Lucas Hayden of Unanet explores how AI can reduce busywork, connect AEC business systems, and help firms make faster, better-informed decisions.

The Busywork Disappears, Not the People: Unanet on AI in AEC

ArchOne AI

Technology leaders from Flad Architects, NBBJ, and Stantec on how architecture firms move AI past experiments into governed, repeatable practice that augments professional teams.

How Leading Architecture Firms Are Moving AI From Pilots to Everyday Practice

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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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. <strong>What used to count as exceptional is now the baseline clients expect.</strong></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Rendering has improved fast. One part of the workflow has barely moved.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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 <span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><a href="https://www.d5render.com/webinars/whats-new-in-d5-3-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prove it live on July 21</a></strong></span></span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Answer "Can We See It Another Way?" On the Spot&nbsp;</span></strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This is the thinking behind <a href="https://bit.ly/d5-3-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>D5 3.1.</strong></a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The release starts from a practical question: how does visualization stay useful once the meeting starts?</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The presentation becomes a working space for the design, one the team can steer as the discussion moves.</p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px;">Let Clients Walk the Space Before It Exists&nbsp;</span></strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">Interactive Presentation sits inside a wider set of tools aimed at making review more interactive and easier to adapt to the room.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px;">Start Seeing the Design the Moment You Model It&nbsp;</span></strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">The quality of any review depends on everything that happens before it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In practice, the visual thinking usually happens long before anyone opens presentation software, and tools have been slow to meet designers there.&nbsp;</p>
<p dir="ltr">That continuity reaches past D5 Render itself. After its earlier <a href="https://www.aecplustech.com/tools/sketchup">SketchUp</a> release, D5 Lite now works inside Rhino and <a href="https://www.aecplustech.com/tools/revit">Revit</a>, 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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">D5 Render 3.1 adds a set of production-focused improvements that strengthen realism while keeping real-time response.&nbsp;</p>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>From Better Images to Better Decisions&nbsp;</strong></span></h2>
<p dir="ltr">Architectural visualization has spent years chasing realism. That work continues, though realism on its own no longer defines the field.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong><em>"The tools we end up writing about at AEC+Tech are rarely the ones with the longest feature list. They're the ones that change how a decision gets made."&nbsp; &mdash; Niknaz Aftahi&nbsp;</em></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>See it live&nbsp;</strong></span></h2>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You can register using&nbsp;<a href="https://www.d5render.com/webinars/whats-new-in-d5-3-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>this webinar page</strong></a>, and anyone who registers but cannot attend will receive access to the recording.</p>
<p dir="ltr">To learn more about D5 Render, visit their <a href="../../../tools/d5-render" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>page on aec+tech</strong>&nbsp;</a>or explore the latest features on the official <strong><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></strong>.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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D5 3.1 Wants to End the "We'll Render It Tomorrow" Moment

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<div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Most conversations about AI in construction start with speed.&nbsp;</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">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.<strong id="docs-internal-guid-dcacfc00-7fff-ed9c-247a-6474ead9a5a0"></strong></span></div>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><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;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">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.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Reading a Pictorial Language</span></strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>"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."</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>&mdash; Colton Johnson, Principal Engineer, Flint Engineering Company</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr">Solorio described the second half of the problem: volume.&nbsp;</p>
<p dir="ltr">Even with tools like <a href="https://www.aecplustech.com/tools/revit">Revit</a> 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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">A Third-Party Reviewer That Works Through Lunch</span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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 </span><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">selected/applicable codes and references. It surfaces a prioritized set of findings while the team continues other work.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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;</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"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."</span></em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">&mdash; Aakash Prasad, Co-founder and CEO, InspectMind AI&nbsp;</span></em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">From Months of Back-and-Forth to Days&nbsp;</span></strong></h2>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">A church project in California shows how that plays out. The design firm ran its full drawing set <strong>(architecture, civil, structural, and specs)</strong> 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.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The strongest warning has always been against leaning on the tools too hard. The old 'garbage in, garbage out' rule still stands.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The software is powerful, but it sits on top of a firm's inputs, its standards, and the judgment of the people running it.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><em>"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."</em></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><em>&mdash; Simon G. Solorio, President, Solorio Inc.</em></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Johnson framed the same idea as a sequence. He sees a working AI workflow as a three-tier system.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Own the Output</span></strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Accountability is the other side of this. When an engineer signs off on a design, they own it, whatever tools helped produce it.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"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."</span></em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">&mdash; Colton Johnson, Principal Engineer, Flint Engineering Company</span></em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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;</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">That speed of iteration is the point underneath the whole conversation.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Editor's Note</span></strong></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><img src="https://aecplustech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/c3806924-0521-483d-b74d-a01f09ed330e.png" alt="Niknaz Aftahi" width="160" height="160"></span></strong></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">&mdash; Niknaz Aftahi, Founder, AEC+Tech</span></p>
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<p>Unanet Company Overview</p>
<p>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 &mdash; from business development and client relationships to project delivery, financial management, and long-term growth.</p>
<p>Built for the Way AEC Firms Work</p>
<p>AEC firms face a unique set of challenges. They need to balance project delivery, staffing, utilization, profitability, client relationships, and business development &mdash; 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>One Connected Platform for Better Visibility</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>ERP Designed for Project-Based Operations</p>
<p>A major part of Unanet&rsquo;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:</p>
<p>Prospects and project pipelines<br>Active projects and resource plans<br>Time and expense tracking<br>Accounting and financials<br>Reporting and analytics</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>CRM That Supports Growth</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Practical AI for Smarter Decisions</p>
<p>Unanet&rsquo;s position in the market is also shaped by its focus on AI and smart technology. The company&rsquo;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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Trusted by Thousands of Project-Driven Firms</p>
<p>Unanet&rsquo;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.</p>
<p>Supporting the Future of AEC</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>

Unanet

Meet Unanet Champ AI: The AI engine powering your project lifecycle  

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.

<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Solibri supports BIM quality assurance from design through long-term operations.</p>
<p>- In design and architecture, teams can validate models early to prevent inconsistencies before coordination begins. <br>- In BIM coordination, Solibri helps multidisciplinary teams detect clashes, verify standards, and align around trusted model data. <br>- During construction and handover, validated BIM information supports contractors in planning, delivery, documentation, and project handover. <br>- In operation and maintenance, accurate model data helps owners and facility managers maintain buildings and infrastructure more efficiently over time.</p>
<p>The Solibri platform is available through a structured product portfolio designed for different levels of BIM maturity, team size, and validation needs.</p>
<p>- Solibri Starter gives individual professionals and small teams reliable IFC model review, federation, visual inspection, and model-based communication. <br>- Solibri Essential adds structured clash detection, predefined rule-based model checking, baseline information validation, BCF issue management, and CDE integrations for project teams formalizing coordination workflows. <br>- 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. <br>- Solibri Premium supports portfolio-level governance, compliance assurance, scalable automation, point cloud checking, centralized validation frameworks, AI-powered assistance, and extended IDS management.</p>
<p>For secure and regulated environments, Solibri Security+ provides fully offline, air-gapped validation for government, defense, and sovereign infrastructure use cases.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>

Solibri

Solibri is a Nemetschek Company and the global leader in BIM model validation and digital construction quality assurance, helping project teams reduce rework, ensure compliance, and deliver better buildings through trusted digital models.



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.

<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Beyond speed, BAMROC is designed to help principal architects and engineers achieve better design outcomes. The AI does not simply &ldquo;push elements out of the way&rdquo;; 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.</p>
<p>To support the full clash workflow, Vavetek AI offers two additional products:</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Vavetek AI is a global pioneer headquartered in Singapore, transforming the construction landscape through advanced AI technology.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p>AI Copilot for Global Structure Design Optimization and Audit<br>AI Copilot for Global Air Conditioning Design Optimization and Audit<br>AI Copilot for Global Fa&ccedil;ade Design Optimization and Audit</p>
<p>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.</p>

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.

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

<p dir="ltr">AIAEC is a technology company that builds artificial intelligence software built specifically for the architecture, engineering, construction (AEC), and commercial real estate industries. The company helps architects, engineers, developers, planners, municipalities, brokers, and consultants answer zoning, building code, land use, and regulatory questions faster with source-backed intelligence. Rather than replacing professional expertise, AIAEC is designed to help teams make faster, more informed decisions.&nbsp;</p>
<p dir="ltr">The company's first product, ChatAEC, was created to solve one of the industry's biggest challenges: the time and effort required to research zoning ordinances, municipal codes, land use regulations, and development requirements. Project teams often spend hours navigating multiple municipal websites, reviewing planning documents, and interpreting regulations before they can determine whether a project is feasible. ChatAEC simplifies this process by allowing users to ask questions in natural language and receive project-specific answers linked directly to the original source documents.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Unlike general-purpose AI tools, ChatAEC is purpose-built for the built environment. Every response is designed to be transparent and verifiable, helping users understand not only the answer but also where the information came from. This approach gives architects, engineers, developers, and planning professionals greater confidence when evaluating sites, preparing due diligence reports, communicating with clients, and coordinating with municipalities.</p>
<p dir="ltr">AIAEC was founded by professionals with decades of experience in civil engineering, land development, municipal planning, and commercial real estate. That experience helped shape the platform from the beginning. Instead of building technology around generic AI capabilities, the company focused on solving the everyday challenges professionals face when navigating complex regulatory environments. The result is a platform that reflects real industry workflows and supports the way development teams actually work.</p>
<p dir="ltr">ChatAEC helps users determine what can be built on a property, identify applicable zoning districts, understand development standards, review building code requirements, evaluate site feasibility, identify submittal requirements, and support entitlement planning. By reducing manual research and organizing regulatory information into clear, source-backed answers, the platform enables organizations to evaluate more opportunities while reducing the risk of costly mistakes caused by incomplete or outdated information.</p>
<p dir="ltr">As AIAEC continues to expand, the company is developing additional AI-powered solutions to support other phases of the project lifecycle, creating a comprehensive technology platform for professionals involved in planning, design, development, and construction.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Beyond improving research efficiency, AIAEC helps organizations collaborate more effectively. Architects, engineers, developers, brokers, consultants, and municipal planners can work from the same verified information, reducing confusion, improving communication, and accelerating project decisions. Whether evaluating a new site, preparing a client presentation, or beginning entitlement work, teams can spend less time searching for information and more time advancing projects.</p>
<p dir="ltr">AIAEC believes artificial intelligence should amplify professional expertise, not replace it. By combining deep industry knowledge with modern AI technology, the company is helping modernize zoning research, building code analysis, regulatory due diligence, site feasibility, and early project planning. Its goal is to make regulatory information easier to access, understand, and trust so professionals can focus on designing, developing, and building better projects.<br><br>AIAEC builds technology for the people who design, develop, and build the world. Helping architects, engineers, developers, construction teams, and real estate professionals get clear zoning, building code, compliance, and regulatory answers faster. Its first product, ChatAEC, turns complex zoning and land use rules into source-backed, defensible answers in seconds.<strong id="docs-internal-guid-e3e1e205-7fff-471a-3549-53ba549f43c2"> </strong></p>

AIAEC

AIAEC builds technology for the people who design, develop, and build the world. Helping architects, engineers, developers, construction teams, and real estate professionals get clear zoning, building code, compliance, and regulatory answers faster. Its first product, ChatAEC, turns complex zoning and land use rules into source-backed, defensible answers in seconds. 

<p>Deltek is the intelligent platform that powers the project lifecycle &mdash; from ERP and accounting to project bidding, planning, delivery, and analysis. Trusted by 30,000 organizations across government contracting, aerospace and defense, architecture and engineering, construction, and consulting, Deltek delivers the speed, clarity, and control needed when the stakes are high.</p>
<h2 class="display-2">The&nbsp;Intelligent Platform&nbsp;for Project-Driven Work</h2>
<p class=""><strong>Bring speed, clarity, and control to every stage of the project lifecycle with Deltek &mdash; purpose-built for high-stakes work.</strong></p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">Deltek is the intelligent platform built for high-stakes, project-based work, helping organizations manage every stage of the project lifecycle with greater speed, clarity and control. For more than 40 years, Deltek has developed purpose-built technology for businesses where projects, people, financial performance, compliance and successful delivery are critical to long-term success. Today, more than 30,000 organizations worldwide rely on Deltek to help them win, plan, execute and analyze their most important work.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">Deltek&rsquo;s solutions are designed specifically for project-driven industries, including government contracting, aerospace and defense, architecture and engineering, construction, consulting and small businesses. Unlike generic business software, Deltek solutions are built around the unique workflows, financial requirements, compliance obligations and operational challenges these industries face.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">The Deltek platform connects critical business processes across the project lifecycle. Its portfolio includes cloud ERP, opportunity intelligence, pricing intelligence, resource management, workforce management and delivery assurance solutions. Key products include Deltek Costpoint for government contractors and aerospace and defense organizations; Deltek Vantagepoint for architecture, engineering and consulting firms; Deltek Maconomy for professional services organizations; Deltek ComputerEase for construction; and Deltek Ajera for smaller architecture and engineering firms.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">Deltek also provides specialized solutions that help organizations identify and pursue opportunities, develop competitive proposals, manage resources and workforce costs, and improve project delivery. Deltek GovWin IQ provides market and opportunity intelligence for organizations pursuing government contracts, while Deltek ProPricer supports complex proposal pricing and cost analysis. Deltek Polaris helps professional services organizations unify people, projects, time, skills, billing and revenue recognition, while Deltek Replicon provides AI-powered time tracking and workforce management.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded across the Deltek portfolio through Dela, Deltek&rsquo;s AI-powered business companion and AI orchestration capabilities. Dela is designed to help customers generate insights, automate routine activities, improve productivity and make better-informed decisions using data and intelligence grounded in project-based business processes.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">A defining characteristic of Deltek&rsquo;s platform is its focus on governance, security and compliance. Deltek builds industry-specific controls into its solutions to help organizations manage complex regulatory and contractual requirements while maintaining visibility and auditability across their operations. This is particularly important for government contractors, aerospace and defense organizations, and other businesses where compliance and accountability are fundamental to project success.</p>
<p>From financial management and project accounting to resource planning, opportunity management, time tracking, project delivery and business intelligence, Deltek helps project-based organizations connect their people, processes and data. Its mission is to empower the people doing the world&rsquo;s most consequential work, while providing the technology and intelligence they need to operate with confidence and deliver successful outcomes. Learn more at our website at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.deltek.com">www.deltek.com</a></p>

Deltek

Deltek is the intelligent, industry-tuned platform that powers the project lifecycle — from ERP and accounting to delivery and analysis. Trusted by 30,000 organizations, Deltek delivers speed, clarity, and control.

<p class="PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer" data-start="77" data-end="512">ScanToBIM.Online is a specialized Scan to BIM company providing accurate, reliable, and high-quality BIM solutions for architects, engineers, contractors, construction companies, and facility management professionals. We transform point cloud and laser scan data into structured, information-rich BIM models and CAD deliverables that help AEC professionals understand existing building conditions and make better project decisions.</p>
<p data-start="514" data-end="904">Our core services include Scan to BIM Services, Point Cloud to BIM Services, <a href="https://www.scantobim.online/scan-to-cad-services/">Scan to CAD Conversion</a>, As-Built BIM Modeling, Architectural Scan to BIM, Structural BIM Modeling, MEPF Scan to BIM, and Point Cloud to Revit Modeling. Our solutions are suitable for renovation, refurbishment, retrofit, construction, restoration, documentation, coordination, and facility management projects.</p>
<p data-start="906" data-end="1389">At ScanToBIM.Online, we understand that accurate existing-condition data is essential for successful construction and renovation projects. Our workflow converts reality capture data into dependable digital models that represent the actual conditions of a building or facility. By using point clouds as the foundation for modeling, we help project teams minimize uncertainty, identify existing conditions, improve coordination, and reduce the risk of costly site re-visits and rework.</p>
<p data-start="1391" data-end="1742">Our team delivers Autodesk Revit-based BIM models according to project requirements, including LOD 200 to LOD 500 and customized modeling specifications. We support architectural, structural, and MEPF disciplines, enabling clients to receive coordinated BIM deliverables that can be integrated into their existing design and construction workflows.</p>
<p data-start="1744" data-end="2145">ScanToBIM.Online combines experienced BIM professionals with technology-driven processes to improve project consistency and quality. Our workflow includes structured modeling standards, disciplined geometry, coordination processes, and automated quality-control checks. This approach helps ensure that the final deliverables are accurate, organized, and aligned with the client's project requirements.</p>
<p data-start="2147" data-end="2579">We serve AEC firms across the USA and worldwide, supporting projects ranging from residential and commercial buildings to industrial facilities, healthcare properties, educational institutions, manufacturing facilities, sports complexes, and other complex structures. Our scalable delivery model allows us to support both individual projects and ongoing BIM requirements for organizations that need dependable modeling capacity.</p>
<p data-start="2581" data-end="3064">The value of ScanToBIM.Online extends beyond simply converting point clouds into 3D models. Our BIM deliverables are created to support practical project needs such as design development, renovation planning, clash coordination, construction documentation, quantity understanding, facility management, and future building improvements. Accurate as-built information gives project stakeholders a clearer representation of existing conditions before design or construction work begins.</p>
<p data-start="3066" data-end="3402">Whether you have terrestrial laser scanning data, LiDAR data, point cloud files, or existing scan-based documentation, our team can help convert that information into useful BIM and CAD deliverables. We focus on accuracy, consistency, communication, and timely project delivery while adapting our workflow to each client's requirements.</p>
<p data-start="3404" data-end="3748">ScanToBIM.Online is committed to helping AEC professionals turn reality capture data into actionable digital information. With specialized expertise in Laser Scanning, Scan to BIM, <a href="https://www.scantobim.online/point-cloud-to-bim-services/">Point Cloud to BIM</a>, Scan to CAD, As-Built Modeling, Revit Modeling, and MEPF BIM, we provide dependable solutions for modern construction and building documentation workflows.</p>
<p data-start="3750" data-end="3992" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">For organizations looking for a reliable partner for point cloud processing and BIM modeling, ScanToBIM.Online offers professional, scalable, and project-focused services designed to support better planning, coordination, and decision-making.</p>

ScantoBIM.Online

Scan to BIM Online is a specialized BIM and reality capture service provider that delivers high-precision Scan to BIM, Point Cloud to BIM, Laser Scan to BIM, Scan to CAD, as-built modeling, and digital twin solutions for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry.

<p class="PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer" data-start="0" data-end="333">ContractorCounter is browser-based construction drawing markup and takeoff software&mdash;a Bluebeam alternative built for contractors. It allows users to mark up PDFs, calibrate scale, measure lengths, areas, and volumes, place counts and stamps, and turn quantities into a live bill of quantities that flows directly into a priced quote.</p>
<p data-start="335" data-end="500">An AI assistant can take the first pass by counting fixtures, measuring quantities, and setting the drawing scale, with every result reviewed before it is committed.</p>
<p data-start="502" data-end="622">Because ContractorCounter runs entirely in the browser, there is nothing to install. It works on Windows, Mac, and iPad.</p>
<p data-start="624" data-end="1019">The platform is designed for contractors, builders, estimators, and subcontractors who want to move more efficiently from drawings to accurate estimates and professional quotes. By bringing takeoffs, quantities, and pricing into one workflow, ContractorCounter can help reduce repetitive work, minimize calculation errors, improve estimating consistency, and respond to bid opportunities faster.</p>
<p data-start="1021" data-end="1311">Whether working on residential construction, commercial projects, renovations, remodeling, or subcontracting jobs, users can review drawings, measure the required work, apply pricing, and develop clear, reliable estimates without relying on disconnected spreadsheets or manual calculations.</p>
<p data-start="1313" data-end="1476">ContractorCounter offers a free trial with a credit card required, followed by Pro at US$14/month, Team at US$10/seat/month, or a US$249 one-time lifetime license.</p>

ContractorCounter

 Browser-based construction takeoff and PDF markup software — measure, count, and quote from drawings.


<p data-path-to-node="2">Archlior is a AI lighting platform created to help people design, visualize, and select the right lighting for any built environment. The platform connects creative interior design concepts with technical lighting requirements. It serves a wide audience, including architects, interior designers, lighting consultants, contractors, students, and homeowners. By bringing together visual tools, technical search options, real-world examples, and educational content, the platform simplifies a process that is traditionally complex and technical.</p>
<p data-path-to-node="3"><strong data-path-to-node="3" data-index-in-node="0">Instant AI Visualizations</strong> A central feature of the platform is its artificial intelligence studio, which allows users to see how light transforms a room without using complicated software. Traditional lighting design often requires expensive visual tools or complex 3D rendering programs that take hours or days to set up. With this platform, users simply upload a photo of a physical space. The software analyzes the image and generates realistic lighting setups in seconds. Users can instantly experiment with different fixture styles and light qualities, testing warm light, cozy golden tones, or cool daylight. This quick visualization process helps designers show ideas to clients, test different arrangements, and decide on the look and feel of a room before buying any physical lights.</p>
<p data-path-to-node="4"><strong data-path-to-node="4" data-index-in-node="0">Comprehensive Product Discovery</strong> The platform includes a large catalog of professional-grade lighting products collected from quality manufacturers around the world. Users can search through thousands of light fixtures based on specific technical requirements rather than just visual appearance. To help users find the exact light needed for a project, the search system includes practical filters such as:</p>
<ul data-path-to-node="5">
<li>
<p data-path-to-node="5,0,0"><strong data-path-to-node="5,0,0" data-index-in-node="0">Fixture Types:</strong> Recessed ceiling lights, linear lights, decorative pendants, wall-mounted fixtures, track systems, and outdoor architectural lights.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p data-path-to-node="5,1,0"><strong data-path-to-node="5,1,0" data-index-in-node="0">Technical Details:</strong> Color temperature, beam sharpness, light distribution, energy consumption, and weather resistance ratings for wet or outdoor locations.</p>
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</ul>
<p data-path-to-node="6"><strong data-path-to-node="6" data-index-in-node="0">Real-World Project Gallery</strong> To offer real-world inspiration, the platform maintains a showcase of completed lighting projects from across the globe. This visual gallery includes case studies from various industries, such as luxury hotels, restaurants, retail shops, corporate offices, public art spaces, and residential homes. By viewing these completed spaces, designers can see how professional lighting principles work in practice. Users can observe how proper fixture placement highlights architectural textures, guides movement through a space, sets a specific mood, and ensures visual comfort for occupants.</p>
<p data-path-to-node="7"><strong data-path-to-node="7" data-index-in-node="0">Technical Calculators and Industry Standards</strong> Beyond inspiration, the platform provides practical online calculators designed to handle everyday lighting layout math. These tools help users estimate energy savings when switching to modern systems, calculate overall brightness levels needed for specific rooms, and map out balanced grid patterns for ceiling lights. Additionally, the platform provides references to international lighting guidelines and environmental design standards, helping users ensure their projects meet official safety and performance requirements.</p>
<p data-path-to-node="8"><strong data-path-to-node="8" data-index-in-node="0">Educational Guides and Resources</strong> To support continuous learning, the platform features accessible guides, downloadable books, and articles about lighting principles. These educational resources cover fundamental topics like combining ambient, task, and accent lighting, avoiding common layout mistakes, and choosing the right brightness. They also explore how light affects human health, explaining how matching indoor lighting to natural light patterns can improve sleep, boost energy levels, and enhance general well-being throughout the day.</p>

Archlior

Archlior is a comprehensive architectural lighting design platform for professionals and enthusiasts. It offers a searchable catalog of specification-grade lighting fixtures, a gallery of real-world project inspiration, an AI-powered lighting visualization studio, and professional resources, including lighting calculators, design guides, and industry standards.

<h2>Reality Capture and Digital Twins for the AEC Industry</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>At the core of RPG's value proposition is its ability to bridge the gap between the built environment and digital workflows. By leveraging terrestrial laser scanning, mobile mapping, drone-based reality capture, 360-degree 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.</p>
<h2>30+ Years Supporting the Construction Industry</h2>
<p>RPG has spent more than three decades supporting design and construction firms, and that longevity shapes how it works. The company describes the core problem in its market as a digital data fluency gap - firms at very different stages of technology adoption, from those still hand-marking construction plans to those running mature BIM environments, all needing to exchange information reliably.</p>
<p>Its answer is deliberately manufacturer-agnostic. Rather than reselling a single vendor's stack, RPG evaluates products across the market and assembles solutions around what a client actually needs, backed by its own support services. In 2022 the company expanded its portfolio by acquiring Digital Color Ink, strengthening its wide-format printing capability.</p>
<h2>Services Across the Asset Lifecycle</h2>
<p>RPG Squarefoot Solutions supports projects across the entire asset lifecycle - from pre-design and planning through construction, renovation, operations and facility management. The company specialises in high-accuracy existing conditions documentation, scan-to-BIM workflows, point cloud data, virtual walkthroughs, as-built documentation and site intelligence solutions that reduce rework and improve coordination.</p>
<h3>Reality Capture and 3D Scanning</h3>
<p>Terrestrial laser scanning, mobile mapping and drone data capture produce survey-grade records of existing conditions. The resulting point clouds feed directly into design and coordination software, replacing assumptions about as-built geometry with measured fact.</p>
<h3>BIM and Digital Twin Development</h3>
<p>Captured data is processed into usable models rather than delivered as raw scans. Scan-to-BIM services convert point clouds into intelligent, parametric models, and digital twin development extends that into an asset record owners can maintain and query through operations.</p>
<h3>Visualisation and Virtual Reality</h3>
<p>Virtual reality and 360-degree imaging solutions help project teams and clients understand a space before it exists, or review a remote site without travelling to it - useful in stakeholder approvals as much as in technical coordination.</p>
<h3>Managed IT and Jobsite Connectivity</h3>
<p>RPG provides IT network management and mobile jobsite connectivity, addressing a practical constraint on digital construction: models and captured data are only useful if field teams can actually reach them from site.</p>
<h3>Wide-Format Printing Equipment</h3>
<p>The company supplies wide-format printers and scanners along with maintenance and support, serving both AEC firms and the environmental graphics and print service provider market.</p>
<h2>Where RPG's Work Adds the Most Value</h2>
<p>RPG's solutions are particularly valuable on projects involving renovation, retrofit, adaptive reuse, historic preservation, industrial facilities, commercial interiors, healthcare spaces, educational institutions, infrastructure environments and complex building systems - anywhere accurate field conditions are critical to project success.</p>
<p>These are precisely the project types where drawings are least likely to match reality. On a renovation of a building documented decades ago, the difference between assumed and measured conditions surfaces as change orders, and reality capture moves that discovery from the construction phase to the design phase, where it is far cheaper to resolve.</p>
<h2>Technology Access Without Heavy Capital Outlay</h2>
<p>Alongside service delivery, RPG supports the market through technology access and deployment, helping firms adopt reality capture solutions without the friction of high upfront investment. This lowers the barrier for smaller practices that need scanning capability on specific projects but cannot justify buying and maintaining equipment outright, and it makes RPG a useful partner for organisations modernising workflows, improving documentation quality and competing on bidding, planning and execution.</p>
<h2>A Consultative Approach</h2>
<p>With a consultative, solution-oriented approach, RPG works closely with clients to understand project goals, technical requirements and downstream workflow needs. The intent is that the deliverable is not just captured data but usable project intelligence - information formatted for the software the client already runs and the decisions they actually need to make.</p>
<h2>Who RPG Works With</h2>
<p>The company serves architects, engineers, designers, contractors, facility owners and print service providers, with offices in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina supporting clients nationwide.</p>
<h2>Choosing a Reality Capture Partner</h2>
<p>Firms evaluating scanning providers usually compare on price per scan, but the more consequential differences sit downstream. Registration accuracy determines whether separate scan positions align into one coherent model; deliverable format determines how much rework a modelling team faces on receipt; and level of development agreed in advance determines whether a scan-to-BIM model is fit for coordination or only for reference. RPG's consultative process is aimed at settling those questions before capture begins rather than after delivery.</p>

RPG Squarefoot Solutions provides 3D laser scanning, scan-to-BIM, digital twin, managed IT and wide-format printing services for architecture, engineering and c

RPG Squarefoot Solutions | Reality Capture & Scan to BIM

RPG Squarefoot Solutions

RPG Squarefoot Solutions delivers reality capture, 3D laser scanning, scan-to-BIM and digital twin services for AEC firms, plus managed IT, jobsite connectivity and wide-format printing equipment. Over 30 years supporting design and construction teams nationwide.

<h2>The Practical Starting Point for AEC AI Strategy</h2>
<p>For most AEC firms, the biggest obstacle to adopting AI isn't the technology itself - it's the "data mess." Project files, CAD standards and Revit models are often scattered across disconnected servers, legacy systems and inconsistent folder structures. Before any meaningful AI strategy can take shape, firms need to first understand how their teams actually interact with this fragmented information environment on a day-to-day basis.</p>
<h2>Solving the File Hunt</h2>
<p>Rhombic's application is a lightweight Windows-based tool that sits directly on individual workstations. It addresses one of the most common and overlooked inefficiencies in AEC workflows: the "file hunt." Instead of navigating through multiple layers of folders or relying on tribal knowledge, an engineer can simply type a request such as "Open the latest Highway 99 drainage standards," and the application locates and launches the correct file instantly.</p>
<p>This may seem like a small improvement, but when multiplied across teams and projects it represents a meaningful shift in how work gets done. The typical user saves 15-20 minutes of billable time each day - time that would otherwise disappear into folder trees, shared drives and messages asking a colleague where something lives.</p>
<h2>How This Builds Your AI Strategy</h2>
<p>While your team is saving that time, the system is simultaneously performing two critical background functions that lay the foundation for a scalable AI strategy.</p>
<h3>Mapping Your Corporate Memory</h3>
<p>The tool continuously identifies where valuable resources actually live across your firm's network. Over time, it transforms what is typically undocumented institutional knowledge into a visible, queryable map of where the firm's real working assets are held - not where a folder policy says they should be.</p>
<h3>Revealing Real Usage Patterns</h3>
<p>By capturing what people search for and how they phrase it, the platform shows which standards, details and project resources are genuinely in demand and which are effectively dormant. This is the natural-language layer of an AI strategy: it records how engineers and designers describe their own work, in their own words, before any model is trained on it.</p>
<p>In other words, before you automate, you need to understand - and this is how that understanding is built.</p>
<h2>Zero-Risk, Local Execution</h2>
<p>One of the biggest barriers to AI adoption in AEC is concern around data security and compliance. This approach removes that barrier. Because the AI operates entirely on the user's local machine, no project data leaves your environment. It respects your existing permissions, folder structures and security protocols. There is no need for a major IT overhaul, cloud migration or lengthy security review process. Firms can begin implementing and seeing value almost immediately, without introducing additional risk.</p>
<h2>Why Local Deployment Matters in AEC</h2>
<p>The security question is not theoretical for design and engineering firms. Client agreements, public infrastructure contracts and confidentiality clauses frequently restrict where project data may be stored and which third parties may process it. A cloud-based assistant that indexes a firm's drives can require legal review, client notification and in some cases contract renegotiation before a single query is run.</p>
<p>A workstation-resident tool sidesteps that entire chain. Because nothing is transmitted, there is no processor to disclose, no data residency question and no new attack surface. For firms working on government, healthcare or defence-adjacent projects, this is often the difference between an AI pilot that starts this quarter and one that stalls in procurement for a year.</p>
<h2>Who Rhombic Is For</h2>
<p>The platform is aimed at architecture, engineering and construction firms that recognise AI is coming to their sector but have no clear first step - particularly small and mid-sized practices without a dedicated data team or the budget for a multi-year digital transformation programme. It suits firms whose people already know where the value is buried and simply need faster access to it.</p>
<h2>Shape the Future by Fixing Today</h2>
<p>What makes this approach powerful is that it does not require a dramatic shift in how teams work. It simply improves what they are already doing. By solving a very real, everyday problem - finding the right file - you are also laying the groundwork for something much bigger. You are building the data layer, visibility and insight needed to support future AI initiatives. In many ways, this is the most practical entry point into AI for AEC firms: start by reducing friction today, and in doing so quietly collect the intelligence needed to shape tomorrow's strategy.</p>
<h2>What Adoption Looks Like in Practice</h2>
<p>Because the tool installs per workstation rather than as firm-wide infrastructure, adoption can start with a single team or even a single project without committing the whole practice. That matters for change management as much as for IT: the people most frustrated by the file hunt tend to become the internal advocates, and their usage data is what makes the eventual firm-wide case concrete rather than aspirational.</p>

Rhombic gives AEC firms a local, zero-risk AI tool for finding CAD standards, Revit models and project files by plain-language request - the practical first ste

Rhombic | AI File Search & AI Strategy for AEC Firms

Rhombic

Rhombic builds a lightweight, locally run AI file-retrieval tool for AEC firms. Engineers find CAD standards, Revit models and project files by plain-language request, saving 15-20 minutes daily while mapping the data foundation for a wider AI strategy.

<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>ShapeDo Ltd is a venture-backed construction technology company founded in 2014, with offices in Israel and London. It makes two products: <strong>ShapeDo</strong>, a collaborative design change management platform, and <strong>Purple Hammer</strong>, a desktop application for construction PDF and spreadsheet operations covering viewing, markup, measurement, comparison, takeoff and estimating.</p>
<p>Both are built on the company's drawing alignment and comparison engine, which can take two revisions of a construction drawing and make every addition, removal and alteration visible.</p>
<h2>ShapeDo - Design Change Management</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>ShapeDo is the project-level, collaborative platform for keeping that under control. Its capabilities include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Automatic comparison of drawing revisions, highlighting exactly what was added, removed or altered between versions</li>
<li>Structured review workflows that route each change to the people responsible for assessing it, with assigned actions tracked to closure</li>
<li>Design issue logging and RFI management connected directly to the drawings in question</li>
<li>A complete, auditable history of drawing versions, reviews and decisions across the life of the project</li>
<li>Dashboards and records showing outstanding reviews and unresolved issues at project level</li>
</ul>
<h3>Across the Project Lifecycle</h3>
<p>ShapeDo is used throughout a project. 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Uncaught design changes are among the most common causes of contractor losses, and the reason is structural rather than careless: a revision can alter scope without anyone flagging it, and the cost only surfaces when the work is built. ShapeDo's purpose is to make sure no change goes unseen.</p>
<h2>Purple Hammer - Desktop PDF and Estimating</h2>
<p>Purple Hammer is a single-user desktop product for macOS and Windows, built for the construction industry's daily PDF and spreadsheet operations: viewing, marking up, measuring, comparing and organising drawing sets, and pricing what gets measured.</p>
<p>It suits anyone who spends their working day in construction PDFs, including site engineers and project managers, and goes deepest for estimators, quantity surveyors, contractors and specialist subcontractors - adding live estimating spreadsheets so measurement and pricing happen in one native application instead of the usual split between a PDF tool and Excel.</p>
<h3>Connected Takeoff and Estimate</h3>
<p>Measurements - lengths, areas, perimeters and 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.</p>
<p>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. On a large tender with several revision cycles, that difference compounds into days of recovered estimating time.</p>
<h3>Performance</h3>
<p>The application is engineered for speed on real-world drawing sets:</p>
<ul>
<li>A several-hundred-sheet PDF set opens in roughly a second</li>
<li>Automatic alignment and comparison of two revisions typically completes in one to two seconds</li>
<li>Pan and zoom run at 120 frames per second</li>
</ul>
<p>Performance matters more here than it might in other software categories, because estimators work against bid deadlines and a tool that stalls on a large set simply gets abandoned.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Markup and annotation</li>
<li>Calibrated measurement</li>
<li>Automatic drawing alignment</li>
<li>Overlays and blink comparison</li>
<li>Area and perimeter takeoff</li>
<li>Repeated-symbol counting</li>
<li>Drawing version history</li>
<li>Live estimating worksheets with formulas</li>
<li>Export of marked-up drawings and spreadsheet data</li>
</ul>
<h2>Who Uses It</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Use Cases</h2>
<ul>
<li>Identifying scope movement between drawing revisions during tender</li>
<li>Routing design changes to the right reviewers and tracking them to closure</li>
<li>Producing measured takeoffs and priced estimates in a single application</li>
<li>Re-pricing only the changed scope when revisions land mid-tender</li>
<li>Substantiating variations and supporting final-account negotiation</li>
<li>Assembling evidence for claims and dispute resolution</li>
</ul>
<h2>The Two Products in One Line Each</h2>
<p><strong>ShapeDo</strong> helps project teams see, review and manage design changes collaboratively, and prove what changed later.</p>
<p><strong>Purple Hammer</strong> is a fast construction PDF and spreadsheet tool for viewing, markup, measurement and comparison, with estimating built in, so users re-price only what changed when revisions land.</p>

ShapeDo manages construction design change across drawing revisions; Purple Hammer is a desktop PDF app for markup, measurement, takeoff and live estimating.

Purple Hammer & ShapeDo | Drawing Change & Takeoff

Purple Hammer (shapeDo Ltd)

ShapeDo Ltd builds construction software: ShapeDo, a collaborative design change management platform that compares drawing revisions and routes reviews, and Purple Hammer, a fast desktop PDF and spreadsheet app for markup, measurement, comparison, takeoff and estimating.

<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>ProtoTech Solutions, founded in 2005, specialises in creating 3D engineering and construction software solutions for the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) and manufacturing industries. Its stated goal is to empower innovators with disruptive solutions that reduce time to market and help meet business goals.</p>
<p>The company has completed over 200 projects for more than 250 clients across the globe. It operates from India with a team of over 120 skilled engineers, architects, designers and developers, and works with clients from inception through to implementation, crafting bespoke solutions intended to meet distinct requirements rather than force-fitting an existing product.</p>
<h2>3D Application Development</h2>
<p>ProtoTech develops 3D applications for cloud, desktop and mobile platforms using technologies including ThreeJS, HOOPS Visualize, Eyeshot, OpenGL, ARKit and ARCore.</p>
<p>That spread across web, native desktop and mobile rendering stacks is more significant than it first appears. Each has different constraints on model size, memory and performance, and the platform choice usually determines what is technically feasible in the finished product rather than the other way round. A team fluent across all three can advise on that trade-off before development starts.</p>
<h2>BIM Application Development</h2>
<p>The team specialises in BIM applications for the AEC industry, with expertise spanning:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>3D, 4D, 5D and 6D BIM</strong> - geometry through to sequencing, cost and facility management data</li>
<li><strong>CAD to BIM conversion</strong> - migrating legacy drawing sets into intelligent models</li>
<li><strong>Scan data to BIM</strong> - converting point cloud captures into structured models</li>
<li><strong>Revit family creation</strong> - parametric content libraries</li>
<li><strong>Clash detection and resolution</strong> - interdisciplinary coordination</li>
</ul>
<p>The progression through BIM dimensions matters commercially. 4D adds construction sequencing, 5D adds cost data, and 6D adds asset information for facility management, so each step moves the model further from a design deliverable toward an operational asset that retains value after handover.</p>
<h2>CAD Plugin Development</h2>
<p>ProtoTech has developed a wide range of 3D file importer and exporter plugins for popular CAD software, with more than 100 plugins published on the Autodesk App Store.</p>
<p>File interoperability remains one of the most persistent practical problems in both AEC and manufacturing workflows, because project teams rarely standardise on a single vendor's toolset. Geometry that moves cleanly between systems saves rework; geometry that does not becomes a manual remodelling exercise. A published catalogue of that size represents substantial accumulated experience in an unglamorous but commercially essential area.</p>
<h2>CAD Customisation and Automation</h2>
<p>The company streamlines CAD design workflows through automation and customisation, targeting the repetitive tasks that consume disproportionate design time. Where a firm repeats the same drawing or modelling operation across projects, automation converts hours of manual work into minutes and pays back across every subsequent job rather than only the first.</p>
<h2>AR/VR Application Development</h2>
<p>ProtoTech creates augmented and virtual reality applications for iOS, Android and web platforms. In an AEC context these support design review, stakeholder visualisation, client presentation and on-site comparison of proposed work against existing conditions.</p>
<h2>CAD Design and Drafting</h2>
<p>Alongside software development, proficient CAD designers and drafters collaborate closely with architects, engineers, contractors and design experts to deliver drafting services and production-ready 2D and 3D drawings. This gives clients the option of engaging ProtoTech as a production resource as well as a development partner.</p>
<h2>Use Cases</h2>
<ul>
<li>Software vendors building 3D or BIM capability into their own commercial products</li>
<li>AEC firms needing custom Revit or CAD tooling beyond what off-the-shelf plugins provide</li>
<li>Manufacturers requiring 3D product configurators or visualisation tools</li>
<li>Teams needing file format conversion and interoperability between CAD systems</li>
<li>Organisations deploying AR/VR for design review or site visualisation</li>
<li>Practices outsourcing 2D and 3D drafting production during peak workload</li>
<li>Firms digitising legacy drawing archives into BIM models</li>
</ul>
<h2>Who ProtoTech Works With</h2>
<p>Clients span architecture practices, engineering consultancies, contractors, product manufacturers, and construction technology companies building their own software. The company operates in two distinct modes - as a product engineering partner for organisations developing software, and as a production drafting and modelling resource for firms delivering projects.</p>
<h2>Why Firms Choose ProtoTech</h2>
<p>Two decades of continuous operation in 3D engineering software, a large in-house team combining engineering domain knowledge with software development capability, and a publicly verifiable plugin portfolio give the company a track record that can be checked rather than simply asserted.</p>
<p>For firms weighing whether to build 3D or BIM capability internally or partner for it, the deciding factor is usually whether the partner understands the engineering problem as well as the code. A team combining architects and engineers with developers is positioned differently from a general software house taking on an AEC brief for the first time.</p>
<h2>Sectors Served</h2>
<ul>
<li>Architecture and building design</li>
<li>Civil and structural engineering</li>
<li>Construction and contracting</li>
<li>Manufacturing and product design</li>
<li>Construction technology and software vendors</li>
</ul>

ProtoTech Solutions builds 3D, BIM and CAD applications, Autodesk plugins, AR/VR apps and drafting services for AEC and manufacturing clients since 2005.

ProtoTech Solutions | 3D, BIM & CAD Software Development

ProtoTech Solutions

ProtoTech Solutions builds 3D engineering and construction software for AEC and manufacturing, covering BIM application development, CAD customisation, CAD plugin development, AR/VR apps and CAD design and drafting. Founded 2005, 120+ engineers, 100+ plugins on the Autodesk App Store.

<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>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, and Primepoint is designed to understand them the way an experienced engineer does.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>The Construction Knowledge Graph</h2>
<p>The result is a construction knowledge graph mapping 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.</p>
<p>That tag-level granularity is what distinguishes this from document search. Most platforms can find the page a door appears on; connecting that specific door to its hardware set, fire rating and approved submittal is a different technical problem.</p>
<h2>Verifiable Answers</h2>
<p>This structural understanding 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.</p>
<p>As one customer put it, in construction "almost correct isn't good enough." Primepoint is built for mathematical certainty over approximation - which is the necessary standard when an answer feeds a change order or a fabrication release.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Drawing comprehension</strong> - vision-based AI reading linework, tags and cross-references, not just text</li>
<li><strong>Submittal review</strong> - checking submittals against project requirements</li>
<li><strong>RFI management</strong> - checking incoming RFIs against the contract documents and drafting new ones</li>
<li><strong>Revision narratives and overlays</strong> - generated automatically when new drawing sets are issued</li>
<li><strong>Marvin intelligence layer</strong> - ask any project question in plain English and get an instant, sourced answer</li>
</ul>
<p>Tasks that once took days of manual review can be prepared in minutes, so teams review and refine rather than start from scratch.</p>
<h2>Use Cases</h2>
<ul>
<li>Catching drawing and specification conflicts before they reach the field</li>
<li>Accelerating submittal and RFI turnaround during construction</li>
<li>Understanding what actually changed between drawing revisions</li>
<li>Answering project queries without manual document trawling</li>
<li>Reducing rework and change orders from preconstruction through closeout</li>
</ul>
<h2>Integrations</h2>
<p>Primepoint integrates natively with the systems teams already use, syncing drawings, submittals and RFIs directly with <strong>Autodesk Construction Cloud</strong> and <strong>Procore</strong> - so there are no manual uploads or disrupted workflows.</p>
<h2>Security</h2>
<p>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. Client data stays isolated.</p>
<p>For contractors, that last point is not a technicality - project documents contain commercially sensitive pricing and design information that cannot be allowed to leak into a shared model.</p>
<h2>Team</h2>
<p>Primepoint was built by a team with 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 includes senior product leaders from Atlassian, Uber and Microsoft, alongside construction veterans who managed large-scale projects at firms such as Webcor and Turner.</p>
<p>That pairing of AI research with lived construction experience is central to why the platform addresses both the technology and the real challenges of complex jobs.</p>
<h2>Who Uses Primepoint</h2>
<p>The platform is trusted by general contractors including Sundt Construction, Fortis Construction, Herrero Boldt Webcor, W.E. O'Neil, Milender White, and Bulley &amp; Andrews.</p>
<p>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.</p>

Primepoint's AI reads construction drawings, specs, RFIs and submittals into one knowledge graph, delivering sourced answers. Integrates with ACC and Procore.

Primepoint | AI Construction Drawing Intelligence

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.

<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>Page is a multidisciplinary design, architecture and engineering firm with 1,300+ staff and offices in the US and abroad. Its work consists largely of complex projects that benefit from integrated disciplines and that make a significant impact on the communities they serve.</p>
<p>The firm's positioning is captured in its own phrase - Think What's Possible - and its stated belief that design has the power to transform. Commitment to sustainability, social responsibility and innovation runs from reducing carbon emissions to fostering inclusive communities.</p>
<h2>Full-Service Design, Architecture and Engineering</h2>
<p>Page pairs the art and science of possibility with the practical question of how to make it happen. Experts across all disciplines work to find the best way forward and deliver solutions to complex projects. Because architecture and engineering sit under one roof, coordination that would otherwise cross company boundaries happens internally - which on technically demanding building types is where most programme risk is concentrated.</p>
<h2>Sectors and Project Types</h2>
<p>The firm's own framing of what design can achieve maps directly onto its core markets:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Workplace</strong> - inspiring environments people want to return to</li>
<li><strong>Education</strong> - learning environments that attract world-class students</li>
<li><strong>Healthcare</strong> - health centres designed to make care and lives better</li>
<li><strong>Science and research</strong> - research centres that speed innovation from lab to life</li>
<li><strong>Civic and government</strong> - a market the firm has served since its founding</li>
<li><strong>Sustainability-led design</strong> - greater sustainability from the inside out</li>
</ul>
<h2>The Power of Design</h2>
<p>Page holds that buildings matter more for what they do - the positive impact they make on individual lives - than for what they are. That distinction shapes how the firm approaches briefs: performance and human outcome ahead of formal expression.</p>
<h2>People</h2>
<p>The firm attributes its difference to its people, recruiting and hiring talent while making space for teams to celebrate individuality, bring new ideas into the process, and create work that improves lives.</p>
<h2>History</h2>
<p>In 1898, Charles Henry Page and his brother Louis Page formed Page Brothers, Architects, focusing on courthouses and public schools. Charles's son, Charles Henry Page Jr., joined following Louis's death in 1934.</p>
<p>A year later, Louis's son, Louis Charles Page Jr., partnered with his college roommate Louis Southerland to form the Austin-based firm Page and Southerland. Louis's brother George Page joined in 1939 and the name became Page Southerland Page. The firm shortened its name to Page in 2013.</p>
<h2>Acquisitions and Growth</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>2022 - EYP</strong> - Page acquired the architectural and planning firm EYP, merging the Albany-based company's national offices and design portfolio</li>
<li><strong>2023 - Davis Brody Bond</strong> - Page acquired the New York City architecture firm whose notable projects include the National September 11 Memorial &amp; Museum, the Portico Gallery at the Frick Collection, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture</li>
</ul>
<p>Those two acquisitions brought significant civic and cultural credentials into a practice already strong in healthcare, science and workplace - a deliberate broadening rather than simple scale-up.</p>
<h2>Global Presence</h2>
<p>As of 2024, Page operated 21 offices across the United States, Mexico and the United Arab Emirates.</p>
<h2>Who Page Works With</h2>
<ul>
<li>Health systems and academic medical centres</li>
<li>Universities, colleges and school districts</li>
<li>Federal, state and municipal government agencies</li>
<li>Corporate occupiers and developers</li>
<li>Research institutions and science and technology clients</li>
<li>Cultural institutions and museums</li>
</ul>

Page is a 1,300-person architecture and engineering firm designing healthcare, education, workplace, science and civic projects across 21 offices worldwide.

Page | Architecture, Engineering & Design Firm

Page

We’re a multidisciplinary design, architecture and engineering firm with 1,300+ talented staff and offices in the U.S. and abroad. Our work consists largely of complex projects that benefit from our integrated disciplines and that make a significant impact on the communities they serve.

<h2>About NEDES</h2>
<p>NEDES is the Mid-Atlantic's trusted solar installer, serving Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware and Washington DC. The company specialises in solar panel installation, solar battery systems and critter guards, handling everything from free solar estimates and site inspections through professional installation to ongoing support.</p>
<p>NEDES has been in the solar panel market for more than 25 years. Its installer team is fully licensed and NABCEP-certified where applicable, and is committed to leveraging net metering policies alongside available incentives including property tax exemptions and SREC opportunities.</p>
<h2>Services</h2>
<h3>Residential Solar Panel Installation</h3>
<p>NEDES helps homeowners cut bills and gain energy independence. The team analyses roof orientation, shading and energy consumption to design an optimised solar panel system. Permitting and grid interconnection are handled by NEDES, managing every detail for a hassle-free experience.</p>
<p>Those two items - permitting and interconnection - are where most residential solar projects actually stall, since both depend on third-party timelines rather than installation capacity.</p>
<h3>Battery and Equipment Installation</h3>
<p>Battery storage systems provide blackout protection and allow households to shift stored energy into peak-rate periods rather than exporting it.</p>
<h3>System Add-On Panels</h3>
<p>For clients who have outgrown an existing setup, NEDES expands current solar arrays with high-yield add-on panels and advanced dual-MPPT inverters, boosting a home's kilowatt output without voiding warranties. New photovoltaic hardware is integrated into the original array.</p>
<h3>EV Charger Installation</h3>
<p>NEDES supplies Level 2 EV charger installations delivering up to 48A (11.5kW) or rapid charging power. Electricians use dedicated 60-amp THHN wiring for hardwired stations, guaranteeing NEC-compliant charging.</p>
<h3>Critter Guards</h3>
<p>Mesh guarding around panel arrays prevents birds and rodents nesting beneath modules - a common cause of wiring damage and lost output that is far cheaper to prevent than to remediate.</p>
<h2>Why Clients Choose NEDES</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>$1,000 referral savings</strong> - when a satisfied NEDES customer refers a new client, that client receives $1,000 off their full solar installation cost after completion</li>
<li><strong>Align Solar Protection partnership</strong> - every NEDES system includes lifetime coverage on the entire solar setup through an exclusive insurance partnership</li>
<li><strong>Tesla Powerwall Certified Installer</strong> - factory-backed Powerwall batteries with blackout protection and daily energy savings</li>
<li><strong>Free site inspection and quote</strong>, plus free consultation sessions</li>
<li><strong>24/7 customer support</strong></li>
<li><strong>Off-grid solutions</strong> for properties without reliable grid access</li>
</ul>
<p>NEDES was named Virginia's top installer in 2025 and works with hardware partners including Tesla, Enphase and Pearl.</p>
<h2>Transparent Estimating</h2>
<p>NEDES provides all-inclusive solar estimates with no hidden fees. The team shows how available incentives, net metering and financing options - including $0-down leases and PPAs in some cases - reduce the effective cost and accelerate payback. Each free estimate provides a precise breakdown for the property, including projected savings over 25 years.</p>
<p>The 25-year projection matters because solar economics are driven by payback period rather than upfront cost, and that calculation shifts substantially with local incentive structures.</p>
<h2>Service Areas</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Maryland</strong> - including Silver Spring, Bethesda, Bel Air and Gaithersburg</li>
<li><strong>Virginia</strong> - including Richmond, Virginia Beach, Newport News, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Alexandria, Hampton, Norfolk, Arlington and Roanoke</li>
<li><strong>Pennsylvania</strong></li>
<li><strong>Delaware</strong></li>
<li><strong>Washington DC</strong></li>
<li><strong>Texas</strong> - including South Houston</li>
<li><strong>Georgia</strong> - including Columbus and Augusta</li>
<li><strong>North Carolina</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Regional offices are maintained in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Texas.</p>
<h2>Project Portfolio</h2>
<p>The company documents completed installations across residential rooftops, commercial buildings and battery integrations, with high-efficiency panel installations in Virginia and high-capacity battery systems in Pennsylvania.</p>

NEDES installs residential and commercial solar panels, battery storage and EV chargers across Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware and DC. Tesla certifie

NEDES | Mid-Atlantic Solar, Battery & EV Installation

Nedes Engineering

NEDES is a Mid-Atlantic solar installation company delivering residential and commercial solar panel systems, battery storage, EV charger installation and critter guards across Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, DC, Texas and Georgia. Tesla Powerwall certified.

<h2>About Milestone PLM Solutions</h2>
<p>Milestone PLM Solutions is a trusted engineering design partner committed to delivering high-quality BIM, CAD, and product development services to clients across the globe. A USA-based engineering design and BIM services company operating since 2004, it has built a foundation in engineering and design that makes it a reliable partner for companies seeking accuracy, innovation, and efficiency.</p>
<p>The team of skilled engineers, architects, and designers collaborates closely with clients to transform ideas into reality, ensuring projects are executed seamlessly from concept to completion.</p>
<h2>Mission</h2>
<p>The core mission is to provide design and engineering solutions that not only meet but exceed client expectations. Today's industries demand faster project delivery, reduced costs, and high precision at every stage of execution, so Milestone combines advanced technology with engineering expertise to create solutions that drive efficiency, accuracy, and long-term value.</p>
<p>Whether construction, product development, or infrastructure design, the firm brings a mix of creativity and technical knowledge to every project.</p>
<h2>BIM Services</h2>
<p>Milestone provides comprehensive Building Information Modeling solutions covering 3D, 4D, and 5D requirements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Detailed modeling across disciplines</li>
<li>Clash detection and coordination</li>
<li>Project management support</li>
</ul>
<p>By leveraging BIM, clients achieve improved collaboration, streamlined workflows, and enhanced project outcomes with reduced risks and errors. The progression from 3D geometry to 4D sequencing and 5D cost is where BIM stops being a drawing tool and starts informing programme and budget decisions.</p>
<h2>Architectural Services</h2>
<p>The architectural team delivers creative, detailed, and client-focused solutions in design, drafting, and visualisation. From concept development to technical drawings, services cover residential, commercial, and industrial projects, ensuring designs are aesthetically appealing while remaining functional and practical.</p>
<h2>Millwork Services</h2>
<p>Milestone specialises in precision-driven millwork, bringing cabinetry, joinery, and custom woodwork projects to life. Working closely with manufacturers, contractors, and designers, the team ensures every detail is captured accurately, enabling smoother production and flawless execution.</p>
<p>Millwork drawings are unforgiving in this respect - the fabricator cuts directly from them, so an ambiguous dimension becomes scrapped material rather than a query.</p>
<h2>Structural Services</h2>
<p>Structural engineering services include modeling, detailing, and analysis, ensuring safe and reliable outcomes for construction projects. The focus is on efficient designs that meet safety standards while optimising material usage and construction time - from small-scale structures to large, complex projects.</p>
<h2>MEP Services</h2>
<p>Milestone delivers end-to-end Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing modeling, coordination, and design support. The team ensures building systems are designed for maximum efficiency, minimising clashes and delays during construction, and offers integrated MEP solutions that help create sustainable, functional, and cost-effective building environments.</p>
<h2>CAD Drafting and Detailing</h2>
<p>Accuracy sits at the core of the CAD drafting and detailing service. Milestone provides high-precision 2D and 3D drafting, documentation, and detailing across a wide range of engineering and construction projects. Attention to detail ensures clients receive production-ready drawings that reduce errors and improve project efficiency.</p>
<h2>Product Design and Development</h2>
<p>From initial concept to prototype, Milestone offers product design and development solutions that help clients bring product ideas to market faster, with designs balancing creativity, functionality, and manufacturability. Advanced tools and design thinking enable businesses to innovate with confidence.</p>
<p>Holding both AEC and product design capability in one team is unusual, and useful where the two meet - fa&ccedil;ade systems, modular components and building products all sit across that boundary.</p>
<h2>Who Milestone Works With</h2>
<ul>
<li>Architects and design practices</li>
<li>Structural and MEP engineering consultancies</li>
<li>General contractors and subcontractors</li>
<li>Millwork fabricators and joinery shops</li>
<li>Manufacturers, OEMs and product developers</li>
<li>Developers and building owners</li>
</ul>
<h2>Working With Milestone</h2>
<p>Milestone believes in building long-term partnerships by delivering solutions that are reliable, cost-effective, and tailored to each client's unique needs. Its goal is to empower industries with smarter design solutions that add value at every stage of the project lifecycle.</p>

Milestone PLM Solutions delivers 3D, 4D and 5D BIM, architectural, structural, MEP and millwork services, CAD drafting and product design for AEC clients global

Milestone PLM Solutions | BIM, CAD & Engineering Design

Milestone PLM Solutions, Inc.

Milestone PLM Solutions is a USA-based engineering design and BIM services company delivering 3D, 4D and 5D BIM, architectural, structural, MEP and millwork services, CAD drafting and product design for AEC and manufacturing clients worldwide since 2004.

<h2>About Morroni</h2>
<p>Morroni is a Munich-based Computational Design Studio operating at the intersection of architecture, design, and advanced technology. Combining expertise in parametric design, digital fabrication, DfAM, and automation, the studio develops custom workflows to solve complex design challenges across industries - from architecture and automotive to consumer, medical, and industrial applications.</p>
<p>Its work spans computational and generative design, additive manufacturing, digital fabrication, and large-scale 3D printed architecture using sustainable materials. Morroni conducts innovative research and develops novel design methodologies and parametric systems, using processes that shift the boundaries of what is possible in design.</p>
<h2>Computational Design</h2>
<p>Morroni solves complex design problems with the help of code, algorithms, and advanced computer processing, enabling tailor-made efficient design and architecture.</p>
<ul>
<li>Parametric design</li>
<li>Generative design</li>
<li>Iterative and performative models</li>
<li>Complex modelling</li>
<li>Smart patterns and surface texturing</li>
<li>Dashboarding and visualisations</li>
</ul>
<h2>Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM)</h2>
<p>With strong experience in design for additive manufacturing, architecture, and construction, the studio solves problems from large-scale additive manufacturing to custom G-code and toolpath generation.</p>
<ul>
<li>Design for additive manufacturing</li>
<li>Lattice structures</li>
<li>Custom toolpath and G-code generation</li>
<li>Design for 3DCP, FGF and SLS processes</li>
</ul>
<p>Writing toolpaths directly is a meaningful distinction. Most design-for-print work stops at geometry and hands off to slicing software; controlling the G-code means controlling how the material is actually deposited, which on large-scale concrete printing determines whether the structure stands up.</p>
<h2>Design for Digital Fabrication</h2>
<p>Morroni works towards closing the "digital chain" from design to fabrication with parametric 3D planning, optimisation and digital production. The studio handles data preparation and ensures all individual parts fit together.</p>
<ul>
<li>Closing the digital chain from design to production</li>
<li>Design to production</li>
<li>Data-driven design</li>
<li>Design optimisation and rationalisation</li>
</ul>
<h2>Automation and Mass Customisation</h2>
<p>Design at scale. Morroni helps clients automate their design processes, realising true mass customisation, configurators, and new design workflows tailored to specific requirements using state-of-the-art generative tools.</p>
<ul>
<li>Design at scale</li>
<li>Design automation</li>
<li>Design processes</li>
<li>Reusable workflows</li>
<li>Batch processing</li>
</ul>
<h2>3D Printed Architecture</h2>
<p>Morroni has developed design and software solutions for 3D printing multifunctional architecture and interior applications from recycled materials, addressing some of the most critical challenges facing the construction industry today.</p>
<ul>
<li>True large additive manufacturing</li>
<li>Functional integrated design</li>
<li>Circular building solutions</li>
</ul>
<p>Combining recycled feedstock with printed architecture targets two problems at once - construction waste and embodied carbon - which is why circular material strategies and additive manufacturing increasingly appear together.</p>
<h2>Consulting and Workshops</h2>
<p>With a background in academia and teaching, Morroni consults on bringing digital planning, fabrication and automation processes to the next level.</p>
<ul>
<li>Consulting</li>
<li>Workshops</li>
<li>Teaching</li>
</ul>
<h2>Collaboration</h2>
<p>Morroni is a studio where multiple disciplines come together, with experience in parametric design, architecture, digital fabrication, creative coding, DfAM and automation. It is highly collaborative, working directly with clients or partnering with agencies worldwide to provide market-leading solutions.</p>
<h2>Sectors Served</h2>
<ul>
<li>Architecture and construction</li>
<li>Interior design and installations</li>
<li>Automotive</li>
<li>Consumer products</li>
<li>Medical</li>
<li>Industrial applications</li>
</ul>
<p><em>NEVER NOT COMPUTING // shaping vertices, voxels &amp; attributes</em></p>
<h2>Research and Methodology</h2>
<p>Alongside client work, Morroni conducts research into novel design methodologies and parametric systems. The studio's academic background feeds this directly - computational design advances tend to emerge from research settings before reaching practice, and a studio active in both moves between them faster than one operating only commercially.</p>
<h2>Who Morroni Works With</h2>
<ul>
<li>Architects and design practices needing parametric or generative capability they do not hold in-house</li>
<li>Product and industrial designers requiring design automation or configurators</li>
<li>Manufacturers adopting additive manufacturing at production scale</li>
<li>Construction firms exploring 3D printed building components</li>
<li>Agencies partnering on specialist computational work</li>
<li>Teams seeking training in digital planning and fabrication</li>
</ul>

Morroni is a Munich computational design studio working in parametric design, DfAM, digital fabrication, automation and 3D printed architecture from recycled ma

Morroni | Computational Design & 3D Printed Architecture

Morroni Computational Design

Morroni is a Munich-based Computational Design Studio where multiple disciplines come together. With experience in parametric design, architecture, digital fabrication, creative coding, DfAM, automation, and more, the studio pushes forward to bring complex ideas into reality.

<h2>About Modelo Tech Studio</h2>
<p>Modelo Tech Studio is a distinguished leader in architectural BIM modeling, dedicated to elevating the standards of modern design, construction, and project coordination. With deep expertise and a multidisciplinary team of BIM specialists, the studio supports projects across residential, commercial, industrial, healthcare, hospitality, and hydropower sectors.</p>
<p>Its ability to adapt to varying project complexities while maintaining accuracy and consistency has made it a preferred partner for architects, engineers, contractors, and owners.</p>
<h2>3D, 4D and 5D BIM</h2>
<p>At the core of the service is a commitment to delivering highly detailed and intelligent BIM models that enhance decision-making, improve constructability, and streamline execution.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>3D modeling</strong> - precise geometry and coordination across architectural, structural, and MEP components</li>
<li><strong>4D modeling</strong> - construction sequencing and scheduling data integrated to provide a clear visual timeline that enhances planning and minimises delays</li>
<li><strong>5D BIM</strong> - cost information incorporated to enable more reliable budgeting, accurate forecasting, and informed financial planning</li>
</ul>
<h2>Clash Detection and Coordination</h2>
<p>Modelo Tech Studio excels in clash detection and coordination, processes that significantly reduce rework and field conflicts. By identifying clashes early in the design stage, the team helps stakeholders avoid costly delays and ensures construction proceeds smoothly.</p>
<h2>Design Assist</h2>
<p>Design assist services support architects and engineers by improving documentation clarity, engineering coordination, and material management. This level of detail allows project teams to make well-informed decisions and maintain greater control over project budgets.</p>
<h2>Asset Data Integration</h2>
<p>For owners and facility managers, asset data integration brings long-term value. Essential facility information is embedded into BIM models, creating intelligent digital assets that support operations, maintenance, and lifecycle management long after construction is complete.</p>
<p>This is where the return on modeling investment extends well past handover - a model carrying accurate asset data becomes an operations tool rather than a design artefact.</p>
<h2>Laser Scanning and Scan-to-BIM</h2>
<p>A major strength differentiating Modelo Tech Studio is its proficiency in laser scanning and scan-to-BIM technology. Using highly accurate 3D laser scanners, the team captures existing site conditions and converts them into detailed, data-rich BIM models.</p>
<p>These models serve as the foundation for renovation, restoration, and complex retrofit projects, ensuring design teams work with reliable, real-world data. This minimises assumptions, eliminates guesswork, and significantly improves project accuracy from the outset - which matters most on retrofit work, where original drawings frequently do not match what was actually built.</p>
<h2>Sectors Served</h2>
<ul>
<li>Residential</li>
<li>Commercial</li>
<li>Industrial</li>
<li>Healthcare</li>
<li>Hospitality</li>
<li>Hydropower</li>
</ul>
<p>The hydropower capability is unusual for an architectural BIM practice and points to experience with heavy civil and infrastructure geometry alongside building work.</p>
<h2>Mission and Approach</h2>
<p>The studio's mission is rooted in delivering high-quality, tailored BIM/VDC solutions that drive smarter, faster, and more collaborative construction processes. It combines innovations in digital modeling with proven industry methodologies, grounded in transparency, precision, and an understanding of modern building requirements.</p>
<p>Through optimised workflows, enhanced coordination, and comprehensive BIM insights, the team helps reduce risk, accelerate timelines, and increase design confidence.</p>
<h2>Working With Modelo Tech Studio</h2>
<p>As the studio puts it, it does not simply create models - it creates digital environments that empower better decisions, improve performance, and support the future of the built environment. With a focus on innovation, client satisfaction, and quality, it continues to serve as a BIM partner for organisations across multiple sectors, supporting projects from concept to completion.</p>

Modelo Tech Studio delivers 3D, 4D and 5D architectural BIM, clash detection, laser scanning and scan-to-BIM across residential, healthcare and industrial proje

Modelo Tech Studio | Architectural BIM & Scan to BIM

Modelo Tech Studio

Modelo Tech Studio is an architectural BIM modeling expert. Our expert team handles a wide range of projects across residential, commercial, industrial, healthcare, hospitality, and hydro power sectors. 

<h2>About McLine Studios</h2>
<p>McLine Studios provides drafting solutions to architects, builders, contractors, sub-contractors, and manufacturers around the world. The company describes itself as a one-stop shop for architectural drafting, rendering and modeling services, with over a decade of industry experience.</p>
<p>The business operates as McLine Studios Private Limited, an India-incorporated architectural drafting and BIM services company serving clients globally including the United States, with a US mailing address in Middletown, Delaware and its head office in Delhi.</p>
<h2>Scale</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>150+</strong> team members</li>
<li><strong>18,755+</strong> projects completed</li>
<li><strong>1,200+</strong> clients</li>
<li><strong>7+</strong> covered locations</li>
</ul>
<h2>Shop Drawings</h2>
<p>Shop drawings are the company's flagship service, covering an unusually wide range of trades:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Millwork and joinery</strong> - millwork shop drawings and drafting, commercial millwork, cabinet and kitchen shop drawings, Cabinet Vision drawings</li>
<li><strong>Tile, stone and flooring</strong> - layouts, material schedules and finish schedules dimensionally accurate enough for coordinated installation</li>
<li><strong>Facade and envelope</strong> - ACM, glazing, curtain wall, storefront, wall panels and cladding, cast stone</li>
<li><strong>Interiors and fit-out</strong> - interior, retail, bathroom, furniture, carpet and deck shop drawings</li>
<li><strong>Timber frame</strong> and general CAD shop drawings</li>
</ul>
<p>On millwork the company's stated standard is that every cut, angle and connection detail is rendered to scale, to dimension, and to specific hardware. That level of specificity is what separates a shop drawing from a design drawing - the fabricator works directly from it, so an unresolved dimension becomes a rejected part.</p>
<h2>Architectural Drafting</h2>
<ul>
<li>CAD drafting and CAD conversion services</li>
<li>Residential drafting</li>
<li>Floor plan drafting</li>
<li>Construction documentation sets including floor plans, elevations, sections and electrical plans</li>
</ul>
<h2>BIM Services</h2>
<ul>
<li>Architectural Revit services and Revit modeling</li>
<li>Revit drafting and Revit family creation</li>
<li>3D scan to Revit and point cloud to BIM</li>
<li>CAD to BIM conversion</li>
<li>3D and 4D BIM services</li>
<li>BIM clash detection and coordination across architectural, structural, mechanical and electrical scopes</li>
<li>BIM outsourcing</li>
</ul>
<h2>3D Rendering and Visualisation</h2>
<p>The rendering practice covers presentation, marketing and investor material:</p>
<ul>
<li>3D exterior and interior rendering</li>
<li>Aerial, streetscape, landscape and community rendering</li>
<li>Real estate and residential rendering</li>
<li>2D and 3D floor plans, 3D site plan rendering</li>
<li>CAD rendering, amenity views and watercolour rendering</li>
</ul>
<h2>Interior Design</h2>
<p>Interior services extend beyond aesthetics to complete spatial planning, material selection, furniture, fixture and equipment schedules, and construction-ready interior drawings:</p>
<ul>
<li>Schematic design and design development</li>
<li>Construction documentation</li>
<li>As-built drawings and permit sets</li>
<li>FF&amp;E drawings</li>
</ul>
<h2>AWI Membership and Standards</h2>
<p>McLine Studios is a member of the Architectural Woodwork Institute (AWI), reinforcing its commitment to industry standards, precision and compliance. For millwork fabricators, drawings produced to AWI standards reduce the review cycles that otherwise consume schedule between submittal and approval.</p>
<h2>How It Works</h2>
<ol>
<li><strong>Share your project or drawings</strong> with scope of work and receive an estimate</li>
<li><strong>Project kick-off meeting</strong> to align on scope, timelines and milestones</li>
<li><strong>Drawing development with RFIs</strong> raised as needed for design clarification and coordination</li>
<li><strong>Project delivery</strong> after multiple quality checks</li>
</ol>
<p>An instant project estimator is available on the company's site for interior design, millwork, tile and rendering scopes.</p>
<h2>Industries Served</h2>
<ul>
<li>Corporate interiors</li>
<li>Government</li>
<li>Hospitality</li>
<li>Educational institutions</li>
<li>Banking and finance</li>
<li>Healthcare</li>
<li>Retail outlets</li>
<li>Bars and restaurants</li>
<li>Residential</li>
</ul>
<h2>Client Feedback</h2>
<p>Clients including Generation One Inc., Bellatrix Enterprises, Spectrum Woodworking, Mock Woodworking and GG Cain Company cite timely production of shop drawings, responsiveness, clear and consistent drawings meeting industry standards, and reasonable fees.</p>

McLine Studios delivers millwork shop drawings, architectural drafting, Revit BIM modeling and 3D rendering for architects, contractors and manufacturers.

McLine Studios | Millwork Shop Drawings & BIM

McLine Studios

McLine Studios provides millwork and shop drawings, architectural and CAD drafting, Revit BIM modeling, 3D rendering and interior design documentation to architects, builders, contractors and manufacturers worldwide. AWI member with 150+ staff and 18,000+ projects delivered.

<h2>About Matera</h2>
<p>Matera is an early-stage platform exploring how AI can bring greater visibility from specification to sale across the AEC industry.</p>
<p>Today, the process between material specification, procurement, distribution, and construction execution remains highly fragmented. Architects, designers, contractors, developers, manufacturers, and distributors often work across disconnected systems, spreadsheets, PDFs, emails, and manual workflows. As projects evolve, material substitutions, pricing changes, availability constraints, and communication gaps can create significant inefficiencies between what is designed and what is ultimately built.</p>
<p>Matera is being developed to help bridge these gaps through building materials intelligence, procurement visibility, and workflow automation.</p>
<h2>The Problem</h2>
<p>The vision behind Matera comes from over 20 years of experience across building materials, architectural sales, procurement, operations, and construction coordination within the AEC industry. Throughout that experience, a consistent challenge became clear: there is often limited visibility between design intent, procurement realities, and downstream execution.</p>
<p>Material decisions made early in the design process can significantly impact project budgets, timelines, substitutions, installation coordination, and final project quality - yet many teams still lack the connected information to make those decisions well. The gap is a familiar one in practice: a specification written in month two becomes a substitution request in month fourteen, by which point the original reasoning has usually been lost.</p>
<h2>Areas of Exploration</h2>
<p>The platform focuses on helping teams better understand material specifications in the context of real-world procurement and construction workflows. Current areas of exploration include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Specification and document analysis</li>
<li>Material intelligence workflows</li>
<li>Procurement coordination</li>
<li>Supply chain visibility</li>
<li>Specification-to-sale tracking</li>
<li>Workflow automation across AEC teams</li>
<li>AI-assisted operational workflows for material management</li>
</ul>
<p>The goal is not simply to digitise existing workflows, but to create clearer connections between the people, products, and decisions that shape construction projects from concept through completion.</p>
<h2>Reducing Manual Workflow Burden</h2>
<p>In many construction projects, teams spend significant time manually reviewing specifications, coordinating substitutions, tracking approvals, validating product information, and communicating across multiple stakeholders. These workflows are often repetitive, fragmented, and difficult to standardise across organisations.</p>
<p>Matera is exploring how AI-assisted systems may help streamline portions of these processes while improving transparency and coordination between teams.</p>
<h2>Structuring Building Materials Data</h2>
<p>The platform is being developed with an understanding that building materials data is often inconsistent, unstructured, and distributed across multiple formats and systems. Product information may exist in specifications, submittals, technical sheets, emails, spreadsheets, ERP systems, distributor catalogues, or manufacturer databases.</p>
<p>Matera is exploring ways to organise and connect this information in a more structured and actionable format that supports both operational workflows and strategic decision-making.</p>
<h2>Specification-to-Sale Visibility</h2>
<p>Another area of interest is the relationship between specification activity and downstream sales visibility. Manufacturers and distributors often have limited insight into how products move from specification through procurement and final installation.</p>
<p>Matera is exploring how improved visibility across these stages could support stronger coordination, forecasting, and project tracking throughout the supply chain. For manufacturers, this is a commercially significant blind spot: a product specified early may or may not survive value engineering, and there is often no signal either way until an order arrives or does not.</p>
<h2>Current Stage</h2>
<p>Matera is currently in its early stages and continuing to evolve through industry conversations, workflow testing, and collaboration with professionals across architecture, design, construction, manufacturing, and distribution. The company is focused on learning directly from industry participants to better understand where operational bottlenecks exist and where AI-enabled workflows may provide meaningful value.</p>
<h2>Focus Areas</h2>
<ul>
<li>AI adoption in AEC</li>
<li>Construction technology</li>
<li>Material workflows</li>
<li>Procurement intelligence</li>
<li>Operational visibility across the built environment</li>
<li>Data-driven coordination across project stakeholders</li>
</ul>
<h2>Long-Term Vision</h2>
<p>As the AEC industry continues to adopt new technologies and AI-driven workflows, Matera is exploring how building materials data and procurement intelligence can become a more connected part of the project lifecycle.</p>
<p>The broader vision is to help create a more transparent, coordinated, and intelligent ecosystem for managing building materials across design, procurement, and construction operations.</p>

Matera is an AI platform connecting building material specification, procurement and construction workflows to give AEC teams specification-to-sale visibility.

Matera | AI Building Materials & Procurement Platform

Matera

Matera is exploring how AI can bring greater visibility from specification to sale across the AEC industry, connecting material selection, procurement, and construction workflows.

<h2>About Mastery of Digital</h2>
<p>Mastery of Digital&reg; is an international initiative launched to empower engineers, architects, and construction professionals with cutting-edge knowledge and tools for navigating the rapidly evolving world of digital construction.</p>
<p>In a sector often resistant to change, Mastery of Digital&reg; serves as a platform for innovation, bridging the gap between traditional workflows and emerging technologies. By providing high-quality educational resources, expert insights, and practical tools, it aims to help professionals not only adapt to the demands of the modern AEC industry but also become leaders in shaping its future.</p>
<h2>What Sets It Apart</h2>
<p>The platform's defining commitment is turning technological complexity into accessible and actionable solutions. It curates the most relevant innovations - from Building Information Modeling (BIM) and AI-powered tools to automation and digital twin technologies - and translates them into hands-on, real-world knowledge.</p>
<p>That translation step is the substance of the offer. The AEC sector's technology problem is rarely a shortage of available tools; it is the gap between a tool existing and a team knowing how to fold it into an actual project workflow.</p>
<h2>Resources</h2>
<p>Mastery of Digital&reg; provides a growing library built specifically for the architecture, engineering, and construction community:</p>
<ul>
<li>Case studies</li>
<li>Training programmes and modules</li>
<li>Industry reports</li>
<li>Technical white papers</li>
<li>AI resources and tools</li>
</ul>
<p>The platform is built for those who want to future-proof their careers, deliver better projects, and stay competitive in a data-driven economy.</p>
<h2>Who It Serves</h2>
<p>Whether you are a contractor looking to streamline operations, a civil engineer exploring automation, or a university lecturer designing a new curriculum, Mastery of Digital&reg; provides a space to learn, contribute, and grow.</p>
<ul>
<li>Contractors and construction managers</li>
<li>Civil, structural and MEP engineers</li>
<li>Architects and designers</li>
<li>BIM and digital construction managers</li>
<li>University lecturers and curriculum designers</li>
</ul>
<p>Including educators in that list is a deliberate choice with long-term leverage - curriculum change reaches the next cohort of practitioners rather than only the current one.</p>
<h2>Mission</h2>
<p>To cultivate a dynamic global community focused on the discovery, application, and scaling of digital construction technologies - providing the resources, guidance, and support necessary for professionals to embrace digital transformation with confidence, and to use it as a tool for innovation, sustainability, and competitive advantage.</p>
<h2>Vision</h2>
<p>To become the global reference point for digital construction, where professionals from all corners of the industry can connect, collaborate, and advance their expertise - positioning Mastery of Digital&reg; as the leading platform where thought leaders, innovators, and practitioners come together to define the future of the built environment.</p>
<h2>Core Values</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Commitment to excellence</strong> - the highest standards across everything produced, from training modules to technical white papers, grounded in practical application and academic rigour.</li>
<li><strong>Collaboration</strong> - progress in construction technology happens through shared knowledge and partnerships, with a culture where professionals across disciplines and borders can co-create.</li>
<li><strong>Empowerment</strong> - equipping individuals and organisations with the tools, skills and confidence to navigate digital change, whether starting or leading that journey.</li>
<li><strong>Integrity</strong> - honesty, transparency and consistency, building trust by delivering on promises and maintaining an open, respectful environment.</li>
<li><strong>Continuous learning</strong> - digital construction is constantly evolving, so the platform emphasises lifelong learning and ongoing exploration, experimentation and education.</li>
<li><strong>Sustainability</strong> - promoting greener and more efficient practices in the built environment through content and advocacy.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Reach and Community</h2>
<p>Mastery of Digital&reg; describes itself as more than a platform - a movement to upskill the global AEC workforce, reduce the knowledge gap in construction technology, and inspire professionals to lead with confidence in a digital-first future.</p>
<p>With thousands of subscribers, partners, and growing global recognition, the initiative is helping shape the next generation of construction leaders, equipped not just with tools but with purpose.</p>

Mastery of Digital delivers training, case studies, reports and AI resources on BIM, automation and digital twins for AEC professionals and educators.

Mastery of Digital | Digital Construction Training

Mastery of Digital

Mastery of Digital is an international digital construction education platform offering training programmes, case studies, reports and AI resources on BIM, automation and digital twins for architects, engineers, contractors and lecturers.

<h2>About Luminocity AG</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Product Portfolio</h2>
<h3>GeoVision - Cloud BIM Visualisation</h3>
<p>GeoVision is a cloud BIM visualisation 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.</p>
<p>The plugin family captures PBR materials, lighting, and exposed metadata, notably above what stock Speckle connectors provide. That fidelity gap matters in practice: most web viewers strip material and lighting data, which makes them adequate for coordination but not for design review.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Lemonate - Browser-Native 3D Game Engine</h3>
<p>Lemonate is a complete open-source 3D game engine and editor that runs entirely in the browser, built ground-up by the Luminocity team. It features:</p>
<ul>
<li>A LUA scripting layer for game logic</li>
<li>A full engine API across rendering, physics (rigid bodies, vehicle, NavMesh), positional audio, particle systems, materials and shaders</li>
<li>A broad scene-object library including Gaussian Splats</li>
</ul>
<p>Source code is public on Codeberg. A public games gallery, community asset library, and beginner and advanced tutorial series support the developer community, and Lemonate has a public roadmap committed through 2027.</p>
<h3>3D Replicas - Gaussian-Splatting Digital Twins</h3>
<p>3D Replicas is a productised 3D Gaussian-Splatting digital-twin pipeline for cultural heritage, museums, and architectural sites. The three-stage workflow - on-site or studio capture, 3DGS reconstruction, and cloud-delivered web, VR or archive output - has produced active client work in 2026 across multiple Italian heritage sites and Swiss commercial and civic spaces.</p>
<p>Three productised offerings are available:</p>
<ul>
<li>Interactive Web Viewer</li>
<li>Virtual Museum Experience (VR/AR)</li>
<li>Digital Archive and Collection Management Platform</li>
</ul>
<h2>Unity 3D Consulting</h2>
<p>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 - delivered by the same engineering bench that ships GeoVision's Unity 6 HDRP desktop application.</p>
<h2>Engineering Track Record</h2>
<p>The 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:</p>
<ul>
<li>Industry-standard media servers used in demanding multimedia setups since 2007, including Eurovision Song Contests, large-scale 3D projection mappings, and major touring productions</li>
<li>The MVX 2D / 3D / 4D file format and processing framework, presented at SIGGRAPH 2016</li>
<li>Hardware-emulation work for leading VR device manufacturers</li>
<li>A native Meta Quest VR application release</li>
</ul>
<h2>How Engagements Work</h2>
<p>Luminocity works 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, with engineering, project management and QA all on the team's side; the customer receives working deliverables on an agreed cadence and integrates them into their core stack. Engagements can be project-based or month-based.</p>
<h2>Areas of Greatest Strength</h2>
<ul>
<li>Connector engineering for AEC plugins</li>
<li>Custom AEC pipeline work on top of Speckle</li>
<li>Front-end and viewer work in Three.js, WebGL and GLSL</li>
<li>AI integration in 3D pipelines</li>
<li>Unity, AR/VR and XR engineering</li>
</ul>
<h2>Location and Technology</h2>
<p>Headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, with an engineering team operating remotely across the EMEA region. The team is English- and German-speaking.</p>
<p>The 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.</p>

Luminocity AG is a Swiss agency building real-time 3D, AR/VR and AEC plugins, including GeoVision cloud BIM, Lemonate browser 3D engine and 3D Replicas twins.

Luminocity AG | Real-Time 3D & AEC Plugin Engineering

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). 

<h2>About Leveret Systems</h2>
<p>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. The company designs and builds 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.</p>
<p>Founded by Eben Joubert, a Systems Architect with dual Master's degrees in Artificial Intelligence (Distinction, Goldsmiths, University of London) and BIM &amp; 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. Its directors are members of the British Computer Society (MBCS) and the Chartered Institute of Building (MCIOB).</p>
<h2>CDE and BIM Platform Integration</h2>
<p>Leveret connects Common Data Environments and BIM platforms to the wider enterprise ecosystem. Its 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.</p>
<p>Deliverables include:</p>
<ul>
<li>REST API development and webhook orchestration</li>
<li>ISO 19650-compliant information management workflows (WIP - Shared - Published - Archived)</li>
<li>Model translation pipelines from Revit (RVT) and IFC to SVF2 for web-based 3D viewing via Autodesk APS</li>
<li>Automated metadata enrichment, validation, and quality assurance across federated BIM models</li>
</ul>
<h2>Custom Middleware Development</h2>
<p>Leveret builds the integration backbone that sits between platforms - not configuration or rebranded SaaS, but actual production-grade middleware with proper error handling, retry logic, structured logging, and monitoring.</p>
<ul>
<li>Event-driven microservices on Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Azure Service Bus, and RabbitMQ</li>
<li>Webhook callback systems for real-time data synchronisation</li>
<li>Data transformation pipelines from CAD geometry to business data, and from IFC to analytics-ready formats</li>
<li>API gateway designs serving 78+ endpoints with sub-second response times</li>
</ul>
<p>The distinction the firm draws here is a real one. Most CDE platforms expose APIs, but connecting two of them reliably in production - handling failures, retries and ordering - is a software engineering problem rather than a configuration exercise.</p>
<h2>AI and Machine Learning for AEC</h2>
<p>The company applies 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.</p>
<ul>
<li>Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines for regulatory document analysis covering NRM2, building regulations, and standards</li>
<li>Computer vision applied to satellite imagery and point cloud analysis</li>
<li>Predictive analytics for construction performance across schedule, quality, and cost forecasting</li>
<li>LLM-assisted content generation with human-in-the-loop quality controls</li>
</ul>
<h2>Data Engineering and Dashboards</h2>
<p>Leveret builds end-to-end data pipelines from source systems to executive-ready reporting. When Power BI's native connectors create latency or data quality issues, the team builds dashboards from scratch.</p>
<ul>
<li>SharePoint and CDE data extraction pipelines</li>
<li>Power BI integration with custom embedded reporting</li>
<li>Real-time operational dashboards with WebSocket-driven updates</li>
<li>Multimodal dataset handling across BIM/CAD models, point cloud data, and time-series sensor feeds</li>
</ul>
<h2>Why Leveret Systems</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Construction plus software</strong> - the team holds degrees in Construction Management, BIM, and AI. They don't just write code, they understand what project teams actually need.</li>
<li><strong>Production-grade delivery</strong> - not prototypes or proof-of-concepts, but production systems with logging, monitoring, error handling, and documentation.</li>
<li><strong>Platform agnostic</strong> - across Autodesk APS, ProjectWise, Asite, Aconex, and Trimble Connect, integrating whatever CDE stack is in use.</li>
<li><strong>Standards built in</strong> - ISO 19650 and ISO 27001 are baked into the delivery approach, not bolted on after the fact.</li>
<li><strong>Sustained delivery</strong> - a two-person Architect plus Developer model that sustains delivery over months, rather than advising for a week and leaving.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Recent Delivery</h2>
<p>In a recent seven-week engagement, the team delivered:</p>
<ul>
<li>An enterprise quoting platform with 78+ API endpoints (Flask backend, React frontend, PostgreSQL on Cloud SQL)</li>
<li>Migration of 118,000+ rows across 23 tables from BigQuery to Cloud SQL Postgres with zero downtime</li>
<li>A WordPress website rebuilt as a custom React application with GA4 and GDPR Consent Mode v2</li>
<li>A manufacturing team planner with Harvest time-tracking and Google Drive integration</li>
<li>An AI-powered email classification agent integrated with the quoting system</li>
</ul>
<p>Deployed to GCP Cloud Run with Docker and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Two people, seven weeks.</p>

Leveret Systems builds middleware connecting BIM and CDE platforms to ERP, SharePoint and Power BI, with ISO 19650 workflows and AEC machine learning.

Leveret Systems | BIM & CDE Integration Consultancy

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.

<h2>About Lagarsoft</h2>
<p>Lagarsoft is an AEC software development company headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay, building production-grade software for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Real Estate, and Property Tech industries.</p>
<p>Founded in 2019 by senior engineers out of CASE Inc. and WeWork, the team brings more than a decade of experience shipping software inside the built environment, combining backgrounds in architecture, real estate, data analysis, automation, software development, and agile management. Lagarsoft operates as a US company that is Uruguay-based and globally distributed, with senior engineers and architects working together across the Americas.</p>
<h2>Origins</h2>
<p>The company's origin gives it a distinctive perspective. Its founders first met at CASE, a global Building Information Modeling consultancy that pioneered the idea that "buildings = data," using technology to reshape how architecture and construction teams worked.</p>
<p>After CASE was acquired by WeWork, the team helped build software to manage WeWork's massive real estate portfolio. When WeWork closed its Uruguay office, the team chose to continue that vision independently, founding Lagarsoft to bring data-driven, agile software solutions to AEC firms worldwide.</p>
<h2>Autodesk Platform Services</h2>
<p>Lagarsoft is an Autodesk Platform Services (APS) Certified Partner. The company designs and ships custom Autodesk software on APS, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Viewer integrations</li>
<li>Model Derivative pipelines</li>
<li>Data Exchange flows</li>
<li>Design Automation jobs</li>
<li>AEC Data Model queries running in production</li>
</ul>
<h2>Custom Revit Development</h2>
<p>The company builds custom Revit plugins that extend the native toolset, automate repetitive tasks, and bridge Revit to the rest of the technology stack so that the model is not the end of the line. Output flows into web viewers, dashboards, generative design platforms, and field tooling.</p>
<p>That framing - the model is not the end of the line - identifies the gap most BIM implementations leave open. A completed model represents substantial invested effort, and if it terminates at handover rather than feeding downstream systems, most of that value stays locked up.</p>
<h2>Broader AEC Software Development</h2>
<p>Beyond the Autodesk ecosystem, the same engineering bench handles broader custom AEC software development, from systems coordination and clash detection tooling to portfolio platforms and investor dashboards.</p>
<h2>Engineering Rigour</h2>
<p>Engineering rigour is central to Lagarsoft's positioning. The company emphasises production readiness: authentication, secrets handling, dependency hygiene, and audit trails as a baseline, with CI, observability, and a clear rollback path in place before the first deploy.</p>
<p>The team favours reliable, well-understood infrastructure such as databases, queues, and caches that hold up under real production load. This is a meaningful differentiator in a sector where a great deal of custom tooling is built by designers scripting rather than by software engineers, and consequently works on one machine but not across an organisation.</p>
<h2>Taking AI-Built Applications to Production</h2>
<p>Increasingly, Lagarsoft helps industrial, manufacturing, AEC, and logistics companies take AI-built applications to production, layering senior engineering discipline around modern AI tooling - addressing the now-common situation where a promising prototype cannot be trusted with real data or real users.</p>
<h2>How Engagements Work</h2>
<h3>Build Audit</h3>
<p>Engagements typically begin with a Build Audit: a focused working session with senior engineers followed by a concise one-page memo delivered within forty-eight hours.</p>
<h3>Embedded Pod</h3>
<p>From there, work continues as an Embedded Pod - senior engineers operating on a sprint cadence with scoped work and transparent management, adjusted as it unfolds and shaped by what is actually shipping.</p>
<h3>Consulting</h3>
<p>The company also offers consulting, where it reads the codebase, reviews the systems, and identifies where existing systems are fragile - mapping current processes and technologies against what production-grade looks like for the size and risk of the business.</p>
<h2>Core Competencies</h2>
<ul>
<li>BIM and AECO</li>
<li>APIs and integrations</li>
<li>Revit development</li>
<li>Mobile and web development</li>
<li>Machine learning</li>
<li>Data analysis</li>
</ul>
<h2>Who Lagarsoft Works With</h2>
<p>By pairing deep domain knowledge of the built environment with senior software engineering, Lagarsoft helps teams across architecture, engineering, construction, MEP, and real estate get more done with software that performs reliably in real-world production conditions.</p>

Lagarsoft is an Autodesk Platform Services Certified Partner building custom Revit plugins, APS integrations and production-grade software for AEC and proptech.

Lagarsoft | AEC Software & Revit Plugin Development

Lagarsoft

Lagarsoft is an AEC software development company and Autodesk Platform Services Certified Partner building custom Revit plugins, APS integrations, BIM tooling and web platforms for architecture, engineering, construction and proptech firms.

<h2>About Kamai</h2>
<p>Kamai is a next-generation vertical AI agent built for the architecture, engineering, construction, and real estate industries. Designed to understand 2D CAD files, blueprints, floor plans, and technical drawings, Kamai helps teams automate document review, quantity extraction, design analysis, and construction intelligence through an AI platform and developer-friendly API.</p>
<p>Unlike generic AI tools, Kamai is purpose-built for the complexity of construction documentation. It combines a specialised foundation model for CAD with an advanced blueprint parser that can read, interpret, and structure information from 2D drawings. Whether users are analysing architectural plans, engineering sheets, permit sets, construction drawings, or CAD exports, Kamai turns static files into searchable, usable, AI-ready data.</p>
<h2>The 2D CAD Foundation Model</h2>
<p>At the core of Kamai is its 2D CAD foundation model, designed to understand the geometry, symbols, annotations, layers, dimensions, schedules, and spatial relationships found in technical drawings. This allows Kamai to do far more than basic OCR.</p>
<p>It can recognise:</p>
<ul>
<li>Rooms, walls, doors and windows</li>
<li>Fixtures and equipment tags</li>
<li>Measurements and dimensions</li>
<li>Material callouts</li>
<li>Construction details</li>
</ul>
<p>By combining visual AI, geometric reasoning, and domain-specific construction knowledge, Kamai enables teams to interact with drawings in a faster and more intelligent way. The distinction from OCR matters: extracting text from a drawing is a solved problem, but understanding that a symbol represents a fire damper positioned within a specific wall assembly is not.</p>
<h2>Blueprint Parser API</h2>
<p>Kamai's blueprint parser API allows businesses to integrate AI-powered drawing intelligence directly into their own software, workflows, and platforms. Developers can use the API to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Upload blueprints and process CAD files</li>
<li>Extract structured data</li>
<li>Detect objects and classify drawing elements</li>
<li>Compare revisions</li>
<li>Answer natural language questions about project documents</li>
</ul>
<p>This makes Kamai a powerful infrastructure layer for construction technology companies, estimating platforms, property technology tools, design software, and enterprise project management systems.</p>
<h2>Use Cases by Role</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Estimators</strong> - accelerate takeoffs by identifying quantities, dimensions, areas, counts, and material information from 2D plans</li>
<li><strong>Architects and engineers</strong> - support drawing review, design coordination, and issue detection</li>
<li><strong>Contractors</strong> - parse bid sets, compare drawing revisions, summarise changes, and reduce manual review time</li>
<li><strong>Owners and developers</strong> - make complex construction documents easier to understand and query</li>
</ul>
<h2>Natural Language Queries</h2>
<p>As a vertical AI agent for 2D CAD and blueprints, Kamai is optimised for industry-specific workflows. Users can ask questions such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>"How many doors are shown on Level 1?"</li>
<li>"What is the total square footage of office space?"</li>
<li>"Find all rooms with tile flooring."</li>
<li>"Compare this drawing revision to the previous version."</li>
</ul>
<p>Kamai parses the relevant sheets, analyses the visual and textual data, and returns structured answers that help teams move faster.</p>
<h2>Why It Matters</h2>
<p>Traditional blueprint review often requires hours of manual work across large plan sets, especially when teams need to extract details from multiple sheets or identify changes between revisions. Kamai uses AI to reduce repetitive work, improve accuracy, and make project information more accessible.</p>
<p>Revision comparison is the clearest example: on a large bid set, identifying what actually changed between issues is both critical and tedious, and missed changes translate directly into pricing errors and claims.</p>
<h2>Infrastructure for AI-Native Construction</h2>
<p>For companies building AI-native construction workflows, Kamai provides the foundation: a 2D CAD AI model, a reliable blueprint parser, and a scalable API for technical drawing intelligence. Whether used as a standalone vertical AI agent or embedded into enterprise software, Kamai enables smarter, faster, and more automated construction decision-making.</p>
<p>Kamai is redefining how teams work with 2D CAD, blueprints, and building documentation. With AI-powered parsing, CAD understanding, and API-first infrastructure, Kamai gives the built environment a new intelligence layer for design, construction, and real estate workflows.</p>

Kamai is a vertical AI agent and API that parses 2D CAD and blueprints into structured data for takeoffs, drawing review and revision comparison.

Kamai | AI Blueprint Parser & 2D CAD API

Kamai

Kamai is a vertical AI agent and blueprint parser API for 2D CAD, turning architectural, engineering and construction drawings into structured, searchable data for quantity takeoffs, drawing review, revision comparison and construction intelligence.

<h2>About INTON Business Strategy Consultant</h2>
<p>INTON Business Strategy Consultant is a Fort Washington, PA-based management and technology consultancy specialising in workplace strategy, design program management, and AI-powered tools for the architecture, engineering, and construction industry.</p>
<p>Founded to bridge the gap between design practice and business performance, INTON helps interior design firms and AEC organisations reduce operational overhead, protect project margins, and deliver better outcomes through smarter systems and purposeful technology integration.</p>
<p>At its core, INTON operates at the intersection of built environment expertise and applied artificial intelligence - a combination that remains rare in an industry still navigating the transition from traditional practice to AI-enabled operations.</p>
<h2>Consulting Services</h2>
<p>INTON's consulting work spans:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Organisational strategy</strong></li>
<li><strong>Workflow redesign</strong></li>
<li><strong>Technology adoption</strong></li>
<li><strong>AI implementation</strong></li>
<li><strong>Workplace strategy</strong></li>
<li><strong>Design program management</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>The firm serves organisations that recognise the need to evolve but require a practitioner-led partner to guide that evolution with credibility and domain depth. That distinction is the commercial point: generalist digital transformation consultancies can describe the destination but rarely understand how a design studio actually bills, scopes and delivers work.</p>
<h2>Leadership</h2>
<p>INTON was founded by Mourad Elshokiry, a design and construction professional with 15+ years of international experience. His credentials include:</p>
<ul>
<li>MBA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>BFA from the University of Alexandria</li>
<li>Certificate in Hotel Real Estate Development and Asset Management from Cornell University</li>
<li>CPMAI certification in enterprise AI management</li>
</ul>
<p>His cross-disciplinary background across business strategy, spatial design, real estate economics, and applied AI is the foundation on which every INTON product and engagement is built.</p>
<h2>AI Practice and Technical Depth</h2>
<p>INTON's AI practice draws on advanced training in Claude AI - Anthropic's large language model - covering prompt engineering, Claude API integration, and responsible AI deployment. This hands-on fluency in building with AI, combined with dedicated AI strategy training in use case identification, feeds directly into the firm's flagship product.</p>
<h2>AIDA - The AI Interior Design Assistant</h2>
<p>Built on Anthropic's Claude API and purpose-built for interior design firms across workplace, hospitality, residential, and mixed-use sectors, AIDA functions as a senior AI collaborator embedded directly in a firm's existing workflow.</p>
<p>It was not retrofitted from a generic AI tool - it was architected specifically for the vocabulary, deliverables, and operational realities of interior design practice, shaped by the same domain expertise that drives INTON's consulting work.</p>
<h3>Concept Ideation</h3>
<p>AIDA's concept ideation engine helps design teams explore creative directions, generate visual mood boards, and develop concept narratives in minutes rather than days, drawing on deep knowledge of materials, finishes, FF&amp;E, lighting strategies, and spatial typologies.</p>
<h3>AIDA Planner</h3>
<p>Assists with project programming, scope definition, milestone scheduling, and phase documentation - producing structured planning deliverables that teams can refine and present without starting from scratch.</p>
<h3>Sustainability Compliance</h3>
<p>AIDA brings working knowledge of WELL, LEED, and related frameworks directly into the design conversation, helping teams identify compliant materials, map credit pathways, and integrate environmental and wellness criteria from concept through specification.</p>
<h3>Administrative Automation</h3>
<p>AIDA drafts client correspondence, meeting summaries, status reports, and specification logs - converting hours of documentation work into a review-and-approve workflow.</p>
<h3>AIDA Project Brain</h3>
<p>At the centre of everything is a centralised, searchable knowledge layer that captures every brief, decision, material selection, client conversation, and meeting record in one accessible place. Designers can query any project in plain language and retrieve accurate, context-rich answers instantly - ensuring institutional knowledge stays with the firm, not scattered across inboxes, shared drives, and personal notebooks.</p>
<h2>Sectors Served</h2>
<ul>
<li>Workplace and corporate interiors</li>
<li>Hospitality</li>
<li>Residential</li>
<li>Mixed-use developments</li>
<li>Installation and furniture</li>
</ul>
<h2>Who INTON Works With</h2>
<p>For firm principals and studio directors evaluating AI tools for interior design, design project management software, or AEC productivity platforms, INTON and AIDA represent a solution built from the inside out - by a firm that understands the business of design as deeply as the technology powering it.</p>

INTON delivers workplace strategy, design program management and AI implementation for interior design and AEC firms, and builds AIDA, its AI design assistant.

INTON | Design Strategy & AI Consulting for AEC

INTON Business Strategy Consultant

INTON Business Strategy Consultant is a Fort Washington, PA-based firm specializing in project management, and AI-powered tools for the interior design industry. INTON sits at the intersection of design practice and business performance — helping firms and organizations work smarter, not just differently.


<h2>About Intelligent City</h2>
<p>Intelligent City is a technology-driven company founded in 2008 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company follows the mission to create highly integrated and generative mixed-use housing systems, and today delivers turn-key, prefabricated, mass timber urban housing that is sustainable, affordable and livable.</p>
<p>Its buildings combine high quality livability, enhanced affordability, advanced sustainability, and community engagement into one consistent, replicable and adaptable solution for desirable living in metropolitan areas - addressing the challenging context of urban densification, global warming and a profound lack of affordable housing.</p>
<p>The company operates from 8295 River Road, Delta, British Columbia, where its production facility is located.</p>
<h2>Mass Timber Urban Housing</h2>
<p>Intelligent City's mass timber technology is aimed at setting new standards in affordable, carbon-neutral urban living. Its product platform offers a scalable solution for a faster and more sustainable housing supply.</p>
<p>Mass timber matters here for two reasons that reinforce each other: it sequesters carbon rather than emitting it during manufacture, and because components arrive prefabricated and dimensionally precise, it suits factory production in a way that cast-in-place concrete does not.</p>
<h2>Platforms for Life</h2>
<p>The company's approach is branded Platforms for Life. These buildings combine mass timber prefabrication with Passive House performance and efficient design, producing solutions that are highly sustainable, resilient, and adaptable to the rapidly changing needs of society.</p>
<p>Pairing prefabrication with Passive House is a deliberate technical choice. Passive House depends on airtightness and the elimination of thermal bridging - both far easier to achieve reliably under factory conditions than on an open site in variable weather.</p>
<h2>Product Platform</h2>
<p>Scalable and automated, Intelligent City's parametric and prefabricated building systems make it possible to adapt buildings to a multitude of urban scenarios. Through this combination the company creates highly adaptable and desirable urban living spaces.</p>
<p>The parametric engine is what distinguishes this from conventional modular housing: rather than offering a fixed catalogue of unit types, the system generates building configurations that respond to each site's constraints while still resolving into standardised, factory-producible components.</p>
<h2>Quality Enabled by Technology</h2>
<p>The company's technology-driven mass timber solutions are intended to offer quality and efficiency together, producing a faster design and planning process and quicker on-site construction. Its commitment to innovation is aimed at delivering high-quality urban housing faster, reducing environmental impact and enhancing community livability.</p>
<h2>Communities and Urban Living</h2>
<p>Committed to improving urban living by building long-lasting and inclusive communities, Intelligent City helps deliver housing solutions that bring people together and encourage social connection - treating culture and engagement as design objectives rather than by-products.</p>
<h2>Projects</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>230 Royal York Rd (Halsa), Toronto</strong> - a nine-storey mass timber housing project; production started and the building neared completion in 2026</li>
<li><strong>1766 Frances St - Chief Leonard George Building, Vancouver</strong> - now open</li>
<li><strong>Monad Granville, Vancouver</strong></li>
<li><strong>Monad Rupert</strong> - a four-storey mixed-use urban living development</li>
<li><strong>Monad on 4th</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>The company has also announced a 1,000-unit development in Barrie, Ontario with Sustainable Development Group - a scale that tests whether the platform model delivers the repeatability it promises.</p>
<h2>Who We Are</h2>
<p>Intelligent City is a team of design and construction professionals drawing on a range of interests and qualifications to create innovative, sustainable urban living solutions. The company positions itself as a leader in mass timber for urban housing.</p>
<h2>Who Intelligent City Works With</h2>
<ul>
<li>Residential and mixed-use developers</li>
<li>Municipalities and housing authorities addressing affordability targets</li>
<li>Non-profit and Indigenous housing providers</li>
<li>Investors in sustainable construction technology</li>
</ul>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Intelligent City sits at the intersection of three trends reshaping housing delivery: industrialised construction, mass timber, and high-performance energy standards. For developers facing affordability constraints and tightening carbon regulation simultaneously, a platform that addresses both in one system is a genuinely different proposition from conventional design-and-build.</p>
<p><strong>Build Smarter. Live Better. Think Change.</strong></p>

Intelligent City has developed a variety of livable, sustainable, and affordable housing solutions

Intelligent City's technology is based on automation, both in software and manufacturing

Intelligent City delivers turn-key prefabricated mass timber urban housing combining parametric design automation with Passive House performance in Canada.

Intelligent City | Prefab Mass Timber Urban Housing

Intelligent City

Intelligent City buildings are made from prefabricated mass timber building components

Intelligent City delivers turn-key prefabricated mass timber urban housing, combining parametric design automation with Passive House performance to produce sustainable, affordable multi-family buildings. Founded 2008, based in Delta, British Columbia.

<p data-start="343" data-end="696">Melt Code is the first building code research AI built for accuracy, transparency, and real compliance decision-making. Unlike generic AI tools that behave like black boxes, Melt Code doesn&rsquo;t just provide an answer &mdash; it shows the full research process so architects and engineers can verify every step and confidently defend their decisions.</p>
<p data-start="698" data-end="803">Users can ask code questions in plain English and receive reliable, project-specific requirements with:</p>
<ul data-start="804" data-end="1586">
<li data-start="804" data-end="857">
<p data-start="806" data-end="857">Step-by-step reasoning with clear assumptions</p>
</li>
<li data-start="858" data-end="927">
<p data-start="860" data-end="927">Direct citations to exact code sections for full traceability</p>
</li>
<li data-start="928" data-end="1139">
<p data-start="930" data-end="1139">Compliance Paths, mapping multiple valid routes to compliance (based on occupancy, construction type, sprinkler conditions, height/area limits, ratings, etc.) so teams can choose the best design approach</p>
</li>
<li data-start="1140" data-end="1242">
<p data-start="1142" data-end="1242">Exception and cross-reference handling, including circular references across multiple chapters</p>
</li>
<li data-start="1243" data-end="1343">
<p data-start="1245" data-end="1343">Table and diagram understanding, ensuring accurate interpretation of code tables and figures</p>
</li>
<li data-start="1344" data-end="1450">
<p data-start="1346" data-end="1450">Built-in calculations, such as occupant loads, egress sizing, travel distances, and fixture counts</p>
</li>
<li data-start="1451" data-end="1586">
<p data-start="1453" data-end="1586">Personalized compliance illustrations, automatically generated to visually explain requirements for a specific project scenario</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p data-start="1588" data-end="1691">Beyond research, Melt Code includes workflow tools that turn compliance into an organizational asset:</p>
<ul data-start="1692" data-end="1990">
<li data-start="1692" data-end="1858">
<p data-start="1694" data-end="1858">Projects, where teams store project context (location, occupancy, construction type, sprinkler status, etc.) so every question becomes instantly project-aware</p>
</li>
<li data-start="1859" data-end="1990">
<p data-start="1861" data-end="1990">Checklists, allowing firms to build, store, share, and export reusable compliance checklists across teams and project types</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p data-start="1992" data-end="2172" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">The result is dramatically faster research, fewer senior escalations, reduced consultant dependence &mdash; and most importantly, confidence and peace of mind in every code decision.</p>

Melt Code

<p>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:<br><br>Finding and deleting incorrect, obsolete, and hidden problem items, including DWGs<br>Finding, refining, and revising elements, even those excluded from the project browser<br>Getting a full view of any Revit model and understanding all elements in the model<br>Easily complying with standards<br>Auditing and removing Revit warnings<br>The following components included with the Autodesk Revit add-in, Ideate Explorer, provide additional ways to ensure model accuracy:<br><br>Warnings Manager - Easily review and manage Revit warnings <br>Navigate - Navigate through view-based elements within Revit&mdash;legends, schedules, sheets, and views&mdash;and quickly customize the browsing experience<br>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<br><br>Boost the Power of Ideate Explorer with Ideate Automation<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>*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.<br><br>Attend FREE online training courses on all of our products. Visit our Events Page for details.<br><br>&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;<br><br>~Gavin Crump, BIM Guru</p>

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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Reer is&nbsp;an <em><strong>Intelligent Design Environment</strong></em> that brings AI directly into&nbsp;<strong>Rhino</strong> (&amp;Grasshopper), <strong>Revit,</strong> and more.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">While most AI tools in AEC work on downstream point solutions like documentation, compliance, and visualization, <strong>Reer works upstream, directly at the source</strong>, the CAD and BIM model files where every project decision originates.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">For decades, CAD and BIM platforms have been the backbone of AEC projects worldwide. They are powerful, deeply embedded, and not going anywhere. But the way professionals interact with them has barely changed. Most tasks remain manual, repetitive, and error-prone, requiring users to translate their intent into commands, scripts, and step-by-step operations rather than focusing on the work that actually requires their expertise.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Reer brings a true CAD-native AI collaborator directly into the tools we all rely on, fundamentally changing that interaction. The agent understands the context of your model, acts on your behalf, and handles the full range of workflows professionals deal with every day:</p>
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<li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Visualization and rendering</li>
<li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Construction documentation</li>
<li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-style: italic;"><em>And more for you to explore...</em></li>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Beyond individual productivity, teams can build custom skills and modules on top of Reer, turning everyday interactions into reusable design intelligence that compounds over time.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The long-term vision is one intelligent environment across the entire AEC project lifecycle, from schematic design in Rhino through coordination in Revit and beyond.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>Reer is currently in Free Beta in Rhino - <a class="underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current" href="https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/reer-ai">Try it now</a></strong></p>
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<h3 data-section-id="166ooyv" data-start="3950" data-end="3970"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Key capabilities</span></h3>
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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" data-section-id="bd5dtz" data-start="4025" data-end="4055"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">AI-powered business analysis</span></li>
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<p data-start="4364" data-end="4595"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Champ Agents is built around governed business data, with permission-aware access, source attribution, and human oversight. This helps firms use AI while maintaining control over how organizational data is accessed and interpreted.</span></p>
<h3 data-section-id="wgwuyd" data-start="4597" data-end="4615"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Why it matters</span></h3>
<p data-start="4617" data-end="4772"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">For AEC firms, the value of AI is not simply generating text. It is helping teams understand their own business data faster and act on it more effectively.</span></p>
<p data-start="4774" data-end="4977" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node=""><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Champ Agents can help firms reduce repetitive work, identify important changes earlier, prepare for client and project decisions, and make ERP and CRM information more accessible across the organization.</span></p>
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<p>ARES Kudo: The Cloud-Based CAD Solution Empowered by AI<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>A3: The AI-Powered CAD Assistant<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>A Cloud-Based Alternative to AutoCAD LT<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Learn more about the powerful solution here: https://graebert.pxf.io/JKJgyv</p>

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<p dir="ltr"><strong>The Context</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">SketchPro is being actively deployed at top architecture firms to address this gap by embedding AI directly into architectural documentation workflows.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>The Question</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">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?</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>The Approach</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">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:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><em>No workflow disruption</em><br>Al actions occur inside the same Revit environment already used by project teams for documentation. No exporting, syncing, or parallel tools required.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><em>Architect-in-the-loop control</em><br>All actions are previewed, reviewable, and reversible, ensuring professional judgment remains central to decision-making.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><em>Firm-specific intelligence</em><br>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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>The Collaboration Model</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>The Results</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Across partner firms, teams report:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation">30% reduction in documentation time across major tasks like sheet creation, dimensioning, schedules, and QA/QC</p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation">20% more capacity to do more projects with their current team</p>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Key Takeaways</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Successful AI adoption in architecture depends less on automation alone and more on customization, transparency, and trust in the technology.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>

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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>

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<h2 class="PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer" data-section-id="bhf2wz" data-start="119" data-end="135"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Unanet AE ERP</span></h2>
<p data-start="137" data-end="447"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Unanet AE ERP is a cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform built specifically for architecture, engineering, and consulting firms. It brings project accounting, financial management, resource planning, billing, forecasting, time and expense tracking, and business reporting into one connected system.</span></p>
<h3 data-section-id="17lftu9" data-start="449" data-end="482"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Built for project-based firms</span></h3>
<p data-start="484" data-end="797"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">AEC firms often manage complex projects, distributed teams, tight margins, and constantly changing staffing needs. Unanet AE ERP is designed around those realities, giving project managers, finance teams, operations leaders, and executives a shared source of information for both project and business performance.</span></p>
<h3 data-section-id="166ooyv" data-start="799" data-end="819"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Key capabilities</span></h3>
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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" data-section-id="ysdan0" data-start="867" data-end="890"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Billing and invoicing</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" data-section-id="16h7so7" data-start="891" data-end="926"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Revenue forecasting and budgeting</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" data-section-id="1cc49nc" data-start="927" data-end="968"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Resource planning and staff utilization</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" data-section-id="ketx6d" data-start="969" data-end="998"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Time and expense management</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" data-section-id="2un0dm" data-start="999" data-end="1029"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Project performance tracking</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" data-section-id="z1a41x" data-start="1030" data-end="1068"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Financial and operational dashboards</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" data-section-id="1jtdz26" data-start="1069" data-end="1106"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Business intelligence and reporting</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" data-section-id="12al2xw" data-start="1107" data-end="1141"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Workflow and approval management</span></li>
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<h3 data-section-id="wgwuyd" data-start="1143" data-end="1161"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Why it matters</span></h3>
<p data-start="1163" data-end="1383"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">By connecting financial and operational data in one platform, Unanet AE ERP helps firms reduce manual processes, improve forecasting, understand project profitability, optimize staffing, and make more informed decisions.</span></p>
<p data-start="1385" data-end="1578"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">It is especially useful for firms looking to gain better visibility across projects, finances, people, and overall business performance without relying on disconnected spreadsheets and systems.</span></p>

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<p>Pellikaan is delivering one of the largest wellness complexes in the Netherlands in Zoetermeer, combining a 9,500 m&sup2; 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.</p>

BIM quality control at Pellikaan: Zoetermeer wellness complex

<p>We lead the construction industry in quality control. No more stumbling blocks. Constructing flawless buildings is now easier than ever. <br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>Information takeoff allows you to extract quantities based on different criteria more easily. Share the information using your own customized Excel templates.<br><br>Share project information and collaborate seamlessly and reliably through Solibri&rsquo;s integrations, BCF Live Connector and API.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.</p>

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<p>Project Background The engagement focused on bringing a large UK healthcare federated BIM model into a costed, programme-linked and auditable state &mdash; 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 &mdash; manually mapping element schedules to NRM2 categories, reconciling against the Bill of Quantities, and refreshing the result for every variation &mdash; 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 &mdash; 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 &mdash; 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 &mdash; 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 &mdash; 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 &mdash; that is the conversation Leveret Systems wants to have. Contact: leveretsystems.co.uk &middot; ejoubert@leveretsystems.co.uk</p>

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