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

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

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

Built for the Way AEC Firms Work

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

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

One Connected Platform for Better Visibility

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

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

ERP Designed for Project-Based Operations

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

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

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

CRM That Supports Growth

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

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

Practical AI for Smarter Decisions

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

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

Trusted by Thousands of Project-Driven Firms

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

Supporting the Future of AEC

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

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

Unanet

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



Empowering the Built World Through Technology, Expertise, and Innovation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Applied Software Technology, Graitec

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

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

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

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

The four pillars of Pirros:

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

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

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

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

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

Pirros

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

Company Overview

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

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

Vertical Specialization

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

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

Services and Capabilities

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

Managed IT services and infrastructure oversight

Cybersecurity strategy, implementation, and risk reduction

Cloud and hybrid architecture design

Strategic technology advisory for leadership teams

Business continuity and disaster recovery planning

Compliance-aligned security practices

Systems optimization for design and collaboration workflows

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

Strategic Orientation

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

Translating technical risks into business risk

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

Helping firms modernize legacy environments without disrupting productivity

Prioritizing resilience, security posture, and operational maturity

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

Reputation and Client Relationships

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

Leadership and Perspective

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

Market Position

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

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

Flying Buttress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vavetek AI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RPG Squarefoot Solutions

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OTJ Architects

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

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

Product portfolio:

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

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

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

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

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

Engagement model:

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

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


Luminocity AG

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CORDAX

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Symetri

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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




Structured AI

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

Founded in New York City in 2001, Agile Networks has spent over two decades working with exactly one type of client: architecture firms. That exclusivity is our operating model. Most IT providers treat architecture as one vertical among many, handling hardware, software, and consultants as separate, disconnected line items. Agile Networks treats them as one interconnected system, because architecture is the only system it works inside.

Why architecture-only matters
A generalist IT firm might service law offices, medical practices, and architecture firms in the same week, applying the same playbook to all three. Agile Networks doesn't have that option, by design:

Every client is an architecture firm, so every engagement builds on the same base of institutional knowledge instead of starting over.
Hardware, software, services, and outside consultants are understood as one connected chain, not four separate vendor relationships.
Decisions get made with full context on how design teams actually work, not a generic IT framework retrofitted onto the profession.

Services and capabilities
Agile Networks pairs day-to-day infrastructure management with higher-level guidance that most firms can't get from a standard IT vendor:

Managed IT infrastructure and network support
Cybersecurity strategy and risk reduction
Executive-level technology strategy and advisory
Software and tool evaluation, selection, and adoption guidance
Workflow-aligned technology planning across hardware, software, and outside consultants

The firm's footprint runs the Northeast corridor, from New York down through the Atlantic states, with additional clients outside that geography.

A reciprocal loop, not a one-way service:
What separates Agile Networks from a standard MSP is how its advice gets formed. Instead of recommending tools based on vendor relationships or industry buzz, the firm treats its client base as a live feedback loop:

Lessons from one firm's rollout, both what worked well and the speed bumps along the way, get turned into an accelerant for the next: proven approaches move faster, and known friction points get solved before they repeat.
That loop runs in real time, not on an annual review cycle, so recommendations reflect what's currently working in practice, not what worked two years ago.
Because every client is an architecture firm, the patterns Agile Networks sees are directly transferable, rather than diluted by unrelated industries.

This is the mechanism behind the "informed by real-time patterns across real firms" line: it's not a slogan, it's a description of how the guidance actually gets built.

Forecasting most generalists can't do

Because Agile Networks is embedded exclusively in architecture practices, it sees adoption patterns, pain points, and emerging tool categories before they hit the broader market conversation. A generalist IT firm serving a handful of architecture clients alongside other industries doesn't have the density of exposure to spot these shifts early. Agile Networks does, and uses that position to help firm leadership make forward-looking decisions rather than reactive ones.
How Agile Networks positions itself

Not a generalist MSP that happens to have architecture clients.
Not a software vendor pushing a single product.
A technology partner whose only frame of reference is architecture, working at the intersection of infrastructure, security, and executive strategy.

This is the kind of firm that gets engaged when leadership wants a technology decision made with real depth, not another vendor pitch.

Agile Networks

Architecture is our only client since 2001. IT infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Executive-level strategy and Technology Forecasting, informed by real-time patterns across real firms.

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. 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.

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. 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.

Lagarsoft is an Autodesk Platform Services (APS) Certified Partner. The company designs and ships custom Autodesk software on APS, including Viewer integrations, Model Derivative pipelines, Data Exchange flows, Design Automation jobs, and AEC Data Model queries running in production. It also 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. 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.
Engineering rigor is central to Lagarsoft's positioning. The company emphasizes 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. The team favors reliable, well-understood infrastructure such as databases, queues, and caches that hold up under real production load. Increasingly, Lagarsoft helps industrial, manufacturing, AEC, and logistics companies take AI-built applications to production, layering senior engineering discipline around modern AI tooling.

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. 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. The company also offers consulting, where it reads the codebase, reviews deploys, 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.

Lagarsoft's core competencies span BIM, AECO, APIs, Revit, mobile and web development, machine learning, and data analysis. 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.

Lagarsoft

We are engineers with a background in architecture, real estate, data analysis, automation, software development, and agile management. We have spent the last decade shipping production software inside the AEC industry.

Redefining Engineering Intelligence
Built for industries where precision cannot fail.
Engineering projects do not fail because of the people. They fail because no one made the risks visible in time. ZestineTech bridges engineering and technology to change that — delivering intelligence before it is needed, not after it is too late.
We are an engineering software company building intelligent tools for project delivery teams across architecture, construction, infrastructure, oil and gas, manufacturing, and enterprise operations. Founded by engineers who worked inside complex project environments, ZestineTech was built from a single conviction: the tools available to engineering teams had not kept pace with the complexity those teams were being asked to manage.
That gap — between what engineering workflows demand and what existing software delivers — is exactly where ZestineTech operates.

Who We Are
ZestineTech is a focused, purpose-driven software company headquartered in Pennsylvania, USA, serving engineering and project delivery organizations globally. Our team carries over a decade of direct experience working within engineering environments — not studying them from the outside, but operating inside them at the level where real problems live.
We understand the coordination failures that happen weeks before a review. We know the unauthorized changes that go undetected until they become expensive. We have seen the operational inefficiencies that compound quietly until they become project risks. We build software to solve those problems — precisely, honestly, and without unnecessary complexity.
Engineering done right. The first time.

Who We Serve
ZestineTech operates where precision is not optional and the cost of being wrong is measured in project weeks, not corrections. The teams we serve carry accountability for project accuracy every day and cannot afford to discover what went wrong after it already has.
We serve engineering-led industries across global markets:
AEC — Architecture, Engineering & Construction: Smarter delivery for teams working where coordination failures cost time and money. 
Oil & Gas: Precision-driven engineering tools for complex industrial environments where operational accuracy and compliance are non-negotiable. 
Sustainability & Infrastructure: Engineering the systems that make sustainability measurable, manageable and built to last. 
Manufacturing: Reducing inefficiency and rework across manufacturing operations through intelligent workflow control and process automation. 
Enterprise Operations: Bringing structure, visibility, and automation to large-scale operations that cannot run on manual oversight. 

The Standard We Build To
Clarity — Actionable visibility. No noise. No ambiguity. Engineering teams deserve tools that make complexity legible, not compound it.
Precision — Engineered for accuracy. Built for the real world. We hold our products to the same standard we expect from the workflows they support.
Honesty — Transparent insight. Grounded in reality. We build what works. We say what is true. We do not oversell.
Control — Stay ahead of risk. Operate with confidence. The best tools give teams more visibility and confidence, not less.

Why ZestineTech
Most engineering software is built by software companies. ZestineTech is built by engineers who understand what it costs when workflows break down — in rework, in delays, in coordination failures that should have been caught earlier.
That origin shapes everything: the problems we choose to solve, the standard we hold our products to, and the commitment we bring to every team that relies on our software. We exist to bring intelligence earlier into engineering and operations — helping teams identify risks before coordination breaks down, before delivery is impacted and before small issues become expensive problems.

ZestineTech

The perfect add-in to make Revit smarter and prevent costly mistakes before they happen.

Guardian is a Revit add-in that trains your teams, cleans your models, protects your work, and tracks model performance. Guardian helps firms reduce rework, improve consistency, and keep project standards on track by combining real-time user guidance, standards automations, proactive project protections, and model performance insights.

Since 2018, Guardian has been dedicated to solving long-standing challenges that plague the AEC industry. Rather than relying on manual oversight and reactive quality control, Guardian enables firms to proactively establish, maintain, and scale standards across projects, teams, and offices. Guardian was built for the BIM managers, design technology leaders, and project teams who believe design should flow smoothly.

Guardian helps firms in four key ways: train your teams, clean your models, protect your work, and track model performance.

Train Your Teams:
Guardian helps users complete the work correctly the first time by delivering real-time guidance directly within Revit. BIM and design technology leaders can provide users with in-the-moment coaching and best practices as they work, helping them complete tasks correctly the first time. By reinforcing standards at the point of action, firms can improve graphical consistency, reduce common mistakes, and ensure best practices across project teams. Combined with project and user-level data, Guardian provides visibility into model performance and user activity, helping leaders identify training opportunities and make data-driven decisions.

Clean Your Models:
Guardian automatically aligns your firm’s Revit and graphical standards. With standards and mappings, firms can clean incoming content and seamlessly sync properties across projects. Additional Revit automations streamline can automate workset assignment, viewport selection, and merge duplicate families. By reducing manual effort and eliminating inconsistencies, Guardian helps teams spend less time fixing issues and more time delivering high-quality project work.

Protect Your Work:
Guardian monitors critical project settings, standards, and modeled elements. Automated protections help prevent accidental edits, deletions, and changes that can introduce risk, rework, or project delays. Rather than discovering issues after they occur, teams can proactively maintain project integrity and confidence in their models.

Track Model Performance:
Through Guardian Backstage, firms gain visibility into project health, model activity, and user behavior across their organization. These insights help BIM and design technology leaders identify opportunities for improvement, measure the impact of standards initiatives, and make more informed operational decisions.

Guardian is designed to support every role involved in project delivery. BIM managers can guide and train teams, enforce standards, and reduce costly mistakes. Firm leaders benefit from improved consistency, reduced rework, and more efficient project delivery that contribute to stronger business outcomes. Designers and project teams can work confidently knowing they are aligned with firm standards and best practices.

Leading firms choose Guardian to improve Revit quality and model performance, train their users more effectively, gain meaningful insights into model and team activity, and scale best practices across offices and project teams. By helping firms establish standards, reinforce best practices, and prevent issues before they spread, Guardian transforms BIM management from a reactive process into a proactive strategy that supports better project outcomes and long-term growth.

"Guardian has saved us time, money, and frustration by helping us enforce standards at the source while giving us real insight through Backstage. It’s helped us grow our templates, families, and team in a smarter, more strategic direction."
-John Wehmer, BIM Manager at Garver USA

Guardian for Revit

Guardian is a Revit add-in that helps firms clean their models, train their teams, and protect their work. Through real-time user guidance, automated protections, and powerful dashboards, Guardian helps teams maintain consistent standards, prevent costly mistakes, and reduce rework before issues spread across projects.

Bimrock AI is a construction technology company building automation tools for MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) designers and engineers working in Autodesk Revit. Our mission is to eliminate repetitive manual workflows that consume engineering hours - replacing them with intelligent, profile-based automation that lets MEP professionals focus on design, not documentation busywork.                                                   

The Problem We're Solving

MEP engineering teams spend a disproportionate amount of their project time on repetitive, low-value tasks. Annotation alone - placing tags on ductwork, piping, electrical panels, fixtures, and equipment across dozens of floor plan views - can consume entire workdays on a single building. Multiply that across disciplines, floors, and projects, and firms lose thousands of billable hours annually to work that follows predictable, repeatable patterns. These are exactly the kinds of workflows that should be automated, but until now, haven't been - at least not without custom Dynamo scripts, manual workarounds, or expensive enterprise platforms that require months of implementation.

Bimrock AI exists to close that gap. We build tools that are powerful enough for complex MEP workflows but accessible enough that any Revit user can adopt them immediately — no scripting, no code, no lengthy onboarding process.

Our Flagship Product: Autotag by Bimrock AI

Autotag by Bimrock AI is our first product, focused on automating MEP annotation in Autodesk Revit. It replaces manual tag placement with a profile-based system: users define tagging rules once - selecting MEP categories, tag families, filters, and placement preferences - then apply those rules to any number of views. The tool handles intelligent tag positioning, automatic overlap avoidance, and batch processing across entire building documentation sets.

Key capabilities include:

- Profile-Based Automation — Create reusable annotation profiles that work like View Templates but for tags. Define standards once, enforce them consistently across every project and every team member.

- Automatic Overlap Avoidance — Intelligent algorithms analyze element positions and adjust tag placement to eliminate overlapping labels. No manual cleanup required after placement.

- Batch View Processing — Queue 40 or more views and process them in a single operation. Tag an entire building's documentation set — across all MEP disciplines and floor levels — while you focus on higher-value design work.

- Full MEP Discipline Coverage — Supports Mechanical (ducts, air terminals, equipment), Electrical (panels, fixtures, devices, cable trays), and Plumbing (pipes, fixtures, equipment), plus general architectural elements.
- Linked Model and Workshared Support — Designed for real-world BIM coordination workflows, Autotag works seamlessly with Revit linked models and workshared projects.

- Custom Family Support — Tag any parameter on any element, including custom Revit families. Not limited to out-of-the-box content.

- Post-Placement Editing Tools — Bulk-edit tags, align leader line elbows, and reorganize annotations after placement for precise control over final output.

- Team Profile Sharing — Share and distribute annotation profiles across team members to maintain consistent documentation standards firm-wide.

Autotag saves MEP teams 30–60 minutes per floor plan on annotation tasks. When batch-processing full documentation sets, teams report saving 2–4 hours per building. For firms producing dozens of projects annually, the compounding time savings translate to hundreds of recovered billable hours.

Autotag supports Revit 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027, runs on Windows 10 and later, and includes a free trial with no credit card required.

Our Platform Vision: Automated MEP Design

Autotag by Bimrock AI is the starting point - not the destination. We are building toward a comprehensive Automated MEP Design platform that covers the full spectrum of MEP engineering workflows within Autodesk Revit:

1. Documentation Automation: Autotag by Bimrock AI (live in Revit today). Automates annotation, tagging, and documentation workflows that consume hours of manual effort on every project.

2. Sketch-to-BIM: Converting early-stage design sketches and schematics into fully modeled BIM elements, accelerating the transition from conceptual design to detailed engineering.

3. Rapid Design: Computational and generative design tools for MEP system layout, including HVAC network analysis, pressure drop calculations, and system optimization. These tools bring building performance intelligence directly into the design workflow - enabling engineers to evaluate and iterate on MEP systems faster than traditional manual methods allow.

4. Coordination: Automated clash detection analysis, spatial coordination, and cross-discipline alignment tools that reduce RFIs and rework during construction.

Each product in the platform shares the same core philosophy: profile-based automation. Define your rules, standards, and preferences once, then let the tools apply them consistently and intelligently across your entire project. This approach scales from solo consultants managing their own workflows to enterprise firms standardizing processes across hundreds of team members and multiple offices.

Who We Serve

Bimrock AI serves the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry - specifically MEP engineering professionals across all project types: commercial, residential, industrial, institutional, healthcare, and data center projects. Our tools are designed for:

  - Solo MEP designers and consultants who need to move fast and deliver high-quality documentation without a large support team
  - Team leads and BIM managers who need to enforce consistent  standards across projects and team members
  - MEP firms looking to standardize documentation quality, reduce QC review cycles, and recover billable hours lost to manual workflows
  - General contractors and design-build firms that need efficient, reliable MEP documentation as part of their integrated project delivery

Technology and Data Security

Bimrock AI's platform runs on Google Cloud Platform with industry-standard security certifications. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Customer data uploaded for processing is automatically deleted within 60 days.

We do not use customer data to train AI models. Customers retain full ownership of all output — tagged views, reports, and exported data remain theirs entirely.

Getting Started

Autotag by Bimrock AI is available for download with a free trial, no credit card is required. Pricing starts at $49 per month for individual users, with team plans starting at $199 per month for five floating licenses.

Enterprise pricing is available for larger organizations. Visit bimrock.ai to learn more, explore our documentation library with 13 step-by-step guides, or join our community on Discord.

Autotag by Bimrock AI Demo: Stop Manually Tagging & Automate Your MEP Annonation

Bimrock AI - Save Hours on MEP Workflows with Revit Automation

Bimrock AI

Bimrock AI is building the future of MEP design automation. We help engineers and BIM managers eliminate manual documentation tedium in Autodesk Revit - starting with intelligent annotation, and expanding into full automated MEP design.     

Wyatt is the company behind WyattERP, an agentic AI platform built specifically for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms and government contractors (GovCon). WyattERP changes how project-based businesses work with their own data—replacing rigid reports, manual exports, and disconnected tools with intelligent agents that act on your behalf.

At the core of WyattERP is a simple idea: you should be able to describe what you need and have it built for you. Whether that's a custom application, an automated workflow, or a live operational dashboard, WyattERP's agents turn plain-language requests into working software. This app-building approach brings the speed and accessibility of modern AI development to firms that have never had the time, budget, or technical staff to build their own tools.

What sets WyattERP apart is native access to enterprise systems. Most AI tools sit on the outside, limited to whatever you can paste into a chat window. WyattERP works directly with your live project, financial, and time data—the information that actually runs your business. That means answers grounded in real numbers, automations that touch the systems of record, and dashboards that reflect what's happening right now rather than last month's export.

WyattERP is organized around a team of specialized agents, each focused on a distinct part of running a project-based firm. Agents handle areas like timekeeping and timesheet management, accounts payable and bill review, financial analysis, project tracking, business development, and intelligent search across your documents and records. Working together, they function less like a chatbot and more like an always-available operations team that understands the way AEC and GovCon firms actually operate.
The platform centers on three core capabilities. Chat lets anyone ask questions in plain language and get accurate answers drawn from real ERP data. Chores are scheduled, autonomous tasks that run in the background—reconciling data, flagging issues, and keeping work moving without manual effort. Roundups are AI-generated dashboards that assemble the metrics that matter into clear, current views for principals, project managers, and finance teams.

Security and data isolation are foundational, not afterthoughts. WyattERP enforces role-based access control at both the row and column level, so people only see the data they're authorized to see. Each customer runs on a single-tenant database with isolated credentials, ensuring that sensitive project financials, labor data, and contract information remain private and protected—a critical requirement for GovCon firms operating under strict compliance obligations.

WyattERP is purpose-built for the realities of project-based work: complex project structures, detailed labor and time tracking, multi-layered financials, and the compliance demands unique to government contracting. Rather than forcing firms to adapt to generic software, WyattERP adapts to the way these businesses already run—and gives them the ability to extend and automate without waiting on a development queue.

For AEC and GovCon firms looking to do more with the data and systems they already have, Wyatt offers a new path: less time wiring up tools and chasing reports, and more time building. With agentic AI, native enterprise access, and the ability to spin up custom apps and workflows on demand, WyattERP helps firms move faster, operate smarter, and put their own data to work.


Wyatt, Inc.

Wyatt builds WyattERP, an agentic AI platform for AEC and GovCon firms. Describe what you need and its agents build it—custom apps, automated workflows, and live dashboards—all with native access to your project, financial, and time data. Less time wiring up systems, more time building.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leveret Systems Ltd

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

Kamai: A Vertical AI Agent for 2D CAD, Blueprint Parsing, and AI-Powered Construction APIs

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 a powerful AI platform and developer-friendly API.

Unlike generic AI tools, Kamai is purpose-built for the complexity of construction documentation. It combines a specialized foundation model for CAD with an advanced blueprint parser that can read, interpret, and structure information from 2D drawings. Whether users are analyzing architectural plans, engineering sheets, permit sets, construction drawings, or CAD exports, Kamai turns static files into searchable, usable, AI-ready data.

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. It can recognize rooms, walls, doors, windows, fixtures, equipment tags, measurements, material callouts, and construction details. 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.

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 upload blueprints, process CAD files, extract structured data, detect objects, classify drawing elements, compare revisions, and answer natural language questions about project documents. This makes Kamai a powerful infrastructure layer for construction technology companies, estimating platforms, property technology tools, design software, and enterprise project management systems.

For estimators, Kamai can accelerate takeoffs by identifying quantities, dimensions, areas, counts, and material information from 2D plans. For architects and engineers, it can support drawing review, design coordination, and issue detection. For contractors, it can help parse bid sets, compare drawing revisions, summarize changes, and reduce manual review time. For owners and developers, Kamai makes complex construction documents easier to understand and query.

As a vertical AI agent for 2D CAD and blueprints, Kamai is optimized for industry-specific workflows. Users can ask questions such as, “How many doors are shown on Level 1?”, “What is the total square footage of office space?”, “Find all rooms with tile flooring,” or “Compare this drawing revision to the previous version.” Kamai can parse the relevant sheets, analyze the visual and textual data, and return structured answers that help teams move faster.

Kamai helps transform construction documents from static files into intelligent data assets. 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.

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.

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.

Kamai

Turning Construction Blueprint Chaos Into Structured Data

The Practical Starting Point for AEC AI Strategy

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.

Our 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.

This may seem like a small improvement, but when multiplied across teams and projects, it represents a meaningful shift in how work gets done.

How This Builds Your AI Strategy

While your team is saving 15–20 minutes of billable time each day, the system is simultaneously performing two critical background functions that lay the foundation for a scalable AI strategy.

Mapping Your Corporate Memory
The tool continuously identifies where valuable resources actually live across your firm’s network. Over time, it transforms what is typically a “dark” and unstructured file system into a searchable, navigable map of your organization’s expertise. Instead of relying on individuals to know where things are, the system begins to surface that knowledge automatically.

Recording Workflow DNA
At the same time, the application captures anonymized data on how your team works. You gain visibility into which standards, templates, and files are used most frequently, and where inefficiencies or bottlenecks exist. This “user interaction layer” becomes incredibly valuable. It provides a data-driven understanding of your workflows, which is essential when deciding where automation or AI can have the most impact.

In other words, before you automate, you need to understand and this is how that understanding is built.

Zero-Risk, Local Execution

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.

Shape the Future by Fixing Today

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.

Rhombic

This is the starting point of your AI strategy roadmap, start shaping your firm's future today.

This platform integrates natural language into existing AEC workflows, boosting efficiency while capturing usage patterns. By identifying how your company accesses project resources, you build the essential data foundation for long-term AI adoption.

Negbuy.com – Driving Industrial Innovation & Energy Solutions Worldwide
In today’s fast-evolving industrial and energy landscape, businesses require reliable partners who offer not just products but end-to-end solutions that power growth, efficiency, and sustainability. Negbuy.com stands at the forefront of this transformation — delivering advanced technologies and comprehensive services across multiple critical sectors including turbines, energy, electrical automation, marine systems, oil & gas equipment, EV & solar solutions, and more.

Who Is Negbuy?
Negbuy Private Limited is a globally oriented solutions provider dedicated to helping industries optimize performance, lower operational costs, and accelerate digital maturity. With a strong focus on quality, innovation, and customer-centric service, Negbuy caters to clients across India, UAE, Oman, and Hong Kong.

What sets Negbuy apart from ordinary suppliers is its diverse portfolio, combining marketplace expertise with deep technical know-how in engineering and industrial systems.

Comprehensive Solutions for Modern Businesses
Energy Management & Turbine Solutions
Negbuy specializes in energy efficiency and power generation solutions, supplying high-quality turbine components and services designed to boost performance, enhance reliability, and reduce maintenance expenses for gas, steam, and wind turbines. Their turbine-based offerings help power plants and industrial facilities run optimally while minimizing fuel costs and downtimes.

Electrical & Automation Systems
Industrial productivity is increasingly dependent on automation and electrical control systems. Negbuy delivers state-of-the-art automation solutions that streamline operations, reduce human error, and improve safety. Their electrical infrastructure products and control systems help businesses transition to smarter, more efficient processes.

Marine & Offshore Technologies
For industries operating at sea, Negbuy delivers robust marine solutions, including advanced automation, navigation systems, and power distribution units. These technologies ensure that vessels and offshore platforms maintain performance, comply with regulatory standards, and withstand even extreme conditions.

Oil & Gas Equipment & Engineering Support
In the complex and highly regulated oil & gas sector, Negbuy supplies engineered solutions that enhance safety, efficiency, and operational continuity. From instrumentation and control systems to power backup solutions, their offerings are designed for resilience in the most demanding environments.

EV & Solar Power Solutions
Negbuy is also a key player in the global push toward clean energy and sustainable mobility. Their EV charging infrastructure and solar power systems empower businesses and communities to adopt greener practices while reducing long-term energy costs.

Why Choose Negbuy?
Innovation & Quality
With a strong foundation in engineering excellence, Negbuy continuously adapts to technological advancements and industry trends — ensuring clients benefit from innovative, high-performance solutions.

Customer-Centric Approach
Negbuy’s professional teams focus on understanding client needs and tailoring services that provide the greatest value, whether for small industrial setups or large-scale energy projects.

Global Presence
Operating across multiple international locations, including India, UAE, Oman, and Hong Kong, Negbuy is well-positioned to serve global business needs with localized expertise.

Connect with Negbuy
For businesses seeking industrial automation solutions, energy management systems, turbine parts, or sustainable engineering technologies, Negbuy offers the expertise and resources needed to power future growth.

Visit: https://negbuy.com
Email: contact@negbuygroup.com | contact@negbuy.com
Phone: +91 7011123269
Head Office: G-21 Sector-3, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India 🇮🇳

Negbuy private limited

Negbuy.com is a leading provider of advanced industrial and engineering solutions, specializing in turbines, energy systems, automation technology, electrical infrastructure, EV & solar solutions, and oil & gas equipment. We deliver innovative, high-performance products and services designed to boost efficiency, sustainability, and reliability across global industries.

Shalin Designs is a trusted name in CAD design and drafting services, providing world-class engineering and design solutions to clients across the globe. With a team of dedicated and highly skilled CAD engineers, we specialize in transforming creative ideas into accurate, production-ready designs. Our expertise covers a wide spectrum of industries and applications, making us a preferred outsourcing partner for businesses in the USA, UK, Canada, and worldwide.

Who We Are

At Shalin Designs, we believe that precision, innovation, and efficiency are the cornerstones of great design. Over the years, we have built a strong reputation for delivering high-quality CAD drafting, 3D CAD modeling, product design, and sheet metal design services. Whether you are an architect looking for detailed drawings, a manufacturer needing fabrication-ready models, or a product developer seeking intelligent 3D prototypes, we provide end-to-end CAD solutions tailored to your requirements.

Our Expertise in CAD Design & Drafting

We have earned vast specialization in CAD drafting and CAD conversion services, ensuring our clients enjoy streamlined processes, reduced errors, and significant cost savings. By using advanced tools such as AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Inventor, and Revit, we guarantee that every drawing and model is accurate, reliable, and aligned with international design standards.

Our services are designed to assist architects, engineers, manufacturers, and construction professionals with precise 2D drawings and intelligent 3D models. These outputs form the foundation for construction projects, mechanical designs, product development, and furniture manufacturing.

What We Offer

Shalin Designs offers a comprehensive range of CAD design services to meet the diverse needs of global industries:

CAD Drafting – Professional 2D drafting solutions for architectural, mechanical, and structural projects.

3D CAD Modeling – Intelligent models that simplify visualization, prototyping, and manufacturing.

CAD Design & Drafting Services – End-to-end solutions from concept to execution.

CAD Conversion – Transforming hand-drawn sketches, PDF files, and legacy documents into editable CAD files.

Product Design – Creative and functional design support for new product development.

Millwork Drafting – Detailed shop drawings for custom furniture, cabinetry, and woodwork.

3D Furniture Design – Realistic furniture models for production and marketing.

Sheet Metal Design – Accurate layouts and fabrication drawings for sheet metal components.

Why Choose Shalin Designs?

What sets Shalin Designs apart is our ability to balance speed, quality, and affordability. Outsourcing CAD drafting and modeling to us enables clients to:

Save valuable time and reduce overhead costs.

Access specialized expertise in multiple CAD software platforms.

Receive accurate, error-free, and production-ready designs.

Focus on their core business while we handle the technical details.

Our team ensures that every project—whether it’s an architectural layout, millwork detailing, mechanical component design, or furniture modeling—is delivered with meticulous attention to detail and compliance with global standards. From initial sketches to final shop drawings, we make sure that designs are practical, clear, and ready for execution.

Our Client-Centric Approach

At Shalin Designs, we place our clients at the heart of everything we do. Our approach is collaborative, flexible, and customized to meet specific project needs. We listen carefully, understand your vision, and tailor our solutions to deliver maximum value. This dedication to client satisfaction has made us a trusted partner for businesses, architects, engineers, and manufacturers around the world.

Global Reach

With a strong presence in the USA, UK, and Canada, Shalin Designs has successfully delivered projects for clients across multiple industries and regions. Our ability to adapt to international measurement units, industry standards, and regional compliance requirements makes us a reliable CAD outsourcing partner for global businesses.

Shalin Designs

Shalin Designs is a leading CAD design and drafting service provider company. We serve product design, CAD drafting, 3D CAD modeling, or sheet metal design.

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. With years of experience and a strong foundation in engineering and design, we have established ourselves as a reliable partner for companies seeking accuracy, innovation, and efficiency in their projects. Our 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.

At Milestone PLM Solutions, our core mission is to provide design and engineering solutions that not only meet but exceed client expectations. We understand that today’s industries demand faster project delivery, reduced costs, and high precision in every stage of execution. That’s why we combine advanced technology with engineering expertise to create solutions that drive efficiency, accuracy, and long-term project success. Whether it’s construction, product development, or infrastructure design, we bring the right mix of creativity and technical knowledge to every project.

OUR EXPERTISE

✅ BIM Services
We provide comprehensive Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions that cover 3D, 4D, and 5D requirements. Our expertise includes detailed modeling, clash detection, coordination, and project management support. By leveraging BIM, we help clients achieve improved collaboration, streamlined workflows, and enhanced project outcomes with reduced risks and errors.

✅ Architectural Services
Our architectural team delivers creative, detailed, and client-focused solutions in design, drafting, and visualization. From concept development to technical drawings, we offer services that cater to residential, commercial, and industrial projects. Our approach ensures that designs are not only aesthetically appealing but also functional and practical.

✅ Millwork Services
We specialize in precision-driven millwork drafting and shop drawings that bring furniture, cabinetry, and custom woodwork projects to life. By working closely with manufacturers, contractors, and designers, we ensure every detail is captured with accuracy, enabling smoother production and flawless execution.

✅ Structural Services
Our structural engineering services include modeling, detailing, and analysis, ensuring safe and reliable outcomes for construction projects. We focus on providing efficient designs that meet safety standards while optimizing material usage and construction time. From small-scale structures to large, complex projects, our expertise ensures stability and durability.

✅ MEP Services
We deliver end-to-end Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) modeling, coordination, and design support. Our team ensures that building systems are designed with maximum efficiency, minimizing clashes and delays during construction. By offering integrated MEP solutions, we help create sustainable, functional, and cost-effective building environments.

✅ CAD Drafting & Detailing
Accuracy is at the core of our CAD drafting and detailing services. We provide high-precision 2D and 3D drafting, documentation, and detailing across a wide range of engineering and construction projects. Our attention to detail ensures clients receive production-ready drawings that reduce errors and improve project efficiency.

✅ Product Design & Development
From initial concept to prototype, we offer innovative product design and development solutions. Our expertise helps clients bring their product ideas to market faster with designs that balance creativity, functionality, and manufacturability. By leveraging advanced tools and design thinking, we enable businesses to innovate with confidence.

At Milestone PLM Solutions, we believe in building long-term partnerships by delivering solutions that are reliable, cost-effective, and tailored to each client’s unique needs. Our goal is to empower industries with smarter design solutions that add value at every stage of the project lifecycle.

👉 Check our website to explore more about our services, detailed expertise, and how Milestone PLM Solutions can support your projects with reliable and innovative engineering design solutions.

Milestone PLM Solutions, Inc.

We deliver end-to-end engineering design services for AEC and Mechanical industries. From 2D drafting and 3D modeling to advanced design solutions, our expert team transforms ideas into reality. With a focus on quality, precision, and innovation, our designs empower clients to plan smarter, execute faster, and succeed stronger.

The company’s core competency lies in the design, planning, and construction of residential, commercial, and industrial structures. Bauwerk AGT provides end-to-end services, from site assessment and concept development to structural engineering, renovation, and project delivery. Operating primarily within regional markets across Germany, Bauwerk AGT distinguishes itself through a strong commitment to German engineering standards, transparent project execution, and sustainable building practices.

Mission and Vision
Bauwerk AGT’s mission is to build environments that are functional, sustainable, and tailored to the needs of clients and communities. The company aims to provide comprehensive and integrated construction services that meet the highest levels of quality, safety, and regulatory compliance. While remaining grounded in local values, Bauwerk AGT aspires to deliver projects that match international standards in precision, innovation, and environmental responsibility.

The firm’s vision emphasizes collaborative building, where clients, engineers, architects, and contractors are unified in purpose and execution. Bauwerk AGT envisions a construction process that is not only efficient but also enriching for all stakeholders involved—from investors to end users.

Core Services
Bauwerk AGT Cooperation GmbH offers a full suite of construction and civil engineering services:

General Construction: Includes ground-up construction for residential homes, office buildings, industrial warehouses, and commercial developments. The company handles all structural and architectural aspects, adhering to the latest building codes and safety standards.

Civil Engineering and Infrastructure: Offers technical expertise in foundational and load-bearing structures, including excavation, drainage, water supply systems, and pavement construction. Bauwerk AGT ensures that every project is built on a solid and technically sound foundation.

Renovation and Restoration: Specializes in the modernization of outdated structures and the preservation of culturally significant buildings. The team applies techniques that enhance structural performance while respecting architectural heritage.

Project Management: Provides full project oversight, including planning, procurement, budgeting, timeline management, and subcontractor coordination. Clients benefit from the firm’s ability to deliver complex projects on time and within budget.

Quality Assurance and Consulting: Offers engineering audits, structural inspections, damage assessments, and expert consulting to optimize construction outcomes.

Key Strengths and Differentiators
What sets Bauwerk AGT apart is its agile, client-centric approach. As a micro-enterprise, the firm has the flexibility to personalize every project while remaining highly responsive to client needs. Its cooperative model means that Bauwerk AGT works closely with a network of trusted professionals—from architects and engineers to material suppliers and subcontractors—ensuring a seamless, integrated project delivery.

Additionally, the firm is known for its commitment to environmental sustainability, using eco-friendly materials and energy-efficient methods wherever possible. Its focus on safety, accountability, and high-quality workmanship has helped it build a solid reputation within the regional construction industry.
Client Segments
Bauwerk AGT Cooperation GmbH serves a diverse clientele, including:

Private homeowners and developers

Commercial real estate investors

Municipal and regional government entities

Industrial operators requiring specialized construction services

Conclusion
Bauwerk AGT Cooperation GmbH is more than just a construction company—it is a reliable project partner that combines technical expertise, strong ethics, and practical innovation. With a dedicated team and a well-established operational structure, Bauwerk AGT is well-positioned to meet the evolving demands of the German construction sector. Whether developing new properties, modernizing existing ones, or providing critical infrastructure, the company ensures that every project reflects excellence in design, durability, and service.

Bauwerk AGT Cooperation

Bauwerk AGT Cooperation, registered in Gütersloh, Germany, is a micro-sized civil engineering and building construction firm. Focused on local and regional development, the company specializes in general building construction, structural engineering, site planning, and residential and commercial renovations.

Think what's possible
The sky’s the limit with exceptional design and teams that outperform expectations.

Imagine:

Greater sustainability from the inside out.
Inspiring workplaces people want to return to.
Learning environments that attract world class students.
Health centers designed to make care and lives better.
Research centers that speed innovation from lab to life.
Now you’re thinking...Let’s get to work.

At Page, we’ve always believed that design has the power to transform the world around us. With more than 125 years of history, our commitment to sustainability, social responsibility, and innovation is stronger than ever. From reducing carbon emissions to fostering inclusive communities, Page is committed to creating designs that are not only sustainable but transformational. We’re just getting started. Join us as we continue to Think What’s Possible—one project, one partnership, and one community at a time. 

Full-service design, architecture and engineering

We pair the art and science of possibility with how to make it happen. Expect powerfully imaginative and collaborative architecture, engineering and design that makes you ready for today and what comes next. From thought to finish, Page experts—of all disciplines—think outside the box, figure the best way forward, and deliver solutions to complex projects in new, inventive and amazing ways.

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.

Our people make the difference

We believe our people make Page different. We recruit and hire the best talent, and make space for our teams to celebrate their individuality, to bring bold, new ideas to our process, and create work that makes our lives better.

The Power of Design

We believe buildings are more important for what they do — for the positive impact they make on individual lives — than for what they are. In all that we design and do, we consider how to make people’s lives better.

History

In 1898, Charles Henry Page and his brother Louis Page formed Page Brother, Architects and focused on designing courthouses and public schools. Charles's son, Charles Henry Page Jr., joined the firm following Louis's death in 1934. 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, would join the firm in 1939 and the name changed to Page Southerland Page. The firm changed its name to just Page in 2013.

In 2022, Page bought the architectural and planning firm, EYP, merging the former Albany-based company's national offices and design portfolio. In 2023, Page acquired Davis Brody Bond, a former New York City-based architecture firm with notable projects including the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the Portico Gallery at the Frick Collection, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

As of 2024, Page operated 21 offices in the US, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates.

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.

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, we develop custom workflows to solve complex design challenges across industries - from architecture and automotive to consumer, medical, and industrial applications. Our work spans computational and generative design, additive manufacturing, digital fabrication, and large-scale 3D printed architecture using sustainable materials. We also offer consulting, workshops, and automation strategies to help teams scale and innovate. At Morroni, we use algorithms and data-driven processes to shift the boundaries of what’s possible in design.

Morroni conducts innovative research and develops novel design methodologies and parametric systems.

The studio works across a wide range of fields from architecture and automotive to consumer, medical, and industrial applications.

Computational Design: We solve Complex Design problems with the help of code, algorithms, and advanced computer processing. Shifting the borders of what is possible.
// Enabling tailor-made efficient Design and Architecture
// Parametric Design
// Generative Design
// Iterative & Performative Models
// Complex Modelling
// Smart Patterns and Surface Texturing
// Dashboarding & Visualizations

Design for Additive Manufacturing - DfAM: With strong experience in Design for Additive Manufacturing, Architecture, and Construction, we solve problems from large scale additive manufacturing to custom Gcode and toolpath generation.
// Design for Additive Manufacturing
// Lattice Structures
// Custom Toolpath and Gcode Generation
// Design for 3DCP / FGF / SLS /

Design for Digital Fabrication: We are working towards closing the "Digital Chain" from design to fabrication with parametric 3D planning, optimization and digital production.
We take care of data preparation and ensure that all individual parts fit together.
// Closing the Digital Chain from Design to Production
// Design to Production
// Data driven Design
// Design Optimization & Rationalization

Automation & Mass Customization: Design at Scale. We help you to automate your design processes. Realizing true mass customization, configurators, and new design workflows tailored to your unique requirements using state-of-the-art generative tools.
// Design at Scale
// Design Automation
// Design Processes
// Reusable Workflows
// Batch Processing

Consulting & Workshops: With a background in academics and teaching we help and consult you to bring your digital planning, fabrication and automation processed to the next level.
// Consulting
// Workshops
// Teaching

3D Printed Architecture - Architectural Design: Morroni has developed design and Software solutions for 3D Printing multifunctional Architecture and interior applications from recycled materials, solving some of the most critical challenges of the construction industry today. 
// True Large Additive Manufacturing
// Functional Integrated Design
// Circular Building Solutions


Collaboration:
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.

Morroni conducts innovative research and develops novel design methodologies and parametric systems.
We are highly collaborative, working directly with clients or partnering with agencies worldwide to provide market-leading solutions.

NEVER NOT COMPUTING
// shaping vertices, voxels & attributes


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.

About BLT SMRT – A Trusted Technology Partner for AEC Firms

BLT SMRT is a forward-thinking consulting and software development firm that specializes in optimizing workflows, enhancing design technology, and developing custom automation solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals. Founded in 2018, our roots run much deeper. Our journey began nearly 20 years ago as CADD technicians in high school, driven by curiosity and a desire to make design work more efficient. Today, we operate at the intersection of design and technology, supporting AEC firms through every phase of the project lifecycle.

As a trusted AEC technology partner, we help our clients navigate the complexities of digital transformation by designing and implementing systems that improve accuracy, streamline workflows, and accelerate project delivery. Whether it’s a boutique architecture studio or a multinational engineering firm, our mission remains the same: enable teams to do their best work with tools that work better.
We are passionate about solving the most challenging problems in the AEC industry. From automating repetitive tasks to improving software interoperability, we empower design and construction professionals to focus on creative and strategic work by eliminating the friction in their daily processes.

AEC Consulting Services: Empowering Teams With Better Workflows

BLT SMRT provides a full suite of consulting services tailored to the unique demands of AEC firms. Our expertise spans workflow optimization, advanced BIM strategies, and digital automation solutions.

We work closely with your team to identify inefficiencies, uncover bottlenecks, and reimagine your workflows for maximum impact. Whether you’re starting a new BIM implementation or refining long-standing standards, we offer expert insights, on-demand guidance, and ongoing technical support. Our clients rely on us for everything from feasibility studies for automation ideas to high-level BIM project consultation.
If your team is already using tools like Python, Dynamo, or Grasshopper, we provide code reviews, optimization strategies, and help you build smarter scripts. We also support data extraction and dashboarding, allowing you to turn project data into actionable insights and better decision-making.

AEC Consulting Services Include:
•	Workflow analysis and creation
•	Automation ideation and feasibility studies
•	BIM execution plans and strategy development
•	BIM project support and technology integration
•	Data interoperability and dashboarding
•	Computational design optimization
•	Software selection and troubleshooting
•	Emerging technology research and evaluation

No matter your current tech stack or level of BIM maturity, BLT SMRT can help you elevate your capabilities and prepare for what’s next.

Custom AEC Software Solutions: Build Tools for the Way You Work

Sometimes, off-the-shelf software just doesn’t cut it. That’s where our custom solutions come in. We create tailored tools that align with your firm’s unique workflows and project requirements. Our team builds everything from standalone desktop software to intelligent Revit add-ins, Dynamo graphs, and Grasshopper scripts.

By automating manual tasks, integrating siloed systems, and developing new digital tools, we help your team move faster, work smarter, and reduce errors across the board. Whether you need a one-off tool or a platform-wide solution, our team will partner with you from ideation to implementation.

Custom AEC Solutions Include:
•	Custom desktop applications
•	Revit and Navisworks add-ins
•	No-code and low-code solutions (e.g., PowerAutomate, Zapier, Dynamo, Grasshopper)
•	Computational design workflows
•	Proof-of-concept scripts and tool prototypes
•	Custom Revit families and parametric content

If there's a task in your daily workflow that feels slow, repetitive, or frustrating—let’s invent a better way together. Your team will thank you, and your bottom line will too.

Let’s Work Together

With over two decades of experience immersed in AEC technology, BLT SMRT combines deep industry knowledge with cutting-edge development skills. We don't just understand your tools—we help you transform them. Whether you need help today or are planning for the future, we’re here to be your long-term technology partner.

BLT SMRT, LLC

Make your team more efficient by bending technology to your needs. We create pipelines, scripts, apps and content for faster and easier workflows.

Key Facts About Arrivy

Overview:

Arrivy is a modern SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platform built to streamline and optimize field service operations for businesses of all sizes. Designed with operational efficiency and customer experience in mind, Arrivy empowers companies to manage scheduling, dispatching, real-time technician tracking, digital forms, route planning and optimization, work order and performance analytics all in one centralized solution.

Company Background:

Founded: 2017
Headquarters: United States
Website: Arrivy
Industry: Field Operations
Deployment: Cloud-based (Web and Mobile App)

Arrivy was created to fill the gap between customer communication and backend operations in service delivery. It focuses on ensuring accountability, transparency, and satisfaction at every step of the customer journey.

Core Features:

Scheduling & Dispatch:

Assign jobs and optimize technician routes using an intuitive drag-and-drop scheduler.

Route Optimization: 

Minimize fuel costs and travel time with smart route planning.

Self-Scheduling & Booking:

Let customers book appointments directly through branded portals or web widgets.

Real-Time Technician Tracking:

Monitor field crews with live location tracking, ensuring complete visibility and responsiveness.

Digital Forms & Checklists: 

Replace paperwork with customizable digital forms for inspections, check-ins, approvals, and more.

Customer Notifications: 

Automatically send ETA alerts and service updates via SMS and email, reducing no-shows and increasing satisfaction.

Reporting & Insights: 

Access performance dashboards, analytics, and reports to measure job success and technician efficiency.

Kiosk Mode:

Field teams can quickly check in and out of jobs using kiosk devices, enhancing accuracy and compliance.

Industries Served:

Arrivy serves a wide range of industries, including:

1. Moving
2. Solar
3. Roofing
4. HVAC
5. Plumbing
6. Pest Control
7. Home Services
8. Delivery & Logistics

The platform adapts to various use cases by offering integrations, customization, and modular features.

Integrations:

Arrivy integrates seamlessly with popular CRMs, ERP, and productivity tools, including:

1. Salesforce
2. HubSpot
3. Current RMS
4. MoversSuite
5. Zoho
6. QuickBooks
7. Xero
8. Companycam

These integrations allow businesses to maintain operational continuity without switching between multiple systems.

Customer Experience Focus:

What sets Arrivy apart is its strong focus on end-to-end customer experience. The platform is built to keep customers informed and engaged throughout the service lifecycle, from booking to job completion.

1. Live ETA Tracking Links
2. Branded Notifications
3. Customer Feedback Collection
4. Interactive Status Boards
Arrivy aims to turn every service call into a transparent and satisfactory experience.

Mobile Accessibility:

Available on both iOS and Android, Arrivy’s mobile apps allow field technicians to:

1. View job details
2. Upload photos and notes
3. Complete digital checklists
4. Capture customer signatures
5. Communicate with dispatch and customers
This enhances productivity and ensures job accountability in the field.

Customer Success Stories / Testimonials:

Company: Ambia Solar
User: Danielle Boenisch
''The team has been great to work with and completed the implementation quickly. Great team to work with.''

Company: Earth Right Energy
User: Benji Watters
Arrivy is easy to use, allows for easy data collection, allows all of our information to pass through our entire work process, and allows our customers to be involved in the process.

Company: Super Easy Storage
User: Cameron Robertson
Our customers and team love Arrivy’s functionality! We have reduced service calls, complaints, and mistakes.

Conclusion:

Arrivy is a powerful field service management and dock scheduling platform that bridges the gap between operational efficiency and customer engagement. Its robust suite of features, industry flexibility, and real-time capabilities make it a go-to solution for service-based businesses looking to grow, streamline operations, and delight customers.

Whether you are a mid-sized business or an enterprise-scale operation, Arrivy provides the tools and insights needed to thrive in today’s on-demand economy.

Arrivy Inc

Application Suite Designed to Streamline Operations & Delight Customers

Mastery of Digital® 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. In a sector often resistant to change, Mastery of Digital® 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, we aim to help professionals not only adapt to the demands of the modern AEC industry but also become leaders in shaping its future.

What sets Mastery of Digital® apart is our commitment to turning technological complexity into accessible and actionable solutions. We curate the most relevant innovations, from Building Information Modeling (BIM) and AI-powered tools to automation and digital twin technologies, and translate them into hands-on, real-world knowledge. Our platform is built for those who want to future-proof their careers, deliver better projects, and stay competitive in a data-driven economy.

We provide a growing library of case studies, training programs, reports, and AI resources tailored specifically for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) community. Whether you're a contractor looking to streamline operations, a civil engineer exploring automation, or a university lecturer designing a new curriculum, Mastery of Digital® gives you a space to learn, contribute, and grow.

Mission
Our mission is to cultivate a dynamic global community focused on the discovery, application, and scaling of digital construction technologies. We aim to provide 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.

Vision
To become the global reference point for digital construction where professionals from all corners of the industry can connect, collaborate, and advance their expertise. Our vision is to position Mastery of Digital® as the leading platform where thought leaders, innovators, and practitioners come together to define the future of the built environment.

Core Values
*Commitment to Excellence
We hold ourselves to the highest standards in everything we produce. From training modules to technical white papers, we ensure our community always receives top-tier content grounded in practical application and academic rigor.

*Collaboration
We believe that progress in construction technology happens through shared knowledge and partnerships. We foster a culture of collaboration where professionals across disciplines and borders can co-create and innovate together.

*Empowerment
Our goal is to empower individuals and organizations with the tools, skills, and confidence to navigate digital change. Whether you're starting your digital journey or leading it, we’re here to support your next step.

*Integrity
Honesty, transparency, and consistency are central to our identity. We prioritize building trust with our community by delivering on our promises and maintaining an open, respectful environment.

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

One Click LCA

Featuring One Click LCA at the AEC Innovate Conference

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AI, Sustainability & Latest Tools for AEC

Sustainability Tools to Watch Out For in 2025!

Ark Design AI is an AI-powered platform that helps architects and developers create architectural designs for multi-family and mixed-use projects. Architects and real estate developers, create automated floor plans and feasibility reports for multi-family and mixed-use projects quickly and efficiently. Our platform is the first AI solution for architectural schematic design. Optimize profitability, density, and living standards while meeting US codes and ordinances instantly, allowing you to make better and faster decisions. How it works Ark Design AI's software analyzes architectural designs and generates optimized building designs that meet project requirements and local regulations. It can create infinite variations to optimize for density, profitability, and living standards. Benefits Ark Design AI can help architects make better and faster decisions, and cut design costs by up to 90%. It can also free up architects' time and energy for more creative endeavors. Features Ark Design AI can create automated floor plans and feasibility reports. It can also generate a unique mix of unit types for a floor layout. Trial Ark Design AI offers a 10-day free trial. Ark Design AI was built by a team of AI scientists, architects, and software developers. Stage 1 Properties Provide several basic details about your project, such as the number of Floors, the number of Dwelling units, building uses and the Zoning district; these details will help ARK suggest better options further in the process. Stage 2 Lot Type &amp; Lot Editor Please select the preferred lot type: Interior Lot (One side street lot), Corner Lot (Two side street lot), or 2 Corner Lot (Three side corner lot). Once selected, kindly click on &ldquo;Next&rdquo; to proceed. Create the property lines of the Lot and provide information on the surroundings (Streets, Adjacent buildings, and yards). Stage 3 Locate Main Floors Locate the schematic floor plate of the ground and Typical floor of the Project, use different Shapes and sizes to explore and select a floor scheme. Stage 4 Core Editor Design the Vertical Shafts focusing on the residential floors; Adjust the circulation and Determine Room size according to the market standards and building type (Rental/ Condo/ Affordable). Stage 5 Schematic Section Receive the schematic side view and 3D massing of your project. From this point forward plan the project according to your personal preferences. Control the number of floors and their types(Cellar, Ground, Mixed-use, Typical and setback), Edit the floor plans, View summarize area calculations and export it to PDF and Revit file for further design. Stage 6 Floor Plan Editor Edit the Floor plate, create recesses, courts and setbacks; plan the units layout based on your choice of units types distribution. Within minutes the Ark algorithm will generate potential floor plans that meets building code. Select and edit the best option for your project. Stage 7 Plan Unit Mix The floor layout design includes various unit types such as studios, one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and three-bedroom apartments, each with customizable settings like price per square foot and minimum area. Room distribution control ensures optimal use of rooms along window walls without exceeding the maximum available area. The process allows for creating a unique mix of unit types for the typical floor layout, balancing efficiency and market demands.

ArkDesign.AI

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Featuring ArkDesign.AI  at the AEC Innovate Conference

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Multi-Family & Mixed-Use Design Through AI: Meet ArkDesign

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With ARES Commander, users can work both locally and with files stored in the cloud to improve collaboration. Sync files across users and devices. Create and modify DWG drawings in 2D and 3D, leveraging the drafting and design features that you&rsquo;ve come to expect &mdash; all at a significant cost savings. ARES Commander can stand alone or coordinate with ARES Touch and ARES Kudo to form the Trinity of CAD, unlocking productivity-boosting collaboration features. ARES Commander by Graebert is a powerful and flexible CAD solution designed for professionals who require full-featured 2D and 3D drafting capabilities in native DWG format&mdash;without the high costs or limitations of traditional CAD software. Compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux, ARES Commander is part of the ARES Trinity suite, which includes access to cloud-based editing through ARES Kudo and mobile capabilities via ARES Touch, all under a single license. One of the key strengths of ARES Commander is its seamless DWG compatibility, allowing users to create, edit, and share files without worrying about format issues. The software includes robust 2D drafting tools, 3D modeling functions such as push/pull editing, and support for dynamic blocks, splines, and parametric features. Beyond the desktop, the ARES Trinity ecosystem enables real-time collaboration through cloud integration, supporting services like Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox. Users can work from anywhere, review drawings on-site, share view-only links with stakeholders, and keep track of revisions with built-in version control and commenting tools. ARES Commander also bridges the gap between CAD and BIM. It allows the import of Revit and IFC files, from which users can extract 2D drawings, automatically generate annotations, and streamline documentation workflows. This functionality makes it easier to work alongside BIM teams while staying within familiar CAD environments. The user interface has been continually refined to support productivity and ease of use, with the latest versions offering customizable workspaces, AI-assisted tools, and a simplified transition path for users coming from other platforms like AutoCAD. ARES Commander is widely adopted across industries, from architecture and engineering to construction and manufacturing. It's known for its solid performance, affordability, and flexibility, offering a complete CAD solution that meets the demands of modern workflows. Whether working independently or as part of a larger team, users appreciate its robust toolset, intuitive design, and commitment to innovation.

Files created in ARES Commander can also be accessed in ARES Kudo or ARES Touch.

ARES Commander includes BIM drawings automation features.

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ARES Commander

ARES Commander Standalone [Perpetual License]

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ARES Commander Flex / Network Seat [Perpetual License]

ARES Commander runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux platforms.

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

Solibri Office

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Kestrel is the first structured compliance data layer for the built environment.
Building code has historically existed as static documents that architects read, interpret, and apply manually. In a world where design has moved into BIM, compliance has remained outside the model&mdash;fragmented across PDFs, markups, and late-stage plan review.
Kestrel changes that.
Kestrel is building code compliance software that runs inside Revit, evaluating BIM models against jurisdiction-specific requirements during design. Instead of checking compliance after drawings are complete, teams run checks continuously while designing, surfacing issues when they are still easy to fix.
At the core of the platform is a fundamental shift: building code becomes computable.
Kestrel translates licensed building code data, including International Code Council (ICC) sources, into structured, machine-executable logic that runs directly against the BIM model. Every issue is tied to a specific element in the design and linked to a cited code section, so teams can see what is wrong, why it matters, and how to resolve it.
This approach turns compliance from a manual, interpretive process into a system that can be evaluated in real time throughout design.
Kestrel&rsquo;s rule library includes millions of checks across key regulatory categories such as egress, accessibility (ADA), fire and life safety, occupancy classifications, height and area limits, and jurisdiction-specific requirements. The platform applies these rules in context to each project&rsquo;s location, building type, and conditions.
The result is a shift in how compliance happens:
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Kestrel is designed for the entire design team. Architects and designers work directly inside the Revit model, resolving issues in context. Project managers and principals track compliance status through a shared dashboard without opening BIM files, giving the entire team a clear view of where the project stands.
Kestrel does not replace architect judgment. It surfaces what is checkable and grounds every result in real code. Final interpretation and design decisions remain with the architect.
As BIM became the system of record for design, there has been no equivalent system for compliance. Kestrel fills that gap.
It is not a plugin or a point solution. It is the compliance layer that sits alongside the model, enabling teams to move faster, reduce rework, and reach permit with greater confidence.

Kestrel Labs

ARES is a modern, feature-rich CAD software that serves as a leading AutoCAD alternative for professionals working with 2D drafting and 3D modeling in the industry-standard DWG file format. Developed by Graebert, ARES combines power, flexibility, and affordability&mdash;making it an ideal solution for architects, engineers, designers, and construction professionals seeking a more cost-effective, high-performance CAD platform. With a growing global footprint, ARES is trusted by some of the world&rsquo;s most prominent companies. Among its users are three of Japan&rsquo;s top five construction groups, as well as globally recognized manufacturers such as LG, Hyundai, and Samsung. Its robust feature set supports the complex demands of design, engineering, and construction workflows, offering seamless collaboration and precision. ARES also serves as the underlying technology for other leading CAD solutions. It powers DraftSight by Dassault Syst&egrave;mes, a popular CAD software for 2D design, and Onshape Drawings, the drawing module within the cloud-native Onshape CAD platform. These partnerships highlight ARES&rsquo;s reliability, scalability, and integration capabilities across different design environments. As a truly cross-platform CAD solution, ARES is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with additional cloud and mobile access through ARES Kudo (web-based) and ARES Touch (mobile app). This ensures design professionals can work seamlessly across devices and locations, with real-time syncing and collaboration tools. With its DWG compatibility, modern interface, and flexible subscription-based licensing model, ARES offers a compelling alternative to traditional CAD tools&mdash;without sacrificing performance or productivity. Whether you're migrating from AutoCAD or starting fresh with a new CAD workflow, ARES delivers the tools you need to design faster, collaborate smarter, and lower your total cost of ownership. Discover why ARES is the next-generation DWG CAD software for today&rsquo;s professionals. DWG Compatibility: ARES Commander works directly with DWG files, making it a good option for users familiar with other CAD software that uses this format. Part of the ARES Trinity: ARES Commander is the desktop component of Graebert's Trinity, which also includes cloud-based ARES Kudo and mobile ARES Touch. This allows for seamless workflows across devices. Productivity Features: ARES Commander includes features like Power Trim, Dimension Palette, and Layer Tools, designed to enhance user productivity. Customization: Users can customize their workspaces and user interfaces to suit their preferences. Collaboration: The ARES Trinity enables collaboration features, allowing users to share, view, and edit drawings across different platforms and devices. Cloud Integration: ARES Commander integrates with popular cloud storage services like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and iCloud. BIM Features: ARES Commander also includes BIM (Building Information Modeling) features, allowing users to import and view Revit and IFC files, extract 2D drawings, and extract BIM information into tables. Licensing: ARES Commander offers perpetual, annual, or flex licenses, and a single license can be used across multiple computers with different operating systems.

Modern workflows leveraging cloud and mobile to synchronize the work across all your users and devices.

CAD Anywhere: Desktop CAD (Windows, Mac, Linux), Cloud CAD (runs in your Internet browser), and Mobile CAD (Android tablets/smartphones and iOS iPhone/iPad).

With the DWG for BIM features in ARES Commander, users can create smarter CAD drawings whose geometry can be extracted and updated from Revit and IFC BIM projects.

ARES Commander - Desktop CAD: All the 2D and 3D features needed to create and modify DWG drawings on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

ARES Kudo - Online CAD: Create and modify DWG drawings online, and enjoy new collaboration features to comment with voice, photos, text notes, and stamps.

ARES Touch - Mobile CAD: A full set of 2D features to create, modify, and annotate DWG drawings on your Android smartphone/tablet and iOS iPhone/iPad with unique collaboration features to markup with voice, photos, text notes, and stamps.

ARES Trinity by Graebert

The ARES Trinity of CAD software encompasses three integrated software products: ARES Commander, ARES Kudo, and ARES Touch.

Featuring Graebert ARES CAD software at the AEC Innovate Conference

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

BAMROC: Revolutionizing MEP and MEP vs. Structure Clash Resolution in the AEC Industry
BAMROC is the first AI-powered software in the AEC industry purpose-built to automate MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) and MEP vs. Structure clash resolution inside real-world BIM coordination workflows. Instead of spending countless hours manually reviewing clashes, modifying routes, and iterating on design options, BIM teams can now rely on BAMROC to act as an intelligent copilot that does the heavy lifting with remarkable speed and consistency.
At its core, BAMROC combines advanced AI-powered decision-making to understand how MEP services interact with structural and architectural elements. It doesn&rsquo;t just highlight problems, it actively proposes and applies optimized resolutions that respect design intent, space constraints, and constructability. This allows BIM MEP coordinators, designers, and engineers to move from reactive firefighting to proactive, high-value decision-making.
By streamlining a traditionally time-consuming and repetitive coordination stage, BAMROC helps projects meet the highest standards of accuracy, safety, and efficiency. It reduces the back-and-forth between disciplines, minimizes rework, and cuts down coordination cycles, ultimately supporting faster project delivery and more predictable outcomes. BIM professionals can focus on design quality, system performance, and client requirements instead of being stuck in manual clash-by-clash troubleshooting.
As an advanced BIM clash resolver, BAMROC analyzes design conflicts, explores multiple routing scenarios, and intelligently adjusts MEP systems to create a clash-free environment. The resolutions are generated with precision, preserving clearances, avoiding critical zones, and maintaining the logic of each system. This level of automation and reliability redefines what &ldquo;productive&rdquo; means in BIM MEP design and coordination.
Whether your team is handling dense plant rooms, complex high-rise cores, hospitals with strict service zoning, or large infrastructure projects under aggressive timelines, BAMROC ensures that BIM professionals can achieve lightning-fast coordination with uncompromising quality. Adopting BAMROC is not just a software upgrade, it is a shift toward smarter, AI-assisted project delivery and a more efficient, future-ready AEC workflow.

BAMROC

CRDR BIM, short for "Clash Resolution Diagnosis Report in BIM," is a specialized tool designed to streamline clash resolution documentation within Autodesk Navisworks. It simplifies compliance reporting and enhances workflow efficiency for BIM managers, coordinators, and specialists by providing a structured approach to documenting resolved clashes. 1. Efficient Clash Resolution Reporting CRDR BIM enables users to generate detailed Clash Resolution Diagnosis Reports that document how clashes have been addressed between different BIM model versions. This feature helps teams maintain accurate records of resolution progress, improving project tracking and compliance. 2. Seamless Navisworks Plugin Integration Functioning as a dedicated Navisworks plugin, CRDR BIM integrates directly into existing workflows, allowing users to compare &lsquo;before&rsquo; and &lsquo;after&rsquo; BIM models effortlessly. This integration ensures that clash resolution documentation remains within the familiar Navisworks environment, eliminating the need for external tools. 3. Intuitive &amp; User-Friendly Interface Designed for ease of use, CRDR BIM features an intuitive interface that simplifies navigation and workflow execution. BIM professionals can efficiently document and categorize clashes without technical complexity, improving productivity and adoption rates. 4. Consistent Viewing Angles for Clear Comparisons CRDR BIM ensures consistent perspective when capturing images of clashes, maintaining uniformity between different model versions. This feature enhances clarity in reports, making it easier for teams to analyze and understand clash resolutions. 5. Customizable Clash Categorization for Precise Documentation Users can categorize clashes into resolved, unresolved, approved, or resolved but connected manually, ensuring a clear and organized approach to documentation. This categorization allows for better project tracking and compliance verification. 6. Flexible Reporting Formats for Easy Sharing CRDR BIM supports HTML and PDF export options, enabling teams to save and share reports efficiently. These reports include detailed images and summaries, making them valuable for project documentation and stakeholder communication. 7. Enhancing BIM Management with Streamlined Reporting By integrating directly with Navisworks, CRDR BIM empowers BIM managers and specialists to document clash resolutions accurately and efficiently. It ensures that compliance reporting is effortless while maintaining a structured and transparent workflow. With its powerful reporting features and seamless integration, CRDR BIM is an essential tool for professionals involved in clash resolution documentation within BIM models.

CRDR BIM

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

Agentic Quantification of a Federated Healthcare BIM

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

Leveret Systems Agentic BIM Service

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

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

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

Our Vision

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



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

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

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

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



Phoenix Office of Innovation

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

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

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

Girasol Apartments: Affordable Housing in focus

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Source: Innovate PHX

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

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Source: City of Phoenix

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

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Source: City of Phoenix Office of Innovation Augmented Reality Pilot

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

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

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

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A New Model for Participation‍

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

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


Written in collaboration with Phoenix Office of Innovation

Phoenix Office of Innovation shares Infrastructure, Housing futures with inCituAR

<span id="docs-internal-guid-00ed95ba-7fff-7598-d682-3bf61e8e3fc9" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #202124; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">inCituAR&reg; is a mobile-based augmented reality (AR) platform that transforms complex construction plans into shared, on-site visualizations accessible to anyone with a smartphone. Already piloting with DDC, our solution enables staff, contractors, consultants, and community members to literally &ldquo;see&rdquo; future projects in their real-world context, breaking down technical barriers and fostering collaboration around urban change. By replacing abstract drawings with tangible experiences, inCituAR&reg; ensures stakeholders align on scope, design, and community impact early in the process. Unlike static renderings or siloed workflows, our tool creates a dynamic, interactive, and inclusive collaboration channel&mdash;improving efficiency, trust, and decision-making across the construction lifecycle.
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning happens on 2D maps from a bird's-eye view. But people live in 3D space.
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When a community is asked to weigh in on a housing development, a transit corridor, or a flood resilience project from a flat rendering or a PDF, they are being asked to make decisions without a shared spatial frame of reference. The models and contextual data exist. The gap is the last mile: when spatial intelligence needs to become something a resident can see and understand, standing on the actual street where it will be built.
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">inCitu's integrations for Esri ArcGIS and Autodesk Forma close the gap by creating a direct, automated connection between Autodesk Construction Cloud, the inCituAR augmented reality platform, and Esri's GIS ecosystem, letting AEC teams take a Revit model and place it at real scale on a real street corner - with no manual file export, no format conversion, and no app download required for viewers. 
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What Cities are doing with inCituAR&reg;
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The City of Phoenix distributed QR codes via postcards, city newsletters, and on-site displays so residents could preview the Girasol Apartments, a 115-unit affordable housing development, in 3D from the sidewalk before construction was complete. The Central Ohio Transit Authority integrated inCitu into a guided bus tour along the proposed West Broad Street BRT corridor, generating over 2,000 AR views averaging 80 per week as participants shared the experience between events. In Tampa, the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council showed a proposed living shoreline at the actual seawall where it would be developed. In Kauai, the County used inCitu across multiple stakeholder events to support adoption of the island's first wildland urban interface zoning ordinance, which was subsequently passed.
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&nbsp;&nbsp;"It's one thing to tell someone what a living shoreline is. It's another thing for them to stand there at the seawall and see it in place, to see into the future in that way."&nbsp;
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sarah Vitale, Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the spatial computing ecosystem grows, with cities investing in digital twins, planning moving from 2D to 3D, and AI expanding what's possible with geospatial data, platforms like inCituAR<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&reg;<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that connect that infrastructure to the living city and the public become critical.
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inCitu

The City of Riviera Beach, Florida faced a challenge common to growing municipalities: planning staff were spending the majority of their day answering routine zoning inquiries instead of focusing on high-value work like large-scale site plan reviews and strategic urban planning.

Senior Planner Juan Suarez was fielding 10+ walk-in and phone inquiries every week — each requiring manual cross-referencing of GIS maps, PDF zoning codes, and Future Land Use maps. Questions like "What is my property zoned for?" or "Can I open a gym at this address?" sound simple but consumed up to 75% of staff time daily.

Conflation Labs deployed a customized AI Site Plan and Zoning Agent that connected the city's authoritative data sources — including ArcGIS parcel layers, Chapter 31 Zoning Codes, and the Comprehensive Plan — into a single conversational interface.

The AI agent enables planning staff to ask complex zoning questions in plain English and receive instant, map-based answers. It also performs automated site plan review, flagging code violations such as parking dimension errors and landscape buffer issues by reading submitted plans directly against municipal regulations.

The result: a 75% reduction in routine inquiry time and 20 hours per week returned to planning staff — time now spent on strategic, high-value work that moves the city forward.

Automating Municipal Planning in the City of Riviera Beach

Architects and landscape architects lose days to a process that should take minutes: checking whether a site plan actually complies with local zoning codes, setback requirements, overlay restrictions, and municipal development standards.
The current workflow is broken.
Your team submits a plan. The planning department reviews it &mdash; days or weeks later &mdash; and sends back redlines for issues that could have been caught on day one. Setbacks are off. A use isn't permitted in that zone. An overlay district adds restrictions nobody flagged. The design goes back. The timeline slips. The client asks questions.
Conflation Labs is the AI site plan review agent that catches those issues before submittal.
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HOW IT WORKS:
Upload your site plan or enter the project address. Conflation Labs cross-references your drawings against the jurisdiction's actual zoning code, parcel data, GIS layers, and development standards &mdash; not a generic database. The AI identifies compliance gaps, flags setback violations, checks permitted uses, and surfaces overlay restrictions that apply to your specific site.
You get a clear, actionable compliance report &mdash; with visual map output &mdash; before the plan ever reaches a planning counter.
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WHAT IT REVIEWS:
 &rarr; Setback compliance (front, rear, side &mdash; including corner lot variations) &rarr; Zoning designation and permitted use confirmation &rarr; Overlay district restrictions (historic, flood, design review zones) &rarr; FAR, lot coverage, and building envelope standards &rarr; Parking minimums and access requirements &rarr; Conditional use permit triggers
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KEY OUTCOMES FOR AEC FIRMS:
 &rarr; Catch plan rejections before they happen &mdash; not after &rarr; Reduce costly redesigns triggered by late-stage compliance surprises &rarr; Cut site plan QC time from days to under an hour &rarr; Give project managers and QC leads instant compliance confidence &rarr; Respond faster to client feasibility questions with authoritative answers
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BUILT FOR:
 - Architecture and landscape architecture firms in pre-design and design development - QC leads and project managers reviewing drawings before submittal - Firm principals who want faster, more defensible compliance decisions - Cities and planning departments streamlining their own plan review intake
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Conflation Labs is accepted into Founder University (top 10% of applicants) and actively running a design partner program with AEC firms and municipalities.
Starting at $350/month. Design partner spots open for firms ready to co-build the solution around their specific review workflow.

Conflation Labs

Architectural Practice Optimization Through Digital Transformation and AI-Enabled Knowledge Management

This case study documents the digital transformation of an architectural practice through the adoption of an AI-enabled knowledge management system designed to optimize design workflows, construction documentation, and institutional knowledge reuse. The project addresses a widespread challenge in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry: the inefficiency caused by fragmented project data, legacy BIM files, and limited visibility into historical construction details.

Traditionally, architectural firms store design intelligence across disconnected Revit models, drawing sets, and file servers, making it difficult to locate, validate, and reuse technical information. This project demonstrates how practice optimization can be achieved by centralizing architectural data into a searchable, AI-powered system that indexes construction details, drawings, and documentation assets across multiple project types and software versions. By ARKI's AI to architectural knowledge management, the firm reduced dependence on manual file navigation and individual staff memory, improving documentation consistency and operational reliability.

From a digital transformation standpoint, the initiative reflects a shift from static file storage toward intelligent data systems that support scalable, repeatable workflows. AI-driven search, automated asset organization, and standardized detail reuse improved construction detailing efficiency, reduced rework, and enhanced quality control across projects. The approach also supported faster onboarding and improved collaboration by enabling team-wide access to approved technical content.

Overall, this case study highlights how AI-enabled knowledge management serves as a foundational layer for architectural practice optimization, enabling firms to improve productivity, reduce documentation risk, and extract long-term value from existing BIM and project data without increasing overhead or staffing levels.

Introducing 906 Studio Architects + Interiors

906 Studio Supercharged Project Delivery with ARKI

<h2>What Is Revit?</h2>
Autodesk Revit is a <a href="../../../tools/category/building-information-modeling-bim">Building Information Modeling (BIM)</a> software platform that enables architects, structural engineers, MEP professionals, contractors, and construction teams to design, coordinate, document, and manage building projects within a single intelligent model. Instead of creating independent drawings, Revit uses a data-rich, parametric building model where plans, elevations, sections, schedules, quantities, and 3D views all reference the same project information.
Unlike traditional CAD software that primarily focuses on geometry, <a href="https://www.autodesk.com/products/revit/overview">Revit</a> connects every building element with project data. Walls, doors, windows, floors, roofs, structural components, and building systems behave as intelligent objects that understand their relationships with other elements. When a designer updates the model, related views and documentation can update accordingly, helping reduce inconsistencies between drawings and improving project coordination.
Revit has become one of the industry&rsquo;s leading BIM software solutions because it supports the entire building lifecycle, from conceptual design and design development to construction documentation, multidisciplinary coordination, visualization, and facility planning. It is widely adopted across architecture, engineering, and construction firms for projects ranging from residential homes to large commercial developments, hospitals, airports, educational facilities, and complex infrastructure.
As part of Autodesk&rsquo;s AEC ecosystem, Revit also integrates with products such as Autodesk Construction Cloud, <a href="../../../tools/navisworks">Navisworks</a>, Civil 3D, Forma, and other BIM workflows, making it a central platform for collaborative project delivery.
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<h2>What Is Revit Used For?</h2>
Revit is primarily used to create coordinated BIM models that combine geometry, documentation, and project information within a single environment. Rather than managing dozens of disconnected CAD drawings, teams develop one coordinated building model that serves as the foundation for design, documentation, analysis, and collaboration.
Architects use Revit to design floor plans, elevations, sections, roof systems, fa&ccedil;ades, interiors, and construction documentation while maintaining consistency throughout the project. Structural engineers model foundations, framing systems, steel structures, and reinforced concrete elements, allowing structural information to remain coordinated with architectural design. MEP engineers design HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and fire protection systems within the same BIM workflow, helping identify coordination issues before construction begins.
Construction professionals use Revit models for project visualization, quantity takeoffs, construction planning, coordination meetings, and communication between stakeholders. Contractors often combine Revit models with clash detection, scheduling, estimating, and model review tools to improve constructability and reduce costly field conflicts.
Beyond design and documentation, Revit supports multidisciplinary collaboration through shared models, worksharing, cloud-based coordination, and interoperability with other AEC software. This makes it one of the most widely used BIM platforms for integrated project delivery.
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<h2>Key Features</h2>
Revit offers a comprehensive set of BIM capabilities that support modern building design, documentation, and collaboration throughout the project lifecycle.
<h3>Parametric Building Modeling</h3>
Instead of drawing individual lines, users create intelligent building elements such as walls, floors, roofs, windows, doors, stairs, columns, structural members, and MEP components. Every element contains information about its geometry, materials, dimensions, and relationships within the building model.
<h3>Coordinated Documentation</h3>
Plans, elevations, sections, schedules, detail views, and sheets are generated from the same coordinated model. When project changes occur, documentation remains synchronized, reducing repetitive drafting work and minimizing coordination errors.
<h3>Multidisciplinary Collaboration</h3>
Architects, structural engineers, MEP designers, BIM managers, and contractors can collaborate within coordinated project environments using linked models, worksharing, cloud collaboration, and BIM coordination workflows.
<h3>Parametric Families</h3>
Revit Families allow organizations to create reusable intelligent components for doors, windows, furniture, equipment, lighting fixtures, structural elements, mechanical systems, and custom architectural details, helping maintain design consistency across projects.
<h3>Construction Documentation</h3>
Revit streamlines the creation of professional construction documents, including floor plans, elevations, sections, schedules, legends, annotations, material quantities, and sheet layouts from a single project model.
<h3>Visualization</h3>
Built-in visualization tools enable users to generate realistic 3D perspectives, walkthroughs, exploded views, presentation graphics, and conceptual visualizations for client communication and design review.
<h3>Worksharing</h3>
Multiple team members can work simultaneously on the same project using central models and cloud collaboration, making Revit suitable for large multidisciplinary projects involving distributed teams.
<h3>Interoperability</h3>
Revit supports interoperability with DWG, IFC, Rhino, SketchUp, Navisworks, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Civil 3D, and many third-party BIM applications, allowing organizations to integrate Revit into broader AEC workflows.
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<h2>Pricing &amp; Free Trial</h2>
Revit is available through Autodesk&rsquo;s subscription model, with <a href="https://www.autodesk.com/products/revit/buy">pricing</a> options that typically include monthly, annual, and multi-year subscriptions. Autodesk also offers Flex licensing for organizations that need occasional access to Revit.
A <a href="https://www.autodesk.com/products/revit/free-trial">free trial</a> is available directly from Autodesk, allowing users to evaluate the software before purchasing a subscription. Students and educators who meet Autodesk&rsquo;s eligibility requirements can also access Revit through Autodesk Education for academic use.
Because Autodesk periodically updates regional pricing and subscription plans, users should always verify current pricing through Autodesk&rsquo;s official website before making purchasing decisions.
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<h2>Pros &amp; Cons</h2>
<h3>Pros</h3>
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<li>Industry-leading BIM platform used by architecture, engineering, and construction professionals worldwide.</li>
<li>Intelligent parametric modeling significantly improves coordination between drawings and project data.</li>
<li>Excellent multidisciplinary collaboration across architecture, structural, and MEP teams.</li>
<li>Automatically coordinated documentation helps reduce repetitive drafting and documentation errors.</li>
<li>Extensive ecosystem with strong integration across Autodesk products.</li>
<li>Powerful worksharing capabilities for distributed project teams.</li>
<li>Large community, learning resources, and third-party plugin ecosystem.</li>
<li>Widely accepted by clients, consultants, and contractors on BIM projects.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Cons</h3>
<ul>
<li>Steeper learning curve than traditional CAD software.</li>
<li>Requires significant hardware resources for large BIM models.</li>
<li>Performance can decrease on very large or poorly managed projects.</li>
<li>Primarily optimized for Windows environments.</li>
<li>Subscription costs may be high for freelancers or very small firms.</li>
<li>Effective implementation requires BIM standards, templates, and organizational workflows rather than software knowledge alone.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Best Alternatives</h2>
Although Revit remains one of the industry&rsquo;s most widely adopted BIM platforms, it is not the ideal solution for every organization. Depending on project type, budget, workflow, and collaboration requirements, several alternatives may be worth considering.
Graphisoft Archicad is often preferred by architecture firms seeking an architect-centric BIM workflow with strong design capabilities and openBIM support.
Vectorworks Architect combines BIM functionality with flexible drafting and design tools, making it popular among architects and landscape professionals.
Allplan focuses on architecture, engineering, and infrastructure projects with advanced detailing and construction documentation capabilities.
BricsCAD BIM offers a BIM workflow that combines familiar CAD functionality with intelligent building modeling, making it attractive for teams transitioning from traditional CAD environments.
Bentley OpenBuildings Designer is designed for large infrastructure and complex building projects requiring advanced engineering coordination.
Organizations that still rely heavily on 2D drafting may also compare Revit with <a href="https://www.aecplustech.com/tools/autocad">AutoCAD</a>, while firms evaluating BIM platforms frequently consider Archicad and Vectorworks during software selection.
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<h2>Who Should Use Revit?</h2>
Revit is best suited for professionals and organizations that require coordinated BIM workflows rather than isolated CAD drawings.
It is an excellent choice for:
<ul>
<li>Architecture firms developing BIM-based building projects.</li>
<li>Structural engineering consultants.</li>
<li>MEP engineering teams.</li>
<li>BIM managers and digital delivery specialists.</li>
<li>General contractors and construction managers coordinating multidisciplinary models.</li>
<li>Design-build organizations.</li>
<li>Owners and facility teams requiring data-rich building information.</li>
<li>Universities and educational institutions teaching Building Information Modeling.</li>
</ul>
Smaller firms working primarily on simple 2D drafting projects may find traditional CAD software sufficient for their needs. However, organizations planning to expand their BIM capabilities, improve interdisciplinary coordination, or deliver increasingly complex building projects will generally benefit from Revit&rsquo;s model-based workflow.
As BIM adoption continues to grow across the AEC industry, Revit remains one of the most comprehensive software platforms for creating coordinated building models, improving collaboration, and delivering higher-quality project documentation from concept through construction.

Explore Autodesk Revit pricing, key features, free trial options, use cases, pros and cons, and the best Revit alternatives for architects and AEC teams.

Revit Pricing, Features, Free Trial & Alternatives

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ARKI transforms your firm&rsquo;s past design data (Revit, AutoCAD, PDFs, drawings, etc.) into a centralized, searchable archive.
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Its semantic search understands context and meaning, so users can instantly locate relevant details without manual tagging.
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Acts as a &ldquo;second brain&rdquo; for your firm, consolidating internal project information into a reusable knowledge base.
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Helps firms retain institutional knowledge and avoid reinventing solutions on every project.
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Tracks changes and version history of design elements, automatically deduplicating redundant assets.
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Provides visibility into how details evolved and keeps teams working with the latest and most accurate visuals.
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Uses AI to automatically categorize drawings and details, so assets are organized without manual effort.
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Allows creation of custom collections by project, category, or client for streamlined collaboration.
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<h3 data-start="1475" data-end="1516">👥 5. Collaboration &amp; Team Access</h3>
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Share organized project collections with team members firm-wide or project-specifically.
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Ensures the right people have the right data at the right time.
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Designed to speed up project delivery - companies report up to 50% faster design workflows by reducing time spent searching, reworking, and recreating details.
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<h3 data-start="2437" data-end="2472">★ Why This Matters for AE Firms</h3>
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Reduces redundant work: By turning siloed project files into a searchable database, firms save time and reduce errors.
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Improves consistency: Version control and automatic organization help standardize details and workflows.
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Boosts collaboration: Teams can share and access curated collections easily.
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Enhances decision-making: Better use of prior work and data leads to smarter design and fewer surprises.
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</ul>

AI Visual Search | ARKI’s AI reads your drawings visually even when not labelled and organizes your files, enabling effortless search, retrieval, and reuse

File Live Views | Repurpose and adapt previously used 2D and 3D design assets, reducing redundant work and accelerating project timelines

Compare between Revit Versions | Comparison tools help identify design variations and similarities across projects, improving accuracy and version control

AI Asset Versioning | ARKI Versioning and Snapshot capabilities streamline your design assets, automatically de-duplicating identical details across your firm.

ARKI

Sync Your Data | Automatically synchronize project data across your team and tools, ensuring real-time updates and consistency in every stage of design

This case study showcases how MeltCode, MeltPlan’s Code Research AI, is helping architectural firms dramatically reduce the time, cost, and uncertainty associated with building code compliance. Building code research is one of the most time-consuming and high-risk parts of design, often requiring architects to spend 50–300 hours per project flipping through codebooks, navigating keyword searches, and chasing endless cross-references just to ensure they interpret requirements correctly. 

The case study highlights measurable organizational impact reported by firms after adopting MeltCode, including 30% less spend on code consultants, 45% faster code research, and 25% fewer inquiries from junior architects, meaning fewer escalations to principals and senior staff. 

A key takeaway is that MeltCode is built differently from generic AI tools like ChatGPT, which often hallucinate or cite incorrect sources—forcing architects to double-check everything and sometimes restart research from scratch. MeltCode solves this by using an AI system that only reads building codes (not the internet) and comprehensively interprets code content, including tables and images. It delivers answers in 1–4 minutes, supported by confidence scores and detailed reasoning where each step is backed by direct code citations. 

To validate performance, MeltCode was continuously tested using building inspector exams, where it achieved 95%+ scores across multiple inspector exam types, reinforcing its accuracy and construction-aware reasoning. 

Melt Code AI for reliable building code research

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.
Users can ask code questions in plain English and receive reliable, project-specific requirements with:
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Step-by-step reasoning with clear assumptions
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Direct citations to exact code sections for full traceability
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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
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Exception and cross-reference handling, including circular references across multiple chapters
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Table and diagram understanding, ensuring accurate interpretation of code tables and figures
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Built-in calculations, such as occupant loads, egress sizing, travel distances, and fixture counts
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Personalized compliance illustrations, automatically generated to visually explain requirements for a specific project scenario
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Beyond research, Melt Code includes workflow tools that turn compliance into an organizational asset:
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Projects, where teams store project context (location, occupancy, construction type, sprinkler status, etc.) so every question becomes instantly project-aware
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Checklists, allowing firms to build, store, share, and export reusable compliance checklists across teams and project types
</li>
</ul>
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.

Melt Code

MeltPlan is the AI-native planning engine for the built environment, built to help architects, engineers, and contractors plan projects better &mdash; earlier, faster, and with far more confidence. Construction planning today is still fragmented across disconnected tools, spreadsheets, PDFs, and tribal knowledge. Teams are forced to manually connect decisions across code compliance, estimating, scheduling, and value engineering, which leads to slow iterations, missed scope, costly rework, and avoidable project risk.
MeltPlan solves this by creating a unified planning platform that connects the four planning pillars that shape every project: code compliance, cost, schedule, and value engineering. Instead of operating like a black-box AI assistant, MeltPlan is built for accuracy and transparency. It understands real AEC context &mdash; including codes and standards, building assemblies and elements, quantities and scopes, and project-specific conditions. Every output is designed to be defensible, with clear assumptions, step-by-step reasoning, and verifiable sources.
At the core of MeltPlan is the belief that planning isn&rsquo;t just producing a schedule or an estimate &mdash; it&rsquo;s making the right decisions early, before mistakes become expensive field problems. MeltPlan helps teams move from &ldquo;searching and guessing&rdquo; to &ldquo;knowing and deciding.&rdquo;
Today, MeltPlan offers two core products:
<h3 data-start="1400" data-end="1417">Melt Code</h3>
Melt Code is the first building code research AI built to make compliance transparent and decision-ready. Instead of giving a generic answer, Melt Code provides project-specific compliance requirements along with a step-by-step reasoning trail and direct citations to every relevant code section. It also maps out Compliance Paths, guiding architects and engineers through multiple valid routes to compliance based on project variables like occupancy, construction type, sprinkler conditions, height/area thresholds, and fire ratings. Melt Code understands exceptions, cross-references, tables, diagrams, and code math &mdash; and can generate project-specific compliance illustrations to make requirements easier to interpret and communicate. It also includes workflow tools like Projects and Checklists, helping firms capture institutional knowledge and standardize compliance across teams.
<h3 data-start="2326" data-end="2346">Melt Takeoff</h3>
Melt Takeoff is an AI-assisted takeoff service designed for contractors and estimators who need speed without sacrificing trust. It combines AI vision for fast quantity extraction with onshore, field-experienced senior estimators who verify outputs and add detailed allowances for scope not shown on drawings. Melt Takeoff detects hundreds of building elements, flags drawing/spec conflicts, structures takeoffs in MasterFormat&reg;, UniFormat&reg;, or custom standards, and delivers interactive outputs with sheet-linked traceability and clean Excel exports. It enables faster bids, fewer missed scope items, and more confident pricing.
Together, Melt Code and Melt Takeoff form the foundation of the MeltPlan platform &mdash; a connected planning engine that brings clarity, speed, and trust to preconstruction decision-making.

MeltPlan

Lloyd Architects is a Salt Lake City–based architecture firm of 15–20 employees focused on custom residential design, historic preservation, adaptive reuse, and hospitality work. As the firm grew, leadership wanted stronger financial clarity and better operational control without sacrificing the small-firm culture that keeps the team close to clients and to each other. After years of using ArchiOffice for time tracking and invoicing, Lloyd Architects adopted BQE CORE to modernize how the business runs day to day and to create a more reliable foundation for planning and profitability. With several years of data now in CORE, the firm relies on reporting to understand project performance, track where time is being spent by project phase and type, and support employee reviews and long-term staffing decisions. CORE also plays a practical role in monthly operations, including invoicing workflows, payroll support, and clearer visibility into the project pipeline so leadership can plan ahead with confidence. A major improvement came from built-in ACH payments, which reduced payment processing time by 75 percent and eliminated the hassle of paper checks and bank trips. More than half of monthly payments now arrive via ACH, often before the due date, which improves cash flow and reduces administrative drag. Overall, CORE helps letting the firm operate at a higher level while staying personal, organized, and sustainable.

Lloyd Architects Brings Financial Clarity and Faster Payments with BQE CORE

BQE CORE is an all-in-one, cloud-based platform purpose-built for architecture and engineering (A&amp;E) firms by professionals who understand the realities of the industry&mdash;because it was designed by an architect and an engineer. It empowers firms to manage every aspect of their operations in one place, including project management, accounting, time and expense tracking, billing and invoicing, project-based ERP, and professional services automation.
One of the biggest challenges for A&amp;E firms is balancing high-quality project delivery with the administrative demands of running a business. BQE CORE addresses this by streamlining operations, automating repetitive tasks, and organizing critical information so teams can focus on serving clients instead of managing internal processes. By expediting billing, improving project oversight, and providing deeper performance insights, CORE helps firms strengthen cash flow while optimizing efficiency and profitability.
A Platform Built for AEC Workflows
CORE&rsquo;s origins set it apart&mdash;it was first developed to solve the challenges within its founder&rsquo;s own architecture firm. That real-world experience shaped a solution that aligns with how architects and engineers actually work. CORE integrates front-office activities like project management and CRM with back-office processes such as time and expense tracking, invoicing, accounting, and HR. This creates a seamless workflow and reduces the friction of switching between multiple systems. With the BQE mobile app, firm leaders and teams can access full functionality from anywhere, ensuring flexibility and responsiveness.
Data-Driven Decision Making
CORE provides real-time visibility into key performance indicators, enabling firm leaders and project managers to make better-informed decisions. From high-level firm health metrics to detailed project profitability views, users can drill down into essential numbers such as utilization, realization, overhead, and runway. Project managers can track P&amp;L across clients, phases, and employees, identify where profits are slipping, and make timely adjustments. Accurate time tracking and automated expense capture ensure every billable hour and cost is accounted for, eliminating revenue leakage and improving overall project outcomes.
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