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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The client loves the scheme, then asks what the facade looks like in brick instead of stone, and the meeting stalls because the only honest answer is "let me render that and get back to you." Every architect knows that stall.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">At AEC+Tech, we've watched the AEC tools we cover get very good at making the picture look real. What's changing now is where that picture sits in the process, moving from documentation into the decision itself.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">For most of the last decade, progress in architectural visualization has been measured in image quality. Physically accurate lighting, richer material systems, and real-time ray tracing have closed much of the gap between a render and a photograph. <strong>What used to count as exceptional is now the baseline clients expect.</strong></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Rendering has improved fast. One part of the workflow has barely moved.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Design reviews still lean on static images, pre-rendered animations, and fixed camera paths. Those outputs record decisions well enough, but they sit outside the conversation. The moment a meeting turns toward a different material, a new lighting condition, or an alternate scheme, the presentation stalls while someone prepares fresh visuals elsewhere.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">That gap matters more as practice becomes more collaborative. Clients, consultants, engineers, and developers now weigh in across the whole design process, not only at the end. Meetings have turned into working sessions where decisions take shape in the room. The way architecture gets presented has to keep up with that.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">So visualization is starting to play a different part. Beyond the final picture, it is becoming a medium for discussion, comparison, and decisions made on the spot. The next step forward may be interaction as much as realism.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Every architect knows the moment a client asks to see it another way and the room goes quiet waiting on new visuals. D5 says 3.1 closes that gap, and will <span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><a href="https://www.d5render.com/webinars/whats-new-in-d5-3-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prove it live on July 21</a></strong></span></span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Answer "Can We See It Another Way?" On the Spot&nbsp;</span></strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This is the thinking behind <a href="https://bit.ly/d5-3-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>D5 3.1.</strong></a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Plenty of tools compete on how convincing the picture looks. Fewer ask what happens to it once a room full of stakeholders starts pushing back.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The release starts from a practical question: how does visualization stay useful once the meeting starts?</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">D5's answer is Interactive Presentation, a workflow that lets architects organize a review like a slide deck while keeping the live project open behind it.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr">Instead of preparing several image sets or separate animations ahead of time, teams can move between design schemes, materials, lighting, weather, viewpoints, and object visibility inside a single presentation. A question that used to interrupt the review can be explored right away. Real-time scene switching runs through slides and 3D triggers, so the flow of the meeting holds together.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The presentation becomes a working space for the design, one the team can steer as the discussion moves.</p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px;">Let Clients Walk the Space Before It Exists&nbsp;</span></strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">Interactive Presentation sits inside a wider set of tools aimed at making review more interactive and easier to adapt to the room.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Stereoscopic Panorama brings depth-aware panoramic views to VR, which helps clients and project teams read scale, materials, and how spaces relate to one another. Better VR navigation and controller handling make VR walkthroughs steady enough for everyday reviews rather than occasional demos.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Spatial Tour has moved along too, with faster scene generation, smoother transitions between indoor and outdoor spaces, and dollhouse views that make it simpler to move through a complicated project.</p>
<p dir="ltr">These tools sit alongside still renders and animations and widen the options, so a team can pick the right way to explore a design based on the audience, the project stage, and what the review needs to settle.</p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px;">Start Seeing the Design the Moment You Model It&nbsp;</span></strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">The quality of any review depends on everything that happens before it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">As visualization gets pulled deeper into design work, architects increasingly want to test ideas while those ideas are still moving, instead of waiting for documentation to finish. In that sense, presentation begins earlier than the slide deck. It begins when a team first tries out form, light, material, atmosphere, and how a space feels to move through.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In practice, the visual thinking usually happens long before anyone opens presentation software, and tools have been slow to meet designers there.&nbsp;</p>
<p dir="ltr">That continuity reaches past D5 Render itself. After its earlier <a href="https://www.aecplustech.com/tools/sketchup">SketchUp</a> release, D5 Lite now works inside Rhino and <a href="https://www.aecplustech.com/tools/revit">Revit</a>, bringing real-time visualization into more of the tools architects already use. Designers can preview materials, lighting, and visual direction without leaving the modeling environment, which supports quicker exploration during concept work, massing studies, facade development, and iterative testing.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">D5 Lite is built for that early work, making design decisions more visual from the start. When a project needs higher-end imagery, animation, or an interactive presentation, the work carries on into D5 Render. Paired with Cloud Collaboration, distributed teams can review and share work with less reliance on manual file swaps or local hardware, which keeps things continuous from concept through client review.</p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Photoreal That Holds Up When Clients Look Closely&nbsp;</strong></span></h2>
<p dir="ltr">As presentations get more interactive, the visuals behind them matter even more. A live scene only works if it holds up when someone leans in.</p>
<p dir="ltr">D5 Render 3.1 adds a set of production-focused improvements that strengthen realism while keeping real-time response.&nbsp;</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The move to an ACEScg working color space brings in a production-grade color pipeline, the kind used in film and visual effects, which improves color consistency across visualization and post-production. HeightField Tracing gives displacement materials richer surface relief without adding geometric weight, so brick, stone, and timber keep convincing physical depth even in large scenes.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Landscape work gains more nuance through Seasonal Vegetation, which lets foliage and branch structure change by date and previews a full year of a planting scheme in one scene. A run of smaller refinements rounds it out, including Custom Pivot, MeasureLine, improved City Generator controls, smarter Auto Exposure, and wider Gaussian Splatting support. Each one trims repetitive adjustments and keeps production moving.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It adds up to one point. An interactive presentation is only as good as the rendering underneath it, and that rendering has to hold both fidelity and speed at once.</p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>From Better Images to Better Decisions&nbsp;</strong></span></h2>
<p dir="ltr">Architectural visualization has spent years chasing realism. That work continues, though realism on its own no longer defines the field.</p>
<p dir="ltr">As projects get more collaborative, the ability to move between options, respond to feedback, and explain a design in context is becoming just as important. Presentations are becoming part of the design process itself.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">D5 3.1 reflects that direction. It builds presentation into the design work, making visualization a place where ideas can be explored, compared, and refined with the people in the room.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Whether this turns out to be the next phase of the discipline is still an open question. The goal is clearly shifting, from producing better images toward better conversations about the work.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The biggest change in D5 3.1 sits outside the render itself. Visualization now stays in play through the whole conversation, long after the image is done.</p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>See it live&nbsp;</strong></span></h2>
<p dir="ltr">D5 will demonstrate the 3.1 workflow in a live webinar on Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 1:00 PM UTC, hosted by Jeff Espinoza, D5's Director of Customer Success and Services. The session covers D5 Lite for Rhino and Revit, Interactive Presentation, VR review, Stereoscopic Panorama, ACEScg, HeightField Tracing, and Seasonal Vegetation.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You can register using&nbsp;<a href="https://www.d5render.com/webinars/whats-new-in-d5-3-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>this webinar page</strong></a>, and anyone who registers but cannot attend will receive access to the recording.</p>
<p dir="ltr">To learn more about D5 Render, visit their <a href="../../../tools/d5-render" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>page on aec+tech</strong>&nbsp;</a>or explore the latest features on the official <strong><a class="_ymio1r31 _ypr0glyw _zcxs1o36 _mizu194a _1ah3dkaa _ra3xnqa1 _128mdkaa _1cvmnqa1 _4davt94y _4bfu18uv _1hms8stv _ajmmnqa1 _vchhusvi _kqswh2mm _ect4ttxp _syaz13af _1a3b18uv _4fpr8stv _5goinqa1 _f8pj13af _9oik18uv _1bnxglyw _jf4cnqa1 _30l313af _1nrm18uv _c2waglyw _1iohnqa1 _9h8h12zz _10531ra0 _1ien1ra0 _n0fx1ra0 _1vhv17z1" title="https://www.d5render.com/" href="https://www.d5render.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-renderer-mark="true" data-is-router-link="false" data-testid="link-with-safety">D5 Render website</a></strong>.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Niknaz Aftahi is the founder of AEC+Tech. This article was produced with materials from D5 as part of a partnership, and independently edited for the AEC+Tech community.</p>
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<div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">But a recent aec+tech conversation on AI-driven plan review made a more useful point: the tools save time, but the real reason to adopt them is risk.<strong id="docs-internal-guid-dcacfc00-7fff-ed9c-247a-6474ead9a5a0"></strong></span></div>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0nEGFxC7as">This conversation</a> brought together Colton Johnson, Principal Engineer at Flint Engineering Company; Aakash Prasad, Co-founder and CEO of InspectMind AI; and Simon G. Solorio, President of Solorio Inc. Much of the discussion centered on InspectMind AI's plan-checking tool, though the takeaways apply to any firm weighing this kind of software.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In this article you&rsquo;ll see where AI plan review helps, where it falls short, and why a firm with weak internal processes will not get much out of it no matter how good the software gets.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Reading a Pictorial Language</span></strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr">Plan review is not just about reading text. Construction documents carry meaning through symbols, callouts, line weights, and schedules that change from one project type to the next. An industrial set does not look like a large residential set. Every new hire has to learn how to read that visual system before they can review anything in it.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>"Construction documents are a language, and on top of that they're a pictorial language. You're relying on graphic and visual cues to display the information, translating heavy analysis and code requirements into those pictures."</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>&mdash; Colton Johnson, Principal Engineer, Flint Engineering Company</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr">Solorio described the second half of the problem: volume.&nbsp;</p>
<p dir="ltr">Even with tools like <a href="https://www.aecplustech.com/tools/revit">Revit</a> and virtual walk-throughs on Meta Quest headsets, engineers still check ever-changing building codes by hand and coordinate across disciplines. Holding hundreds of pages of drawings against dense architectural, structural, mechanical, and civil specifications is a cognitive load that does not scale. There is only so much one person can keep straight at once, and plan sets keep getting bigger.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That is the gap AI steps into. Not the design work or the engineering judgment, but the slow, repetitive cross-checking that wears people down and still lets errors slip through.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">AI is a third-party reviewer. It&rsquo;s not a replacement for the engineer or the plan checker, but an extra set of eyes that never gets tired and never skips a page.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Prasad said InspectMind AI can typically review a 100- to 200-page project in one to two hours. In that window it catches discrepancies between drawings and specs, flags cross-discipline coordination issues, and checks against </span><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">selected/applicable codes and references. It surfaces a prioritized set of findings while the team continues other work.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">InspectMind AI has flagged a water main running straight into a 12-inch concrete pipe. It has caught a storm sewer drawn with no slope, which means it would never drain. These are the errors that hide on page 140 of a set and get expensive once they reach the field.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"This isn't replacing your own diligence or your own quality of work. It's a useful automated review tool that helps you reduce risk and liability and improve quality overall."</span></em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">&mdash; Aakash Prasad, Co-founder and CEO, InspectMind AI&nbsp;</span></em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The discussion was honest about the limits, too. AI still struggles to read the purely graphical parts of a drawing when there are no words or numbers to anchor it. That should improve over the next few years, but for now InspectMind AI is strongest where drawings, specs, and code references can be grounded and cited. Purely graphical meaning, where the intent lives only in the picture, is still an area where human review matters.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">From Months of Back-and-Forth to Days&nbsp;</span></strong></h2>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">A minor discrepancy on a drawing is not just a quality problem. It is a liability problem. Prasad pointed to ADA compliance as an example. A ramp drawn with a 2.2 percent slope instead of the required 2 percent maximum is a small number on a sheet and a frequent target for litigation. Catching it before construction starts is worth far more than the hour it saved.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The same logic runs downstream. Errors that survive review become Requests for Information (RFIs) and change orders once contractors are on site. Each one costs time and money and strains the client relationship. The financial case lives in catching those errors early.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">A church project in California shows how that plays out. The design firm ran its full drawing set <strong>(architecture, civil, structural, and specs)</strong> through InspectMind AI before submitting to the city. The AI flagged around 300 issues. The team fixed them first. When the city's review came back, the comments were mostly minor, and the firm closed them out in days rather than the weeks or months a project like this can take.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">That is the payoff that matters. Not the hours saved running the review, but the weeks of back-and-forth with the jurisdiction that never happened, and the rework that never reached the field.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The strongest warning has always been against leaning on the tools too hard. The old 'garbage in, garbage out' rule still stands.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The software is powerful, but it sits on top of a firm's inputs, its standards, and the judgment of the people running it.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Solorio made the case for foundational knowledge. Junior engineers still need to learn the basics through hand calculations and free-body diagrams so they understand how loads travel and what a structural member is actually doing. Without that, an engineer cannot tell when the AI is wrong.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><em>"If you put in garbage, you're going to get out garbage, and that's still true with these new programs. If you put in something wrong, it gives you something wrong. You have to know the basics to know when it's giving you wrong information."</em></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><em>&mdash; Simon G. Solorio, President, Solorio Inc.</em></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Johnson framed the same idea as a sequence. He sees a working AI workflow as a three-tier system.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">A firm establishes good internal processes first. Then it introduces standard automations. Only then does it put AI at what he called the tip of the spear. Skip the first two steps and there is nothing solid for the AI to stand on. When a firm's drawing standards and inputs are inconsistent, there is no realistic way to scale an AI workflow on top of them.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Accountability is the other side of this. When an engineer signs off on a design, they own it, whatever tools helped produce it.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"The motto we live by with AI is own the output. Just because you have a cool tool doesn't mean you get to say that the tool is the reason something was wrong. You own the output."</span></em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">&mdash; Colton Johnson, Principal Engineer, Flint Engineering Company</span></em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">That has a practical edge. Johnson raised data security, pointing out that client information needs to stay protected under NDAs when a firm runs it through a third-party AI platform. Owning the output means owning the data path, too. Before uploading project documents, firms should evaluate the data path and the platform's NDA and security requirements. That is a question to settle before the first project goes up, not after.&nbsp;</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Built by the People Who Use It</span></strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The panel closed on what actually makes these tools better, and the answer was feedback from the field rather than anything happening in a lab. Solorio and Johnson both pointed to the value of a simple thumbs up or thumbs down on each flagged issue. That input teaches the model the difference between a real problem and an irrelevant false positive, which is the difference between a tool engineers trust and one they learn to ignore.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Because AEC technology moves quickly, the tools that respond to this feedback can change almost daily. Johnson offered an example from a job site. He floated the idea of having the plan checker automatically generate a targeted field observation checklist based on the specific materials and structural elements it found in the drawings. Within hours, the development team had piloted a connection between the plan checker and a site inspection app.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">That speed of iteration is the point underneath the whole conversation.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The AI plan review tools that earn a place in AEC workflows will be the ones built and shaped by the people doing the work, not the ones that promise to do the thinking for them. The engineers on this panel were not looking for software to replace their judgment. They were looking for a reviewer that helps them protect it. That is a smaller promise than replacing an engineer, and a far more useful one.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Editor's Note</span></strong></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><img src="https://aecplustech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/c3806924-0521-483d-b74d-a01f09ed330e.png" alt="Niknaz Aftahi" width="160" height="160"></span></strong></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This article was independently reviewed and edited by Niknaz Aftahi, Founder of AEC+Tech, drawing on InspectMind AI's product documentation, direct conversation with the panel participants, and hands-on knowledge of plan review and QA/QC workflows. Figures drawn from the panel rather than published material were checked before publishing.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">&mdash; Niknaz Aftahi, Founder, AEC+Tech</span></p>
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AI plan review saves hours, but engineers say the real payoff is fewer lawsuits, cleaner permit reviews, and errors caught before they reach the field.

AI Plan Review Isn't About Speed. It's About Staying Out of Court.

Trimble selected 15 AECO startups for its 2026 0-60 Challenge, supporting AI, robotics, and interoperability integrations across construction workflows.

The Next Generation of AECO Innovation: Meet the 2026 Trimble 0-60 Finalists

Learn how Ideate StyleManager, Explorer, and BIMLink reduce Revit inefficiencies with automated QA/QC workflows, cleanup tools, and bulk parameter editing.

How Ideate Software Improves Revit Data Management and QA/QC

Kestrel Labs embeds AI code compliance in the BIM model, using computable codes and Revit workflows for traceable results, less rework, and faster permitting.

How Kestrel Labs Is Bringing Code Compliance Inside the BIM Model

<p>Solibri, a Nemetschek Company, is the global leader in model quality, BIM validation, and digital quality assurance for the construction industry. Solibri helps architects, engineers, contractors, owners, infrastructure teams, and public-sector organizations ensure that digital building models are accurate, reliable, and ready for confident decision-making before construction begins.</p>
<p>Digital construction depends on trusted model data. As buildings and infrastructure projects become more complex, teams need more than visual model review. They need structured, repeatable quality assurance that verifies geometry, information, classification, coordination, and compliance across every project stage. Solibri embeds rule-based BIM validation into digital construction workflows, helping teams identify and resolve issues early, before they create costly rework, delays, or downstream risk.</p>
<p>With Solibri, project teams can check multidisciplinary BIM models systematically, detect clashes, validate data, review classifications, manage issues, and enforce project or organizational standards. This supports a more reliable model-based process where decisions are made using verified information rather than assumptions. By improving model quality before construction, Solibri helps teams strengthen collaboration, reduce financial exposure, protect schedules, and improve the quality of building information across the entire building lifecycle.</p>
<p>Solibri supports BIM quality assurance from design through long-term operations.</p>
<p>- In design and architecture, teams can validate models early to prevent inconsistencies before coordination begins. <br>- In BIM coordination, Solibri helps multidisciplinary teams detect clashes, verify standards, and align around trusted model data. <br>- During construction and handover, validated BIM information supports contractors in planning, delivery, documentation, and project handover. <br>- In operation and maintenance, accurate model data helps owners and facility managers maintain buildings and infrastructure more efficiently over time.</p>
<p>The Solibri platform is available through a structured product portfolio designed for different levels of BIM maturity, team size, and validation needs.</p>
<p>- Solibri Starter gives individual professionals and small teams reliable IFC model review, federation, visual inspection, and model-based communication. <br>- Solibri Essential adds structured clash detection, predefined rule-based model checking, baseline information validation, BCF issue management, and CDE integrations for project teams formalizing coordination workflows. <br>- Solibri Advanced enables organizations to enforce digital quality standards across projects with custom rules, clash detection matrix control, IDS workflows, Quantity and Information Takeoff, repeatable validation practices, and automation-ready workflows. <br>- Solibri Premium supports portfolio-level governance, compliance assurance, scalable automation, point cloud checking, centralized validation frameworks, AI-powered assistance, and extended IDS management.</p>
<p>For secure and regulated environments, Solibri Security+ provides fully offline, air-gapped validation for government, defense, and sovereign infrastructure use cases.</p>
<p>Built on openBIM, interoperability, and decades of BIM quality assurance expertise, Solibri integrates into connected digital construction ecosystems and supports collaboration across disciplines, organizations, and project phases. Active in over 100 countries, Solibri serves construction developers, infrastructure projects, design and engineering teams, contractors, owners, and public authorities working with digital permitting and model-based project delivery.</p>
<p>By raising the standard for model quality and information reliability in BIM, Solibri helps the construction industry move from reactive issue resolution to proactive quality assurance. Solibri enables teams to reduce rework, improve collaboration, ensure compliance, and deliver better buildings and infrastructure through trusted digital models.</p>

Solibri

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

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.

<h2>About Studio Sarah Willmer Architecture</h2>
<p>Studio Sarah Willmer Architecture is an award-winning, nationally and internationally published architecture and interiors firm based in San Francisco, working across the Bay Area, Sonoma and Marin County. The practice is led by Sarah Willmer, who holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University.</p>
<p>The studio was founded after fourteen years with several prominent firms, including Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill, Polshek Partnership Architects and Anshen + Allen. The motivation was specific: a desire to stay intimately involved in the design process from concept through construction, rather than moving into the management role that scale usually imposes on senior architects.</p>
<h2>Design Principles</h2>
<p>Three principles are realised in every project - simplicity, spaciousness and light, and sustainability. The design process is guided by three corresponding decisions:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Structure as a primary expression of space</strong> - the building's frame is expressed rather than concealed, so structure and spatial experience are resolved together</li>
<li><strong>The control and infusion of natural light</strong> - daylight treated as a material to be shaped, not simply admitted</li>
<li><strong>An environmentally sensitive and elegant material palette</strong> - restraint in material choice serving both aesthetic and ecological ends</li>
</ul>
<h2>Areas of Work</h2>
<h3>Private Residences</h3>
<p>The core of the practice. Projects include the Two-Way House in San Francisco, conceived around pairing an original 1900 Victorian facade and traditional parlour with an open-plan, two-storey modern rear addition - a considered response to the challenge of adding contemporary space behind a protected historic frontage. Sonoma Retreat extends the residential work into rural Northern California.</p>
<h3>Workplace</h3>
<p>The studio designs commercial interiors, notably the Turn/River Capital headquarters, which transformed a generic tenant floor on the seventeenth storey of a San Francisco high-rise into a calm, collaborative workplace with fifty workstations, conference rooms at several scales, video-call rooms and shared spaces. The firm has also worked at the Shorebird campus in Mountain View.</p>
<h3>Housing Research</h3>
<p>Beyond commissioned work, the studio undertakes housing studies - including a design study of an eight-block area of San Francisco's Sunset district along the L Muni line, proposing three new housing prototypes. Speculative research of this kind engages directly with California's housing supply debate rather than waiting for a client to raise it.</p>
<h2>Renovation and Historic Fabric</h2>
<p>Much of the residential work involves existing buildings, particularly San Francisco's Victorian and Edwardian stock. This demands fluency in structural upgrading, seismic retrofit and planning approvals alongside design - and skill in making new work sit convincingly against old.</p>
<h2>Recognition</h2>
<p>The practice is award-winning and has been published nationally and internationally, with coverage in Interior Design, Archello, Architizer and design media following its residential and workplace projects.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>The studio competes on design quality and principal-level involvement rather than scale, serving Bay Area homeowners and workplace clients who want direct access to the designer from first sketch to final detail.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know the Studio</h2>
<p>For architects interested in daylight-driven design, sensitive additions to historic housing, or how a senior designer structures a practice around staying close to the work, Studio Sarah Willmer is a useful contemporary reference in the built environment.</p>

Studio Sarah Willmer Architecture is an award-winning San Francisco firm designing private residences, workplaces and housing studies across the Bay Area.

Studio Sarah Willmer | San Francisco Architecture

Studio Sarah Willmer Architecture

Studio Sarah Willmer Architecture is an award-winning San Francisco architecture and interiors firm designing private residences, workplace environments and housing studies across the Bay Area, Sonoma and Marin, guided by structure, natural light and sustainable materials.

<h2>About Slicelab</h2>
<p>Slicelab is a research and development design studio and consulting agency that bridges the gap between additive manufacturing and tangible product design. Rather than treating 3D printing as a prototyping shortcut, the studio treats it as a production method in its own right - one that permits geometries and material behaviours conventional manufacturing cannot achieve. Its stated remit is creating innovative design solutions at all scales.</p>
<h2>Computational Craftsmanship</h2>
<p>The studio's defining idea is what it calls computational craftsmanship: integrating digital precision with artistic judgement. Computational tools allow intricate, individually varied customisation, transforming standard designs into products that could not be economically produced by any other means.</p>
<p>This matters because additive manufacturing removes the traditional relationship between complexity and cost. A lattice with ten thousand unique cells costs no more to print than a solid block of the same volume, which makes fine-grained performance tuning economically viable for the first time.</p>
<h2>Core Capabilities</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Additive manufacturing design</strong> - designing specifically for the constraints and freedoms of 3D printing</li>
<li><strong>Computational and parametric design</strong> - algorithmic generation of complex geometry</li>
<li><strong>Lattice and structural optimisation</strong> - engineered internal structures tuned for stiffness, cushioning or breathability</li>
<li><strong>R&amp;D consulting</strong> - advising brands and manufacturers on adopting additive workflows</li>
<li><strong>Prototyping and product development</strong> - from concept through to manufacturable design</li>
<li><strong>AI-assisted design workflows</strong> - applied in recent footwear concepts</li>
</ul>
<h2>Application Areas</h2>
<h3>Sports Safety and Protective Equipment</h3>
<p>Slicelab develops bio-informed protective equipment with engineered internal structures that manage impact energy. Printed lattices can be tuned zone by zone across a single component - stiffer where load concentrates, softer where comfort matters - which foam padding cannot replicate.</p>
<h3>Wearables</h3>
<p>The studio designed a first-generation integrated health band balancing comfort, durability and seamless health monitoring, where the structure itself must accommodate sensors while remaining wearable for long periods.</p>
<h3>Footwear</h3>
<p>Concept footwear combines AI workflows with additive technology and forms drawn from nature, aimed at raising standards in design, sustainability and functionality simultaneously. Footwear is one of the most active commercial frontiers for 3D printing, where printed midsoles are already reaching mass production.</p>
<h2>Tailored Solutions Across Scales</h2>
<p>A data-driven approach and extensive research allow the studio to tailor designs from small objects through to large systems, maintaining performance and aesthetic quality regardless of scale. That range is unusual: most additive specialists work either at product scale or at architectural scale, rarely both.</p>
<h2>Sustainability</h2>
<p>Additive manufacturing offers meaningful sustainability advantages - material is added only where needed rather than cut away, parts can be produced closer to point of use, and lattice structures reduce material volume substantially. These considerations are explicit in the studio's footwear work.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Slicelab operates at the intersection of design studio and technical consultancy, serving brands and manufacturers who want to adopt additive manufacturing but lack in-house computational design capability.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Slicelab</h2>
<p>For anyone following digital fabrication, lattice structures or the industrialisation of 3D printing, Slicelab demonstrates how computational design translates additive technology into manufacturable products relevant across the built environment.</p>

Mountain Back - 3D printed Snowboard Binding

Slicelab is an R&D design studio bridging additive manufacturing and product design, using computational craftsmanship for lattices, wearables and footwear.

Slicelab | Additive Manufacturing Design Studio

Slicelab

Slicelab is an R&D design studio and consulting agency bridging additive manufacturing and tangible product design, using computational craftsmanship to create lattice structures, protective sports equipment, wearables and footwear at every scale.

<h2>About Sisk</h2>
<p>Sisk - trading as John Sisk &amp; Son Ltd - is one of the largest and longest-established construction groups in Ireland, operating across Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe. The business describes itself as being in the tomorrow business, creating places for future generations, and positions itself around pioneering methods of construction rather than volume alone.</p>
<p>Financially it is substantial: group revenues surpassed 2.75 billion euro in 2024, and pre-tax profits at parent company Sicon rose 62 percent to 58.1 million euro. That scale and balance-sheet strength matter to clients procuring multi-year capital programmes, where contractor insolvency is a genuine project risk.</p>
<h2>Sectors</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Data centres</strong> - hyperscale and colocation facilities, a major growth area across Ireland and Europe</li>
<li><strong>Life sciences and technology</strong> - including the Moderna Innovation and Technology Centre in Oxfordshire, with capacity to produce up to 250 million vaccines a year</li>
<li><strong>Healthcare</strong> - including Bon Secours Hospital in Limerick, the first new acute hospital built in Ireland in nearly two decades</li>
<li><strong>Residential</strong> - including Luna and Solar at Wembley Park, named in The Sunday Times Best Place to Live in 2025</li>
<li><strong>Infrastructure</strong> - roads, bridges and civils, including the Killaloe Bypass and Shannon bridge crossing</li>
<li><strong>Commercial</strong> - offices and mixed-use development</li>
<li><strong>Education and sports and leisure</strong> - campus buildings and stadia</li>
</ul>
<h2>Modern Methods of Construction</h2>
<p>MMC is one of the group's three stated differentiators, focused on optimising material usage and streamlining labour to maximise efficiency at every construction stage. With skilled labour scarce across Irish and UK construction, moving work into controlled factory conditions is a structural response rather than a passing trend.</p>
<h2>Sisk Group Businesses</h2>
<p>The group operates several specialist businesses alongside the main contracting arm.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Sisk Rail</strong> and <strong>Fuse Rail</strong> - rail infrastructure delivery</li>
<li><strong>Vision Built</strong> - offsite and modular manufacturing</li>
<li><strong>Sensori</strong> - facilities management, extending the group into building operation</li>
<li><strong>Farrans</strong> - civil engineering and construction</li>
</ul>
<p>This structure lets Sisk cover design, offsite manufacture, construction, rail systems and long-term facilities management within one group.</p>
<h2>Sustainability</h2>
<p>The group's ambition is to lead the industry in sustainable management of its operations across their entire life cycle, guided by core values of Care, Integrity and Excellence. It publishes an annual sustainability report and a 2030 Sustainability Roadmap, giving clients and supply chain partners measurable commitments rather than general statements.</p>
<h2>People and Safety</h2>
<p>Health and safety is treated as a governance-level concern, and the group invests heavily in apprenticeships in both Ireland and the UK alongside graduate and experienced-hire routes - a meaningful response to the industry's demographic and skills pressures.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Sisk competes at the top of the Irish market and as a significant player in the UK, particularly in data centres, life sciences and healthcare, where technical complexity and programme certainty matter more than lowest price. Its group structure and financial resilience are central to that positioning.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Sisk</h2>
<p>For owners, designers and consultants working across Ireland, the UK and Europe on data centres, pharmaceutical facilities or major infrastructure, Sisk is one of the most significant contractors to understand in the built environment.</p>

Sisk (John Sisk & Son) is a leading Irish construction group delivering data centres, life sciences, healthcare, residential and infrastructure across Ireland a

Sisk | Irish Construction Group, Ireland & UK

Sisks

Sisk (John Sisk & Son) is a leading Irish construction group delivering data centres, life sciences, commercial, healthcare, residential, infrastructure, education and sports projects across Ireland, the UK and Europe, with strong modern methods of construction capability.

<h2>About Sidell Pakravan Architects</h2>
<p>Sidell Pakravan Architects is an architecture practice based in Berkeley, California. Established in 2014, the studio has built a body of work across Northern California while continuing to explore critical ideas in architecture through speculative projects. Both principals teach architecture at UC Berkeley, and community outreach is treated as integral to the practice rather than as an activity alongside it.</p>
<h2>Design Process</h2>
<p>The studio's method is unusually explicit and unusually physical. Design is driven by foamcore models that test variations in volume, orientation and openings. Rather than resolving a single idea on screen, the team pushes one idea against different constraints and studies what emerges - a process the principals describe as producing unanticipated outcomes.</p>
<p>This matters because it inverts the usual sequence. Instead of committing to a form and then rationalising it, the practice builds many quick physical studies, allowing site, light and massing to argue back before anything is fixed.</p>
<h2>Research and Practice</h2>
<p>Speculative work sits alongside built commissions. Ideas developed through unbuilt research projects are then tested in real buildings across the region, so the two strands feed each other. For a small studio, maintaining that research capacity is a deliberate investment in the intellectual quality of the work.</p>
<h2>Project Types</h2>
<p>Early work together was residential - first renovations, then ground-up commissions - and residential remains the bulk of the portfolio. The practice has since expanded into other sectors.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Private residences</strong> - including the 19th Street Residence in San Francisco, Piedmont Residence and Panoramic House</li>
<li><strong>Workplace and tech environments</strong> - including work at Google's Shorebird Campus in Mountain View</li>
<li><strong>Midsize office buildings</strong> - such as 801 Offices in Danville</li>
<li><strong>Civic and public space</strong> - including the Berkeley Parklet Program</li>
<li><strong>Cafes and small commercial interiors</strong></li>
</ul>
<h2>Civic Contribution</h2>
<p>The Berkeley Parklet Program is a telling piece of work. Parklets convert kerbside parking into small public spaces, and designing a repeatable programme rather than a single object requires thinking about fabrication cost, permitting and maintenance as much as form. It reflects the studio's commitment to public benefit at modest scale.</p>
<h2>Recognition</h2>
<p>Sidell Pakravan received Architectural Record's Design Vanguard award in 2021, a distinction reserved for emerging practices judged to be shaping the direction of the field. The studio's work has also been covered by The Architect's Newspaper for its reexamination of models of architectural practice.</p>
<h2>Teaching and Practice</h2>
<p>Both principals hold teaching positions at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. The exchange runs in both directions: academic work sharpens the conceptual framing of commissions, while built experience grounds the teaching in real constraints of cost, code and construction.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>The studio competes as a design-led Bay Area practice with growing range, serving private homeowners, technology companies and public clients. Its Design Vanguard recognition and academic profile give it visibility well beyond its size.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Sidell Pakravan</h2>
<p>For architects interested in physical model-making as a primary design tool, or in how small practices balance research, teaching and built work, Sidell Pakravan is an instructive contemporary example in the built environment.</p>

Sidell Pakravan Architects is a Berkeley studio designing homes, workplaces and civic projects across Northern California through a model-driven design process.

Sidell Pakravan Architects | Berkeley, California

Sidell Pakravan Architects

Sidell Pakravan Architects is a Berkeley, California practice designing residential, workplace, commercial and civic projects across Northern California, combining speculative research with a model-driven design process rooted in teaching and community engagement.

<h2>About Schmidt-Schicketanz</h2>
<p>Schmidt-Schicketanz is a German architecture practice with offices in Munich and Augsburg. Rooted in Munich since 1972 and located beside the English Garden, the office has completed more than 200 projects, many of them won through competitions and public procurement procedures. Its diverse, international team develops what it describes as forward-looking and sustainable architecture, and the practice now operates as part of a group alongside Kling Consult and Sieber Consult.</p>
<h2>Design Approach</h2>
<p>The studio places personal, inspiring dialogue between all partners at the centre of every project, from first sketch through to completion. Three principles underpin the work: honest respect for the individual needs of clients and building users, a developed sense of aesthetics, and genuine appreciation for the qualities of each site. These apply equally to new construction and to the refurbishment of existing buildings.</p>
<p>Its stated position is the precise realisation of carefully developed and future-capable architectural concepts - a description that fits an office whose reputation rests on delivery quality as much as design ambition.</p>
<h2>Services</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>New build (Neubau)</strong> - new buildings across public, institutional and residential sectors</li>
<li><strong>Refurbishment (Sanierung)</strong> - a particular specialism in upgrading and renewing existing structures</li>
<li><strong>Consulting (Beratung)</strong> - advisory services for owners and developers</li>
<li><strong>General planning (Generalplanung)</strong> - single-point responsibility across all design disciplines</li>
<li><strong>Project development (Projektentwicklung)</strong> - early-stage feasibility and development strategy</li>
</ul>
<p>The office covers all HOAI service phases, meaning it can carry a commission from initial concept through approval planning, tender documentation and site supervision to handover.</p>
<h2>Integrated Planning</h2>
<p>Membership of a group with Kling Consult and Sieber Consult gives the practice fixed planning partners in structural engineering, surveying, ground investigation and urban planning. That allows a genuinely integral planning approach, with disciplines coordinated inside one commercial structure rather than assembled project by project.</p>
<h2>Refurbishment Focus</h2>
<p>Alongside new build, the refurbishment of existing buildings forms a particular emphasis. In Germany, where much of the public building stock dates from the post-war decades and carries substantial energy retrofit obligations, this expertise is increasingly central rather than secondary work.</p>
<h2>Representative Projects</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Olympiaturm Munich</strong> and the <strong>Justizpalast and Oberlandesgericht Munich</strong> - landmark public buildings</li>
<li><strong>Feuerwache 1 Munich</strong> and <strong>Feuerwehr Piding</strong> - fire stations</li>
<li><strong>Blindeninstitut Munich</strong> - institute for the blind</li>
<li><strong>Kurt-Huber-Gymnasium Gr&auml;felfing, Realschule Bad Aibling, Montessori-Schule Penzberg</strong> and multiple schools and kindergartens</li>
<li><strong>Thierschbau TU Munich, Anatomische Anstalt LMU Munich</strong> and the <strong>Institutsgeb&auml;ude Campus Homburg</strong> - university and research buildings</li>
<li><strong>Germanisches Nationalmuseum N&uuml;rnberg</strong> depot and <strong>Depot Museum Obersch&ouml;nenfeld</strong> - museum storage</li>
<li><strong>Wohn-Hochhaus Harlaching</strong> - residential tower</li>
<li><strong>Polizeiinspektion Simbach am Inn</strong> and the <strong>Polizei-Einsatztrainingszentrum Bayreuth</strong> - police facilities</li>
</ul>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>The practice competes strongly for Bavarian public sector commissions, where competition success, HOAI-compliant delivery and refurbishment capability matter more than signature style. Its group structure lets it offer general planning on projects that would otherwise require several separate appointments.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Schmidt-Schicketanz</h2>
<p>For teams working on German public buildings, schools or institutional refurbishment, the office is a useful reference for competition-led procurement and integrated planning across the built environment.</p>

Schmidt-Schicketanz is a Munich and Augsburg architecture office delivering public, education, research and residential buildings, plus refurbishment and genera

Schmidt-Schicketanz | Munich Architecture Practice

Schmidt Schicketanz

Schmidt-Schicketanz is a Munich and Augsburg architecture practice delivering public, education, cultural, healthcare and residential buildings, with particular strength in the refurbishment of existing structures and integrated general planning services.

<h2>About Scenario Architecture</h2>
<p>Scenario Architecture is a RIBA-chartered architectural practice based at Soho Works in Shoreditch, east London. The studio has a deliberately narrow focus: it works exclusively on residential projects for private homeowners across London, Greater London and the Home Counties. Over more than fifteen years it has developed a distinctive process for translating the way individual clients actually live into bespoke contemporary homes.</p>
<h2>The Scenario Process</h2>
<p>The practice name reflects its method. Rather than beginning with a style, the team studies the specific scenarios of each client's daily life and lets those patterns drive the design. The aim is a home tailored to how a family lives now and how it will live for many years to come.</p>
<p>Crucially, the studio uses 3D modelling and virtual reality to develop what it calls a high-definition brief. Most homeowners commission a major building project once in their lives and cannot reliably read plans and sections. Letting them walk through a proposal in VR before construction converts an abstract drawing into a space they can judge - which surfaces disagreements early, when changes are still cheap.</p>
<h2>Services</h2>
<h3>Pre-Purchase Services</h3>
<p>For clients who have not yet bought a property, the practice offers an initial virtual consultation, a pre-purchase workshop to explore aspirations, a site visit to assess the property in person, and a comprehensive pre-purchase report covering the site's potential and the local planning landscape. Understanding what a property will realistically permit before exchanging contracts can prevent an expensive mistake.</p>
<h3>Strategic Architectural Services</h3>
<p>Condensed packages working within RIBA Stages 1 to 3 (through planning) or Stages 1 to 4 (through detailed design and tender), offered at a fixed fee based on project scale and complexity. Fixed fees give homeowners cost certainty at the stage they most need it.</p>
<h3>Full Architectural Services</h3>
<p>The complete service guides clients through RIBA Stages 1 to 6, covering every milestone, overseeing the construction phase and remaining available until the client has moved in. This is charged on a percentage basis tailored to the project.</p>
<h2>Planning and Technical Expertise</h2>
<p>The practice defines quality architectural design as successfully navigating local planning restrictions, sustainability factors and structural considerations. In London, where conservation areas, permitted development rules and party wall matters constrain most domestic projects, planning fluency is often what determines whether a scheme is buildable at all.</p>
<h2>Recognition</h2>
<p>Scenario Architecture has been recognised in the RIBA Awards 2018, Don't Move Improve, the World Interiors News Awards, the New London Awards, the Retrofit Awards and multiple Best of Houzz awards, alongside publication on ArchDaily and Archello.</p>
<h2>Sustainability</h2>
<p>Sustainability is treated as a design parameter from the outset rather than an add-on, covering fabric performance, retrofit of existing housing stock and long-term running costs - increasingly important as UK homeowners face energy efficiency requirements on older properties.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>The studio occupies a clear niche: high-end private residential work in London, differentiated by an unusually structured client process and early adoption of VR. Specialising rather than diversifying has let it refine that process over fifteen years.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Scenario Architecture</h2>
<p>For architects interested in VR-assisted briefing, fixed-fee service structuring or London residential planning, Scenario offers a well-documented model of client-centred practice in the built environment.</p>

Scenario Architecture is a RIBA-chartered London studio designing bespoke homes for private clients, using VR and 3D to build a high-definition brief.

Scenario Architecture | London Residential Architects

Scenario Architecture

Scenario Architecture is a RIBA-chartered London practice working exclusively on residential projects for private homeowners across London and the Home Counties, using 3D and virtual reality technology to develop highly detailed, lifestyle-driven briefs.

<h2>About Pepe Gascon Arquitectura</h2>
<p>Pepe Gascon Arquitectura is an architecture studio based at Vapor Duran in Terrassa, within the Barcelona metropolitan area of Catalonia, Spain. The practice works across architecture, interior design and urban space design, and has built a substantial body of nationally and internationally recognised work. Its multidisciplinary team is supported by external specialists drawn in as individual projects require.</p>
<h2>What the Studio Does</h2>
<p>The studio develops projects covering every stage of the construction process - design, project management and built realisation. This integral control of the process is central to how it operates: by managing a commission from initial conception through to completion, it aims to deliver within the planned budget and programme rather than handing over drawings and losing influence at the point where most quality is won or lost.</p>
<h2>Design Philosophy</h2>
<p>The work aims at a sober and essential architecture - restrained, carefully detailed, using innovative solutions while pursuing a timeless rather than fashionable character. Simplicity, material quality and spatial clarity recur throughout the portfolio, and the studio describes creating harmonious, well-proportioned and well-lit spaces built around comfort for the people who use them.</p>
<h2>Working Method</h2>
<p>The starting point is improving on the expectations clients bring, with a strong commitment maintained throughout the building process. The studio places real weight on conversation - listening to how clients think and understanding what they need, then treating those needs as intrinsic conditions of the project rather than constraints to be worked around.</p>
<h2>Project Types</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Single-family houses</strong> - including Casa Sebbah in Begur, Casa Juani in Viladecavalls, Casa Tomas and the Juncal and Rodney house on the Costa Brava</li>
<li><strong>Rural restoration</strong> - notably Masia Can Freixes, a farmhouse in the Baix Emporda region</li>
<li><strong>Apartment and interior renovation</strong> - including the Badr Apartment and Attic Apartment</li>
<li><strong>Restaurant and hospitality interiors</strong></li>
<li><strong>Public space and urban design</strong> - including Squares in Puigcerda and The City as Backdrop</li>
</ul>
<h2>Awards and Recognition</h2>
<p>The studio has an unusually long award record for its size. Masia Can Freixes has received a Gold Award at the Italy International Design Awards, recognition at the International TraMod Awards 2025, an award at the 14th Idea-Tops Awards in Shenzhen, and selection as a best project on Archilovers. The practice was also recognised in the Future House International Residential Awards 2025.</p>
<p>Earlier honours include selection for Europe 40 Under 40, The International Architecture Award, a Silver Medal at the International Design Awards, a Gold Medal at the Bienal Miami and Beach, shortlisting at the Emirates Glass LEAF Awards and the FAD Architecture Awards, and multiple Best of Houzz design awards.</p>
<h2>Regional Practice</h2>
<p>Work is concentrated across Catalonia - Terrassa, Barcelona, the Costa Brava and Puigcerda - where the studio understands local construction culture, climate and planning frameworks. Projects range from Mediterranean coastal houses to mountain public squares.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Pepe Gascon competes on design quality and international visibility rather than scale, serving private clients and public authorities who want carefully made, materially considered architecture.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know the Studio</h2>
<p>For architects interested in Mediterranean residential design, rural restoration or how a small European practice builds international recognition, Pepe Gascon Arquitectura is a strong reference point in the built environment.</p>

Pepe Gascon Arquitectura is an award-winning Barcelona studio designing houses, rural restorations, interiors and public spaces across Catalonia, Spain.

Pepe Gascon Arquitectura | Barcelona Architects

Pepe Gascón Arquitectura

Pepe Gascon Arquitectura is a Barcelona-area studio working across architecture, interior design and public space, delivering award-winning houses, apartment renovations, restaurants and civic squares with an emphasis on light, restraint and material quality.

<h2>About Modus Studio</h2>
<p>Modus Studio is an architecture and design practice founded in 2008 and based in Northwest Arkansas. The firm now numbers around thirty people and works from a self-developed, self-designed studio and fabrication shop that is certified LEED Platinum - a building that doubles as a demonstration of what the practice argues for.</p>
<p>The studio describes itself first as an idea: that the patterns, perceptions and senses of everyday experience can generate a process that leads to architecture and good design. Rather than starting from formal precedent, work begins from ordinary observation. The conviction underlying this is straightforward - all people deserve good space derived from good ideas.</p>
<h2>Thinking and Making</h2>
<p>The most distinctive thing about Modus is its refusal to separate design from fabrication. The practice bridges architecture with graphic design, prototyping and hands-on making, arguing that a designer modelling something in three dimensions at a desk lacks the knowledge that comes from actually building the part.</p>
<p>Its in-house fabrication shop lets the team prototype iteratively, refine details to the level of craft they want, and confirm that what they draw can be realistically built and afforded. That feedback loop between drawing and workshop is rare in practices of this size and shapes both the detailing and the buildability of the work.</p>
<h2>Regional Grounding</h2>
<p>Modus is explicit about the value of practising away from established design centres. In a region where rural and urban are almost interchangeable, the studio positions architecture as a way of navigating the threshold between the natural and the built world, and finds meaning even in decaying places. It has deliberately chosen simple, low-tech design solutions to improve quality of life for clients and community - a stance that favours durability and appropriateness over technological display.</p>
<h2>Services</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Architecture</strong> - civic, cultural, education, commercial and residential buildings</li>
<li><strong>Fabrication and prototyping</strong> - custom components produced in the studio's own shop</li>
<li><strong>Graphic design</strong> - identity, signage and environmental graphics</li>
<li><strong>Sustainable design</strong> - demonstrated in its own LEED Platinum premises</li>
</ul>
<h2>Community Engagement</h2>
<p>The practice has made a renewed commitment to engaging its community through craft, opening its shop and studio to the public for educational lectures, hands-on workshops and professional collaborations. The aim is to act as a generator of artistic expression both internally and in the wider region - unusual outreach for a firm of thirty people.</p>
<h2>Studio Culture</h2>
<p>Modus operates as a design-thinking collective in a studio atmosphere where ideas and exchange drive the process. It describes itself as passionately connected to its work and deliberately mutable, adapting as conditions change. The collaborative model brings architect, client and builder together as thinkers and makers rather than as separate contractual parties.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Modus competes on design quality and craft rather than scale, and its combination of architecture with genuine fabrication capability differentiates it from conventional practices of similar size. Its regional identity is a strength: clients seeking work rooted in Arkansas landscape and culture have few comparable options.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Modus Studio</h2>
<p>For architects interested in design-build, in-house fabrication or how a small regional practice can sustain a distinctive body of work, Modus is a valuable case study in the built environment.</p>

Modus Studio is a Northwest Arkansas architecture practice pairing design with an in-house fabrication shop for civic, education, cultural and residential proje

Modus Studio | Arkansas Architecture & Fabrication

Modus Studio

Modus Studio is a 30-person architecture and fabrication practice in Northwest Arkansas, combining design, prototyping and an in-house shop to deliver civic, education, cultural and residential projects from a LEED Platinum studio.

<h2>About MEAN*</h2>
<p>MEAN* - Middle East Architecture Network - is an innovative architecture practice based in Dubai that works, in its own words, at the nexus of design and emergent technologies. The studio organises itself around a single question: how can innovative design solutions advance the future of the built environment? Its output spans three scales - architecture, structures and products - and its projects have been built across the Middle East, Europe, Asia and North America.</p>
<h2>Three Scales of Work</h2>
<h3>Architecture</h3>
<p>Buildings and interiors including the University of Sharjah Innovation Hub, Cosmos House in AlUla, House 00 in Ras Al Khaimah, the Repeat Wellness Club in Barcelona, a members club and fashion incubator in Dubai, and The Migrant Kitchen in New York.</p>
<h3>Structures</h3>
<p>Pavilions, installations and public structures where the studio's technical experimentation is most visible - among them the Expo 2020 Oasis at the UAE National Pavilion, the Deciduous 3D-printed pavilion, Luminescents Pavilion, Desert Pavilion in Wadi Rum, Lamella 3D-printed shading structures for NEOM, and Shell Star in Hong Kong.</p>
<h3>Products</h3>
<p>Furniture and urban objects produced through digital fabrication, including the Mawj 3D-printed chair, Modulus urban furniture, the Sabeel water fountain for Expo 2020, and Sadaf - a 3D-printed bus stop developed for Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority.</p>
<h2>Technology and Digital Fabrication</h2>
<p>Additive manufacturing is central rather than decorative. Several projects are genuinely 3D printed at architectural scale, an area where very few practices worldwide have delivered permanent built work. The studio combines this with computational design, material hybridisation and structural optimisation - concepts it describes as found in nature and made achievable through technology. Data and simulation are treated as design tools: computers generate quantitative models of material behaviour, and machines then build complex, performative forms that conventional methods could not produce economically.</p>
<h2>MEAL* Research Arm</h2>
<p>The practice established MEAL* - Middle East Architecture Lab - as a synergetic research arm complementing the professional studio. Formalising research separately from client work is unusual at this scale and allows experimentation that a fee-earning project could not absorb, with findings feeding back into built commissions.</p>
<h2>Collaborations and Clients</h2>
<p>MEAN* has worked with partners including AECOM, Dubai's RTA, Audi and USM, spanning infrastructure authorities, global engineering firms and design-led brands. The studio states a preference for working with emerging brands that have an ethical mission, combining technical capability with storytelling to create a distinctive spatial identity.</p>
<h2>Recognition</h2>
<p>The practice has been featured by Dezeen, CNN, Forbes, Icon Magazine, The National and Frame, and has been recognised among emerging designers shaping design culture in the Middle East.</p>
<h2>Sustainability and Urban Thinking</h2>
<p>Ecological thinking runs through the work, from lightweight structures that minimise material use to public spaces designed to generate clean energy while going beyond their utilitarian function. The studio views emergent technologies as tools that will reshape cities for the better.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know MEAN*</h2>
<p>For anyone tracking 3D printing in construction, computational design or digital fabrication at building scale, MEAN* is one of the most instructive small practices working in the built environment today.</p>

MEAN* (Middle East Architecture Network) is a Dubai practice working at the nexus of design and emergent technologies, from 3D-printed structures to architectur

MEAN* | Dubai Architecture & 3D Printing Studio

MEAN* Middle East Architecture Network

MEAN* (Middle East Architecture Network) is a Dubai-based practice working at the nexus of design and emergent technologies, delivering architecture, 3D-printed structures, pavilions and products across the Middle East, Europe, Asia and North America.

<h2>About hardison/downey construction</h2>
<p>hardison/downey construction is a general contractor based in Phoenix, Arizona. The firm opened in 1985 with a clear positioning: to give clients the expertise and financial stability of a large general contractor combined with the personal service and attention of a small one. Four decades of continuous local practice have made it one of the more established mid-sized builders in the Phoenix market.</p>
<h2>Delivery Approach</h2>
<p>The majority of the company's projects are delivered on a team-build or design-build basis under a negotiated contract rather than through hard-bid procurement. That matters more than it sounds. Negotiated contracts bring the builder into the project early, while design decisions can still be shaped by cost and constructability advice - which is why the firm describes itself as an industry preconstruction leader.</p>
<p>Many of these projects are fast-track and technically complex, requiring construction to begin before design is fully complete. Sequencing that successfully depends on close coordination between owner, designer and builder.</p>
<h2>Market Sectors</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Office and interiors</strong> - new build and tenant improvement work</li>
<li><strong>Call centres and data centres</strong> - technically demanding mission-critical facilities</li>
<li><strong>K-12 and higher education</strong> - school and campus buildings</li>
<li><strong>Student housing and multi-family</strong> - residential communities</li>
<li><strong>Public and non-profit</strong> - civic and institutional facilities</li>
<li><strong>Healthcare, laboratory and medical</strong> - clinical and research environments</li>
<li><strong>Banking, retail and restaurant</strong> - commercial fit-out and standalone buildings</li>
<li><strong>Industrial and high tech</strong> - production and specialised technical facilities</li>
</ul>
<h2>Operating Divisions</h2>
<p>The business is organised into two divisions: Commercial, covering new construction and interior work, and Community Living, covering student housing and multi-family residential. Separating them recognises that residential developers and commercial owners have genuinely different procurement rhythms, financing structures and delivery expectations.</p>
<h2>Structure and Agility</h2>
<p>The firm operates deliberately as a mid-sized contractor with a horizontal organisational structure, low overhead, quick decision-making and streamlined processes. For owners, the practical benefit is direct access to senior staff and faster resolution of issues than a large national contractor's hierarchy typically allows.</p>
<h2>Sustainability</h2>
<p>hardison/downey is committed to sustainable architecture and environmental preservation, employing sustainable construction practices across all of its projects. The company is a Prickly Pear sponsor of the Arizona Chapter of the US Green Building Council. In a desert climate where cooling loads and water use dominate building performance, that focus has practical as well as reputational value.</p>
<h2>Relationships and Culture</h2>
<p>The company approaches relationships with both clients and subcontractors in a genuine team spirit, and points to the longevity of those relationships as evidence of its commitment to teamwork, service, quality and integrity. In a negotiated-contract business, repeat clients and reliable subcontractor partnerships are the main engine of workload.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>hardison/downey competes in the Phoenix metropolitan market as an experienced mid-sized builder with unusually broad sector coverage, from data centres to student housing. Its negotiated, preconstruction-led model appeals to owners who value early cost certainty and collaboration over lowest-bid pricing.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Hardison/Downey</h2>
<p>For architects, developers and institutional owners working in Arizona, the firm is a useful reference point for design-build delivery, fast-track construction and sustainable practice in a hot arid climate across the built environment.</p>

hardison/downey construction is a Phoenix general contractor delivering office, education, data centre, healthcare and multi-family projects via negotiated desi

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Hardison/Downey

hardison/downey construction is a Phoenix, Arizona general contractor delivering office, education, data centre, healthcare, student housing and multi-family projects, working mainly on negotiated design-build and team-build contracts with strong preconstruction and sustainable building expertise.

<h2>About C+W O'Brien Architects</h2>
<p>C+W O'Brien Architects is an Irish architecture and interior design practice operating from studios in Dublin, Cork and London, with team members working across Ireland, the UK, France, Spain and Dubai. That spread lets the firm bring international insight to projects throughout Europe and the Middle East while retaining local knowledge of the planning systems it works within. Its positioning is architecture that transforms cities and builds communities.</p>
<h2>Approach</h2>
<p>The practice specialises in maximising a site's potential and securing planning permission efficiently - a commercially important emphasis in markets such as Dublin where planning risk and delay materially affect scheme viability. It describes a client-centric process that streamlines design to deliver high-quality architecture cost-effectively and on schedule, combining creative thinking with industry knowledge.</p>
<h2>Areas of Expertise</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Architecture</strong> - residential, hospitality, commercial and mixed-use buildings</li>
<li><strong>Urban design and masterplanning</strong> - district frameworks and site-wide strategy</li>
<li><strong>Data centres</strong> - mission-critical facilities with demanding power and cooling requirements</li>
<li><strong>Healthcare</strong> - clinical and care environments</li>
<li><strong>Film and TV studios</strong> - production facilities, a specialised and fast-growing sector</li>
<li><strong>Interior design</strong> - fit-out and interior architecture</li>
<li><strong>Conservation</strong> - work to historic and protected structures</li>
<li><strong>Construction</strong> - delivery-stage services and technical support</li>
</ul>
<h2>Modern Methods of Construction</h2>
<p>Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and Industrialised Design and Construction (IDC) are distinct service lines. The practice designs for offsite and modular delivery, as seen in projects such as Parkside Phase 5B in Dublin and the London Data Centre. Given Ireland's persistent housing supply pressures and construction labour constraints, designing for factory production rather than purely site-based building is a meaningful strategic capability.</p>
<h2>BIM and Digital Delivery</h2>
<p>BIM is treated as a core expertise rather than a documentation method, supporting coordination across complex projects - particularly important on data centres and modular schemes where clash detection and dimensional accuracy determine whether components fit on arrival.</p>
<h2>Research and Innovation</h2>
<p>A dedicated research and innovation strand investigates construction methods, materials and processes, feeding findings back into live projects. For a practice of this size, formalising research is a deliberate commitment to staying ahead of regulatory and technical change.</p>
<h2>Representative Projects</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Parkside Phase 5B</strong>, Dublin - modular residential</li>
<li><strong>Fumbally Hotel</strong>, Dublin - hospitality</li>
<li><strong>Rathmines Co-Living</strong> and <strong>Liberties House, Cork Street</strong> - co-living residential</li>
<li><strong>London Data Centre</strong> - mission critical, industrial and modular</li>
<li><strong>Stonehaven</strong> - residential development</li>
</ul>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>The firm competes in the Irish and UK markets across an unusually wide sector range for its size, combining volume residential capability with technically demanding data centre and studio work. Its planning fluency and modular expertise are the clearest differentiators.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know C+W O'Brien</h2>
<p>For developers and consultants working on Irish or UK residential, co-living, data centre or offsite-manufactured projects, C+W O'Brien is a useful reference point for planning-led design and modern methods of construction across the built environment.</p>

C+W O'Brien Architects delivers residential, co-living, hotel, data centre and healthcare projects across Ireland and the UK, with modular, BIM and conservation

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C+W O'Brien Architects

C+W O'Brien Architects is an Irish practice with studios in Dublin, Cork and London, delivering residential, co-living, hotel, data centre, healthcare and film studio projects with expertise in modular construction, BIM, conservation and urban masterplanning.

<h2>About BVH Architecture</h2>
<p>BVH Architecture is a design practice that has worked on the design and preservation of the built environment since 1968. The firm operates from three studios - Lincoln and Omaha in Nebraska, and Denver, Colorado - with a multidisciplinary staff covering architectural design, interior architecture and planning. Its stated purpose is direct: making the world better by designing exceptional places to live, work, learn and play.</p>
<h2>Services</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Architectural design</strong> - new buildings, additions, renovation and adaptive reuse</li>
<li><strong>Interior design and furnishings (FF&amp;E)</strong> - interior architecture through to furniture specification</li>
<li><strong>Master planning and programming</strong> - campus and facility frameworks, space needs analysis</li>
<li><strong>Facility analysis</strong> - condition assessment and long-range capital planning</li>
<li><strong>Branding and environmental graphics</strong> - in-house graphic design and wayfinding</li>
<li><strong>Pre-bond community engagement</strong> - public consultation ahead of bond referendums</li>
<li><strong>Sustainability</strong> - energy and environmental performance integrated into design</li>
</ul>
<h2>Design Philosophy</h2>
<p>BVH describes its approach as design for people. Every project is expected to sit within the context of its surroundings while remaining inclusive and people-focused, and to withstand the test of time as a point of pride for the people who use it. The practice is explicit that a project should do more than meet minimum requirements - it should help transform lives by creating places that contribute to the vitality of their communities.</p>
<p>The design process itself is immersive and collaborative, bringing designers together with clients to find what the firm calls the heart of a project. That principle applies equally to a community centre and an office fit-out.</p>
<h2>Studio Culture</h2>
<p>The same collaborative method used on projects shapes the studios themselves. An open, energetic working environment lets each project draw on the collective knowledge of everyone in the office rather than a single project team, and clients and community members are actively encouraged to take part in design work rather than simply review it.</p>
<h2>Pre-Bond Community Engagement</h2>
<p>Pre-bond engagement is an unusual and genuinely useful service line. Public projects in the United States - particularly schools and civic buildings - frequently depend on a bond referendum passing before design can proceed. Helping a district or municipality define scope, test community appetite and communicate a proposal clearly is often what determines whether a project happens at all.</p>
<h2>Historic Preservation</h2>
<p>Preservation has been part of the practice since its founding, alongside new design. Working on existing and historic buildings requires knowledge of original construction methods, materials conservation and the regulatory frameworks that govern listed and landmark structures - expertise that also strengthens the firm's adaptive reuse work.</p>
<h2>Sectors Served</h2>
<p>Typical commissions include civic and community buildings, K-12 and higher education facilities, cultural and interpretive centres, workplace and commercial interiors, and preservation projects for institutional and public owners across Nebraska, Colorado and the surrounding region.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>BVH competes as an established regional practice with more than five decades of continuity, strong public sector relationships and an unusually broad service set for its size - from graphics and FF&amp;E through to bond strategy.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know BVH</h2>
<p>For public owners and consultants working on civic, education or preservation projects in the Midwest and Mountain West, BVH offers a useful model of integrated design paired with early-stage community engagement across the built environment.</p>

BVH Architecture designs civic, education and cultural projects from Lincoln, Omaha and Denver, offering architecture, interiors, planning and historic preserva

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BVH Architecture

BVH Architecture is a Nebraska and Colorado design firm practising architecture, interior architecture, planning and historic preservation since 1968, serving civic, education, cultural and workplace clients from studios in Lincoln, Omaha and Denver.

<h2>About Studio Link-Arc</h2>
<p>Studio Link-Arc, LLC is an international team of architects and designers based in New York City. The practice works with collaborators across architecture, urbanism, infrastructure and the spatial arts, and states plainly that research and collaboration form the basis for design. Its name explains its ambition: to link information, intelligence and resources worldwide in order to explore the problems of the modern age.</p>
<h2>Practice Model</h2>
<p>The studio operates as a connective hub rather than a conventional hierarchical office. Projects are assembled around the specific expertise a problem requires, drawing in engineers, artists, landscape designers and researchers as full collaborators. That structure allows a relatively compact team to take on work at a scale usually reserved for much larger firms.</p>
<h2>Notable Projects</h2>
<p>The studio's best-known work is the China Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015, a widely published building whose undulating timber roof and open plan drew directly on agricultural landscape imagery. Beyond that, the portfolio spans a wide range of building types across China and the United States.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Cultural</strong> - Wuzhong Museum, Nanjing Art Center, Shenzhen Literature and Art Center, Xichang Animation Museum, Yangtze Culture Center</li>
<li><strong>Education</strong> - Cuizhu Foreign Language School, Qianhai Guiwan School, Yinhu Future School, The Loop Kindergarten, SHSID Hongkou Campus, NSFL School</li>
<li><strong>Civic and community</strong> - The Cloud Civic Center, Luhu Cultural Center, Dasha River Culture and Sports Center</li>
<li><strong>Commercial and workplace</strong> - OCT Tower, Nanshan Tech Park, The Cloud Commercial Complex, 673 Fifth Avenue in New York</li>
<li><strong>Landscape and public realm</strong> - Yunlu Wetland Gallery, Tanglangshan View Deck, Wuhan Wanhua Lakeside Gallery, Shenzhen Bay</li>
<li><strong>Masterplanning</strong> - Shenzhen Dachong master plan and related urban frameworks</li>
</ul>
<h2>Design Approach</h2>
<p>Research precedes form. Projects typically begin with an investigation of site, climate, programme and cultural context, and the resulting buildings tend to be materially direct and spatially generous rather than stylistically branded. The studio's interest in infrastructure and spatial arts also means it treats landscape, structure and public circulation as design material rather than as consultant scope.</p>
<h2>US-China Practice</h2>
<p>Working simultaneously in New York and across Chinese cities requires fluency in two very different regulatory, procurement and construction cultures. Chinese projects often move at extraordinary speed and at large scale, while US work operates under different code and delivery norms. The studio's bilingual, bicultural structure is a genuine competitive advantage in this space.</p>
<h2>Scale of Work</h2>
<p>Commissions range from a restaurant interior and a mushroom-brick pavilion to museums, schools, towers and district master plans. That breadth reflects the practice's stated interest in innovative projects at all scales, and gives its designers unusually varied exposure across the built environment.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Studio Link-Arc occupies the space between an internationally recognised design studio and a delivery-capable architecture office, competing on conceptual strength and cross-cultural capability rather than on volume.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Studio Link-Arc</h2>
<p>For architects and clients interested in cultural buildings, contemporary school design or US-China project delivery, the studio offers a compelling model of research-led, collaborative practice.</p>
<h2>Recognition</h2>
<p>The studio maintains an active awards and press record, with its Expo Milano pavilion and several Chinese cultural and education buildings widely published internationally. That visibility has helped a relatively small practice secure invitations to significant public competitions.</p>
<h2>Working With the Studio</h2>
<p>Clients include municipal governments, cultural institutions, school authorities, developers and technology campuses. Engagements typically run from competition or feasibility stage through design development, with local design institutes handling documentation and site services on Chinese projects - a delivery model that requires clear early definition of design intent.</p>

Studio Link-Arc is a New York architecture practice designing cultural, education, civic and mixed-use projects across the US and China through research-led col

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Studio Link-Arc

Studio Link-Arc is a New York-based international architecture practice working across cultural, educational, civic and mixed-use projects in the US and China, with research-led design spanning architecture, urbanism, infrastructure and spatial arts.

<h2>About Z Modular</h2>
<p>Z Modular describes itself as the only fully integrated self-development company to have reinvented the modular building and construction process. Headquartered in Chicago at 191 North Wacker Drive, the company develops, designs, manufactures, builds and operates its own multi-family housing rather than supplying modules to third-party developers. That ownership of the entire chain is the source of most of its claimed advantages.</p>
<h2>One Process, One Company</h2>
<h3>Develop</h3>
<p>The company handles strategic land acquisition, planning and permitting, taking a project from raw site - or from nothing at all - through entitlement.</p>
<h3>Design and Engineer</h3>
<p>Each property is designed and engineered to maximise efficiency while delivering high ceilings, open floor plans and thoughtfully planned amenities. Because the same team designs and manufactures, design decisions are tested against factory constraints from the start.</p>
<h3>Manufacture and Construct</h3>
<p>Modules are up to 90 percent complete when they leave the factory, then transported to site for final assembly and finishing. Manufacturing facilities are located strategically near property sites to limit transport distance, and all on-site construction is managed by Z Modular's own team.</p>
<h3>Manage Property</h3>
<p>The company partners with leading real estate management firms to operate its completed communities, retaining an interest in how the buildings perform in use.</p>
<h2>Product Lines</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>FLATZ</strong> - three-storey garden-style walk-up communities with a central freestanding clubhouse, fitness centre and outdoor pool</li>
<li><strong>FUZE</strong> - five-storey wrap-style complexes built around above-ground parking, with a rooftop pool and amenity tower</li>
</ul>
<p>Both products are positioned as amenity-filled communities offering high-end living at a mid-tier price - a productised approach where the building type is refined across projects rather than redesigned each time.</p>
<h2>Steel Modular Construction</h2>
<p>Z Modular builds in steel rather than timber, using products supplied by Zekelman Industries companies. Sourcing structural material from within the same corporate family removes a major supply-chain risk and produces stronger, longer-lasting modules. Steel also handles the stresses of craning and transport more predictably than lighter systems.</p>
<h2>Precision and Technology</h2>
<p>Automation and proprietary technology - including the patented Z Block system - allow the company to build with what it describes as the tightest tolerances in the industry. Precision matters enormously in volumetric construction, because accumulated tolerance across stacked modules is what causes alignment and weatherproofing failures on site.</p>
<h2>Performance Claims</h2>
<p>The company reports project completion up to 50 percent faster than conventional construction, 98 percent greater project predictability, and up to 90 percent of module work completed off-site. For developers, predictability of schedule often matters as much as speed, since financing costs and lease-up dates depend on it.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Z Modular occupies an unusual position in US housing: a vertically integrated developer-manufacturer-builder rather than a modular supplier competing for third-party contracts. Backed by Zekelman Industries, it can invest in factory capacity and land simultaneously - a combination few modular companies have sustained.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Z Modular</h2>
<p>For anyone studying industrialised construction, steel volumetric systems or the economics of vertical integration in housing delivery, Z Modular is one of the clearest US case studies in the built environment.</p>

Z Modular is a vertically integrated developer building multi-family housing from steel modules, delivering FLATZ and FUZE communities faster and more predictab

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Z Modular

Z Modular is a fully integrated self-development company building multi-family housing from steel modules, combining land acquisition, design, offsite manufacturing and on-site construction to deliver its FLATZ and FUZE apartment communities faster and more predictably.

<h2>About WSP</h2>
<p>WSP is one of the world's largest engineering and professional services consultancies, headquartered in Montreal, Canada and operating across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. The firm describes itself as the home of ambitious, passionate and innovative engineering experts, scientists and advisors, working with clients to plan, design, create and deliver projects that shape the world.</p>
<h2>Sectors</h2>
<p>WSP organises its work around seven principal sectors, an unusually broad span that lets the firm move expertise between building, infrastructure and environmental markets.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Property and Buildings</strong> - structural, mechanical, electrical, facade and fire engineering for commercial, residential, healthcare, education and cultural buildings</li>
<li><strong>Transport and Infrastructure</strong> - highways, rail, aviation, bridges, tunnels, ports and urban mobility</li>
<li><strong>Earth and Environment</strong> - environmental assessment, contaminated land, ecology, geotechnics and climate risk</li>
<li><strong>Water</strong> - supply, treatment, wastewater, flood management and coastal engineering</li>
<li><strong>Power and Energy</strong> - generation, transmission, renewables and grid infrastructure</li>
<li><strong>Mining and Metals</strong> - mine planning, processing and closure</li>
<li><strong>Industry</strong> - manufacturing, process and industrial facilities</li>
</ul>
<h2>Advisory Services</h2>
<p>Beyond technical design, WSP offers strategic advisory covering business case development, asset management, programme management, digital transformation and decarbonisation strategy. This lets the firm engage before a project is defined - often where the decisions with the greatest carbon and cost consequences are actually taken.</p>
<h2>Future Ready</h2>
<p>Future Ready is WSP's signature design methodology. It asks project teams to design not only for current conditions but for the climate, society, technology and resources of the decades a building or piece of infrastructure will actually operate in. A drainage system sized for historic rainfall data, or a building cooled for today's summer peaks, may be inadequate well within its design life. Future Ready pushes those trends into the brief at the outset rather than treating them as future retrofit problems.</p>
<h2>Sustainability and Climate</h2>
<p>Sustainability runs through the firm's corporate responsibility framework alongside communities, governance, ethics and integrity, health and safety, inclusion and belonging, and Indigenous relations. Given the scale of infrastructure WSP designs, its choices on materials, carbon and resilience have consequences well beyond any single project.</p>
<h2>Scale and Reach</h2>
<p>WSP employs tens of thousands of engineers, scientists, planners, surveyors and advisors worldwide. That scale allows genuinely multidisciplinary teams - a single project can draw structural engineers, ecologists, transport planners and carbon specialists from one organisation - and gives the firm capacity for very large, multi-year programmes.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>WSP competes at the top tier of global engineering consultancy, alongside the other major multinational firms. It has grown substantially through acquisition, building depth in specific geographies and technical specialisms while positioning itself around climate resilience and future-focused design.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know WSP</h2>
<p>For owners and consultants planning major buildings, transport schemes or energy and water infrastructure, WSP is one of the most significant reference points in the global built environment - both as a potential partner and as a source of methodology on designing for a changing climate.</p>

WSP is a global engineering consultancy delivering buildings, transport, water, energy and environmental projects, with Future Ready design for a changing clima

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WSP is a global engineering and professional services consultancy delivering property and buildings, transport and infrastructure, water, power and energy, earth and environment, mining and advisory work, with sustainability and Future Ready design at the core.

<h2>About VBC</h2>
<p>Volumetric Building Companies (VBC) is a vertically integrated modular construction company that designs, manufactures and delivers buildings as factory-produced volumetric modules. The company operates modular factories in Tracy, California and Berwick, Pennsylvania in the United States, and in Chojnice, Poland, supported by offices including Philadelphia. Its argument is blunt: the building industry has remained static while cars, aircraft and ships were transformed by industrial and digital methods, and construction is overdue for the same shift.</p>
<h2>What Volumetric Modular Means</h2>
<p>Rather than shipping panels or components, VBC builds complete three-dimensional room modules in a factory - structure, services, finishes, fixtures and often furniture already installed. Modules are then transported to site and stacked onto a prepared foundation and podium. Because factory production runs in parallel with site works, the overall programme compresses significantly.</p>
<h2>Product Lines</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Multi-family apartments</strong> - the core market for volumetric modular in the US</li>
<li><strong>Affordable housing</strong> - where cost certainty and speed matter most</li>
<li><strong>Student housing</strong> - repetitive room layouts that suit modular particularly well</li>
<li><strong>Hospitality</strong> - hotels with standardised guest room modules</li>
<li><strong>Healthcare</strong> - clinical and care environments</li>
<li><strong>Refugee and emergency housing</strong> - rapid-deployment accommodation</li>
<li><strong>Furniture</strong> - fitted furniture manufactured alongside the modules</li>
</ul>
<h2>The Case for Modular</h2>
<h3>Speed</h3>
<p>Parallel processing is the most obvious advantage: foundations and site works proceed while modules are built indoors. There are no weather delays, and VBC has added further production-line innovation to increase throughput.</p>
<h3>Certainty</h3>
<p>Certainty is not a word usually associated with construction. VBC has worked to de-risk its supply chain by partnering directly with commodity manufacturers, reducing exposure to material price and availability swings.</p>
<h3>Building Performance</h3>
<p>Factory tolerances produce tighter, better-sealed envelopes. The company points to advanced technology integration potentially reducing total energy use by up to 50 percent compared with equivalent site-built construction - and notes that even a 30 percent improvement could mean savings in the order of 1,000 dollars per unit annually.</p>
<h3>Sustainability</h3>
<p>Materials stored and cut in a factory are far less likely to be wasted, stolen or weather-damaged, cutting construction waste substantially compared with an open site.</p>
<h3>Efficiency and Consistency</h3>
<p>Greater reliance on machinery allows repeated operations to be performed with a consistency and accuracy that manual site work cannot match.</p>
<h2>Productized Housing</h2>
<p>VBC offers a productized approach to housing development, giving developers repeatable, pre-engineered building types that can be configured rather than designed from scratch. This shifts much of the design and coordination effort upstream, before the first module is built.</p>
<h2>Global Manufacturing Footprint</h2>
<p>Factories on two continents give VBC capacity for both US and European projects, and the Polish operation provides access to a skilled central European manufacturing workforce - a significant advantage given persistent construction labour shortages.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>VBC is among the largest volumetric modular constructors in the United States, differentiated by vertical integration across design, manufacturing and construction. For developers facing labour shortages, financing costs tied to schedule and pressure on affordable housing delivery, that combination is compelling.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know VBC</h2>
<p>Architects and developers exploring offsite methods will find VBC one of the clearest examples of industrialised construction operating at scale in the built environment.</p>

Volumetric Building Companies is a vertically integrated modular construction firm building multi-family, affordable, student and hospitality projects in US and

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Volumetric Building Companies

Volumetric Building Companies (VBC) is a vertically integrated modular construction company manufacturing multi-family, affordable, student, hospitality and healthcare buildings in factories across the US and Poland, delivering faster schedules and higher energy performance than site-built construction.

<h2>About TVS</h2>
<p>TVS is an architecture and interior design firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with more than fifty years of continuous practice. The studio organises its work around three stated principles - listen, solve, deliver - which describe a consultative rather than authorial approach: understand the client's business deeply, apply imagination to the problem, then deliver reliably even on difficult projects.</p>
<h2>Core Principles</h2>
<h3>Listen</h3>
<p>The practice works to know a client's business closely enough to see their vision clearly, treating conversation as the foundation of design rather than a preliminary to it.</p>
<h3>Solve</h3>
<p>Meeting complex requirements demands imagination. TVS positions itself as a partner in finding solutions rather than a supplier delivering a predetermined style.</p>
<h3>Deliver</h3>
<p>Reliability is presented as a differentiator in its own right - being easy to work with on the toughest projects, and building the trusted relationships that let good design survive value engineering and schedule pressure.</p>
<h2>Markets Served</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Convention centres</strong> - large-scale public assembly, a long-standing specialism</li>
<li><strong>Sports</strong> - stadium and arena premium spaces and surrounding facilities</li>
<li><strong>Hospitality</strong> - hotels and resort environments</li>
<li><strong>Workplace and office</strong> - corporate headquarters and tenant environments</li>
<li><strong>Office repositioning</strong> - upgrading and re-tenanting existing commercial buildings</li>
<li><strong>Healthcare</strong> - primary care, internal medicine, pediatric and behavioural health facilities</li>
<li><strong>Mixed-use and multifamily</strong> - residential and combined-use development</li>
<li><strong>Education and institutional</strong> - academic and civic buildings</li>
<li><strong>Cultural, retail and planning</strong></li>
</ul>
<h2>Notable Projects</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Las Vegas Convention Center, West Hall Expansion</strong> - one of the largest convention facilities in the United States</li>
<li><strong>New Nissan Stadium</strong>, Nashville, Tennessee</li>
<li><strong>Mercedes-Benz Stadium premium spaces and The Home Depot Backyard</strong>, Atlanta</li>
<li><strong>Duke Energy Plaza</strong>, Charlotte, North Carolina</li>
<li><strong>1072 West Peachtree</strong> and <strong>Waterford Business District</strong> - commercial development</li>
<li>Multiple <strong>Wellstar</strong> healthcare facilities across Georgia, including primary care, internal medicine and pediatric centres</li>
<li><strong>United Way of Greater Atlanta</strong> renovation and <strong>Weissman Law Firm</strong>, Buckhead - workplace interiors</li>
</ul>
<h2>Convention and Sports Expertise</h2>
<p>Large public assembly buildings are among the most demanding project types in the industry. Crowd movement, egress, loading dock logistics, column-free spans and hospitality revenue all have to be resolved simultaneously, and opening dates are typically immovable. TVS's sustained record in this sector - from convention halls to stadium premium spaces - reflects capability that is difficult to build quickly.</p>
<h2>Interior Design and Repositioning</h2>
<p>Interiors are a full service line rather than an add-on, spanning workplace, healthcare and hospitality environments. Office repositioning has become particularly relevant as owners upgrade ageing commercial stock to compete for tenants in a changed workplace market.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>TVS competes as an established national firm with genuine depth in convention, sports and hospitality architecture, combined with a broad commercial and healthcare practice. Its longevity, and its explicit emphasis on being straightforward to work with, appeal to owners running politically visible public projects.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know TVS</h2>
<p>For teams working on convention facilities, stadium developments or commercial repositioning, TVS is a useful reference point for large-assembly planning and interior delivery across the built environment.</p>

TVS is an Atlanta architecture and interior design firm known for convention centres, stadiums, hospitality, workplace, healthcare and office repositioning proj

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TVS is an Atlanta-based architecture and interior design firm with over 50 years of practice, known for convention centres, sports venues, hospitality, workplace, healthcare, mixed-use and office repositioning projects across the United States and internationally.

<h2>About Trahan Architects</h2>
<p>Trahan Architects is a global architecture firm with offices in New Orleans and New York, founded on the belief that mindful design of everyday spaces can elevate the human experience. The practice describes its purpose directly: to mobilise artistry, empathy and innovation in developing thoughtful, refined structures that enhance quality of life. Architect Magazine, the official publication of the American Institute of Architects, has ranked it the number one design firm in the United States.</p>
<h2>Design Ethos</h2>
<p>The studio brings what it calls a poetic approach to its work, treating each project as part of a unique ecosystem. Three tools define the method: artistic expression, technical innovation and the mindful selection of materials. Work begins from a place of openness, with meaningful dialogue between the practice, its clients and the context in which it is building - an approach it describes as a pursuit of rootedness.</p>
<h2>Sectors</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Spiritual</strong> - chapels, sacred spaces and places of contemplation</li>
<li><strong>Cultural</strong> - museums, memorials and interpretive centres</li>
<li><strong>Performing arts</strong> - theatres and performance venues</li>
<li><strong>Civic</strong> - public buildings and civic infrastructure</li>
<li><strong>Academic</strong> - university and research facilities</li>
<li><strong>Commercial and hospitality</strong> - workplace, retail and hotel projects</li>
<li><strong>Master planning</strong> - campus and district frameworks</li>
</ul>
<h2>Notable Projects</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>USA Pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka</strong>, Japan - representing the United States on a global stage</li>
<li><strong>Museum of Jesus' Baptism</strong>, Al-Maghtas, Jordan - a museum at one of Christianity's most significant sites</li>
<li><strong>The Chapel of St. Ignatius and the Gayle and Tom Benson Jesuit Center</strong>, New Orleans</li>
<li><strong>New Orleans Cultural Burial Museum and Healing Complex</strong> - a project rooted in the city's distinctive traditions</li>
<li><strong>National Bonsai and Penjing Museum</strong> at the National Arboretum</li>
<li><strong>Asian American Resource Center</strong> Performing Arts and Cultural Center, Austin, Texas</li>
<li><strong>Live Oak Interpretive Project and Research Incubator</strong>, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana</li>
<li><strong>Luther George Park</strong>, Springdale, Arkansas</li>
</ul>
<h2>Craft and Materials</h2>
<p>Material selection is central rather than incidental. The practice is known for work in cast stone, timber and concrete where fabrication method and finish are resolved as design decisions, often in collaboration with artists and craftspeople - as in the collaboration between ceramicist Shozo Michikawa and Trey Trahan in Kyoto.</p>
<h2>Recognition</h2>
<p>The firm has received over 100 national, regional and local awards, including five National AIA Awards and an ASLA Honor Award as a client, alongside success in several international design competitions. That record across sacred, cultural and civic work reflects an unusually consistent design standard for a practice of its size.</p>
<h2>Rootedness and Global Reach</h2>
<p>New Orleans roots and a New York global perspective give the studio an unusual position: deep familiarity with a specific place, culture and climate, combined with the capacity to work in Japan, Jordan and beyond. Projects abroad are approached through the same lens of listening to context rather than exporting a house style.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Trahan Architects competes for commissions where design ambition matters more than square-foot volume - cultural, spiritual and civic buildings whose clients want a work of architecture rather than a facility.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Trahan</h2>
<p>For anyone interested in material craft, sacred and cultural architecture, or how a mid-sized studio can achieve international standing, Trahan is one of the most instructive US practices in the built environment.</p>

Trahan Architects is an award-winning New Orleans and New York design firm creating spiritual, cultural, civic and academic architecture rooted in material craf

Trahan Architects | Cultural & Civic Design Firm

Trahan Architects

Trahan Architects is a globally recognised design firm with studios in New Orleans and New York, creating spiritual, cultural, performing arts, civic, academic and hospitality buildings through material craft, technical innovation and deep engagement with place.

<h2>About Timbatec</h2>
<p>Timbatec Holzbauingenieure is a specialist timber construction engineering company operating across Switzerland, Austria and Germany. Trading as Timbatec Holzbauingenieure Schweiz AG in German-speaking Switzerland, Timbatec ing&eacute;nieurs bois SA in the French-speaking cantons and Timbatec Holzbauingenieure ZT GmbH in Austria, the firm has built its practice entirely around one material. As more and more large buildings are constructed from renewable timber, that focus has moved from niche to strategically important.</p>
<h2>Core Competencies</h2>
<h3>Statics and Construction</h3>
<p>Structural engineering for timber and timber-hybrid buildings, covering load paths, connection design, deflection, vibration and the detailing that determines whether a mass timber structure is buildable at a sensible cost. Timber behaves very differently from steel and concrete - it is anisotropic, moisture-sensitive and creeps under sustained load - so this expertise is not interchangeable with general structural practice.</p>
<h3>Fire Protection</h3>
<p>Fire engineering for timber structures is the single biggest obstacle to taller wooden buildings. Timbatec works on charring rates, encapsulation strategies, compartmentation and code compliance, allowing timber schemes to satisfy regulators in markets where combustible structure has historically been restricted.</p>
<h3>Building Physics</h3>
<p>Acoustics, thermal performance, moisture management and airtightness. Impact sound between timber floors and long-term moisture behaviour within build-ups are recurring technical challenges that must be resolved at design stage rather than on site.</p>
<h3>Product Development</h3>
<p>The company develops timber construction products and systems, moving beyond project-by-project engineering into repeatable solutions the wider industry can adopt.</p>
<h2>Innovation Lab</h2>
<p>Timbatec runs a dedicated Innovation Lab, reflecting a research-led approach to timber engineering. Mass timber is a fast-moving field in which connection systems, hybrid assemblies and fire test evidence continue to evolve, and firms that invest in testing tend to shape the codes rather than simply follow them.</p>
<h2>Office Network</h2>
<p>The practice operates from seven Swiss offices - Thun, Zurich, Bern, Del&eacute;mont, Lucerne, Lausanne and St. Gallen - plus a Vienna office in Austria and a Hamburg presence in Germany. That footprint covers both the German- and French-speaking regions of Switzerland and gives the firm access to the wider DACH timber market. The Zurich office recently marked twenty years of operation.</p>
<h2>Project Types</h2>
<p>Timbatec engineers a broad range of timber and hybrid buildings, including residential and multi-storey housing, care and senior living facilities such as the Wier nursing home in Ebnat-Kappel, schools and public buildings, offices and commercial structures, and industrial and agricultural buildings. The Wier project also illustrates a growing theme in Swiss timber construction: all the wood came from surrounding communities, requiring careful coordination of supply as well as design.</p>
<h2>Why Timber Engineering Matters</h2>
<p>Timber is the only structural material that sequesters carbon, and mass timber construction is central to reducing embodied emissions in buildings. Realising that benefit depends on engineers who can satisfy structural, fire and acoustic requirements at the same time - which is precisely the combination Timbatec offers.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Timbatec is among the leading timber engineering consultancies in the DACH region, competing on depth rather than breadth. For architects and developers pursuing mass timber, that specialist knowledge is usually the difference between a scheme that gains approval and one that reverts to concrete.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Timbatec</h2>
<p>Any team planning a mass timber or hybrid building will find Timbatec a valuable reference for structural design, timber fire strategy and building physics across the built environment.</p>

Timbatec is a leading Swiss timber engineering firm covering structural design, timber fire protection, building physics and product development for mass timber

Timbatec | Swiss Timber Construction Engineers

Timbatec

Timbatec is a leading Swiss timber construction engineering firm specialising in structural design, timber fire protection, building physics and product development for large-scale mass timber and hybrid buildings across Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

<h2>About The Sea Ranch Association</h2>
<p>The Sea Ranch Association (TSRA) is the homeowners association that stewards and maintains The Sea Ranch, a planned community occupying ten miles of former sheep ranch on the Northern California coast in Sonoma County. It is not a design practice but the organisation that governs one of the most studied examples of environmentally led community planning in the United States - which makes it unusually relevant to architects, planners and developers.</p>
<h2>Origins</h2>
<p>In the mid 1960s a visionary developer identified the site as the ideal place for a planned community and assembled a group of like-minded professionals - landscape designers, architects, attorneys, planners and ecologists - to create a place where homes and amenities are informed by nature and the environment. That interdisciplinary founding team is the reason The Sea Ranch reads as a coherent landscape rather than a subdivision, and it established principles that later generations of ecological planning drew on directly.</p>
<h2>What the Association Does</h2>
<p>TSRA operates from offices at 975 Annapolis Road with a staff of more than eighty people, covering governance, community services and utilities.</p>
<h3>Environmental Planning and Design</h3>
<p>The Environmental Planning and Design department, formerly Design, Compliance and Environmental Management, administers the design review process. Any new building, alteration or landscape change is assessed against the community's design principles - the restrained material palette, unpainted timber, low silhouettes and siting that defers to meadow, hedgerow and bluff. This is the mechanism that has preserved the architectural character of the place for six decades.</p>
<h3>Land Stewardship</h3>
<p>The association manages common land, meadows, hedgerows, forest and coastal bluff, balancing habitat, fire risk, erosion and public access. Community-based stewardship of the natural environment is one of the three things The Sea Ranch is internationally known for, alongside its distinctive architecture and the sensitivity of its land planning.</p>
<h3>Utilities and Infrastructure</h3>
<p>The Sea Ranch Water Company, operating from Verdant View Drive, supplies and maintains water services for the community, including emergency response outside normal hours.</p>
<h3>Community Facilities and Safety</h3>
<p>The association maintains recreation centres, trails, beaches, an equestrian centre and public access points, and runs security, emergency planning and a disaster response plan - a serious responsibility on a remote stretch of coast with wildfire and access risk.</p>
<h2>Architectural Significance</h2>
<p>The Sea Ranch is internationally known for its distinctive architecture: timber buildings shaped by wind and topography, unadorned and weathered, sited to sit within the landscape rather than command a view from it. The community has become a reference point for regional modernism and for the idea that design guidelines can protect a shared character over generations. The association's annual Awards for Design Excellence continue to recognise work that upholds those principles.</p>
<h2>Why It Matters to AEC Professionals</h2>
<p>For architects, planners and developers, The Sea Ranch is a rare long-term case study: a design code written in the 1960s, administered continuously by a resident association, and still shaping what gets built today. It offers evidence about which aspects of design governance endure, and which need revisiting as climate risk, wildfire regulation and housing pressure change the context.</p>
<h2>Working With the Association</h2>
<p>Owners and their design teams engage the Environmental Planning and Design department early, as approvals govern siting, form, materials, colour and landscape treatment before construction can begin.</p>

The Sea Ranch Association stewards California's landmark Sea Ranch community, running design review, environmental planning, land stewardship and shared facilit

The Sea Ranch Association | Design & Land Stewardship

The Sea Ranch Association

The Sea Ranch Association stewards the internationally recognised Sea Ranch community on the Sonoma County coast, administering design review, environmental planning, land stewardship, water utilities and shared recreation facilities across ten miles of Northern California coastline.

<h2>About TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten</h2>
<p>TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten is a German architecture practice that designs, plans and builds for national and international clients across both the public and private sectors. The firm operates from three studios - Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden - and takes its name from Sergei Tchoban, architect BDA, and his partner Ekkehard Voss, architect BDA (1963-2024). With over 150 highly qualified staff working in interdisciplinary teams, it delivers architecturally and functionally sustainable solutions for a wide range of building projects in Germany and abroad.</p>
<h2>Full-Service Delivery</h2>
<p>A defining characteristic of the practice is that it covers HOAI service phases 1 to 9 - the complete German fee structure from initial feasibility and concept design through approval planning, tender documentation, construction supervision and final documentation. Many design practices stop at phase 5; carrying a project through to site supervision and handover means the office retains responsibility for how the design is actually built.</p>
<h2>Services</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Architecture</strong> - new build, conversion and refurbishment across all major building types</li>
<li><strong>Approval and execution planning</strong> - full German permitting and construction documentation</li>
<li><strong>Construction supervision</strong> - site management through to completion</li>
<li><strong>Visualisation and digital design</strong> - 3D modelling, AI-assisted design tools and architectural visualisation</li>
<li><strong>Interior and workplace design</strong> for office and commercial projects</li>
</ul>
<h2>Notable Projects</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>EDGE Suedkreuz Berlin</strong> - a large timber-hybrid office development, one of Germany's most significant sustainable workplace projects</li>
<li><strong>Dockyard, Berlin</strong> - waterside mixed-use development</li>
<li><strong>Pears Jewish Campus, Berlin</strong> - a community, education and cultural campus</li>
<li><strong>Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin</strong> - a small but internationally published cultural building</li>
<li><strong>Stadtforum and Haus Postplatz, Dresden</strong> - central urban infill in a historically sensitive city</li>
<li><strong>Halle District Court</strong> - judicial architecture in Halle (Saale)</li>
<li><strong>Headquarters Berliner Sparkasse</strong> at the Square 1 Campus in Adlershof</li>
<li><strong>SAB office building</strong>, Saarbruecker Strasse 21, Berlin</li>
<li><strong>Living on Holzhalbinsel</strong>, Rostock, and <strong>Rosenthaler Strasse 43-45</strong>, Berlin - residential schemes</li>
<li><strong>Rhine-Waal University</strong> - higher education facilities</li>
</ul>
<h2>Sectors Served</h2>
<p>The portfolio spans office and commercial buildings, residential and mixed-use development, cultural and museum projects, education and campus buildings, judicial and public sector facilities, and urban infill within protected historic contexts. That breadth reflects the German market, where public competitions remain a major route to work and practices need credibility across several building types.</p>
<h2>Digital Design and Technology</h2>
<p>The office invests in 3D modelling, visualisation and AI-supported design tools. In a practice delivering through to construction supervision, these tools serve coordination and buildability as much as presentation - resolving clashes and detailing before they reach the site.</p>
<h2>Professional Standing</h2>
<p>TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten is a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA), the Chambers of Architects in Hamburg, Berlin and Saxony, the Foerderverein Bundesstiftung Baukultur and the European Architects Network (EAN) - affiliations that signal both regulatory standing and engagement with German building culture debate.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>The practice competes as a substantial German architecture office with genuine national reach and full-service capability, working for developers, corporates, institutions and public authorities. Its combination of design ambition, technical delivery and multi-city presence suits large, long-running commissions with complex approval processes.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Tchoban Voss</h2>
<p>For teams interested in timber-hybrid offices, German approval processes or design practices that carry projects through construction, TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten is a strong European reference point across the built environment.</p>

TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten is a German practice in Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden designing offices, housing, cultural and public buildings across all HOAI phases.

Tchoban Voss Architekten | German Architecture Firm

Tchoban Voss

TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten is a German architecture practice with studios in Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden, designing offices, housing, cultural, judicial and campus buildings for public and private clients across all HOAI service phases.

<h2>About Hazenberg</h2>
<p>Hazenberg is a Dutch developing contractor - an <em>ontwikkelende bouwer</em> - and part of the TBI group, one of the Netherlands' major technical and construction groups. Rather than acting purely as a builder taking instructions from a developer, Hazenberg originates, develops, builds and upgrades homes and buildings itself. Its stated purpose is to create pleasant living environments that connect building, people and nature, and to raise the quality of life of the people who live in them.</p>
<h2>Three Core Activities</h2>
<h3>Development (Ontwikkelen)</h3>
<p>The company develops residential and mixed-use schemes from concept through to delivery, taking positions on land and shaping the brief rather than inheriting it. Projects such as Onze Tuinen in Roosendaal show this development-led model in practice.</p>
<h3>Construction (Bouwen)</h3>
<p>Hazenberg builds new apartments and buildings across the southern Netherlands, with recent projects including Arbor in Nijmegen and Poort van Stappegoor in Tilburg.</p>
<h3>Renovation and Sustainability Upgrades (Verduurzamen)</h3>
<p>A dedicated strand of work focuses on renovating and decarbonising existing housing stock - for example the Redemptoristenstraat project in Tilburg. In a country with an ageing housing stock and binding national climate targets, retrofit is now as commercially significant as new build.</p>
<h2>Sustainability Focus</h2>
<p>Sustainability sits at the centre of the business rather than at its margins. The company reports a very high proportion of sustainable concrete in its work - a meaningful commitment, since concrete accounts for a large share of the embodied carbon in Dutch residential construction. Alongside material choices, Hazenberg pursues future-proof buildings through construction innovation, aiming to contribute to a healthier world for present and future generations.</p>
<h2>Guiding Principles</h2>
<p>Four course-setting themes guide the practice, beginning with the idea of a strong society: communities are not built from bricks but from social structures and the connections between people and their surroundings. That framing explains the firm's emphasis on neighbourhood quality, shared space and long-term liveability rather than unit counts alone.</p>
<h2>Approach</h2>
<p>Hazenberg describes itself as creative, entrepreneurial and driven, drawing on proven natural principles where useful while remaining curious about new applications and innovations. Its stated greatest strength is looking beyond the client's immediate question to the underlying need - a consultative posture unusual among contractors.</p>
<h2>Part of TBI</h2>
<p>Membership of the TBI group gives Hazenberg access to sister companies across construction, installation technology and infrastructure, alongside the financial stability of a large parent. For clients, that means a regional builder's proximity combined with group-level technical resources.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Hazenberg competes in the Dutch residential and mixed-use market as an integrated developer-builder with genuine sustainability credentials. In a market where housing delivery targets and nitrogen and carbon regulation now shape what can be permitted, that combination of development capability and low-carbon construction expertise is a strong position.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Hazenberg</h2>
<p>For teams tracking European housing delivery, retrofit at scale or low-carbon concrete adoption, Hazenberg is a useful example of how a mid-sized contractor can integrate development, construction and decarbonisation across the built environment.</p>

Hazenberg, part of TBI, is a Dutch developing contractor delivering new homes, mixed-use buildings and sustainable renovation with low-carbon construction metho

Hazenberg (TBI) | Dutch Developing Contractor

TBI Hazenberg Bouw

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Hazenberg, part of TBI, is a Dutch developing contractor building and renovating homes and buildings, combining project development, construction and sustainable retrofit with a strong focus on low-carbon concrete and healthy living environments.

<h2>Company Overview</h2>
<p>Taisei Corporation is one of Japan's leading general contractors, incorporated in December 1917 and headquartered at 1-25-1 Nishi-Shinjuku in Tokyo. The company employs approximately 9,500 people and operates through a national network of branches covering Sapporo, Sendai, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Yokohama, Niigata, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Takamatsu and Fukuoka, alongside a dedicated International Operations Headquarters.</p>
<h2>Core Business Areas</h2>
<h3>Building Construction</h3>
<p>Taisei designs and builds offices, hotels, hospitals, cultural facilities, industrial plants and residential developments. Projects such as The Okura Tokyo illustrate the standard of work at the top of the Japanese market, where craftsmanship expectations and seismic requirements are both exceptionally demanding.</p>
<h3>Civil Engineering</h3>
<p>A separate Tokyo Civil Engineering Branch reflects how substantial this side of the business is. Work covers tunnels, bridges, dams, ports, railways and urban infrastructure - including projects such as the Tokyo Umi no Mori Tunnel.</p>
<h3>Real Estate Development</h3>
<p>The company develops and invests in property in its own right, giving it exposure to asset performance rather than construction margin alone.</p>
<h3>Engineering and Group Services</h3>
<p>Taisei Group companies extend the business into specialist engineering, facility management and related services across the asset lifecycle.</p>
<h2>Technology and Research</h2>
<p>The Taisei Advanced Center of Technology gives the company a substantial in-house research capability - a defining feature of the major Japanese contractors, which invest in R&amp;D at a level uncommon among Western builders. Its best-known output is T-eConcrete with Carbon-Recycling, a carbon-recycled concrete developed to cut the embodied emissions of one of the most carbon-intensive materials in construction. Related initiatives include the CDE3 Company concept and its New Normal Architecture programme.</p>
<h2>Overseas Operations</h2>
<p>Taisei has a long record of international work delivered through its International Operations Headquarters and overseas network, spanning infrastructure and building projects across Asia and beyond. That history gives the firm experience of financing structures, joint ventures and local partnerships well outside the Japanese domestic model.</p>
<h2>Strategy: TAISEI VISION 2030</h2>
<p>The company's direction is set by TAISEI VISION 2030 and its associated Medium-Term Business Plan for 2024 to 2026, which frame targets around business performance, sustainability and technology adoption. Its stated theme - comfortable connections creating new lifestyles - reflects a shift from delivering buildings toward shaping how places are used.</p>
<h2>Sustainability and Governance</h2>
<p>Sustainability is organised around environmental, social and governance pillars, with decarbonisation of materials and construction processes as a central technical challenge. Corporate governance, disclosure and integrated reporting are handled to the standard expected of a listed Japanese company.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Taisei sits among the largest general contractors in Japan, competing directly with the other major national builders. Its combination of building construction, civil engineering, development and deep in-house research is a structural advantage that few contractors anywhere can match.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Taisei</h2>
<p>For anyone tracking low-carbon concrete, seismic design or contractor-led research and development, Taisei is one of the most important companies to follow in the global built environment.</p>

Taisei Corporation is a leading Japanese general contractor delivering building construction, civil engineering, development and low-carbon concrete technology 

Taisei Corporation | Japanese General Contractor

Taisei Corporation

Taisei Corporation is a leading Japanese general contractor delivering building construction, civil engineering, real estate development and engineering services in Japan and overseas, with strong research capability in low-carbon concrete and advanced construction technology.

<h2>About SWA Group</h2>
<p>SWA Group is a landscape architecture, planning and urban design practice structured as a unified collective of eight independent studios. More than fifty years ago it became one of the first fully employee-owned design firms in the United States - an unusual model then and still uncommon today. That structure shapes everything about how the firm works: individual studios retain their own character and leadership while sharing a collective vision.</p>
<h2>Design Philosophy</h2>
<p>Three beliefs run through the practice. Landscape is essential infrastructure - the bridge between the built and natural worlds, central to healthy communities and ecosystems rather than decoration applied at the end of a project. Ideas and innovation drive reinvention, with new technologies and materials tested against a long legacy of built work. And the business itself is plural rather than singular: in an industry often organised around one name and one philosophy, SWA is deliberately many.</p>
<h2>Services</h2>
<h3>Landscape Architecture</h3>
<p>Studios work across scales, geographies and contexts, from large multifunctional public spaces to small intimate sites. Research into materials, lifestyles and landscape technologies informs the work, combined with close study of how people actually use outdoor space.</p>
<h3>Planning</h3>
<p>Planning is treated as a framework for long-term transformation, balancing short-term benefit against the long view. The firm helps clients grow urban districts, campuses, workplaces, transit-oriented developments and waterfronts into places that flourish and adapt over decades.</p>
<h3>Urban Design</h3>
<p>Urban design work connects buildings, streets, open space and movement into coherent districts, often as the connective tissue between separate development parcels.</p>
<h2>Notable Projects</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Hunters Point South Park</strong>, New York - a resilient waterfront park designed to flood and recover</li>
<li><strong>Buffalo Bayou Park</strong>, Houston - large-scale urban bayou restoration and public realm</li>
<li><strong>Expo 2020</strong>, Dubai - landscape for a global exposition site</li>
<li><strong>Bao'an Bay Park</strong>, Shenzhen, China</li>
<li><strong>Pacific Plaza and Southern Gateway Park</strong>, Dallas</li>
<li><strong>Culver Steps</strong>, Culver City, California</li>
<li><strong>Shunde New City and Dongguan Delta City</strong>, China - large district plans</li>
<li><strong>Port of Los Angeles, The Cannery and Esencia</strong>, California</li>
</ul>
<h2>Resilience and Ecology</h2>
<p>Much of the portfolio addresses water directly - bayous, bays, waterfronts and floodplains - where landscape must absorb storm events rather than resist them. This is where the claim that landscape is infrastructure becomes concrete: these projects perform hydrological work that would otherwise require hard engineering, while also serving as public parks.</p>
<h2>Global Practice</h2>
<p>SWA works across the United States, China and the Middle East, giving its studios experience of very different climates, densities and planning systems. Chinese district-scale commissions in particular operate at a scale rarely available in North American practice.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>SWA is among the most established landscape architecture firms in the United States, competing on ecological rigour, large-scale planning capability and a distinctive employee-owned studio model that retains senior designers over long careers.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know SWA</h2>
<p>For teams working on waterfronts, parks, campuses or transit-oriented development, SWA offers a leading reference for resilient landscape design and long-horizon district planning across the built environment.</p>

SWA Group is an employee-owned landscape architecture, planning and urban design firm creating resilient parks, waterfronts, campuses and urban districts worldw

SWA Group | Landscape Architecture & Urban Design

SWA Group

SWA Group is an employee-owned collective of eight landscape architecture, planning and urban design studios, creating parks, waterfronts, campuses, transit-oriented districts and public realm projects across the United States, China and the Middle East.

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<p>With <strong>Chat</strong>, users can ask questions, refine requests, launch analyses, and work across connected systems through a conversational interface.</p>
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<p><strong>Roundups</strong> serve as the agentic analysis and app-building layer, producing briefs, recommendations, structured tables, monitors, simulators, and interactive apps.</p>
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<p><strong>Chores</strong> handle recurring workflows such as checks, reminders, digests, nudges, escalations, and refreshes, helping teams stay on top of important work without constant manual follow-up.</p>
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<p><strong>Email</strong> supports summaries, drafts, approvals, and inbox-based workflows, while <strong>Connections</strong> federate structured and unstructured data from Unanet and approved systems to create a richer, AI-readable context layer.</p>
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<p class="p8i6j01 paragraph">A major differentiator of <strong>Champ Agents, powered by Wyatt</strong> is that it is built to be <strong>governed, permission-aware, sourced, and human-in-the-loop where needed</strong>.</p>
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<p>Rather than acting like a generic chatbot, it is designed to work with trusted business context so outputs are more explainable, traceable, and useful in real business workflows.</p>
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<p>It can help teams ask questions, automate workflows, build apps, and act across connected systems, all within a secure and structured experience.</p>
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<p class="p8i6j01 paragraph">In short, <strong>Champ Agents, powered by Wyatt</strong> helps organizations turn disconnected data and manual work into trusted answers, proactive workflows, and practical business action. For SEO purposes, it is best positioned as an <strong>agentic AI platform</strong>, <strong>AI business workflow solution</strong>, and <strong>connected data intelligence experience</strong> that helps project-based firms operate with more clarity, confidence, and control.</p>
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<p>KlashBIM is a next-generation clash management tool designed to enhance efficiency in BIM-based construction projects. Unlike conventional clash detection software, KlashBIM not only identifies conflicts but also streamlines the documentation and reporting process, ensuring a seamless workflow for MEP and structural coordination.<br><br>1. Automated Clash Detection for Accurate Model Validation<br><br>KlashBIM precisely detects clashes within BIM models, ensuring that conflicts between MEP and structural components are identified before construction begins. By automating clash detection, KlashBIM helps teams create more reliable designs, minimizing errors and reducing costly rework on-site. Its accuracy ensures that potential issues are flagged early, allowing project teams to make informed decisions during the design phase.<br><br>2. Customizable Documentation &amp; Reporting<br><br>KlashBIM enhances project documentation by generating detailed and structured reports tailored to specific project needs. These reports provide a clear overview of detected clashes, their locations, and project-wide coordination insights. With customizable reporting options, project teams can extract relevant data efficiently, ensuring all stakeholders have the necessary information for effective collaboration.<br>3. AI-Powered Integration with BAMROC for Enhanced Clash Management<br><br>While KlashBIM specializes in identifying and documenting clashes, it integrates seamlessly with BAMROC to facilitate AI-powered clash resolution. This integration enables smarter processing of detected clashes, ensuring that conflicts can be analyzed and resolved efficiently when used alongside BAMROC. The synergy between KlashBIM and BAMROC creates a streamlined workflow for managing design conflicts in BIM projects.<br><br>4. Seamless BIM Workflow Integration<br><br>KlashBIM is designed to work effortlessly within existing BIM environments. It is compatible with major BIM platforms, allowing construction teams to incorporate its clash detection and documentation features without disrupting their workflows. This seamless integration ensures smooth coordination between different project disciplines, improving communication and reducing project delays.<br><br>5. Enhancing Project Efficiency Through Advanced Clash Management<br><br>By focusing on precise clash detection, structured documentation, and seamless BIM integration, KlashBIM optimizes construction workflows and reduces inefficiencies. It ensures that all detected clashes are well-documented, improving collaboration and preventing oversight in project execution.<br><br>With its advanced capabilities, KlashBIM is an indispensable tool in modern construction management, helping teams maintain accurate designs, minimize errors, and improve overall project coordination.</p>

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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Reer is&nbsp;an <em><strong>Intelligent Design Environment</strong></em> that brings AI directly into&nbsp;<strong>Rhino</strong> (&amp;Grasshopper), <strong>Revit,</strong> and more.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">While most AI tools in AEC work on downstream point solutions like documentation, compliance, and visualization, <strong>Reer works upstream, directly at the source</strong>, the CAD and BIM model files where every project decision originates.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">For decades, CAD and BIM platforms have been the backbone of AEC projects worldwide. They are powerful, deeply embedded, and not going anywhere. But the way professionals interact with them has barely changed. Most tasks remain manual, repetitive, and error-prone, requiring users to translate their intent into commands, scripts, and step-by-step operations rather than focusing on the work that actually requires their expertise.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Reer brings a true CAD-native AI collaborator directly into the tools we all rely on, fundamentally changing that interaction. The agent understands the context of your model, acts on your behalf, and handles the full range of workflows professionals deal with every day:</p>
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<li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Batch edits and parametric modeling</li>
<li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Data extraction and analysis</li>
<li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Object, layer, and file organization</li>
<li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Cross-platform coordination</li>
<li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Visualization and rendering</li>
<li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Construction documentation</li>
<li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-style: italic;"><em>And more for you to explore...</em></li>
</ul>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Beyond individual productivity, teams can build custom skills and modules on top of Reer, turning everyday interactions into reusable design intelligence that compounds over time.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The long-term vision is one intelligent environment across the entire AEC project lifecycle, from schematic design in Rhino through coordination in Revit and beyond.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>Reer is currently in Free Beta in Rhino - <a class="underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current" href="https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/reer-ai">Try it now</a></strong></p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>Revit coming in June!</strong></p>

Reer

<p data-start="0" data-end="435">Melt Takeoff is built for estimators who need takeoffs that are not just fast, but truly bid-ready and reliable. Unlike fully automated takeoff software that only measures what&rsquo;s drawn, Melt Takeoff is designed around a simple truth: winning bids requires accounting for what&rsquo;s missing from plans &mdash; the scope gaps, incomplete details, coordination conflicts, and implied work that experienced estimators catch through judgment.</p>
<p data-start="437" data-end="894">Melt Takeoff combines AI vision with expert estimator validation to deliver takeoffs with both speed and accuracy. The workflow is simple: upload plans, the AI measures and identifies scope, flags drawing/spec conflicts, adds allowances, and then senior estimators validate everything before delivery. This hybrid model is what makes Melt Takeoff dependable &mdash; AI accelerates measurement, but real estimators ensure completeness and constructability.</p>
<p data-start="896" data-end="921">Key capabilities include:</p>
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<p data-start="925" data-end="1042">AI Vision measurement detecting 800+ building elements with counts, lengths, perimeters, areas, and volumes</p>
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<p data-start="1045" data-end="1129">Automated scope recognition across architectural, structural, and MEP drawings</p>
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<p data-start="1132" data-end="1256">Detailed allowances for scope not shown, added as itemized ROMs based on code requirements and real project benchmarks</p>
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<p data-start="1259" data-end="1351">Drawing&ndash;spec conflict detection, with estimator-led resolution before it hits your bid</p>
</li>
<li data-start="1352" data-end="1528">
<p data-start="1354" data-end="1528">Estimator-verified outputs, reviewed by onshore senior estimators with 20+ years of field experience, including delivery of multi-million to billion-dollar projects</p>
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<p data-start="1531" data-end="1691">Flexible classification standards, supporting MasterFormat&reg;, UniFormat&reg;, or custom structures, so takeoffs drop directly into your estimating workflow</p>
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<p data-start="1694" data-end="1834">Interactive takeoff output, with side-by-side plan review, traceable quantities, and clean Excel exports ready for pricing and bidding</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p data-start="1836" data-end="2205">Melt Takeoff is designed for speed without sacrificing trust. Quantities aren&rsquo;t just dumped into a spreadsheet &mdash; they&rsquo;re delivered in a structured, reviewable format so teams can validate quickly, collaborate internally, and confidently move into bid submission. The output stays fully in your control: review, adjust, and export clean files without messy reformatting.</p>
<p data-start="2207" data-end="2608" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">Melt Takeoff delivers a takeoff process that is 40% more accurate, 20% faster, and 10% cheaper, with turnaround times ranging from 2&ndash;3 days for small projects to 7&ndash;8 days for extra-large projects. The result is fewer missed scope items, stronger bid coverage, reduced risk of underbidding, and significantly more confidence in your numbers &mdash; so estimators can bid faster and win more work.</p>

Melt Takeoff

<p data-start="623" data-end="717">Kestrel is the first structured compliance data layer for the built environment.</p>
<p data-start="719" data-end="977">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.</p>
<p data-start="979" data-end="1000">Kestrel changes that.</p>
<p data-start="1002" data-end="1307">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.</p>
<p data-start="1309" data-end="1394">At the core of the platform is a fundamental shift: building code becomes computable.</p>
<p data-start="1396" data-end="1742">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.</p>
<p data-start="1744" data-end="1878">This approach turns compliance from a manual, interpretive process into a system that can be evaluated in real time throughout design.</p>
<p data-start="1880" data-end="2216">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.</p>
<p data-start="2218" data-end="2266">The result is a shift in how compliance happens:</p>
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<li data-section-id="1912hsz" data-start="2268" data-end="2340">From checking PDFs at the end &rarr; to evaluating the model continuously</li>
<li data-section-id="ab3kd5" data-start="2341" data-end="2405">From manual interpretation &rarr; to structured, verifiable logic</li>
<li data-section-id="2zqfm2" data-start="2406" data-end="2467">From late-stage surprises &rarr; to early, actionable feedback</li>
</ul>
<p data-start="2469" data-end="2783">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.</p>
<p data-start="2785" data-end="2967">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.</p>
<p data-start="2969" data-end="3091">As BIM became the system of record for design, there has been no equivalent system for compliance. Kestrel fills that gap.</p>
<p data-start="3093" data-end="3278">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.</p>

Kestrel Labs

<p>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 <br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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:<br><br>- Massive, high-quality global dataset (250&ndash;300k records)<br><br>- Broad compliance across 80+ standards<br><br>- Deep BIM integrations for early and ongoing carbon management<br><br>- Recognition by major firms and standards bodies<br><br>It remains the go-to platform for turning sustainability goals into measurable, actionable outcomes across construction and manufacturing value chains.</p>

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

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

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

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