, a desktop application for construction PDF + spreadsheet operations: viewing, markup, measurement, comparison, takeoff and estimating. Both are built on the company's drawing alignment and visual comparison technology, developed over more than a decade: algorithms that align successive revisions of a construction drawing and make every addition, removal and alteration visible.

ShapeDo (the platform)
Construction projects run on drawings that change constantly, and information about those changes ends up scattered across PDF tools, spreadsheets, email and document platforms. Teams can usually find the latest drawing; what they struggle to know is exactly what changed since the last revision, who needs to review it, and what it does to quantities, cost and programme. ShapeDo is the project-level, collaborative platform for keeping that under control. Its capabilities include:

Automatic comparison of drawing revisions, highlighting exactly what was added, removed or altered between versions
Structured review workflows that route each change to the people responsible for assessing it, with assigned actions tracked to closure
Design issue logging and RFI management connected directly to the drawings in question
A complete, auditable history of drawing versions, reviews and decisions across the life of the project
Dashboards and records that show outstanding reviews and unresolved issues at project level


ShapeDo is used across the project lifecycle. During tendering and preconstruction, teams use it to identify design movement that affects scope, quantities or price. During delivery, design managers, project managers, commercial teams and consultants use it to coordinate reviews and keep change under control. At the back end of a job, its records support change substantiation, final-account negotiations, claims analysis and dispute resolution, because the project can show precisely what changed, when, why and by whom. Uncaught design changes are among the most common causes of contractor losses; ShapeDo's purpose is to make sure no change goes unseen.

Purple Hammer
Purple Hammer is a single-user desktop product (macOS and Windows) for the construction industry's daily PDF + spreadsheet operations: viewing, marking up, measuring, comparing and organising drawing sets, and pricing what gets measured. It is built for anyone who spends their working day in construction PDFs, including site engineers and project managers, and it goes deepest for estimators, quantity surveyors, contractors and specialist subcontractors, adding live estimating spreadsheets so that measurement and pricing happen in one native application instead of the usual split between a PDF tool and Excel.

Measurements (lengths, areas, perimeters, counts) flow directly into built-in worksheets, where formulas, rates and cost databases turn quantities into a priced estimate. Because takeoff and estimate stay connected, a change in one updates the other. When a revised drawing is issued, Purple Hammer aligns it with the previous version, shows the changed scope, keeps existing measurements intact, and lets the user re-measure and re-price only what changed, rather than starting the takeoff again.

The application is engineered for speed on real-world drawing sets: a several-hundred-sheet PDF set opens in roughly a second, automatic alignment and comparison of two revisions typically completes in one to two seconds, and pan and zoom run at 120 frames per second. Its feature set includes markup and annotation, calibrated measurement, automatic drawing alignment, overlays and blink comparison, area and perimeter takeoff, repeated-symbol counting, drawing version history, live estimating worksheets with formulas, and export of marked-up drawings and spreadsheet data.

Who uses it
General and main contractors, specialist subcontractors, estimators, quantity surveyors, design managers, commercial managers, consultants, project controls teams and construction claims professionals across the AEC industry.

In one line each
ShapeDo: helps project teams see, review and manage design changes collaboratively, and prove what changed later.
Purple Hammer: a fast construction PDF + spreadsheet tool for viewing, markup, measurement and comparison, with estimating built in, so users re-price only what changed when revisions land.

Purple Hammer (shapeDo Ltd)

The Developer Behind ShapeDo (design change management) and Purple-hammer (PDF & spreadsheet desktop app)

RPG Squarefoot Solutions, a division of RPG Enterprises, is a trusted provider of advanced Reality Capture, Geospatial, 3D Scanning, Digital Twin, and Visualization solutions for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. With a strong focus on innovation, precision, and project efficiency, RPG helps AEC professionals transform physical spaces into accurate, intelligent, and actionable digital assets.

At the core of RPG’s value proposition is its ability to bridge the gap between the built environment and digital workflows. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as terrestrial laser scanning, mobile mapping, drone-based reality capture, 360° imaging, BIM support, digital twin development, and construction documentation, RPG enables architects, engineers, contractors, owners, and facility teams to make better decisions with higher confidence.

RPG Squarefoot Solutions supports projects across the entire asset lifecycle from pre-design and planning to construction, renovation, operations, and facility management. The company specializes in delivering high-accuracy existing conditions documentation, scan-to-BIM workflows, point cloud data, virtual walkthroughs, as-built documentation, and site intelligence solutions that reduce rework, improve coordination, and accelerate project delivery.

For architecture firms, RPG provides reliable existing conditions data that helps teams design with confidence and avoid costly field verification issues. For engineering and MEP teams, RPG delivers highly detailed spatial data that improves coordination and supports clash-free planning. For contractors and construction managers, RPG enhances field verification, progress tracking, quantity validation, and renovation planning. For owners and facility managers, RPG enables smarter asset visibility through digital twins, interactive site records, and centralized visual documentation.

What sets RPG apart is not just access to high-end scanning and capture technology, but the company’s commitment to making these tools practical, scalable, and outcome-driven for real-world AEC use cases. RPG offers access to industry-leading hardware and workflows, including LiDAR scanning systems, Matterport capture solutions, construction reality capture tools, and advanced spatial documentation services that are aligned with the needs of modern project teams.

In addition to service delivery, RPG also supports the market through technology access and deployment, helping firms adopt powerful reality capture solutions without the friction of high upfront investment. This makes RPG a valuable partner for organizations looking to modernize workflows, improve documentation quality, and gain a competitive edge in bidding, planning, and execution.

RPG’s solutions are particularly valuable for projects involving renovation, retrofit, adaptive reuse, historic preservation, industrial facilities, commercial interiors, healthcare spaces, educational institutions, infrastructure environments, and complex building systems  where accurate field conditions are critical to project success.

With a consultative and solution-oriented approach, RPG works closely with clients to understand project goals, technical requirements, and downstream workflow needs. The result is not just captured data, but usable project intelligence that supports better collaboration between stakeholders, reduces uncertainty, and improves decision-making across teams.

As the AEC industry continues to evolve toward more connected, data-driven project delivery, RPG Squarefoot Solutions stands at the intersection of physical reality and digital transformation. The company is committed to helping AEC firms adopt smarter workflows through precise capture, intelligent documentation, and scalable digital solutions that improve how projects are planned, built, and managed.
Whether the need is 3D laser scanning, digital twin creation, site capture, construction documentation, or geospatial intelligence, RPG Squarefoot Solutions delivers the tools, expertise, and execution support needed to bring clarity, speed, and confidence to every stage of the built environment lifecycle.

RPG Squarefoot Solutions

RPG Squarefoot Solutions is a leading technology solutions provider for the building and environmental graphics industries. We offer advanced services in Managed IT solutions, Reality Capture, and Wide-Format Printing Equipment.


OTJ Architects is a premier architecture and design practice that partners with leading organizations at pivotal moments of transition in their growth and development. With a national presence and a diverse portfolio, OTJ delivers enduring, human-centered solutions that promote diversity, wellness, and sustainability across a wide range of sectors, including commercial real estate, corporate workplaces, government, life sciences, multifamily residential, arts and culture, education, and nonprofit organizations.

At the core of OTJ’s philosophy is a commitment to aligning design with each client’s mission, operational needs, and long-term goals. The firm’s intelligence-based approach leverages industry-specific research, data-driven insights, and evidence-based strategies to inform design decisions. Rather than relying solely on intuition, OTJ grounds its work in measurable outcomes, ensuring that each project maximizes the value of the built environment and supports organizational performance.

OTJ’s digitally native process further distinguishes its practice. As early adopters of emerging technologies, the firm integrates artificial intelligence, advanced visualization tools, and robust data management systems into its workflows. This digitally integrated approach accelerates project delivery, enhances collaboration, and reduces uncertainty throughout the design process. Clients are empowered with clearer insights and more informed decision-making, resulting in higher confidence and better outcomes.

The firm’s brand-driven design methodology ensures that every space communicates a client’s identity and culture with clarity and impact. OTJ approaches each project holistically, weaving together architecture, interiors, and experiential design to create environments that resonate with users and reinforce brand values. From workplace strategy to specialized environments such as laboratories, secure facilities (SCIF), and theaters, OTJ tailors its services to meet complex and evolving client needs.

Human-centered design remains a guiding principle across all OTJ projects. The firm prioritizes the wellbeing, productivity, and experience of the people who inhabit the spaces it creates. By fostering collaboration, inclusivity, and innovation, OTJ designs environments where individuals and organizations can thrive. This commitment is reinforced by a strong focus on wellness and sustainability, supported by a team of LEED and WELL Accredited Professionals who develop solutions that balance environmental responsibility with economic viability.

OTJ’s impact is reflected not only in its design work but also in measurable client outcomes. Firm-wide studies show that 94% of clients report improved efficiency, 93% report increased productivity, and 92% note enhanced brand image as a result of OTJ’s design solutions. These metrics underscore the firm’s ability to translate strategy into tangible value.

Signature projects highlight OTJ’s breadth and expertise, including innovative workplaces for organizations such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Five Guys, PBS, Adobe, BMW, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The firm has also led transformative projects like the adaptive reuse of Visitation Frederick into a mixed-use and hospitality destination, the design and delivery of the Venue at Thunder Valley Casino Resort, and the renovation of the iconic Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C.

Through a combination of strategic thinking, technological innovation, and a deep commitment to people and the environment, OTJ Architects continues to shape spaces that drive performance, reflect identity, and create lasting impact. For more information, please visit otj.com.

OTJ Architects

OTJ Architects is a leading architecture and design firm partnering with organizations during key moments of transition. With offices nationwide, OTJ delivers human-centric solutions that promote diversity, wellness, and sustainability across commercial real estate, corporate, government, life sciences, multifamily, arts, culture, education, and nonprofit sectors. 

Luminocity AG is a Swiss software-development agency headquartered in Schaffhausen with deep specialty in real-time 3D, AR/VR/XR, AI integration in 3D pipelines, and AEC plugin engineering. The agency operates as a hybrid services-plus-products company: alongside selective paid engagements with external customers, Luminocity ships several internal product lines that demonstrate the team's range across browser-native 3D, cloud BIM, and Gaussian-Splatting digital twins.

Product portfolio:

GeoVision is a cloud BIM visualization platform built on top of the Speckle data layer. Custom Revit and Archicad plugins (Rhino coming soon) move BIM models into a shareable web viewer where AEC teams collaborate, comment, and version on a single link without anyone needing Revit or Archicad installed. The plugin family captures PBR materials, lighting, and exposed metadata - notably above what stock Speckle connectors provide. A companion Unity 6 HDRP desktop application extends the workflow with immersive walkthrough and AI photorealistic image generation via the Grok (xAI) API. Live at geovision.cloud and app.geovision.cloud.

Lemonate is a complete open-source 3D game engine and editor that runs entirely in the browser - built ground-up by the Luminocity team. Lemonate features a LUA scripting layer for game logic; a full engine API across rendering, physics (rigid bodies, vehicle, NavMesh), positional audio, particle systems, materials and shaders; and a broad scene-object library including Gaussian Splats. Source code is public on Codeberg. A public games gallery, community asset library, and beginner / advanced tutorial series support the developer community. Lemonate has a public roadmap committed through 2027.

3D Replicas is a productized 3D Gaussian-Splatting digital-twin pipeline for cultural heritage, museums, and architectural sites. The three-stage workflow (on-site or studio capture, 3DGS reconstruction, cloud-delivered web / VR / archive output) has produced active client work in 2026 across multiple Italian heritage sites and Swiss commercial and civic spaces. Three productized offerings are available: Interactive Web Viewer, Virtual Museum Experience (VR/AR), and Digital Archive & Collection Management Platform.

Unity 3D consulting is the agency's bench-rental side: bespoke Unity3D engagements covering 3D content design, immersive experiences, custom rendering pipelines, and cross-platform deployment - on the same engineering bench that ships GeoVision's Unity 6 HDRP desktop application.

Our team's senior engineers carry more than 20 years of cumulative deep experience shipping advanced 3D systems with a cross-platform C++ core, integrated through Unity3D and browser-native runtimes. Past work includes industry-standard media servers used in some of the world's most demanding multimedia setups since 2007 (e.g. Eurovision Song Contests, large-scale 3D projection mappings, major touring productions), the MVX 2D / 3D / 4D file format and processing framework presented at Siggraph 2016, hardware-emulation work for leading VR device manufacturers, and a native Meta Quest VR application released in January 2026.

Engagement model:

Luminocity engages with external customers through a delivery-pod model. The customer describes what they need built and to what quality bar; the team handles execution internally (engineering, project management, QA all on the team's side); the customer receives working deliverables on the agreed cadence and integrates into their core stack. Engagements can be project-based or month-based, whichever fits the customer's pattern. Areas where the team is strongest: connector engineering for AEC plugins, custom AEC pipeline work on top of Speckle, front-end and viewer work in Three.js / WebGL / GLSL, AI integration in 3D pipelines, and Unity / AR/VR / XR engineering.

Headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland; engineering team operates remotely across the EMEA region. English- and German-speaking. Tech stack includes C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Unity, Three.js, WebGL, OpenGL, OpenCV, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vue.js, React, Quasar, Node.js, and .NET.


Luminocity AG

Luminocity AG is a Swiss software-development agency in Schaffhausen specializing in real-time 3D, AR/VR/XR, AI integration, and AEC plugin engineering. Products include GeoVision (cloud BIM viewer), Lemonate (open-source browser-native 3D game engine), and 3D Replicas (productized 3D Gaussian-Splatting digital twins). 

Cordax is an emerging construction technology company focused on transforming how mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems are designed and coordinated in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. Positioned at the intersection of artificial intelligence and building design, Cordax addresses one of the most persistent inefficiencies in construction workflows: the manual, time-consuming, and error-prone process of MEP coordination.

Traditionally, MEP design requires engineers and contractors to spend days or even weeks manually routing ducts, pipes, and conduits on top of architectural drawings. This process is not only labor-intensive but also highly susceptible to errors, often resulting in clashes, rework, and costly delays during construction. Cordax aims to eliminate these inefficiencies by automating the entire process. Its platform converts 2D architectural plans into coordinated, build-ready MEP layouts in minutes, significantly reducing the need for manual drafting and iteration.

At the core of Cordax’s technology is an AI-powered design engine that interprets architectural intent and generates optimized system layouts. Users can upload floor plans in formats such as PDFs or images, after which the platform automatically routes HVAC, plumbing, and electrical systems while avoiding conflicts. The system also produces material takeoffs, cost estimates, and BIM-ready 3D models, enabling teams to visualize and validate designs before construction begins. This capability helps teams identify potential issues early, reducing the likelihood of costly on-site corrections.

Cordax is particularly focused on serving small to mid-sized contractors and engineering firms, a segment of the industry that has historically been underserved by advanced design technologies. Many of these firms still rely heavily on manual processes or simplified tools, leading to inefficiencies and lost margins. By offering an intuitive and accessible platform, Cordax lowers the barrier to entry for advanced digital workflows, enabling these teams to compete more effectively and scale their operations.

The company’s value proposition extends beyond speed. By automating MEP coordination, Cordax helps reduce material waste, improve design accuracy, and enhance overall project outcomes. Its system optimizes routing for constructability and efficiency, ensuring that generated designs are not only technically sound but also practical for real-world installation. This can lead to significant cost savings, as rework and design errors can account for a meaningful percentage of total project value in construction projects.

Founded in Canada and associated with innovation ecosystems such as Queen’s University and NEXT Canada, Cordax represents a new generation of AEC startups leveraging AI to modernize legacy workflows. Its mission is to empower engineers, consultants, and subcontractors to design faster and with greater confidence, ultimately improving productivity across the construction lifecycle.

In a broader industry context, Cordax reflects a growing shift toward automation and intelligence in design and preconstruction. As AEC firms increasingly seek ways to improve efficiency, reduce risk, and adopt digital tools, platforms like Cordax are poised to play a key role. By bridging the gap between architectural intent and build-ready systems, the company is helping move the industry toward a more integrated, data-driven future.

Looking ahead, Cordax has the potential to expand its impact by integrating more deeply with existing BIM ecosystems and construction workflows, including platforms like Revit and cloud-based collaboration tools. As interoperability becomes increasingly important in the AEC industry, the ability to seamlessly connect design, coordination, and construction data will be critical. If successfully executed, this could position Cordax not just as a design automation tool, but as a foundational layer in the future digital infrastructure of building delivery.

CORDAX

Cordax is an AI-driven platform transforming MEP design in the AEC industry. It automates the creation of coordinated HVAC, plumbing, and electrical layouts from architectural plans, reducing manual work, errors, and costs. By enabling faster, more accurate, and build-ready designs, Cordax helps teams improve efficiency and project outcomes. 

We are a national interdisciplinary design firm rooted in architecture and engineering. We believe that the best design results from deep insight into the people and passions that animate each unique environment. Our 1,200 people in offices from coast-to-coast work to make a positive, lasting impact for clients in healthcare, arts and culture, community, corporate, education, government, science and technology, and energy markets. 

HGA employs a holistic, research-based approach to design. Our work is always built upon a foundation of deep, penetrating insight into client needs; it is fueled by empathy, curiosity, and our resolve to deliver the extraordinary. We are driven to understand broad social and technological developments and market-specific challenges, and to delve deeply into our clients’ organizations. In addition to the insight from our design teams, our unique collective of in-house specialists—process engineers, design thinking specialists, evidence-based researchers, and others—work together to help us understand what is critical to the quality of our clients’ work, and thus to ours. On this foundation of fresh understanding, we help clients create purposeful design with an enduring impact.

As a multidisciplinary design firm, we are uniquely adept at working together to create holistic solutions. Our team-based process encourages vital knowledge sharing, allowing the diversity of a project’s needs to be integrated early on. This results in a more powerful, efficient process, a better design experience, and a higher-performing, more purposeful, and more enduring solution for our clients.
Research is foundational to our work and philosophy. It is a fundamental link between the curiosity that propels us to dig deeper and the knowledge that enables us to help our clients and communities to thrive. The scope of our research work is broad—from the innovations that will drive our clients’ future business to the technological and social changes that will enable unique and inspiring design solutions. We also aim to learn from individual projects through leveraging technology, data collection, and ethnography—to inform the next project and translate into the next great idea. 

We are national leaders in Lean and Integrated Project Delivery for healthcare clients; we have had significant success in design-build projects for higher education; and we have built incredibly strong relationships with developers who lead projects for workplace. Regardless of process, early involvement of owners, design teams, contractors, and users is paramount to developing solutions suited to each client.
Technology elevates our understanding of decisions made during the design phase and the ultimate impact they have on the built environment. HGA has long been a leader in the use of in BIM, Computation, Visualization, and Fabrication, and has continued to innovate by not only developing new technologies to explore and analyze building information, but also to build empathy for all those who inhabit the spaces we design. Our Digital Practice Group is committed to utilizing pioneering technology and is a trailblazer in its implementation to make a positive impact.

Sustainability is at the heart of our holistic design approach and guides us as we shape our future. We aim for every project to be a commitment to a healthier planet, incorporating decarbonization, healthy communities, and/or climate adaptation goals. Explore our projects, commitments, and recognition. With more than 70 years of experience as an interdisciplinary design firm, we have developed an integrated approach to our work. Teams collaborate across disciplines to consider environmental impact and resilience, setting ambitious yet achievable goals. Our high-performance projects, industry commitments, and collected metrics are evidence: we have the knowledge and tools to design for mitigation and adaptation. With vision and strategy, we have made progress toward aligning our internal structure to position our company and clients to create the greatest possible impact. 

As we build physical environments that are sustainable and resilient, we are also building relationships with other leaders and changemakers in the form of clients, employees, and partners.
Equity is a living, breathing part of HGA—woven into the fabric of our culture, it is reflected in our work, our people, and our strategy. Great design is equitable design: fueled by curiosity, informed by diverse perspectives, and elevated by insight directly from those who inhabit our spaces. Our Community Action program makes design accessible to nonprofits and community organizations that lack access to professional services. 

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HGA is a national interdisciplinary design firm rooted in architecture and engineering.

Vision 
To create and provide innovative solutions that inspire and empower designers and engineers to create and produce a better world.
Mission 
Symetri enables businesses to gain a competitive advantage by using leading edge technologies and solutions to improve performance.
Purpose Why does Symetri exist
We challenge people to work smarter for a better future.

Strategic positioning
Symetri’s leading edge technologies and industry experts enable businesses to accelerate their digital transformations to work smarter for a better future.

Brand promise
Symetri provides and creates technology solutions that empower design, engineering, construction and production businesses to accelerate digital transformation, improve performance and gain a competitive advantage
BUSINESS VALUE WE DELIVER
We challenge people to work smarter for a better future. 
Attributes
•	APPROACHABLE
We get to know our customers by listening to and understanding their business challenges and providing the right solutions. We are accessible, inclusive and welcome new opportunities and ideas. 
•	KNOWLEDGEABLE
We are industry leaders and can provide expert guidance and support during every interaction. We substantiate our messaging and advice with facts, figures and our experience whenever possible.
•	INSPIRING
We are a dynamic organisation which seeks to inspire our employees, partners, customers, and customers’ customers. We empower our customers to stay competitive in their markets by providing them with best practices to work smarter.
•	AUTHENTIC
We remove unnecessary information and communicate in a clear and relatable way. We save our customers’ time and give them the advice and facts they need to make better decisions. 

Core Capabilities/Cornerstones
•	LEADING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY
Symetri’s technologies allow businesses to work smarter and more competitively. Our software saves time and resources by optimising processes used in design, engineering and related industries. We proactively develop our own technologies when they make a difference and add real business value, and partner with leading technology vendors when it makes sense. 
•	KNOWLEDGE & EXPERTISE
Symetri’s international network of experts collaborates across borders to ensure every one of our customers has access to the competencies they need – when they need it. We maintain a local presence while having a global mindset. We understand the challenges of the industries we serve and use that knowledge to deliver efficient solutions. 
•	WORK SMARTER
Symetri is constantly challenging our customers - and ourselves - to work smarter. We use our innovative thinking and passion for technology to save time, resources, and downtime. We listen to our customers and develop products and services that solve their challenges and deliver value.
•	TRUSTED PARTNER
Symetri’s experts partner with businesses to help them reach new heights. We enable companies to thrive with our relentless dedication to their success. We inspire them with our market knowledge and the exciting opportunities that our technology and services provide. 
Symetri Story
Symetri creates and provides technology solutions and services for design, engineering, construction and manufacturing businesses. We empower people to work smarter for a better future by ensuring they have access to the expertise and technology they need to improve their performance and sustainability. We build long-term relationships with our customers and save their business resources by making technology easier to implement and use.

Sustainability Initiative
At Symetri, we are always looking for new ways to improve energy-efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. Our research has given us insights into how we can empower businesses to make more informed decisions about the impact their choices have on the environment - enabling us to create a better future for everyone together.


Symetri

We empower you with expertise, leading-edge technology and services
We work with you to tailor digital BIM, product design and lifecycle solutions to help you work smarter and do more with less.
That’s why our partnerships are long lasting.

Structured is building the AI workforce for construction design engineering. Our platform automates QA/QC on engineering drawing sets, using cross-discipline vision-language agents. Every finding is returned deterministically with the exact page, location, rule, and fix. Our agents review drawing sets against code, spec, and firm standards in 30 minutes, solving the QA/QC bottleneck behind $177B in annual rework. Structured AI deploys vision-language agents that review every set against code, spec, and firm standards in 30 minutes, turning a weeks of monotonous work into a frictionless QA/QC gate. 


The platform combines vision-language models with OCR to parse drawings and identify symbolic and image-based elements (MEP symbols, structural callouts, annotations), a multi-agent review system that runs cross-discipline checks in parallel, and internal fine-tuned LLMs for natural-language reasoning over codes, specs, and firm standards. A built-in chatbot copilot handles software navigation and onboarding for a frictionless user experience.

70% of construction rework starts with errors in design drawings. Structured AI deploys vision-language agents that review every set against code, spec, and firm standards in minutes through a frictionless QA/QC gate, solving a 177bn rework problem. 

Our vision is an AECO industry where design errors no longer reach the field, where the tacit expertise engineers is translated to every project on earth. The documents that govern the built environment become a verified, defensible source of truth. The billion-dollar tax that rework imposes on construction goes to zero.

Our competitive advantage is years of domain expertise, compounded with elite commercial talent. Our CTO has spent nearly a decade building AI for the AEC industry, scouted at 18 to build innovation tools for Syska Hennessy Group. We've compounded this depth as we've scaled. Our engineering hires include software engineers with direct mechanical and electrical engineering experience, and architects.  People who have stood on jobsites and reviewed drawings themselves. Our team understands the customer because, in many cases, our team has been the customer.

Structured AI is built on agentic AI throughout the stack: vision-language models with integrated OCR parse engineering drawings and recognise symbolic, image-based, and tabular elements; a multi-agent design-review system runs code, coordination, spec, and standards checks concurrently; proprietary fine-tuned LLMs reason over project documentation with engineering-grade accuracy; and a natural-language chatbot provides in-product navigation and contextual onboarding — so the entire experience, from review to interrogation, runs on emerging AI technology. We’d love to work with architecture and engineering firms across MEP, structural, civil, and architectural disciplines: the teams that author the drawing sets every building, road, and piece of infrastructure is built from. 

We’d love to hear from design engineers, QA/QC managers, engineering directors, and principals: the people responsible for ensuring drawing sets are accurate, code-compliant, and aligned with firm standards before issuance. We serve the full size spectrum, from boutique multi-disciplinary studios to enterprise AE firms producing thousands of sheets per month. We also love to work with general contractors and owners who inherit these drawings downstream who feel the same pain  (RFIs, change orders, rework) and benefit directly when the upstream QA layer is automated.




Structured AI

Structured is building the AI workforce for construction design engineering. Our platform automates QA/QC on engineering drawing sets, using cross-discipline vision-language agents.

HitechDigital is a globally recognized digital solutions company specializing in end-to-end business process management, operational optimization, and technology-driven services. With more than 30 years of industry experience, the company has established itself as a trusted global partner for businesses looking to improve efficiency, streamline workflows, and accelerate digital transformation. HitechDigital serves clients across more than 50 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, Canada, and the Middle East.

The company provides customized and scalable solutions designed to meet the changing needs of modern businesses. HitechDigital works with organizations across multiple industries including Manufacturing, Construction, Architecture, Engineering, Real Estate, Retail, Healthcare, ITES, eCommerce, and Finance. By combining industry expertise with innovative technologies, the company helps businesses improve productivity, reduce operational costs, and achieve long-term growth.

HitechDigital offers a wide range of professional services including Data Collection, Data Processing, Data Annotation, AI Training Data, Business Intelligence, BIM Services, CAD Drafting, Engineering Support, Software Development, Image Editing, Document Management, and Digital Transformation solutions. The company focuses on delivering high-quality services that support better decision-making, operational efficiency, and business scalability.

One of the major strengths of HitechDigital is its experienced team of more than 1,200 skilled professionals. The company supports over 5,000 customers worldwide and is committed to delivering reliable, accurate, and cost-effective solutions. HitechDigital follows a customer-centric approach where every project is customized according to client requirements, business goals, and industry standards. This approach has helped the company build strong long-term relationships with global clients.

HitechDigital leverages advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Automation, and Data Analytics to develop future-ready solutions for businesses. These technologies help organizations automate repetitive processes, improve data accuracy, manage large volumes of information, and enhance overall business performance. The company continuously invests in innovation and process improvement to deliver efficient and scalable digital services.

The company is widely recognized for maintaining high standards of quality, operational excellence, and financial stability. HitechDigital has received recognition from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) for business credibility and market reliability. Additionally, CRISIL, an S&P Global company, has awarded HitechDigital its highest ratings for financial strength and operational excellence. These recognitions reflect the company’s commitment to transparency, quality assurance, and long-term business sustainability.

Customer satisfaction is a key focus area for HitechDigital. The company’s strong commitment to quality services and client success has resulted in a customer attrition rate of less than 10 percent. HitechDigital believes in creating value-driven partnerships that benefit clients, employees, and strategic partners. By delivering customized solutions and maintaining consistent communication, the company ensures successful project execution and measurable business outcomes.

HitechDigital also emphasizes employee development and continuous learning. The company encourages innovation, teamwork, and skill enhancement to help employees stay updated with the latest technologies and industry trends. This strong work culture enables the organization to consistently deliver high-quality services to clients worldwide.

As businesses continue to adopt digital transformation strategies, HitechDigital remains committed to helping organizations adapt to changing market demands through reliable and technology-enabled solutions. With decades of experience, a strong global presence, a highly skilled workforce, and a customer-focused approach, HitechDigital continues to empower businesses with innovative digital services that drive efficiency, growth, and long-term success.

HitechDigital Solutions

HitechDigital delivers end-to-end, technology-driven digital solutions, helping global enterprises optimize processes, enhance efficiency, and build long-term value-driven partnerships.

AIDA (AI Interior Design Assistant) is an AI-powered design partner purpose-built for interior design firms. Developed under INTON Business Strategy Consultant, AIDA is the AI layer that helps design studios move faster from idea to execution, reduce administrative overhead, refocus designers on creative work, and protect profit margins on every project. Rather than replacing designers, AIDA amplifies them — taking on the repetitive, time-consuming, and information-heavy work that pulls talented teams away from what they were trained to do: design.
What AIDA Does
AIDA supports interior designers across the full project lifecycle through a single conversational interface. Designers interact with AIDA the same way they would with a senior consultant on the team — by asking questions, sharing context, and requesting deliverables in plain language. AIDA's core capabilities include:
Concept Ideation. AIDA helps designers explore creative directions, generate visual mood boards, and develop concept narratives in minutes rather than days. It draws on deep domain knowledge across materials, finishes, FF&E, lighting, spatial planning, and design history to support exploration without limiting creative authorship.
Project Planning. AIDA assists with programming, scope definition, milestone planning, and resource allocation. Designers can describe a new project and receive structured planning documents, phase breakdowns, and timeline frameworks ready for refinement.
Meeting Minutes. AIDA captures, structures, and summarizes meetings — client reviews, internal design crits, consultant coordination calls — turning hours of notes into clean, searchable records linked directly to the project file.
Administrative Work. AIDA handles the documentation, correspondence, and reporting work that consumes a significant share of every billable hour. From client emails to status reports to specification logs, AIDA drafts the first version so designers only need to review and approve.
Sustainability Compliance. AIDA brings working knowledge of WELL, LEED, and other sustainability frameworks directly into the design conversation. It helps teams identify compliant materials, document credit pathways, and integrate wellness and environmental criteria from concept through specification.
The Project Brain
What sets AIDA apart is its role as a centralized project brain. Every brief, decision, drawing reference, material selection, client conversation, and meeting note is captured and structured in one accessible place. Designers can ask AIDA any question about a project — "what finish was approved for the lobby," "summarize the last three client meetings," "what was our reasoning for the partition wall change" — and AIDA retrieves the answer with full project context in minutes. Institutional knowledge stays with the firm, not scattered across inboxes, drives, and personal notebooks.
Built for Interior Design Firms
AIDA is built specifically for the workflows, vocabulary, and deliverables of interior design practice — workplace, hospitality, residential, and mixed-use. It is not a generic AI chatbot retrofitted for design; it is a domain-trained design partner shaped by 15+ years of practitioner experience in international design and construction.
Business Impact
For firm leaders, AIDA addresses the structural economics of modern design practice: rising overhead, compressed fees, and the growing share of unbillable administrative work. By automating documentation, accelerating early-phase work, and preserving project knowledge, AIDA helps firms deliver more projects with the same team, sharpen creative output, and meaningfully improve profit margins on every engagement.

AIDA - AI Interior Design Assistant

AIDA (AI Interior Design Assistant) helps interior design firms move faster from idea to execution, cut administrative work, and protect margins. It supports concept ideation, planning, meeting minutes, and sustainability compliance — and acts as a project brain that surfaces any detail on demand through chat. 

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ARES Touch is a full-featured mobile CAD app that provides a complete set of 2D drafting and annotation commands. It's the perfect companion to quickly review a drawing shared in the cloud or received by email while on the go.

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ARES Touch helps users work more effectively while on the jobsite or  in the field

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EGNYTE CONTENT CLOUD Unlock the full potential of your mission-critical content by simplifying collaboration, improving productivity with AI, and addressing information governance. PLATFORM The Egnyte Platform provides robust, secure, and compliant infrastructure that can be customized and scaled to match your business needs. Faster Time to Value Egnyte delivers immediate value with little or no customization but can tailor its offering to meet your business needs and integrate with your environment. Trusted by IT Leaders Thousand of IT leaders appreciate Egnyte&rsquo;s ease of deployment combined with a secure and compliant architecture. Loved by End-users End-users love working with Egnyte because of its accessibility from wherever they work, without forcing them to alter established processes and behavior. COLLABORATION Collaborate on mission-critical content with distributed teams working from an office, from home, or on the go. Collaborate Efficiently Empower teams to work efficiently and confidently, accelerating project timelines while protecting valuable content. Manage Complex Files Efficiently collaborate on mission-critical content and empower teams that work with large, complex files (up to 250 GB) in the cloud. Streamline Workflows Enhance workflows, improve productivity, drive project momentum, and ensure secure interactions across teams and partners. INTELLIGENCE Drive productivity and innovation with private and secure AI grounded in your company's data. Get fast answers, surface insights, create summaries, and perform actions via a simple, intuitive interface built into users&rsquo; workflows. Private Egnyte&rsquo;s AI respects your governance model and adheres to user-specific permissions, protecting your data with stringent privacy, compliance, and security standards. Purposeful Get accurate, relevant, and traceable answers from your data, with complete control over data sources and AI prompts. Practical Integrate AI seamlessly into existing workflows without moving data out of Egnyte, eliminating the need for new tools or special skills. GOVERNANCE Proactively Address Rapidly Evolving Cyberthreats and Manage Compliance Requirements Defend Against Ransomware Proactively manage the threat of ransomware; detect known ransomware artifacts; keep pace with rapidly-evolving ransomware variants; take immediate action when users experience attacks; and recover quickly from successful attacks using Snapshot Recovery. Protect Sensitive Content Identify and review sensitive content including Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) data, and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI); take immediate corrective action to protect exposed data; strengthen your compliance with global data privacy regulations such as GDPR and CPRA; and continuously improve sensitive data protection. Manage Regulatory Compliance Comply with cybersecurity and data privacy standards, such as CMMC, ISO 27001, and the CPRA; detect data that&rsquo;s subject to compliance and data privacy standards; keep pace with rapidly-evolving international privacy and cybersecurity standards; and benefit from Egnyte&rsquo;s deep compliance experience. Remediate Security Issues Mitigate risk associated with common security vulnerabilities like publicly exposed document links and potential ransomware; automatically respond to suspicious Egnyte login attempts; and enable your team to focus on threats most likely to significantly impact your company. Keep Data Confidential Create virtual data rooms (VDRs) for secure collaboration with external entities; generate Document Rooms in support of M&amp;A, asset sales, and investment fundraising initiatives; watermark previewed files to limit the risk of data breaches; gain real-time insights into users&rsquo; document access activity; and terminate external entities&rsquo; access when projects are completed, for peace of mind.

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Revit professionals keep their models clean and accurate with the Ideate Explorer Revit add-on software. When using this model browser, as opposed to a project browser, users decrease the time they spend on model management, increase the accuracy of their models, and reduce file space by: Finding and deleting incorrect, obsolete, and hidden problem items, including DWGs Finding, refining, and revising elements, even those excluded from the project browser Getting a full view of any Revit model and understanding all elements in the model Easily complying with standards Auditing and removing Revit warnings The following components included with the Autodesk Revit add-in, Ideate Explorer, provide additional ways to ensure model accuracy: Warnings Manager - Easily review and manage Revit warnings Navigate - Navigate through view-based elements within Revit&mdash;legends, schedules, sheets, and views&mdash;and quickly customize the browsing experience Query - Search on parameters, such as elements assigned a certain size or modeled as in-place families, sheets based on Issuance numbers, and dimensions that have been overridden Boost the Power of Ideate Explorer with Ideate Automation Ideate AutomationFree your staff to do more meaningful work by adding Ideate Automation to your subscription*. This scripting solution runs time-intensive tasks in the background, so staff can continue using the computers to perform higher value tasks. Not only does task automation free staff for higher level engineering and design work, but automation also has the benefit of ensuring that your task outcomes are highly predictable and standardized. The scripts can be run manually or scheduled to run at specific times, including at night. Example: Exporting Model Health Data With Ideate Automation, staff no longer needs to stop what they are doing so their computer can export critical information about the Revit project. Instead, the script will run in the background and deliver actionable data that can be used to increase project health. *Ideate Automation is included in the cost of an Ideate Software Enterprise subscription. Others can purchase it as a separate subscription. View subscription options or contact your account manager for more information. Attend FREE online training courses on all of our products. Visit our Events Page for details. &ldquo;Switching from an office with [Ideate] Explorer to without is a jarring experience. This app puts the filter tool in Revit to absolute shame - it is simply THE tool for finding elements in Revit models.&rdquo; ~Gavin Crump, BIM Guru

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ARES Kudo: The Cloud-Based CAD Solution Empowered by AI In the rapidly evolving world of computer-aided design (CAD), ARES Kudo has emerged as a game-changing cloud-based solution. Developed by Berlin-based software company Graebert, ARES Kudo is the first online CAD software to reach feature parity with AutoCAD LT, making it a strong alternative for professionals looking for flexible and collaborative drafting tools. With its modern ribbon user interface and more than 300 CAD features, ARES Kudo enables seamless transitions from traditional CAD environments while introducing innovative cloud collaboration capabilities. One of the most significant recent advancements in ARES Kudo is the integration of artificial intelligence (AI). Graebert has introduced A3, an AI-powered assistant designed to enhance user experience, optimize workflows, and provide real-time guidance. Unlike generic AI chatbots, A3 is specifically trained in CAD applications, offering expert support tailored to users&rsquo; needs. A3: The AI-Powered CAD Assistant Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of daily life, from navigation apps to automated customer support. In the CAD industry, AI's potential is now being realized through tools like A3. Initially launched within ARES Commander, A3 is now fully integrated into ARES Kudo, bringing AI-driven assistance directly to users working in the cloud. A3&rsquo;s capabilities go beyond simple query responses. The AI assistant helps users locate commands within ARES Kudo&rsquo;s interface, provides step-by-step guidance on using features, and offers best practices for CAD design. For professionals transitioning from other platforms like AutoCAD, A3 simplifies the learning curve by instantly pointing out feature locations. For example, users can type &ldquo;Where is the PDF Import?&rdquo; and A3 will highlight the relevant tool within the interface. A3 also functions as an advanced knowledge source for CAD professionals, offering technical advice, design recommendations, and even industry-specific best practices. Whether users are looking for ways to streamline workflows or need assistance with a particular command, A3 serves as an on-demand expert. Beyond guidance, A3 can perform time-saving tasks such as unit conversions, text translations, and quick calculations. Its multilingual capabilities make it even more accessible, allowing users to communicate with the AI assistant in languages such as English, Spanish, French, German, and Japanese. Unlike traditional customer support, which may take hours or days to provide answers, A3 delivers instant responses, significantly improving productivity. A Cloud-Based Alternative to AutoCAD LT ARES Kudo&rsquo;s introduction of A3 is part of a broader effort to position itself as a leading online CAD platform. With a feature-rich environment and a familiar ribbon UI, ARES Kudo now matches AutoCAD LT&rsquo;s functionality while offering additional benefits unique to cloud-based solutions. One notable enhancement is its support for dynamic blocks, which ensures compatibility with AutoCAD files and facilitates seamless collaboration between different software environments. Additionally, the integration of the Trinity Block Library provides access to over 450 pre-built dynamic blocks, further boosting efficiency. By combining cloud accessibility with AI-driven support, ARES Kudo is redefining the CAD experience. Users can now enjoy a powerful, intelligent, and collaborative design environment, making ARES Kudo a compelling choice for professionals seeking innovation and efficiency in their CAD workflows. Learn more about the powerful solution here: https://graebert.pxf.io/JKJgyv

ARES Kudo now features an AI assistant with extensive CAD knowledge.

 Online CAD with Dynamic Blocks in ARES Kudo 

ARES Kudo: Full-featured 2D Online CAD for your DWG Drawings

ARES Kudo Online CAD for DWG Viewing, Creation and Modification in your Internet Browser

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Cloud-Only Plan (includes ARES Kudo only)

Mobility Pack (includes ARES Kudo and ARES Touch)

ARES Trinity Plan (includes ARES Kudo, ARES Touch, and ARES Commander)

Because ARES Kudo runs in a browser, it can be accessed on any computer.

8600 AutoCAD users migrated to ARES CAD Software at Takenaka in Japan

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ARES Kudo: DWG Drawings Automation for Developers

ARES Kudo by Graebert Introduces AI to Assist Its Users

The Context
Despite decades of investment in BIM, architectural documentation remains heavily manual. Teams continue to spend significant time on repetitive production tasks, manual QA/QC, and enforcing standards across drawings, views, and schedules.
At scale, this creates inefficiency, late-stage rework, and coordination risk, while contributing to burnout across documentation teams. Existing automation is often fragmented or difficult to apply consistently within live project models, limiting its effectiveness in everyday production work.
SketchPro is being actively deployed at top architecture firms to address this gap by embedding AI directly into architectural documentation workflows.
The Question
How can AI support architectural documentation&ndash; QA/QC, standards alignment, and repetitive production work&ndash; while keeping architects in control, preserving authorship, and respecting firm-specific standards and workflows?
The Approach
SketchPro is an AI documentation copilot embedded directly within Revit, designed to operate on live project models, views, schedules, and sheets. The system is developed around three core principles:
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No workflow disruption Al actions occur inside the same Revit environment already used by project teams for documentation. No exporting, syncing, or parallel tools required.
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Architect-in-the-loop control All actions are previewed, reviewable, and reversible, ensuring professional judgment remains central to decision-making.
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Firm-specific intelligence Rather than applying generic rules, the system adapts to project standards, naming conventions, and documentation logic defined by each practice with an &ldquo;AI Knowledge Base&rdquo; set up by admins from each firm.
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The Collaboration Model
SketchPro is being deployed in collaboration with architecture firms working across a range of scales, typologies, and geographic locations, including educational, multifamily, and commercial projects. Ongoing collaboration ensures the platform addresses real documentation pain points such as QA/QC consistency, annotation cleanup, and standards alignment within live projects.
The Results
Across partner firms, teams report:
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Standardized preferences across projects with AI
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30% reduction in documentation time across major tasks like sheet creation, dimensioning, schedules, and QA/QC
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20% more capacity to do more projects with their current team
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AI is experienced as a support system rather than a replacement. Junior staff report increased confidence and productivity, while senior staff retain full control over technical decisions.
Key Takeaways
Successful AI adoption in architecture depends less on automation alone and more on customization, transparency, and trust in the technology.
By embedding AI directly into documentation workflows and aligning it with the realities of architectural practice, SketchPro illustrates how AI can strengthen existing processes rather than disrupt them, supporting efficiency, quality, and professional judgment.

SketchPro allows you to go from a hand-drawn sketch to a fully rendered design

Firm-specific intelligence based on a custom, internal knowledge base

Mentor mode provides model-specific guidance

QAQC Audit using your firm's standards and checklists

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ArchiMind &mdash; Compliance Is No Longer Manual
For decades, California architects have done the same thing: finish the drawings, then spend days hunting through CBC chapters, marking up PDFs, and hoping nothing falls through the cracks before plan check.
ArchiMind ends that.
ArchiMind is a native Revit plugin that turns California building code into a live, intelligent layer inside your model. The moment you run an analysis, every room, door, stair, corridor, and restroom is evaluated against CBC 2025 &mdash; automatically, instantly, and without leaving Revit. No exports. No spreadsheets. No guesswork.
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Built for the Code That Actually Governs California Projects
California doesn't run on IBC.
ArchiMind was built from the ground up for this stack:
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<li style="color: #000000;">Chapter 11B &mdash; the strictest accessibility standard in the country, fully implemented</li>
<li style="color: #000000;">DSA IR 10-2 + IR 11B-10 &mdash; K&ndash;12 and state-funded project requirements that other tools skip entirely</li>
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This isn't a multi-jurisdiction platform retrofitted for California. This is California, done right.
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12 Domains. One Click. Everything Checked.
ArchiMind evaluates your model across every major CBC review category in a single run:
Occupancy Load &middot; Egress &middot; Stairs &amp; Ramps &middot; Fire Resistance &middot; Height &amp; Area &middot; Light &amp; Ventilation &middot; Chapter 11B Accessibility &middot; Restroom Fixtures &middot; Plumbing Fixture Count &middot; EVCS Parking &middot; Exit Signs &middot; DSA Path of Travel
Every result is tied to a specific Revit element and cited to the exact code section. Not "something might be wrong." Exactly what, exactly where, exactly why.
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Not Just Flagging &mdash; Fixing
Most compliance tools stop at flagging. ArchiMind goes further.
Click GoTo on any failing check &mdash; Revit zooms directly to the element. Click Fix &mdash; ArchiMind corrects it automatically. Door too narrow? Fixed. Handrail too low? Fixed. Ramp too steep? Fixed. Stair too narrow? Fixed. Corridor too tight? Fixed. Every fix is fully undoable with Ctrl+Z. Re-run the analysis to confirm.
Click What's Checked in the dashboard to see every check ArchiMind runs, which ones have auto-fix available, and what's on the roadmap &mdash; full transparency, no black box.
For corridor and stair width violations, the Guide Lines tool draws red dimension annotations directly on your floor plan &mdash; showing exactly how far a wall needs to move. For restrooms, blue annotation boxes appear next to each room showing required vs. provided fixture counts from CPC Table 422.1, plus CBC 11B ADA clear floor area calculations.
This is the difference between a report that tells you what's wrong and a tool that helps you fix it.
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Compliance That Runs While You Design
ArchiMind's Live mode monitors your model continuously in the background. The moment a room change triggers an egress violation or a door swap creates a width issue, you know &mdash; while it's still a 30-second fix, not a 3-day redesign.
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For the Whole Team
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<li style="color: #000000;">Project managers &mdash; track compliance status across every active project from the team dashboard, no BIM file required</li>
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The Numbers
200+ compliance checks &middot; 12 CBC domains &middot; 4 California code layers &middot; Revit 2023&ndash;2026 &middot; CBC 2022 &amp; 2025 &middot; CPC 2025 &middot; Chapter 11B &middot; DSA IR 10-2 First CBC run free. No credit card required.

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One Click LCA is the world&rsquo;s leading end‑to‑end sustainability platform, purpose-built for the construction and manufacturing sectors. Founded in Helsinki in 2001, the company has grown to a team of over 200 professionals across all continents and now serves users in more than 170 countries  At its core, this cloud‑based platform offers streamlined, automated Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), enabling users to scientifically measure and reduce environmental impacts of structures, infrastructure, renovations, and manufactured goods. Beyond LCA and EPDs, it also supports assessments of circularity, life‑cycle cost, and biodiversity. A standout feature is its extensive global database with over 250,000&ndash;300,000 datasets&mdash;covering supplier-specific and generic material data&mdash;fully verified and regularly updated. This empowers users to make informed, data‑driven decisions. The platform supports over 80 compliance standards, including LEED, BREEAM, GRESB, CALGreen, and various country‑specific regulations. One Click LCA seamlessly integrates with more than 20 leading BIM and design tools, such as Autodesk Revit, Tekla Structures, Bentley iTwin, Rhino, and Grasshopper. This allows for real‑time feedback and early‑phase embodied carbon optimization&mdash;notably through its Carbon Designer 3D tool, which enables quick, BIM‑integrated carbon hotspot analysis and comparison of design scenarios. In some cases, Carbon Designer 3D helps identify carbon footprint variations up to 50% during conceptual design. Leading global players&mdash;including Skanska, WSP, Foster+Partners, Turner, ArcelorMittal, Arcadis, ARUP, Geberit, and Saint‑Gobain, among others&mdash;rely on One Click LCA to drive their decarbonization efforts. AECOM, for instance, equipped its ScopeX&trade; platform with One Click LCA to target a 50% carbon reduction across its projects. Its visibility among industry analysts reflects its market leadership: One Click LCA was featured in Verdantix&rsquo;s 2025 Buyer&rsquo;s Guide for LCA tools and is the first platform validated by RICS under its Whole Life Carbon Assessment (WLCA) programme. One Click LCA also makes parts of its platform freely accessible via its Planetary embodied&ndash;carbon calculator&mdash;a tool for benchmarking cradle‑to‑gate carbon impacts across building designs and supporting EPD usage worldwide. In summary, One Click LCA stands out with its: - Massive, high-quality global dataset (250&ndash;300k records) - Broad compliance across 80+ standards - Deep BIM integrations for early and ongoing carbon management - Recognition by major firms and standards bodies It remains the go-to platform for turning sustainability goals into measurable, actionable outcomes across construction and manufacturing value chains.

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Featuring One Click LCA  at the AEC Innovate Conference

AI, Sustainability & Latest Tools for AEC

Sustainability Tools to Watch Out For in 2025!

MeltPlan is the AI-native planning engine for the built environment, built to help architects, engineers, and contractors plan projects better &mdash; earlier, faster, and with far more confidence. Construction planning today is still fragmented across disconnected tools, spreadsheets, PDFs, and tribal knowledge. Teams are forced to manually connect decisions across code compliance, estimating, scheduling, and value engineering, which leads to slow iterations, missed scope, costly rework, and avoidable project risk.
MeltPlan solves this by creating a unified planning platform that connects the four planning pillars that shape every project: code compliance, cost, schedule, and value engineering. Instead of operating like a black-box AI assistant, MeltPlan is built for accuracy and transparency. It understands real AEC context &mdash; including codes and standards, building assemblies and elements, quantities and scopes, and project-specific conditions. Every output is designed to be defensible, with clear assumptions, step-by-step reasoning, and verifiable sources.
At the core of MeltPlan is the belief that planning isn&rsquo;t just producing a schedule or an estimate &mdash; it&rsquo;s making the right decisions early, before mistakes become expensive field problems. MeltPlan helps teams move from &ldquo;searching and guessing&rdquo; to &ldquo;knowing and deciding.&rdquo;
Today, MeltPlan offers two core products:
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Melt Code is the first building code research AI built to make compliance transparent and decision-ready. Instead of giving a generic answer, Melt Code provides project-specific compliance requirements along with a step-by-step reasoning trail and direct citations to every relevant code section. It also maps out Compliance Paths, guiding architects and engineers through multiple valid routes to compliance based on project variables like occupancy, construction type, sprinkler conditions, height/area thresholds, and fire ratings. Melt Code understands exceptions, cross-references, tables, diagrams, and code math &mdash; and can generate project-specific compliance illustrations to make requirements easier to interpret and communicate. It also includes workflow tools like Projects and Checklists, helping firms capture institutional knowledge and standardize compliance across teams.
<h3 data-start="2326" data-end="2346">Melt Takeoff</h3>
Melt Takeoff is an AI-assisted takeoff service designed for contractors and estimators who need speed without sacrificing trust. It combines AI vision for fast quantity extraction with onshore, field-experienced senior estimators who verify outputs and add detailed allowances for scope not shown on drawings. Melt Takeoff detects hundreds of building elements, flags drawing/spec conflicts, structures takeoffs in MasterFormat&reg;, UniFormat&reg;, or custom standards, and delivers interactive outputs with sheet-linked traceability and clean Excel exports. It enables faster bids, fewer missed scope items, and more confident pricing.
Together, Melt Code and Melt Takeoff form the foundation of the MeltPlan platform &mdash; a connected planning engine that brings clarity, speed, and trust to preconstruction decision-making.

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SNHA, a Woolpert Company, specializes in mission-critical design, data centers and technology infrastructure, where documentation must be exact and consistent across many buildings and a large campus. This kind of work carries heavy, repetitive documentation demands: the same detailing, tagging, and drawing production repeated across building after building, with no tolerance for inconsistency. The firm wanted to reduce the time-consuming manual work that slowed project timelines, without compromising the accuracy its clients depend on. SNHA partnered with SWAPP to automate that production directly inside Revit. Using SWAPP's integration with the Revit API, the firm's AI-assisted workflows generated and updated documentation to SNHA's own standards, so detailing stayed consistent across every building on the campus while the architects focused on the strategic and creative aspects of the design. Work that previously took up to two weeks per project was compressed into under 48 hours, and the number of manual documentation tasks dropped several times over. Just as important, the firm was able to see its own standards through the lens of machine learning, which reinforced consistency and quality across the portfolio. The engagement shows how automation, grounded in a firm's standards and integrated with the tools it already uses, can transform delivery speed on demanding, repetitive mission-critical work.

SNHA, a Woolpert Company, cuts data-center documentation from two weeks to under 48 hours with SWAPP

SWAPP is operational intelligence for architecture. Instead of another chatbot bolted onto your workflow, SWAPP puts an agentic AI teammate, Frank, directly inside Revit and ArchiCAD, where it reads and writes your live model to do real production work: modeling, dimensions, tags, views, sheets, schedules, collision-solving, and QA.
What makes SWAPP different is that everything is grounded in your firm&rsquo;s own standards. SWAPP learns from your past projects, annotation habits, and QA rules, then enforces them on every new project. The result is complete construction document sets that look like your firm produced them, because, in effect, it did. Frank is the only AI Architect in the category that is not locked to a single authoring platform: it runs the same firm-tuned workflows in both Autodesk Revit and Graphisoft ArchiCAD.
The numbers are real. Firms use SWAPP to automate up to 80% of documentation tasks. Across a two-year span, SWAPP has delivered more than 35 million square feet of production-grade documents and saved over 104,000 production hours. Page designed a 270,000 sq ft student-housing project from concept to schematic design in three weeks with a 40% smaller team. AHA delivered a 550,000 sq ft permit package in a single week. MYS Architects reduced manual workload eightfold. HTA Design cut the team needed for Stage 4 documentation in half. SNHA, a Woolpert company, took work that used to take two weeks down to under 48 hours.
Every action Frank takes is traceable and reversible. Enterprise firms gate execution behind review steps, so automation earns trust over time rather than demanding it up front. SWAPP is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified and your data stays yours.
SWAPP now offers a low-commitment trial, so your team can select the capabilities you want and see Frank run on your own live projects before making a long-term commitment. It integrates with Revit, ArchiCAD, Autodesk Forma, Procore, Trimble, and the wider AECO ecosystem. Book a demo to see it on your work.

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The AI Co-Pilot for Construction Documentation

Swapp: The AI Co-Pilot for Construction Documentation

Featuring SWAP AI AI at the AEC Innovate Conference

Featuring Swapp at the AEC Innovate Conference

Tools Leading the Way in the AEC+Tech Community

AI-Powered Automation for Smarter Architectural Workflows

MOREgroup is a family of architecture and engineering brands delivering education, healthcare, and civic projects across the United States. As demand grew, the firm needed to increase the capacity of its project teams to manage change and deliver on schedule without sacrificing accuracy or stretching its people too thin. Rather than treat AI as a pilot on the margins, MOREgroup made SWAPP part of how its teams produce work. SWAPP's AI agents operate directly inside the firm's live Revit models, taking on the repetitive documentation and modeling tasks, views, sheets, tags, schedules, and updates, to MOREgroup's own standards, while architects focus on design and coordination. The impact scaled with adoption. Over the year, the amount of new square footage handled with AI grew several times over, with more than eleven design teams working in parallel and over fifteen projects enhanced by the technology and still growing. Instead of adding headcount to keep pace with a growing pipeline, MOREgroup used SWAPP to expand what each team could deliver, while keeping documentation accurate and consistent across a diverse portfolio of education, healthcare, and civic work. The engagement shows how automation, applied firm-wide and grounded in a firm's own standards, can become core production infrastructure rather than a one-off efficiency play.

MOREgroup scales AI across 11 parallel design teams with SWAPP

AHA (Auerbach Halevy Architects) is a leading Israeli architecture firm known for ambitious, large-scale residential and mixed-use developments. For the I.S. mixed-use complex, the team faced an extraordinary deadline: deliver a complete permit package for a 550,000 square foot project, five residential towers, a commercial podium, and five basement levels, in just one week. A project of this scale would normally demand weeks of coordinated documentation across a large team, with enormous pressure on both speed and accuracy. Any inconsistency across the towers or basement levels could jeopardize the permit submission. AHA partnered with SWAPP to make the timeline achievable. SWAPP's AI agents worked directly inside the firm's live Revit models, generating the repetitive documentation, views, sheets, tags, and schedules, across every tower and level to AHA's own standards, while the architects concentrated on coordination and the decisions that required judgment. Instead of manually rebuilding each drawing series for each tower, the team ran production as a controlled, rule-based process and reviewed the outputs. The result was a complete, consistent permit set delivered in a single week, at a scale and speed that would have been out of reach with a traditional manual workflow, and without sacrificing the quality or standards the firm and the authorities required.

AHA delivers a 550,000 sq ft mixed-use permit package in one week with SWAPP

Page is one of the largest architecture and engineering firms in the United States, known for delivering complex, large-scale projects across education, healthcare, science, and commercial markets. For this engagement, Page needed to take a 270,000 square foot student-housing project from concept all the way to schematic design in just three weeks, with teams working from New York to California. Student housing at this scale carries relentless documentation demands: repetitive unit layouts, stacked floors, and frequent client-driven changes that ripple through every drawing. Page partnered with SWAPP to put that production work on rails. SWAPP's AI agents worked directly inside the firm's live Revit models, generating and updating views, sheets, tags, and schedules to Page's own standards, while the design team focused on the parts of the project that actually needed human judgment. Rather than staffing up to hit an aggressive timeline, Page used SWAPP to compress the production effort and deliver the schematic design package on schedule with a significantly smaller team. The result was a faster path from concept to a coordinated, client-ready set, without the late nights and rework that usually come with a three-week turnaround on a project of this size. It also gave Page a repeatable production model it could apply to future large-scale housing and mixed-use work.

Page delivers a 270,000 sq ft student-housing project in three weeks with SWAPP


Pellikaan is delivering one of the largest wellness complexes in the Netherlands in Zoetermeer, combining a 9,500 m² main building with sixteen pavilions across a 2.5-hectare site. The project includes pools, saunas, relaxation spaces, smaller structures, varied ground conditions, and a high level of architectural and technical complexity. To maintain control across this scope, Pellikaan structured the project around digital quality assurance, model-based coordination, and practical BIM workflows.

The project team divided the main building into ten zones and segmented the wider development into sixteen subprojects, each with its own team, schedule, site access, models, and coordination process. This reduced complexity and allowed the project to progress in parallel without changes in one area disrupting the entire delivery.

Solibri was used to support model checking, clash detection, Information Takeoff, and change detection between model versions. Weekly model updates created a consistent review rhythm, allowing design and construction teams to identify deviations early, validate quantities, and make decisions based on current project information. Instead of relying on assumptions or manual comparison, the team could see changes such as added steel, reduced concrete, or modified installations directly in the model.

The result was a more controlled delivery process, with faster decisions, fewer late-stage corrections, and greater confidence in project information. For Pellikaan, the Zoetermeer wellness complex has become a blueprint for applying digitalization in a practical, quality-driven way across future projects in the Netherlands and internationally.

BIM quality control at Pellikaan: Zoetermeer wellness complex

We lead the construction industry in quality control. No more stumbling blocks. Constructing flawless buildings is now easier than ever. Solibri Office imports building models from all major BIM software using the standardized IFC interface. It identifies potential problems early, preventing issues during construction and beyond, ensuring smooth project execution and long-term building performance. Solibri offers the most advanced and comprehensive library of customizable rule templates to tackle the most demanding quality assurance tasks. Choose from over 70+ predefined rule templates or customize your own to ensure no stone is left unturned. Go beyond clash detection and take your BIM quality to the next level. Solibri offers a wider range of checking capabilities than any other tool in the market: geometry, clearance, accessibility, information &amp; property checking, building code compliance, model revision, fire safety and more. Solibri understands your role and offers you a set of rules, classifications, and reporting templates that you can customize to match your company, project, local, or national needs. Use organizational tools like classifications and filters to streamline model checking, to takeoff quantities and data, or to visualize the BIM data/components in the model. Information takeoff allows you to extract quantities based on different criteria more easily. Share the information using your own customized Excel templates. Information takeoff allows you to extract quantities based on different criteria more easily. Share the information using your own customized Excel templates. Share project information and collaborate seamlessly and reliably through Solibri&rsquo;s integrations, BCF Live Connector and API. Automate tasks, such as running checks, exporting the identified issues as BCF files and creating presentations, and run them at a convenient time with Solibri Autorun. Easily integrate with your workflows: Solibri is founded on openBIM standards to foster interoperability and enable transparent, open cooperation among all project participants. This allows model authors and collaborators to connect Solibri's quality assurance capabilities with the tools of their choice.

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Building Better with BIM QA: 2025 Interview with Solibri

Checking Revit Models in the Cloud with Solibri

Featuring Solibri at the AEC Innovate Conference

McLaren Construction Group, a UK-based construction and property development company, implemented a digital construction strategy to improve consistency, reduce design risk, and accelerate project readiness across its portfolio. The company works across commercial, residential, refurbishment, education, healthcare, and complex data center projects, where early-stage design coordination and reliable model data are essential for controlling cost, quality, and delivery risk.

One of the key challenges was inconsistency across projects. External consultants used different design methodologies and software workflows, which created cross-platform compatibility issues, data inconsistencies, and limited McLaren’s ability to compare project information across regions and sectors.

McLaren made IFC the baseline for its digital construction strategy and selected Solibri to support automated design and regulatory compliance checking. Solibri was implemented earlier in the project lifecycle, not only for clash detection or model viewing, but to validate compliance before issues could affect construction. This included tailored compliance frameworks, classifications, and templates developed with Evolve Consultancy, alongside training for McLaren’s digital construction teams.

By using Solibri to check design compliance early, McLaren improved consistency across projects, increased confidence in design readiness, and reduced the likelihood of costly rework. Solibri also became part of McLaren’s tender-stage and project-start workflows, helping the company demonstrate a higher level of quality assurance to clients and mobilize project teams with greater confidence

McLaren’s digital construction strategy: design compliance to de-risk construction

Savills is a global real estate advisor. Lotte De Jong, a workplace consultant on the firm's occupier services team in Amsterdam, first got hands-on with laiout when Savills itself was weighing whether to expand its current office, the same stay-or-move decision her team helps occupier clients make every day. Like most of the businesses she advises, architecture and design aren't Savills' core service, so building a business case around a specific layout had always meant depending on an external architect, a step that took time neither Savills' own leadership nor her clients' leadership teams could always spare.

Testing scenarios internally worked differently once laiout entered the picture. Rather than waiting on an outside designer for every "what if we tried this instead," Lotte could adjust headcount, work patterns and building options herself and show the leadership team the consequence immediately. The same capability has since become part of how she runs business cases for Savills' occupier clients: instead of a set of static options handed over after days of drafting, leadership sees the layout reshape live, in the room, and reacts to it together.

The change, Lotte says, is that conversations stop going in circles. Assumptions about what is or isn't physically possible in a space get settled on the spot rather than argued over static PDFs, which has made the business cases Savills builds, for its own office and for its clients' offices alike, faster to agree and easier for leadership to commit to.

Savills: Evaluating office scenarios by testing options in-house with laiout

The world's only software for generating, iterating and sharing floor plans live to supercharge your work.
laiout is the self-served, end-to-end platform for AI-powered commercial space planning. Upload a plan, generate multiple test fit options in seconds, and iterate live with clear metrics on capacity, cost and carbon. Where most platforms handle a single part of the workflow, such as renders, drafting integrations or detailed architectural output, laiout covers the full journey from first floorplan to a decision ready pack you can share in one place.
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Captures decisions and keeps the team aligned with an interactive link you can share.</li>
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<h3 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">How it works</h3>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Upload and brief. Add a plan and set your requirements. No CAD experience needed.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Generate. Get 2D and 3D options that follow architectural logic and constraint aware rules.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Iterate live. Adjust programme, adjacencies, densities and spacing, then regenerate in seconds.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Compare and decide. View scenarios side by side with clear metrics, such as cost and carbon.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Export and share. Publish an interactive link, or export a full pack: drawings in PDF, DWG and IFC, Revit files, 3D snapshots and renders, and CSV schedules for counts and areas.</li>
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<h3 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">What you can do with it</h3>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Go from shell plan to several lease ready options during a single client call.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Hit a headcount or density target, then tune meeting mix, focus spaces and support areas.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">De risk delivery with overlays for structure and services, and with code aware spacing and clear routes.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Produce a clean pack for leasing and design: plans with scale, schedules, 3D views, renders, and a link stakeholders can review without software.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Shortlist a preferred option with evidence that explains why it works. Hand the scheme to design with data, not just drawings.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Accelerate bids and RFPs by generating options and a quantified rationale in hours, not days.</li>
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<h3 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">Why it is unique</h3>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">One place for the whole workflow. Most platforms handle a single piece, such as renders, drafting integrations or detailed architectural output. laiout takes you from first floorplan to a shareable pack without switching platforms.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Instant generation guided by constraint aware rules that reflect real practice and code.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Evidence first with capacity, cost and carbon surfaced live to keep decisions honest.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Workflow friendly. Share a link for review. No viewer licences needed.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Interoperable outputs. Export DWG, IFC and Revit files, attach 3D snapshots and renders, and create polished PDF packs.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Proven across markets. Used by landlords, tenants, brokers, designers and flex operators in more than 36 countries.</li>
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<h3 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">Who it is for</h3>
Landlords, tenants, brokers, designers and flex operators who need rapid, data backed office layouts in competitive markets.
<h3 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">Results</h3>
60 to 80 percent time savings in early planning, more options explored, and clearer, faster decisions. Many teams move from weeks of revisions to a single working session with stakeholders.

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Artefact is a UK property and technology advisory firm. Like many of the businesses it works with, Artefact faced the recurring challenge of finding a new office. Chris de Gruben, Head of AI in Property at Artefact, led the search across London and ran into the usual bottleneck: every viewing produced a different set of floor plans, and turning those into something the leadership team could align on meant weeks of marking up PDFs, sending them to an interior designer, waiting for a revision, and starting again. By the time everyone agreed on a direction, the space, or the landlord's patience, had often moved on.

One viewing worked differently. The agent met Artefact's leadership team on site with the building's floor plates preloaded into laiout on an iPad. As the team walked the space, they reconfigured the layout together in real time, adding meeting rooms, opening up collaboration space, testing headcount scenarios as they talked. The building was the most complex option on the shortlist, a former incubator split into many small offices that the leadership team had struggled to picture as a single floor. Seeing it reshape live, in the room, changed that.

Artefact leased the space. The deciding factor, according to de Gruben, was simply the ease of changing the layout live with the whole leadership team present.

Artefact: Choosing a new office by changing the design live with laiout

Ditt Officemakers is a design and build firm in the Netherlands that advises landlords and tenants on how to get the most out of commercial space. Before laiout, every test-fit meant a designer spending around ten hours in CAD, building a single layout from scratch for a single brief. Responding to more than one client in a day was not realistic, and every change in headcount or spatial mix meant starting the drawing again.

Ditt used laiout to build 'Smart Moves', a client-facing advisory service that puts space planning back into the room with the client. A designer now uploads a floor plate, generates a compliant layout in minutes, and iterates live on headcount and spatial mix without redrawing anything. What used to take a full morning for one scenario now takes half an hour for several, complete with fit-out costs, and can be done on-site during a client meeting rather than emailed over days later.

The impact shows up in two places. Internally, the team now produces ten layouts in the time it used to take to produce one, freeing designers to spend more time on higher-value design work instead of repetitive drafting. Externally, Ditt can respond to a tenant brief within a week, a turnaround the team describes as unheard of in their market, and has used on-the-spot scenario generation to give a landlord the confidence to lease a vacant floor within a month. laiout did not just speed up Ditt's existing process. It let them package a faster, more transparent client experience as a service in its own right.

Ditt Officemakers: Building a Same-Day Test-Fit Service with laiout

Stephen George + Partners (SGP) is one of the United Kingdom's leading architectural practices, established in Leicester in 1970 and now recognized by the Architects' Journal AJ100 as one of the country's largest firms. From a single Leicester studio, the practice has grown to around 100 staff working across five offices: Leicester, which remains the head office, alongside Leeds, London, Birmingham, and Solihull. This national footprint gives SGP genuine reach across the UK while keeping the close client relationships and rapid responsiveness that have defined the practice for more than five decades.

SGP describes itself as a practice of architects and master planners, and its work spans nine sectors: logistics and industrial, healthcare, offices and workplace, education, residential, retail and mixed-use, interiors and fit-out, transport, and sports and leisure. The practice is particularly well known nationally in the industrial sector, where it has completed over 90 million square feet of floor space and delivered logistics buildings ranging from 1,000 to 1,000,000 square feet. It is actively building recognition in other sectors too, with award-winning transportation projects among its recent successes.
Beyond core architecture and master planning, SGP offers a broad set of complementary services, including BIM coordination, interior design, computer-generated imagery (CGI), and principal designer roles under both CDM and Building Safety Act requirements. Many of these capabilities sit within SGP Digital, the practice's dedicated function covering IT, BIM, CGI, automation, and AI. SGP Digital not only supports the architectural side of the business but also generates revenue in its own right through BIM and CGI services, reflecting how central technology has become to the way the practice works and grows.

That digital focus is rooted in the firm's history. SGP was one of the first practices in Leicester to give every member of technical staff an individual workstation, positioning itself at the forefront of technology from an early stage. The practice continues to see digital capability as a competitive differentiator, and in 2022 achieved formal ISO 19650 recognition for its ability to deliver projects to internationally recognized information management standards.

The practice is guided by a clear set of values, summed up in the phrase "we care, we challenge, we deliver," and reinforced by its reputation for quality, reliability, and integrity. SGP listens to clients, challenges them constructively to produce the best possible outcome, and is widely respected for its ability to deliver, including taking over schemes at concept stage and carrying them through to completion. Its commitment to social and environmental responsibility is well established: the practice won an RIBA President's Medal for a book on sustainable building materials, written around its Sustainable Construction Academy project in Dartford.

Looking ahead, SGP is focused on digital transformation and the shift from delivering drawings, schedules, and specifications to delivering structured project data that supports assets through construction and into operation. Emerging priorities include digital twins, data-driven decision making, point cloud processing, automation, and the careful, considered adoption of AI, all underpinned by an increasing focus on security. To support these ambitions, the practice has invested in a modern, resilient, cloud-based IT estate, giving its teams the performance, flexibility, and confidence to grow and to keep designing exceptional buildings for their clients.

Stephen George + Partners

Stephen George + Partners (SGP) is an AJ100 architectural practice founded in 1970, with five UK offices in Leicester, Leeds, London, Birmingham, and Solihull. Its versatile teams work across nine sectors, including industrial, healthcare, transport, residential, and workplace, with added expertise in master planning, BIM, interior design, and CGI.

Stephen George + Partners (SGP) is one of the UK's leading architectural practices. Founded in 1970 and ranked among the AJ100, the firm designs across commercial, residential, education, healthcare, and industrial sectors from offices across the UK and internationally, with teams working daily in demanding CAD and BIM applications.

Like many established practices, SGP had reached the limits of managing its own on-premise infrastructure. Maintaining servers and desktops in house consumed time and budget the firm wanted directed at design, collaboration, and project delivery. Securing confidential plans across multiple locations, and giving designers consistent performance wherever they worked, was becoming harder to sustain on aging hardware.

SGP partnered with Creative ITC to replace its on-premise desktops with high-performance cloud VDI, adopting Creative ITC's Everything as a Service (XaaS) model. Design teams gained secure, flexible access to their CAD and BIM applications from any location, while the firm moved from managing infrastructure to consuming it as a fully managed, predictable service.

The result was a simpler IT estate, lower cost, and the freedom to focus on core architectural work rather than maintenance. With infrastructure no longer a constraint, SGP can scale and adapt as the practice grows. As the firm reflects, the value came from Creative ITC's understanding of how technology is applied in the AEC industry, giving it the confidence to plan for the future.

Creative ITC x SGP Case Study | Customer Story

Stephen George + Partners: Powering Innovation with X as a Service

VDIPod is a 24/7/365 fully managed, high-performance Desktop as a Service (DaaS) platform that gives your teams the speed, flexibility, and security to work without compromise, from any device, anywhere in the world.
Built for graphics-intensive and data-heavy work, VDIPod delivers GPU-ready virtual desktops that run workstation-class applications at full speed. Design, engineering, and energy teams can open large CAD and Revit models, work across big datasets, and run demanding financial and simulation models without the lag, file-transfer delays, or hardware limits of traditional setups. Performance scales on demand, so capacity flexes with project peaks rather than forcing costly over-provisioning.
Creative ITC enables seamless collaboration across borders, giving teams the power to design, share, and deliver projects in real time wherever they are. High-performance virtual desktops drive faster delivery and smoother workflows, supported by enterprise-grade security and built-in resilience that keep data safe and projects on track. Centralized updates, encryption, disaster recovery, and data sovereignty are built in, so the same secure environment follows every user regardless of location or device.
Now you can simplify IT with a fully managed DaaS solution and predictable OPEX costs, while scaling instantly to support growth and ever-changing business demands. There is no hardware to refresh, no patching cycle to manage, and no end-of-life replacement project on the horizon. Creative ITC manages the full platform around the clock, freeing internal teams to focus on the business rather than the infrastructure beneath it.
With Creative ITC's proven sustainability, you will also cut energy use, CO2 emissions, and hardware waste, helping you meet ESG targets without compromise. VDIPod is hosted in sustainable data centers powered by 100% renewable energy, turning desktop modernization into measurable progress against your sustainability goals.
For the most intensive graphics workloads, VDIPod pairs with VCDPod dedicated cloud workstations, so everyday and high-end tasks run side by side within one flexible, secure, fully managed environment.

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Leveret Systems Ltd is a UK-based integration consultancy specialising in connecting BIM/CDE platforms with enterprise systems across the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. We design and build the middleware layer that most digital engineering teams lack — custom API integrations, webhook-driven data flows, event-driven pipelines, and analytics dashboards that turn fragmented construction data into actionable intelligence.

Founded by Eben Joubert, a Systems Architect with dual Master's degrees in Artificial Intelligence (Distinction, Goldsmiths, University of London) and BIM & Integrated Design (Merit, University of Salford), backed by a full-stack integration developer, Leveret Systems brings a rare combination of deep construction domain knowledge and production-grade software engineering. Our directors are members of the British Computer Society (MBCS) and the Chartered Institute of Building (MCIOB).

CDE and BIM Platform Integration. We connect Common Data Environments and BIM platforms to your enterprise ecosystem. Our work spans Autodesk APS (Forge), BIM 360, Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), ProjectWise, Asite, Aconex, and Trimble Connect — integrated with ERP systems including COINS and SAP, SharePoint, Power BI, and bespoke analytics platforms. We deliver REST API development, webhook orchestration, ISO 19650-compliant information management workflows (WIP - Shared - Published - Archived), model translation pipelines from Revit (RVT) and IFC to SVF2 for web-based 3D viewing via Autodesk APS, and automated metadata enrichment, validation, and quality assurance across federated BIM models.

Custom Middleware Development. We build the integration backbone that sits between your platforms — not configuration or rebranded SaaS, but actual production-grade middleware with proper error handling, retry logic, structured logging, and monitoring. Our solutions include event-driven microservices on Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Azure Service Bus, and RabbitMQ; webhook callback systems for real-time data synchronisation; data transformation pipelines from CAD geometry to business data and from IFC to analytics-ready formats; and API gateway designs serving 78+ endpoints with sub-second response times.

AI and Machine Learning for AEC. We apply machine learning and natural language processing to construction and engineering data — not generic AI, but domain-specific solutions built by engineers who understand both the algorithms and the industry. Our capabilities include retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines for regulatory document analysis covering NRM2, building regulations, and standards; computer vision applied to satellite imagery and point cloud analysis; predictive analytics for construction performance across schedule, quality, and cost forecasting; and LLM-assisted content generation with human-in-the-loop quality controls.

Data Engineering and Dashboards. We build end-to-end data pipelines from source systems to executive-ready reporting. When Power BI's native connectors create latency or data quality issues, we build dashboards from scratch. Capabilities include SharePoint and CDE data extraction pipelines, Power BI integration with custom embedded reporting, real-time operational dashboards with WebSocket-driven updates, and multimodal dataset handling across BIM/CAD models, point cloud data, and time-series sensor feeds.

Why Leveret Systems. Construction plus software: our team holds degrees in Construction Management, BIM, and AI — we don't just write code, we understand what project teams actually need. Production-grade delivery: not prototypes or proof-of-concepts, but production systems with logging, monitoring, error handling, and documentation. Platform agnostic across Autodesk APS, ProjectWise, Asite, Aconex, and Trimble Connect — we integrate whatever CDE stack you are running. ISO 19650 and ISO 27001 standards are baked into our delivery approach, not bolted on after the fact. Our two-person Architect plus Developer delivery model means we sustain delivery over months, not just advise for a week and leave.

Recent Delivery. In a recent 7-week engagement, our team delivered an enterprise quoting platform with 78+ API endpoints (Flask backend, React frontend, PostgreSQL on Cloud SQL), migrated 118,000+ rows across 23 tables from BigQuery to Cloud SQL Postgres with zero downtime, rebuilt a WordPress website as a custom React application with GA4 and GDPR Consent Mode v2, built a manufacturing team planner with Harvest time-tracking and Google Drive integration, and integrated an AI-powered email classification agent with the quoting system. Deployed to GCP Cloud Run with Docker and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Two people, seven weeks.

Leveret Systems Ltd

Leveret Systems is a UK-based integration consultancy that builds the middleware layer between BIM/CDE platforms and enterprise systems. We design and ship production-grade APIs, webhook orchestration, event-driven pipelines, and analytics dashboards that turn fragmented construction data into actionable intelligence.

Project Background
The engagement focused on bringing a large UK healthcare federated BIM model into a costed, programme-linked and auditable state — the bottleneck most digital engineering teams hit between authoring a Revit or IFC model and feeding it into cost planning, procurement and risk reporting.
The Challenge
The project's federated model carried 23,466 elements across a 4,500-file project folder: native Revit content from multiple disciplines, NHS Activity DataBase (ADB) codes on every fitting, an external procurement schedule with confirmed sub-contract values, a contract programme exported in a revision-tracking format, and 42 specification PDFs scattered across handover folders. The work normally done by a quantity surveyor — manually mapping element schedules to NRM2 categories, reconciling against the Bill of Quantities, and refreshing the result for every variation — was the bottleneck in cost planning and programme risk analysis. 5D BIM investment over the last decade has moved this bottleneck without shrinking it.
The Approach
Leveret Systems built an agentic processing layer that quantifies a federated BIM model end-to-end while preserving auditability. The architecture is hybrid by design: deterministic rules narrow the work before any AI reasoning is applied, schemas reject malformed answers at the boundary, citations are enforced as code, and a project-by-project knowledge layer accumulates so subsequent runs converge faster. Items the agent cannot confidently resolve route to a tightly-scoped human review queue rather than being silently committed — in a domain where a QS has to defend every line, that abstention behaviour is the safety feature.
The pipeline integrates with existing tools rather than replacing them: Revit and IFC inputs through Autodesk Platform Services, Primavera P6 or revision-tracking spreadsheet programmes, procurement schedules in NEC, JCT or bespoke layouts, and specification PDFs indexed for retrieval-augmented review.
The Result
The validation pipeline processed all 23,466 model elements from the 4,500-file project folder in under four minutes. Deterministic rules classified nearly half of the elements before any LLM reasoning fired. The agentic layer committed on a further large slice with median confidence above 0.9. The remainder routed to a tightly-scoped review queue with citation context. Every committed classification carries an auditable trace back to its source — the property field on the model, the specification page, the procurement schedule row, or the prior decision on a similar element earlier in the project. Within a single project, the accumulated knowledge layer already resolves roughly a third of elements on rerun without firing the agentic stack at all.
The Wider Value
Once a federated BIM model is quantified and linked to procurement, programme and specification context, the federated model itself becomes a live system: each element gains an extensible state vector (planned, specified, design approval, procured, material on site, installed, signed off) with each transition written back to the model with a citation. This is the layer Leveret is building next — quantification delivered today, live federated state in active development, integrations tuned per engagement.
Engagement Options
Leveret Systems delivers this in two modes. Per-project engagements (one to three weeks) suit teams who need a single model quantified, reconciled and structured for risk and cost analysis on a specific job. Strategic embedded engagements (four to six months) suit organisations who want the pipeline tuned to their tools and embedded in their delivery process — the code, the architecture and a clone of the cross-project knowledge layer transfer with the engagement.
For contractors with procurement schedules that drift, architects with project folders that have grown organically across teams, developers who want real programme risk visibility, and PMOs who have stopped trusting their own status reports — that is the conversation Leveret Systems wants to have.
Contact: leveretsystems.co.uk · ejoubert@leveretsystems.co.uk

Agentic Quantification of a Federated Healthcare BIM

Leveret Systems is a UK-based agentic AI engineering consultancy that builds the live layer between federated BIM models and the contract documents that surround them &mdash; programme, procurement, cost plans, specifications and standards. The service quantifies a federated Revit or IFC model end-to-end, classifies every element against project context, and produces a continuously refreshable view that downstream cost planning, programme risk analysis and compliance audit can read as a function rather than a static export.
The architecture is hybrid by design. Deterministic rules narrow the work before any AI reasoning is applied &mdash; the cheap, fast, predictable layer carries the bulk of the classification, and reasoning models handle only the ambiguous tail. Schemas reject malformed answers at the boundary, citations are enforced as code, and items the agent cannot confidently resolve route to a tightly-scoped human review queue rather than being silently committed. In a domain where every line of a Bill of Quantities must be defensible, that abstention behaviour is the safety feature.
Each engagement contributes to a project-by-project knowledge layer that accumulates across the lifecycle. Subsequent runs converge faster as the layer learns the project's specific Activity DataBase codes, NRM2 mappings, supplier patterns and specification conventions. Within a single project we already observe roughly a third of elements resolving from the knowledge layer alone on rerun, without firing the agentic stack at all. The same effect is designed to compound across engagements.
The service integrates with existing tools rather than replacing them. Revit and IFC models are ingested through Autodesk Platform Services. Contract programmes parse from Primavera P6 exports or revision-tracking spreadsheets. Procurement schedules in NEC, JCT or bespoke layouts reconcile against the model. Specification PDFs are indexed for retrieval-augmented review. The Monte Carlo input layer &mdash; activity duration distributions, supplier lead-time distributions, element-to-activity links &mdash; is structured as live data, so a critical-path kernel reads it as a function and produces P50, P80 and P95 completion windows with a tornado attributing slip to specific suppliers.
Leveret Systems delivers in two engagement modes. Per-project engagements (one to three weeks) suit teams who need a single model quantified, reconciled and structured for risk and cost analysis on a specific job. Strategic embedded engagements (four to six months) suit organisations who want the service tuned to their tools and embedded in their permanent delivery capability. The code, the architecture and a clone of the cross-project knowledge layer transfer with the strategic engagement. We are not a platform vendor; we do not replace your QS, planner or BIM manager. We give them back the week of every month they currently spend reconciling documents that ought to have been reconciled already.

Leveret Systems Agentic BIM Service

Quantum Reality Capture (QRC) partnered with the City of Greenville and DP3 Architects to provide comprehensive LiDAR scanning and Scan-to-BIM services for the multi-story commercial and retail property located at 206 S Main Street in downtown Greenville, South Carolina. The project involved documenting approximately 90,000–100,000 square feet of existing building conditions to support future redevelopment planning, renovation workflows, and architectural coordination efforts.

Using advanced mobile LiDAR scanning technology, QRC captured highly accurate interior and exterior spatial data throughout the downtown commercial facility while minimizing disruption to surrounding businesses and active operations. The collected data was processed into survey-grade point clouds and translated into an LOD 200 Revit model, giving architects, engineers, and project stakeholders access to reliable digital documentation for design development and project planning.

In addition to the BIM model, QRC delivered coordinated site plans, floor plans, reflected ceiling plans (RCPs), exterior elevations, and roof plans to support comprehensive redevelopment and facility planning initiatives. The project was completed within an accelerated 15–20 day timeframe through QRC’s structured reality capture workflow, mobile LiDAR technology, and rigorous quality assurance procedures.

This Greenville Scan-to-BIM and LiDAR documentation project demonstrates QRC’s expertise in existing conditions documentation, commercial building reality capture, digital twin workflows, and BIM modeling services for commercial real estate and redevelopment projects. By leveraging advanced LiDAR scanning technology and scalable BIM workflows, QRC helped reduce design risk, improve coordination between project teams, minimize field verification requirements, and provide the City of Greenville and DP3 Architects with accurate digital assets to support informed decision-making throughout the redevelopment process.

The project highlights the growing role of reality capture technology, LiDAR scanning, and spatial intelligence in commercial real estate, adaptive reuse, and downtown redevelopment initiatives across the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry.

206 S Main Street – Greenville, SC

The XGRIDS Lixel L2 Pro is an advanced handheld LiDAR scanning system designed to deliver fast, accurate, and intelligent 3D reality capture for architecture, engineering, construction (AEC), surveying, facility management, and digital twin workflows. Combining high-performance LiDAR sensors, visual cameras, and an integrated IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), the Lixel L2 Pro captures dense, survey-grade point clouds in real time while maintaining exceptional mobility and ease of use in the field.
Powered by AI-driven processing and edge computing technology, the Lixel L2 Pro enables professionals to scan, process, and visualize data directly on-site with minimal downtime. Its local processing capabilities dramatically reduce post-processing time, allowing users to generate clean, accurate 3D datasets faster than traditional terrestrial laser scanning workflows. This streamlined approach improves project efficiency, accelerates decision-making, and reduces costly return site visits.
The Lixel L2 Pro is engineered for both indoor and outdoor environments, making it ideal for building documentation, Scan-to-BIM projects, construction verification, as-built modeling, infrastructure mapping, heritage preservation, and industrial facility capture. The device&rsquo;s SLAM-based (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) technology allows operators to move freely through complex spaces while continuously capturing highly detailed spatial data with precision and stability.
With its lightweight ergonomic design and rapid deployment capabilities, the XGRIDS Lixel L2 Pro offers a practical solution for professionals seeking high-speed mobile LiDAR scanning without sacrificing accuracy. The system seamlessly integrates with BIM, CAD, GIS, and digital twin platforms, enabling efficient workflows from field capture to final deliverables.
By combining LiDAR, imaging, and intelligent AI processing into a single mobile platform, the XGRIDS Lixel L2 Pro is redefining modern reality capture technology. Whether supporting renovation projects, construction coordination, facility management, or 3D mapping applications, the Lixel L2 Pro provides reliable, scalable, and high-quality spatial data acquisition for today&rsquo;s demanding industries.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Quantum Reality Capture (QRC) partnered with LS3P to provide comprehensive LiDAR scanning and Scan-to-BIM services for Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College (AB Tech) in Asheville, North Carolina. The large-scale educational facility documentation project included 16 campus buildings consisting of classroom facilities, administrative offices, and student services buildings totaling approximately 500,000–600,000 square feet across the campus. The objective of the project was to create highly accurate existing conditions documentation and scalable digital assets to support future campus planning, renovation, facility management, and capital improvement initiatives.

Using advanced LiDAR scanning and reality capture technology, QRC captured detailed interior and exterior conditions throughout the campus while minimizing disruption to active educational operations. The collected data was processed into survey-grade point clouds and translated into an LOD 200 Revit model that provided architects, engineers, and campus stakeholders with reliable BIM documentation for design coordination and project planning workflows.

In addition to the BIM model, QRC delivered coordinated site plans, floor plans, reflected ceiling plans (RCPs), exterior elevations, and roof plans to support campus-wide facility management and future renovation efforts. The project was completed within an accelerated 30–45 day timeframe, demonstrating QRC’s ability to efficiently manage large-scale multi-building reality capture projects while maintaining high levels of accuracy and quality assurance.

This AB Tech Community College Scan-to-BIM and LiDAR documentation project highlights QRC’s expertise in educational facility reality capture, existing conditions documentation, BIM modeling, and digital twin workflows for higher education campuses. By leveraging advanced LiDAR technology and structured BIM workflows, QRC helped provide AB Tech and LS3P with accurate, scalable digital documentation solutions that improve coordination, reduce project risk, and streamline long-term campus planning and renovation efforts.

Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College

Quantum Reality Capture (QRC) partnered with the City of Charleston and Cullum Mechanical to provide advanced LiDAR scanning and Scan-to-BIM services for the historic commercial and mixed-use building located at 200 E Bay Street in Charleston, South Carolina. This multi-story property required highly accurate existing conditions documentation to support future renovation planning, coordination, and facility management initiatives while preserving the integrity of the historic structure.

Using state-of-the-art mobile LiDAR scanning technology, QRC captured detailed interior and exterior conditions throughout the approximately 50,000–65,000 square foot facility. The collected data was processed into survey-grade point clouds and translated into an LOD 200 Revit model, providing stakeholders with reliable and scalable digital assets for design and construction workflows. In addition to the BIM model, QRC delivered coordinated floor plans, exterior elevations, and roof plans to improve project visualization and reduce field uncertainty.

Historic buildings often present challenges due to irregular geometry, outdated documentation, and limited accessibility. QRC’s structured reality capture workflow and rigorous quality assurance procedures ensured highly accurate deliverables while minimizing disruption to ongoing building operations. By leveraging advanced reality capture technology and Scan-to-BIM expertise, QRC helped streamline project planning, improve coordination between stakeholders, and reduce costly site revisits.

This Charleston LiDAR scanning and as-built documentation project demonstrates QRC’s ability to deliver high-quality digital twin solutions, BIM modeling services, and precise existing conditions documentation for historic preservation, commercial renovation, and construction planning projects throughout South Carolina and beyond.



200 E Bay St – Charleston, SC

This case study from Ichi shows how DGA improved its code compliance process by using technology that is powered by Artificial Intelligence. DGA is an architecture firm that handles projects. Before DGA had to do a lot of research to find out about building regulations and zoning requirements. This took a lot of time. They had to work closely with project teams and code consultants. This made the project take longer. There was a bigger chance of making mistakes or having to make expensive changes.

When DGA started using Ichis code compliance platform they were able to make their workflow much simpler. The software helps architects find the building code sections quickly. It also analyzes project documents. Gives accurate compliance insights right away. This meant that DGA did not have to do much manual research. Project teams were able to make decisions and they were more informed during the design and permitting phases.

The case study also talks about how the platform improved the way DGAs teams worked together. Junior architects were able to get code guidance quickly. They did not have to rely on staff as much and this made the projects more consistent.

The partnership between DGA and Ichi shows how Artificial Intelligence can help architecture and construction firms work efficiently. It can also reduce the risk of projects. Speed up the time it takes to complete them. The success story of DGA shows how Artificial Intelligence is becoming more important, in planning and construction management. DGA and Ichi are an example of this. DGA is using Artificial Intelligence to make its architectural code compliance process better.

DGA Turns Hours of Code Research and Documentation into 5 Minutes with Ichi

Ichi is an AI-powered code compliance and automation platform built for architecture firms.
The platform helps architects navigate complex building codes, automate time-consuming construction administration tasks, and strengthen QA/QC across the entire project lifecycle&mdash;from early design through construction.
Designed specifically for the realities of architectural practice, Ichi augments professional expertise by automating previously manual processes, improving accuracy, and minimizing costly downstream rework. The platform supports both project-level execution and firm-wide knowledge sharing, helping teams work more efficiently while maintaining accountability and control.
Key Features
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Ichi enables architects to quickly search, interpret, and validate applicable building codes and jurisdictional requirements. AI-assisted guidance is presented alongside authoritative source language, allowing teams to confidently apply code requirements during design, documentation, and review&mdash;without relying on generic or unverified AI outputs.
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The platform helps automate and support manual construction administration workflows, including navigating construction documents, responding to RFIs, and reviewing submittals. By reducing the time spent on repetitive coordination tasks, Ichi helps keep projects moving while easing the administrative burden on architectural teams.
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Ichi strengthens QA/QC by assisting with plan set reviews, cross-sheet consistency checks, and document validation across large and complex drawing packages. This allows architects to identify issues earlier, improve document quality, and reduce risk prior to submission or construction.
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Ichi acts as a living knowledge base for architecture firms. Project-specific decisions, jurisdictional nuances, and internal best practices can be captured, shared, and reused across teams and over time&mdash;helping firms preserve institutional knowledge as staff, projects, and regulations change.
Who Should Use Ichi?
Ichi is designed for:
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Architecture firms working across multiple jurisdictions
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Design teams navigating complex or evolving code requirements
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Firms seeking to reduce QA/QC risk and rework
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Architects managing heavy construction administration workloads
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Practices looking to capture and scale internal expertise
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While built with architects at the center, Ichi also supports collaboration with engineers and contractors by improving clarity, consistency, and access to critical project information.
Why Ichi?
Ichi is purpose-built for the architectural profession. Unlike general-purpose AI tools, it is designed to operate within the constraints of real-world practice&mdash;prioritizing accuracy, traceability, and professional responsibility.
By combining AI-driven code compliance, QA/QC automation, construction administration support, and firm-wide knowledge management in a single platform, Ichi helps architects spend less time on rote tasks and more time on high-value design and decision-making. The result is better documentation, smoother project delivery, and more resilient architectural practices.
Learn More
Ichi is helping architecture firms modernize how they manage code compliance, QA/QC, and knowledge across their projects, all on one platform.
👉 Visit https://www.ichiplan.com/ to schedule a demo or learn more about how Ichi is helping architects and other AECs build cities of the future.

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The City of Phoenix established the Office of Innovation in late 2021 with the appointment of Michael Hammett as the City’s first Chief Innovation Officer. The Office of Innovation is the central hub for innovation, performance management, and the strategic use of data and performance across the City. The Office identifies national and local grant and technical-support opportunities to address City priorities, and partners with residents and departments to co-create pilot initiatives to reimagine existing City processes and services and implement new ideas to solve the City’s challenges. The Office leads the City Manager’s Performance Dashboard, Valley Benchmark Communities, the Innovate PHX Challenge hackathon series at Venture Café Phoenix, and the Bloomberg Philanthropies, What Works Cities and Smart Cities initiatives.

​The City of Phoenix established the Office of Innovation in late 2021 with the appointment of Michael Hammett as the City’s first Chief Innovation Officer. The Office of Innovation is the central hub for innovation, performance management, and the strategic use of data and performance across the City. The Office identifies national and local grant and technical-support opportunities to address City priorities, and partners with residents and departments to co-create pilot initiatives to reimagine existing City processes and services and implement new ideas to solve the City’s challenges. The Office leads the City Manager’s Performance Dashboard, Valley Benchmark Communities, the Innovate PHX Challenge hackathon series at Venture Café Phoenix, and the Bloomberg Philanthropies, What Works Cities and Smart Cities initiatives.
Our Mission

To partner with residents, City departments, industry experts, community organizations, and universities to develop and implement solutions to the City’s top challenges.

Our Vision

To lead with data, evidence and community collaboration to continue Phoenix’s transformation into an innovative, data-driven, Smart City.



The Office of Innovation partners with residents, City departments, and local and national organizations to advance solutions to some of our City's most pressing challenges — championing the strategic use of data to deliver effective, efficient, and measurable impacts for the City and its communities. ​​​

The Office of Innovation collaborates with Venture Café Phoenix to organize biannual Innovate PHX Challenge hackathons where participants from diverse backgrounds work in teams to address top City priorities. The teams then pitch their innovative solutions to a panel of judges for a chance to win a cash prize and potentially partner with the City to prototype ideas.​​​

Phoenix has achieved Platinum-level What Works Cities certification, the national standard of excellence in data-driven city governance. Launched in 2017 by Bloomberg Philanthropies and led by Results for America, What Works Cities Certification recognizes and celebrates local governments for their exceptional use of data to inform policy decisions, allocate funding, improve services, evaluate the effectiveness of programs, and engage residents. To date, 62 cities in North, Central and South America have achieved certification.

Improving Phoenix with Data and Evidence
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The Office of Innovation leads efforts to advance the strategic use of data Citywide, administering the What Works Cities and Valley Benchmark Cities initiatives, and manages and advances the City Manager's Performance Dashboard, among other projects.



Phoenix Office of Innovation

The Office of Innovation partners with residents, City departments, and local and national organizations to advance solutions to some of our City's most pressing challenges — championing the strategic use of data to deliver effective, efficient, and measurable impacts for the City and its communities. ​​​

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The City of Phoenix is enhancing how residents engage with planning and development through its Office of Innovation. Partnering with inCitu, the City is using mobile augmented reality (AR) to let residents preview future projects by simply scanning a QR code (on-site or from home) without needing to download an app. Phoenix has applied a variety of methods for sharing inCituAR project QR codes with the residents of Phoenix.

Residents can view an ArcGIS StoryMap on the Office of Innovation website; scan the QR code on colorful postcards distributed through community partners, the offices of Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and City Council offices and businesses; and by scanning a display at the future location of the development project. The QR codes are also shared via City newsletters and social media platforms

Girasol Apartments: Affordable Housing in focus

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Source: Innovate PHX

The Girasol Apartments, now under construction, will bring more than 115 affordable and market rate units to Phoenix in its first phase, addressing a critical need for quality, secure housing. With inCituAR, residents can see the buildings in 3D before the structure is complete, helping the community connect with the project early on and track progress during construction.‍
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3rd Street Rio Salado Bike & Pedestrian Bridge‍

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Source: City of Phoenix

The Rio Salado Bridge and Pathway, planned for 3rd Street, will connect neighborhoods across the Salt River, creating safer routes for cyclists and pedestrians while improving access to parks and downtown. The project design was chosen from three proposals through a public engagement process, ultimately combining a public art focus from one proposal with the bridge design from another to reflect community input. By sharing the design in AR, the city is ‘closing the loop’, allowing residents and stakeholders to see the results of their engagement, and how this new link will reshape mobility, recreation, and public gathering space in the city.‍
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Phoenix Fire Station #15

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Source: City of Phoenix Office of Innovation Augmented Reality Pilot

Phoenix is utilizing inCitu to enhance community engagement for its General Obligation (GO) Bond-funded projects, including Phoenix Fire Station #15, in West Phoenix. A 1:1 3D model of the station was created and uploaded to inCitu in advance of a ceremonial brick-laying ceremony, to build excitement and engage residents in a new “digital” way. This event was attended by community members, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and members of the Phoenix City Council, Fire Chief Mike Duran III, and other dignitaries. During this event, staff provided a hands-on session with the local community block watch group and students from the nearby elementary school. With 182 views, this event allowed staff to present a 3D model of one of the City’s most important developments, a much-needed fire station, in real time, at the development site.

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"Smart" Chilled Drinking Water Initiative
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The Office of Innovation's Chilled Drinking Water Location Storymap is a resource for locating chilled public drinking fountains in Phoenix.

Phoenix is also leveraging inCitu to advance its “Smart” Drinking Water in Public Spaces Initiative, by creating a 3D model of custom-designed “smart” drinking water and bottle-filling stations. In the past, staff would work with the vendor to haul an actual, steel drinking fountain to community events so that residents could see what made them unique. During a citywide outreach campaign in Summer 2025, the Office of Innovation utilized inCitu to showcase the project and let residents explore the 3D model and see how it will look when placed in their neighborhood, without the heavy lift of bringing the actual fountain. It proved to be more fun for residents, especially youth, and the city plans to continue using the feature to highlight “coming soon” locations.

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A New Model for Participation‍

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With these immersive activations, Phoenix’s Office of Innovation is investing in making city planning more transparent and collaborative. According to staff, incorporating augmented reality into the City’s community engagement efforts has fostered a whole new way to welcome residents into the process. Bringing future projects into the present will continue to help residents engage, provide feedback, and share in shaping a more inclusive and connected city.

Follow the Phoenix Office of Innovation for updates as the projects unfold.


Written in collaboration with Phoenix Office of Innovation

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