<div>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><img src="https://aecplustech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/61d0ceef-f5e6-476c-99ba-639f5cd60ebc.png" alt="" width="1080"></span></p>
<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>
<figure class="image"><img src="https://aecplustech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/764404fa-3db9-4d3c-b9ec-9e36afea816e.png" alt="Interactive Presentation enables real-time scene switching with slides and 3D triggers." width="1080">
<figcaption><em><span style="font-size: 15px;">Interactive Presentation enables real-time scene switching with slides and 3D triggers.</span></em></figcaption>
</figure>
<strong id="docs-internal-guid-465b445f-7fff-6745-c01a-4a6b765aaf09"></strong></div>
<div>
<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>
<strong id="docs-internal-guid-9ee4bad2-7fff-95c1-c68f-c2647d295577"></strong></div>
<div>
<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>
<figure class="image"><img src="https://aecplustech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/faae324a-8c58-4578-aac2-06f9faac39b1.png" alt="D5 Lite: Visualize projects directly inside Rhino, Revit and Sketchup" width="1080">
<figcaption spellcheck="false" data-qb-tmp-id="lt-724231" data-gramm="false">
<p dir="ltr"><em>Start in D5 Lite, finish in D5 Render, without switching tools</em></p>
<em><strong id="docs-internal-guid-9c1fdd8d-7fff-81f4-8a96-330fd7b85864"></strong></em></figcaption>
</figure>
<strong id="docs-internal-guid-ae5b1998-7fff-bf89-9f03-e4a3048f30e0"></strong></div>
<div>
<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>
<figure class="image"><img src="https://aecplustech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/84679fde-46df-4239-985d-65e93278fb1f.png" alt="ACEScg Color Space preserves richer HDR color detail and supports professional ACES workflows" width="1080">
<figcaption spellcheck="false" data-qb-tmp-id="lt-926652" data-gramm="false"><em><span style="font-size: 15px;">ACEScg Color Space preserves richer HDR color detail and supports professional ACES workflows</span></em></figcaption>
</figure>
<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>
<figure class="image"><img src="https://aecplustech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/196052f2-45b2-4577-a1c1-32e97aa7bc83.png" alt="Seasonal Vegetation lets foliage and branch structure change by date, previewing all seasons in one scene" width="1080">
<figcaption spellcheck="false" data-qb-tmp-id="lt-626429" data-gramm="false"><em>Seasonal Vegetation lets foliage and branch structure change by date, previewing all seasons in one scene</em></figcaption>
</figure>
<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>
<blockquote>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><em>"The tools we end up writing about at AEC+Tech are rarely the ones with the longest feature list. They're the ones that change how a decision gets made."&nbsp; &mdash; Niknaz Aftahi&nbsp;</em></strong></p>
</blockquote>
<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>
<hr>
<p dir="ltr"><img src="https://aecplustech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/b02023eb-2713-4ea3-a35f-e0c2bb302c00.png" alt="" width="160" height="160"></p>
<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>
<strong id="docs-internal-guid-f383e210-7fff-1c51-cd46-f1e07836aa5d"></strong></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div style="all: initial !important;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="all: initial !important;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="all: initial !important;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="all: initial !important;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="all: initial !important;">&nbsp;</div>

D5 Render 3.1 turns design reviews into live sessions. Interactive Presentation switches schemes, materials, and lighting on the spot; D5 Lite reaches Rhino and Revit. 

D5 3.1 Wants to End the "We'll Render It Tomorrow" Moment

<div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><img src="https://aecplustech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/5741b41d-2b98-40f9-9a96-00550e6d0a57.png" alt="InspectMind AI" width="1080"></span></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Most conversations about AI in construction start with speed.&nbsp;</span></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">&ldquo;How many hours did we save?&rdquo;</span></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">&ldquo;How many pages could we review in minutes?"&nbsp;</span></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<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>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>
<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>
<blockquote>
<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>
</blockquote>
<p dir="ltr">Solorio described the second half of the problem: volume.&nbsp;</p>
<p dir="ltr">Even with tools like <a href="https://www.aecplustech.com/tools/revit">Revit</a> and virtual walk-throughs on Meta Quest headsets, engineers still check ever-changing building codes by hand and coordinate across disciplines. Holding hundreds of pages of drawings against dense architectural, structural, mechanical, and civil specifications is a cognitive load that does not scale. There is only so much one person can keep straight at once, and plan sets keep getting bigger.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That is the gap AI steps into. Not the design work or the engineering judgment, but the slow, repetitive cross-checking that wears people down and still lets errors slip through.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">A Third-Party Reviewer That Works Through Lunch</span></strong></p>
<figure class="image"><img src="https://aecplustech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/bb52d8a0-3272-45e5-b6a9-e96e1717194f.png" alt="Errors missed in review surface on site, where fixes cost most." width="1080">
<figcaption spellcheck="false" data-qb-tmp-id="lt-8150" data-gramm="false"><em><span style="font-size: 15px;">Fig 2) <strong id="docs-internal-guid-f0f0d1bf-7fff-9eae-31ff-f65259db8b5c"></strong>Errors missed in review surface on site, where fixes cost most.&nbsp;</span></em></figcaption>
</figure>
<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong id="docs-internal-guid-eeaebb3d-7fff-d5c7-2013-b5845ec20d81"></strong></span></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>
<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>
<blockquote>
<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>
</blockquote>
<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>
<div>
<figure class="image"><img src="https://aecplustech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/c6175af5-f771-4066-a384-2d4991e7ce06.png" alt="InspectMind AI tags each finding by severity, discipline, and code." width="1080">
<figcaption><em><span style="font-size: 15px;">Fig 3) <strong id="docs-internal-guid-a13650af-7fff-54aa-3a87-16247998979a"></strong>InspectMind AI tags each finding by severity, discipline, and code.&nbsp;</span></em></figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
<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>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><strong id="docs-internal-guid-27bb7de9-7fff-b993-eb42-f62df9819b79">Garbage In, Garbage Out Still Applies</strong></span></p>
<figure class="image"><img src="https://aecplustech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/88271371-af97-4945-8f3f-0a5ee2295ce9.png" alt="AI only reflects the inputs it gets." width="1080">
<figcaption spellcheck="false" data-qb-tmp-id="lt-415377" data-gramm="false"><em><span style="font-size: 15px;">Fig 4) AI only reflects the inputs it gets.</span></em></figcaption>
</figure>
<strong id="docs-internal-guid-b3cf7941-7fff-13cb-502d-4de6a919154c"></strong></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>
<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>
<blockquote>
<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>
</blockquote>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Johnson framed the same idea as a sequence. He sees a working AI workflow as a three-tier system.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">A firm establishes good internal processes first. Then it introduces standard automations. Only then does it put AI at what he called the tip of the spear. Skip the first two steps and there is nothing solid for the AI to stand on. When a firm's drawing standards and inputs are inconsistent, there is no realistic way to scale an AI workflow on top of them.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Own the Output</span></strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Accountability is the other side of this. When an engineer signs off on a design, they own it, whatever tools helped produce it.</span></p>
<blockquote>
<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>
</blockquote>
<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>
<p dir="ltr">&nbsp;</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">To learn more about InspectMind AI, visit InspectMind AI's <a href="../../../tools/inspectmind-ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>page on aec+tech</strong> </a>or explore the latest features and request access on the InspectMind AI's <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.inspectmind.ai/" href="https://www.inspectmind.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-renderer-mark="true" data-is-router-link="false" data-testid="link-with-safety"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">website</strong></a>.</span></p>
<hr>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<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>
<p dir="ltr">&nbsp;</p>
<strong id="docs-internal-guid-f605f145-7fff-93d1-69b0-253c1e092ed5"></strong></div>

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 Tobishima Corporation</h2>
<p>Tobishima Corporation is a Japanese general contractor founded in 1883 and headquartered in Tokyo. Originally established as Tobishima Civil Engineering, it adopted its present name in 1965 and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Its first recorded commission - demolishing the eastern enclosure of Fukui Castle - places the company among the oldest continuously operating construction businesses in Japan.</p>
<p>Across more than 140 years the firm has built a body of work weighted towards heavy civil engineering, and it operates today under the motto of Disaster Protection Tobishima, a positioning that reflects both its technical specialisation and the seismic realities of the country it works in.</p>
<h2>Landmark Projects</h2>
<p>Tobishima has contributed to several of Japan's most technically demanding infrastructure schemes:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Seikan Tunnel</strong> - the undersea railway tunnel connecting Honshu and Hokkaido</li>
<li><strong>Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line</strong> - the undersea expressway tunnel and bridge crossing Tokyo Bay</li>
<li><strong>Honshu-Shikoku Ohnaruto Bridge</strong> - a major long-span crossing linking two of Japan's main islands</li>
</ul>
<p>Projects of this kind sit at the outer edge of civil engineering practice, and participation in them is itself a form of qualification.</p>
<h2>Services</h2>
<h3>Civil Engineering</h3>
<ul>
<li>Highway and railway tunnels, including undersea and mountain tunnelling</li>
<li>Bridges and long-span crossings</li>
<li>Dams and hydroelectric facilities</li>
<li>Harbour and port infrastructure</li>
<li>Highways, roads and expressways</li>
<li>Water supply and treatment works</li>
</ul>
<h3>Building Construction</h3>
<ul>
<li>Hospitals and healthcare facilities</li>
<li>Stadiums and sports venues</li>
<li>Office and commercial buildings</li>
<li>Educational and public buildings</li>
</ul>
<h3>Professional Services</h3>
<ul>
<li>Research and technical development</li>
<li>Survey and site investigation</li>
<li>Planning and design</li>
<li>Construction supervision and project management</li>
<li>Real estate development</li>
</ul>
<h2>Seismic and Disaster-Resilience Technology</h2>
<p>Tobishima invests significantly in earthquake-safe construction technology. In a country where seismic performance governs structural design far more than in most markets, that specialisation is a core commercial capability rather than a research sideline - and it carries over directly into the firm's work on infrastructure intended to remain functional after a major event.</p>
<h2>Construction Technology and Digitalisation</h2>
<p>The company has been active in modernising site operations, applying digital and automation technologies to construction processes - part of a broader Japanese industry response to an ageing workforce and persistent labour shortages, where productivity gains must come from method rather than headcount.</p>
<h2>International Operations</h2>
<p>Beyond Japan, Tobishima has a long record of infrastructure work across Southeast and South Asia, delivering water supply systems, roads, ports, railways and buildings. Much of this work supports social infrastructure development in partnership with international development programmes.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Tobishima occupies a distinctive position in the Japanese construction market: smaller than the five largest general contractors, but with a technical reputation in tunnelling, marine works and disaster resilience that places it on the shortlist for projects where those capabilities decide the outcome.</p>
<h2>Working With Tobishima</h2>
<p>Clients include national and prefectural government agencies, transport and port authorities, utilities, healthcare providers and private developers, alongside international agencies funding infrastructure across Asia.</p>
<h2>Group Structure</h2>
<p>The business operates as the Tobishima Group, combining construction contracting with related activities in real estate development, technical research and engineering services. This structure lets the company carry a project from initial survey and planning through design, supervision and construction rather than entering only at the build stage.</p>
<h2>Why Tobishima Matters to AEC Professionals</h2>
<p>For engineers and contractors studying tunnelling method, marine construction or seismic design, Tobishima's project record is a useful reference point. Japanese practice in these areas developed under unusually demanding geological and seismic conditions, and the techniques proven on schemes such as the Seikan Tunnel and the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line have influenced heavy civil engineering well beyond Japan.</p>

Tobishima Corporation is a Tokyo general contractor since 1883, building tunnels, bridges, dams, ports and buildings with seismic and disaster-resilience expert

Tobishima Corporation | Japanese Construction Firm

Tobishima Corporation

Tobishima Corporation is a Tokyo-based general contractor founded in 1883, delivering tunnels, bridges, dams, ports and buildings in Japan and Asia, with deep expertise in seismic engineering and disaster-resilient infrastructure.

<h2>About Thornton Tomasetti</h2>
<p>Thornton Tomasetti is an international engineering firm founded in 1949 and headquartered at 120 Broadway in New York City. Employee-owned and privately held, it employs more than 1,500 people across over 50 offices in North America, the United Kingdom, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific, and has delivered projects in more than 50 countries.</p>
<p>The firm's stated purpose is optimising the design and performance of structures, materials and systems for projects of every size and level of complexity - a scope that spans the entire life cycle of a building, from early concept through construction, occupation, adaptation and, when necessary, investigation after failure.</p>
<h2>Practice Areas</h2>
<h3>Building Structure</h3>
<p>The practice on which the firm's reputation was built. Thornton Tomasetti has engineered many of the world's tallest and most structurally demanding buildings, alongside stadiums, transport hubs, cultural venues and complex commercial developments.</p>
<h3>Building Skin</h3>
<p>Facade engineering covering curtain wall design, cladding systems, glazing performance, weatherproofing and the thermal and structural behaviour of the building envelope - increasingly the most technically demanding element of a modern building.</p>
<h3>Building Performance</h3>
<p>Analysis of how a completed building actually behaves: energy modelling, daylighting, thermal comfort, acoustics and computational simulation used to test design decisions before they are built.</p>
<h3>Construction Support Services</h3>
<p>Assistance during delivery, including constructibility review, connection design, temporary works, erection engineering and support for contractors managing complex structural sequences on site.</p>
<h3>Property Loss Consulting</h3>
<p>Forensic engineering and failure investigation - determining why structures fail, supporting insurance and legal proceedings, and advising on repair and reinstatement. Few firms combine original design capability with forensic expertise at this scale, and each discipline informs the other.</p>
<h3>Sustainability</h3>
<p>Embodied carbon assessment, low-carbon structural design, material efficiency, resilience planning and certification support. Structural engineering carries a disproportionate share of a building's embodied carbon, which puts this practice at the centre of meaningful decarbonisation.</p>
<h2>Technology and Research</h2>
<p>Thornton Tomasetti has been unusually active in developing its own computational tools, with an in-house research and applied technology group producing software for structural optimisation, parametric design and data-driven engineering. Several of these tools have been released to the wider AEC community rather than kept proprietary.</p>
<h2>Sectors Served</h2>
<ul>
<li>Tall buildings and high-rise commercial development</li>
<li>Sports venues and stadiums</li>
<li>Aviation and transportation infrastructure</li>
<li>Healthcare and science facilities</li>
<li>Higher education and cultural buildings</li>
<li>Residential and mixed-use development</li>
<li>Industrial and energy structures</li>
<li>Historic renovation and adaptive reuse</li>
</ul>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Thornton Tomasetti sits among the most recognised structural engineering consultancies globally, particularly for technically ambitious projects where conventional solutions do not apply. Its own tagline captures the positioning directly: when others say no, the firm says here's how. Employee ownership gives it a degree of independence in how it invests in research and long-term capability that publicly traded competitors do not always have.</p>
<h2>Working With Thornton Tomasetti</h2>
<p>Typical clients include architects, developers, contractors, institutions, government agencies and insurers. For architects pursuing structurally complex forms, and for owners dealing with facade performance or building failure, the firm is one of the principal engineering consultancies to know across the global AEC industry.</p>

Thornton Tomasetti is a global engineering firm covering building structure, facades, performance, sustainability, construction support and forensic investigati

Thornton Tomasetti | Structural & Facade Engineers

Thornton Tomasetti

Thornton Tomasetti is a global engineering firm of 1,500+ people optimising structures, facades, building performance and sustainability, with construction support and forensic services across more than 50 countries.

<h2>About StructSure Projects</h2>
<p>StructSure Projects is a performance-driven general contractor headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. The firm brings together project managers, engineers, superintendents, safety officers, quality control managers and estimators in an integrated team structure built around a single commitment: delivering projects on time, within budget and with complete customer satisfaction.</p>
<p>Across Kansas City and the wider Midwest, StructSure has built an extensive portfolio spanning a wide range of scopes, industries and delivery services - and its federal work extends that reach across the country.</p>
<h2>Federal and Government Construction</h2>
<p>StructSure holds membership in nine national Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) programmes through the federal government, and has completed work at nearly every Army and Air Force base in the United States. That MATOC standing matters practically: it pre-qualifies the firm to compete for task orders without the delay of a full procurement cycle, which is why federal agencies with time-sensitive facility needs return to contractors holding those positions.</p>
<p>Notable federal and military healthcare projects include the Mike O'Callaghan Military Medical Center realignment, the David Grant Medical Center modernisation, Keller Army Community Hospital, the McWethy Troop Medical Clinic renovations and restoration of the Maurice L. Britt United States Army Reserve Center.</p>
<h2>Sectors Served</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Healthcare</strong> - hospitals, critical care expansions, birth centres, medical office buildings and clinics</li>
<li><strong>Federal and military</strong> - facilities across Army and Air Force installations nationwide</li>
<li><strong>Correctional</strong> - high-security prison facilities</li>
<li><strong>Public safety</strong> - fire stations and emergency services buildings</li>
<li><strong>Laboratories</strong> - technical and research environments</li>
<li><strong>Administrative and commercial</strong> - office and institutional buildings</li>
</ul>
<h2>Delivery Methods</h2>
<p>The firm works across the full range of procurement routes, letting owners choose the structure that suits their risk profile and schedule:</p>
<ul>
<li>Design-Build</li>
<li>Construction Management</li>
<li>Design-Bid-Build</li>
<li>Integrated Project Delivery</li>
<li>Public-Private Partnership</li>
<li>General Contracting</li>
</ul>
<h2>Project Experience and Scale</h2>
<p>StructSure has delivered more than 1,000 public and private projects covering both new construction and renovation. Individual scopes range from minor finish and equipment replacements through to extensive multi-disciplinary renovations valued at $93 million. That range is unusual - most contractors specialise at one end of it - and it reflects a business built substantially on renovation and modernisation of occupied, operating facilities rather than greenfield work.</p>
<h2>Healthcare Construction Expertise</h2>
<p>A significant share of the portfolio sits in healthcare, including the Shawnee Mission Medical Center critical care expansion, the Shawnee Mission Birth Center, Centerpoint Medical Office Building and Pareto Health and Wellness Centers. Building inside live hospitals demands infection control, vibration and noise management, and phased handovers that let clinical operations continue - a discipline distinct from ordinary commercial construction.</p>
<h2>Safety and Quality</h2>
<p>The company reports a safety record superior to the industry standard and has earned awards from industry organisations and councils for safety, best practices and delivery methods. Dedicated safety officers and quality control managers sit within the project team rather than operating as a separate oversight function.</p>
<h2>Leadership and Culture</h2>
<p>StructSure is led by CEO Kevin Rogers alongside Vice Presidents Keith Schaller, Curtis Burgoon and Phillip Brandon. The leadership philosophy is described as leading by example, with a stated emphasis on doing the right thing consistently.</p>
<h2>Working With StructSure Projects</h2>
<p>For health systems, federal agencies, public authorities and private developers in the Midwest - or federal clients nationwide - StructSure offers a contractor with deep experience in complex, regulated, often occupied environments where schedule certainty and safety performance carry more weight than lowest bid.</p>

StructSure Projects is a Kansas City general contractor delivering healthcare, federal, correctional and laboratory construction across the Midwest and nationwi

StructSure Projects | Kansas City General Contractor

StructSure

StructSure Projects is a Kansas City general contractor delivering healthcare, federal, correctional and laboratory construction across the Midwest and nationwide, with more than 1,000 public and private projects and nine federal MATOC programme memberships.

<h2>About Stantec</h2>
<p>Stantec is a Canadian-headquartered global design and delivery firm that traces its origins to 1954, when Don Stanley founded a one-person consulting practice in Edmonton, Alberta. The company still bases its head office in Edmonton and now employs more than 34,000 people worldwide, with the United States accounting for its largest share of staff, followed by Canada and the United Kingdom. Stantec trades publicly under the ticker STN.</p>
<p>The firm describes its purpose as helping clients and communities address issues such as climate change, digital transformation and the future-proofing of cities and infrastructure - a framing that reflects how much of its work sits at the intersection of engineering and environmental performance.</p>
<h2>Business Units and Services</h2>
<p>Stantec organises its work into five operating units, each covering a distinct part of the built and natural environment.</p>
<h3>Water</h3>
<ul>
<li>Drinking water treatment and distribution</li>
<li>Wastewater collection and treatment</li>
<li>Stormwater management and flood resilience</li>
<li>Conveyance systems and dams</li>
</ul>
<h3>Buildings</h3>
<ul>
<li>Architecture and interior design</li>
<li>Structural, mechanical and electrical engineering</li>
<li>Healthcare, education, science and technology facilities</li>
<li>Commercial, civic and residential buildings</li>
</ul>
<h3>Infrastructure</h3>
<ul>
<li>Transportation - roads, bridges, transit and aviation</li>
<li>Community development and land planning</li>
<li>Landscape architecture and urban design</li>
<li>Surveying and geomatics</li>
</ul>
<h3>Environmental Services</h3>
<ul>
<li>Environmental impact assessment and permitting</li>
<li>Ecology, remediation and contaminated land</li>
<li>Climate adaptation and resilience planning</li>
<li>Environmental compliance and monitoring</li>
</ul>
<h3>Energy and Resources</h3>
<ul>
<li>Power generation, transmission and distribution</li>
<li>Renewables and energy transition projects</li>
<li>Mining and minerals</li>
<li>Oil and gas facilities</li>
</ul>
<h2>Integrated Delivery</h2>
<p>Stantec's structure lets it assemble multidisciplinary teams from a single organisation - environmental specialists working alongside engineers, planners and logistics staff on the same project. On large infrastructure schemes where permitting, design and construction interfaces are the main sources of delay, having those disciplines under one roof removes a significant coordination burden from the client.</p>
<h2>Scale and Market Position</h2>
<p>With trailing revenue of roughly six billion dollars and a presence across North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Latin America, Stantec ranks among the largest global design consultancies. It has grown substantially through acquisition, absorbing established regional practices and specialist consultancies while retaining local market knowledge - a strategy that gives it both global reach and genuine local presence in the markets it serves.</p>
<h2>Sustainability and Climate</h2>
<p>Climate change is positioned near the centre of Stantec's offering rather than treated as a separate service line. Its water and environmental businesses in particular are heavily engaged in adaptation work - flood defence, water security and resilience planning - while the energy unit supports renewable generation and grid modernisation.</p>
<h2>Working With Stantec</h2>
<p>Typical clients include municipalities and water utilities, transport authorities, health systems and universities, energy and mining companies, developers and government agencies. For AEC professionals, Stantec is one of the most significant multidisciplinary consultancies to understand, both as a potential partner on large integrated projects and as a benchmark for how global design firms structure their service offering.</p>
<h2>Digital Practice</h2>
<p>Digital transformation is one of the three issues Stantec names in its own positioning, and the firm invests heavily in BIM, digital twins, geospatial analysis and data-driven asset management. On long-lived infrastructure such as water networks and transport corridors, the model handed over at completion increasingly matters as much to the client as the physical asset, because it underpins decades of operation and maintenance decisions.</p>
<h2>Design Excellence and Awards</h2>
<p>Alongside its engineering volume, Stantec maintains a substantial architecture and interior design practice that competes on design quality in healthcare, higher education, civic and workplace sectors, and its projects appear regularly in industry award programmes across North America and the United Kingdom.</p>

Stantec is a global design and delivery firm offering engineering, architecture, environmental science and planning across water, buildings, infrastructure and 

Stantec | Global Design & Engineering Consultancy

Stantec

Stantec is a global design and delivery firm of more than 34,000 people, providing engineering, architecture, environmental science, planning and project management services across water, buildings, infrastructure, energy and resources.

<h2>About SoomeenHahm Design</h2>
<p>SoomeenHahm Design Ltd is a London-based design studio working at the intersection of computational design research and built practice. Founded by Soomeen Hahm and registered in England and Wales, the studio investigates what it calls the computational paradigm in architecture - examining how computing power, emerging technology and human intuition interact, and how that relationship reshapes both the design industry and the physical environment.</p>
<p>The studio's defining characteristic is its deliberate position between academia and commercial practice. Much of the team holds teaching or research posts at institutions including SCI-Arc, the Architectural Association, UCL Bartlett and the University of Liverpool, and the research questions raised in those settings feed directly into the studio's project work.</p>
<h2>Services and Capabilities</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Conceptual design</strong> - the studio positions itself as a specialist in conceptual design solutions rather than a conventional full-service practice</li>
<li><strong>Architectural and urban design</strong> - projects spanning building and city scale</li>
<li><strong>Product and object design</strong> - small-scale work including furniture and fabricated objects</li>
<li><strong>Design research</strong> - funded and academic research on computational and fabrication methods</li>
<li><strong>Consultation and workshops</strong> - delivered through the studio's SD Platform arm</li>
<li><strong>Exhibition and installation work</strong></li>
</ul>
<h2>Technologies and Methods</h2>
<h3>Augmented Reality and Human Augmentation</h3>
<p>The studio's most distinctive research strand explores using AR and wearable systems to help human builders execute complex, precise, digitally generated geometry by hand. Rather than replacing the craftsperson with a robot, this approach augments them - projecting digital guidance into the physical workspace so that forms which would normally demand CNC fabrication can be assembled directly by people.</p>
<h3>Robotic Fabrication</h3>
<p>Alongside augmented human construction, the team works on robotic fabrication processes and AR-assisted robotic workflows, an area covered by ongoing doctoral research within the studio.</p>
<h3>Algorithmic and Generative Design</h3>
<p>Core competencies include generative and algorithmic design through computer coding, multi-agent systems, digital simulation, behavioural patterns drawn from natural systems, and interactive or responsive environments. The studio also publishes its own digital toolset through SD Platform, distributed via Food4Rhino for the Grasshopper and Rhino ecosystem.</p>
<h2>SD Platform</h2>
<p>SD Platform is the studio's education and knowledge-sharing arm, running workshops, short courses, consultation and an open toolset library. It extends the practice's reach well beyond its own project list, making the studio a reference point for designers learning computational workflows.</p>
<h2>Industries Served</h2>
<ul>
<li>Architecture and the built environment</li>
<li>Architectural education and academic research</li>
<li>Product and furniture design</li>
<li>Digital fabrication and construction technology</li>
</ul>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>SoomeenHahm Design occupies a niche that few practices attempt: a small studio whose output is as much intellectual as constructed. Its influence travels through teaching, published research, workshops and freely distributed tools as well as through projects. For firms exploring AR-assisted construction, robotic fabrication or algorithmic design, it is one of the more visible independent research practices working in this space.</p>
<h2>Team</h2>
<p>The studio operates as a compact core team of designers and researchers, led by founder Soomeen Hahm - previously a senior designer at Zaha Hadid Architects - alongside associates and research staff based between London and Los Angeles. Its small size is intentional, keeping the work close to the research that drives it.</p>
<h2>Contact and Location</h2>
<p>The studio is based on Leather Lane in Clerkenwell, central London, an area long associated with design and making, and works with clients and collaborators internationally.</p>

SoomeenHahm Design is a London computational design studio working with augmented reality, robotic fabrication and algorithmic design across architecture and pr

SoomeenHahm Design | Computational Design Studio

SoomeenHahm Design

SoomeenHahm Design is a London computational design studio bridging academic research and practice, working across architecture, products and urban design with augmented reality, robotic fabrication and algorithmic modelling to build complex digitally generated forms.

<h2>About Skanska USA</h2>
<p>Skanska USA is the American operation of Skanska, one of the world's largest construction and project development groups. With more than 135 years of history behind it, the group builds what it describes as the important buildings and infrastructure that help heal, transport, entertain and energise communities - from hospitals and stadiums to airports, corporate headquarters, power plants, tunnels and bridges.</p>
<p>Skanska USA is headquartered in the Empire State Building in New York, with offices across the country, and operates alongside the group's businesses in the Nordics, central Europe and the United Kingdom.</p>
<h2>Construction Services</h2>
<p>The company delivers construction grounded in technical expertise, proven methods and a lifecycle approach intended to produce long-term value rather than lowest first cost.</p>
<h3>Buildings</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Healthcare</strong> - hospitals and clinical facilities</li>
<li><strong>Higher education and K-12</strong> - academic buildings, libraries and schools</li>
<li><strong>Science and technology</strong> - laboratories and research facilities</li>
<li><strong>Data centres</strong> - mission-critical digital infrastructure</li>
<li><strong>Aviation</strong> - airport terminals, including major work at LaGuardia</li>
<li><strong>Commercial and workplace</strong> - offices and corporate headquarters</li>
</ul>
<h3>Transportation and Infrastructure</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Bridges</strong> - major crossings and rehabilitation of existing structures</li>
<li><strong>Tunnelling</strong> - transport and utility tunnels</li>
<li><strong>Transit and rail</strong> - stations, track and systems</li>
<li><strong>Highways and roads</strong></li>
<li><strong>Ports and marine</strong> - waterfront and maritime structures</li>
<li><strong>Water and wastewater systems</strong> - treatment and conveyance infrastructure</li>
</ul>
<h2>Commercial Development</h2>
<p>Beyond contracting, Skanska develops commercial property on its own account. Taking development risk changes the firm's perspective: it experiences directly how design and construction decisions affect leasing, operating cost and asset value over decades, rather than handing those consequences to someone else at completion.</p>
<h2>Lifecycle Approach</h2>
<p>The lifecycle framing recurs throughout Skanska's positioning - designing and building for how an asset will perform over its full life rather than optimising for handover. On infrastructure with a hundred-year design life, that distinction determines whole-life cost far more than the construction price does.</p>
<h2>Sustainability</h2>
<p>Skanska has been among the more visible large contractors on climate commitments, working on low-carbon concrete, electrified construction equipment and green building certification across its portfolio. Its scale means procurement decisions on materials influence supplier behaviour well beyond its own projects.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Skanska USA ranks among the largest contractors in the United States, competing for complex public and private work where technical capability, safety record and financial strength are prerequisites. Clients include transport authorities, health systems, universities, technology companies and public agencies.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Skanska</h2>
<p>For owners, designers and consultants working on major US infrastructure or complex buildings, Skanska is one of the most significant contractors and development partners to understand across the built environment.</p>
<h2>Delivery Methods</h2>
<p>Skanska works across the full range of procurement routes - design-build, construction management at risk, integrated project delivery and public-private partnerships. On large public infrastructure the choice of route often matters as much as the design itself, determining who carries cost and schedule risk and how early the builder can influence buildability.</p>
<h2>Safety and Workforce</h2>
<p>Safety performance is treated as a governance-level measure rather than a site statistic, and the group invests in training and apprenticeship pathways to address the skilled labour shortages affecting the whole US construction market.</p>
<h2>Working With Skanska</h2>
<p>Typical clients include state transport authorities, port and aviation authorities, health systems, universities, technology companies and private developers. The firm also maintains an extensive subcontractor and supplier prequalification programme, making it a significant route to market for specialist trades.</p>

Skanska USA delivers healthcare, education, aviation, data centre and infrastructure construction alongside commercial property development across the United St

Skanska USA | Construction & Development Group

Skanska USA

Skanska USA is the American arm of one of the world's largest construction and development groups, delivering healthcare, education, aviation, data centre, bridge, tunnel, transit and water infrastructure projects alongside commercial property development.

<h2>About ProStruct Engineering</h2>
<p>ProStruct Engineering Inc. is a full-service structural and civil engineering firm delivering permit-ready engineering plans for homeowners, contractors, architects and developers. The practice brings more than 35 years of combined experience and has completed over 3,000 projects across residential and commercial sectors.</p>
<p>All plans are stamped by licensed Professional Engineers, and the firm is licensed to practise in eleven states: California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Utah, Georgia, Idaho and New Mexico. Many services are delivered remotely with local site visits where required.</p>
<h2>Residential Services</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>New custom homes</strong> - complete structural design covering foundation, floor framing, load-bearing walls, roof structure and lateral bracing</li>
<li><strong>ADUs and JADUs</strong> - detached and attached accessory dwelling units and garage conversions</li>
<li><strong>Additions and remodels</strong> - room additions, second storeys and major renovations, including analysis of existing structures and the connections between old and new work</li>
<li><strong>Load-bearing wall removal</strong> - steel beams, LVL headers, post locations and connection hardware for open-plan layouts</li>
<li><strong>Foundation design and repair</strong> - slab-on-grade, raised and pier systems, underpinning and helical piers</li>
<li><strong>Retaining walls</strong> - gravity, cantilever and segmental systems over four feet</li>
<li><strong>Decks, patios and porches</strong> - post sizing, beam spans and ledger connections</li>
</ul>
<h2>Commercial Services</h2>
<p>The firm also works on ground-up construction, tenant improvements, mixed-use buildings, apartments and townhouses, warehouses, offices, retail, data centres and equipment anchorage.</p>
<h2>Civil Engineering</h2>
<p>Civil services cover site plans, grading, drainage design and stormwater management, ensuring projects satisfy local land development requirements. Many projects need both disciplines to achieve permit approval, and offering them together removes a coordination gap that often delays smaller schemes.</p>
<h2>Seismic Retrofitting</h2>
<p>In the western states particularly, seismic upgrading is a significant workload: soft-storey retrofits, foundation bolting, cripple wall bracing and unreinforced masonry improvements carried out to satisfy city ordinance requirements. These are legally mandated in several jurisdictions, giving the work a steady regulatory driver.</p>
<h2>How the Practice Differentiates</h2>
<h3>Speed and Transparency</h3>
<p>Most projects are delivered in two to three weeks, with same-day quotes and fixed, transparent pricing rather than hourly billing - meaningful for homeowners and small contractors who cannot absorb open-ended fees.</p>
<h3>Permit Revision Guarantee</h3>
<p>The firm commits to revising plans at no extra charge, without limit, where building department comments relate to its own scope of work, until the permit is approved. Exclusions apply for matters outside its control such as land ownership disputes, existing unpermitted construction, or architectural and zoning deficiencies.</p>
<h3>Dedicated Project Management</h3>
<p>Every project includes a dedicated project manager at no additional cost, acting as a single point of contact and coordinating with third-party professionals.</p>
<h2>Site Inspections and Assessments</h2>
<p>ProStruct provides pre-purchase structural evaluations, damage assessments, grading verification and construction observation - work frequently required at short notice during property transactions.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know ProStruct</h2>
<p>For architects, designers and contractors needing responsive structural and civil engineering on residential and light commercial projects across the western and southern United States, ProStruct is a useful reference point in the built environment.</p>

ProStruct Engineering delivers permit-ready structural and civil plans for homes, ADUs, additions, foundations and seismic retrofits across 11 US states.

ProStruct Engineering | Structural & Civil Plans

ProStruct Engineering, Inc.

ProStruct Engineering is a US structural and civil engineering firm licensed in 11 states, delivering permit-ready plans for new homes, ADUs, additions, load-bearing wall removal, foundations, seismic retrofits and commercial projects.

<h2>About Pixelhead Studio</h2>
<p>Pixelhead Studio is a 3D visualization and animation practice based in Indianapolis, Indiana, working with clients across disciplines and geographies. The studio is built on a single idea: that every design deserves to be seen before it exists.</p>
<p>Founded and led by Stephen Collison, with Sherri Collison as operations lead and a network of collaborators, Pixel-Head Studio LLC works with architects, developers, product designers, artists and brands to translate ideas into high-fidelity imagery.</p>
<h2>What Visualization Is For</h2>
<p>The studio's range spans two quite different purposes. Rapid exploratory visuals let a design team test a direction while decisions are still open and changes cost little. Precise photorealistic simulation, by contrast, serves marketing, presentation and approval - where the image must convince a planning committee, an investment board or a prospective buyer of something not yet built.</p>
<p>Both matter, and they demand different things. Exploratory work prizes speed and iteration; final production work prizes accuracy of material, light and proportion. Pixelhead offers both, describing its role as bringing the craft and the tools to make an idea real.</p>
<h2>Services</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Architectural visualization</strong> - exterior and interior renderings of proposed buildings</li>
<li><strong>Interior visualization</strong> - detailed images of interior environments, materials and lighting</li>
<li><strong>Product and furniture visualization</strong> - imagery for design development and product marketing</li>
<li><strong>Animation</strong> - moving sequences and fly-throughs</li>
<li><strong>Fabrication visualization</strong> - imagery supporting manufacture and assembly</li>
</ul>
<h2>Working Across Disciplines</h2>
<p>Serving architects, product designers, artists and brands from one studio is less common than it sounds. Architectural rendering and product rendering have different conventions - scale, lighting setup, context and the level of material realism expected all differ - and a studio comfortable in both brings useful transfer between them.</p>
<h2>Clients and Collaborators</h2>
<p>The studio's client list includes design practices such as Perkins&amp;Will's Dallas studio, RATIO Design, TBG Partners, P1 Studio, KLS Design, Delv Design and Easterseals Crossroads, alongside artists and independent designers. Working with established architecture and landscape firms indicates the technical standard expected of the output.</p>
<h2>Why Visualization Matters in AEC</h2>
<p>Visualization has moved from a presentation add-on to a core part of the design and approval process. Planning authorities increasingly expect accurate visual assessment of proposals in context; developers rely on renderings to secure funding and pre-sales long before completion; and clients who cannot read drawings make better decisions when they can see a space. Errors caught in an image are far cheaper than errors caught on site.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Pixelhead competes as a specialist visualization studio serving design professionals who need imagery of a standard their own in-house resources cannot produce, or capacity they cannot spare. Its position outside the major coastal design centres, while working nationally, reflects how thoroughly this discipline has become location-independent.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Pixelhead Studio</h2>
<p>For architects and developers needing concept testing, marketing imagery or animation, Pixelhead is a useful reference point for independent visualization practice across the built environment.</p>
<h2>Tools and Craft</h2>
<p>High-fidelity visualisation depends on more than software. Convincing images require understanding of how light behaves in a space at a given time of day, how materials weather and reflect, and how a camera height and lens choice affect whether a room reads as generous or cramped. The studio's emphasis on craft alongside tools reflects that the technical pipeline is now widely available while judgement remains scarce.</p>

Pixelhead Studio creates high-fidelity 3D visualizations and animations for architecture, interiors and product design, based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Pixelhead Studio | 3D Architectural Visualization

Pixelhead Studio

Pixelhead Studio is an Indianapolis-based 3D visualization and animation practice producing high-fidelity renderings for architecture, interiors, product and furniture design, from early concept exploration through photorealistic marketing imagery.

<h2>About Peikko Group</h2>
<p>Peikko Group Corporation is a Finnish manufacturer that has been supplying concrete connections since 1965. The company designs and produces connection technology, slim floor structures and wind energy applications for both precast and cast-in-situ construction, and its products are used on projects across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas.</p>
<p>Peikko occupies a specific and important place in the supply chain. Its products are rarely visible in a finished building, but they are what physically holds the structure together - the point at which a precast column meets a foundation, or a beam meets a column, is where structural loads concentrate and where design and site work must agree precisely.</p>
<h2>Connection Technology</h2>
<p>The company's core business is engineered connections between structural elements, supplied as tested, certified products with published design capacities rather than as bespoke fabrications.</p>
<h3>Anchor Bolts</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>HPM Rebar Anchor Bolts</strong> - for anchoring concrete or steel structures and machinery into concrete bases under moderate loading</li>
<li><strong>PPM High-Strength Anchor Bolts</strong> - high-strength steel bolts for anchoring into robust concrete base structures</li>
<li><strong>HULCO Anchor Bolts</strong> - high-strength cast-in-place anchors with relatively short anchorage length, suited to shallow structures such as slabs and beams</li>
</ul>
<h3>Column and Beam Connections</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>HPKM and BOLDA Column Shoes</strong> - bolted connections between precast columns and foundations</li>
<li><strong>BECO Beam Shoes</strong> - efficient, moment-resisting bolted connections between precast columns and precast beams</li>
<li><strong>COPRA Anchoring Couplers</strong> - versatile anchoring systems used with the column and beam shoe range</li>
</ul>
<h2>Slim Floor Structures</h2>
<p>Peikko's composite beam systems allow floor beams to sit within the depth of the floor slab rather than below it. Removing downstand beams reduces overall storey height, which either lowers the total height of a building or allows an additional floor within the same envelope - a significant commercial gain on multi-storey projects, and a meaningful saving in facade material and vertical services.</p>
<h2>Wind Energy Applications</h2>
<p>The company supplies foundation and connection systems for wind turbines, where structures carry very large cyclic and overturning loads. Turbine foundations must resist millions of load reversals over a design life measured in decades, making the anchorage detail one of the most fatigue-critical elements in the whole structure.</p>
<h2>Engineering and Standards</h2>
<p>Peikko's products are designed according to Eurocodes and ACI standards, and supported by published technical documentation, design software and calculation tools. This matters to engineers: a connection with certified capacities and design guidance can be specified with confidence and checked by a building control authority, whereas an ad hoc detail requires bespoke justification.</p>
<h2>Design Support</h2>
<p>The company provides technical support, software and detailing assistance to structural engineers and precast manufacturers, positioning itself as an engineering partner rather than purely a component supplier.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Peikko is among the leading international suppliers of concrete connection technology, competing on engineering credibility, certification and the breadth of its tested product range. Its customers include precast manufacturers, contractors, structural engineers and wind energy developers.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Peikko</h2>
<p>For structural engineers and precast specialists, Peikko is a key reference point for standardised, certified connection design and slim floor systems across the built environment.</p>

Peikko Group manufactures concrete connection technology including anchor bolts, column shoes, slim floor structures and wind energy foundation systems.

Peikko Group | Concrete Connection Technology

Peikko Group

Peikko Group is a Finnish manufacturer of concrete connection technology, supplying anchor bolts, column and beam shoes, slim floor structures and wind energy foundation systems for precast and cast-in-situ construction worldwide.

<h2>About OTJ Architects</h2>
<p>OTJ Architects is a premier architecture and design practice that partners with leading organizations at pivotal moments of transition in their growth and development. With a national presence and a diverse portfolio, OTJ delivers enduring, human-centered solutions that promote diversity, wellness, and sustainability across a wide range of sectors, including commercial real estate, corporate workplaces, government, life sciences, multifamily residential, arts and culture, education, and nonprofit organizations.</p>
<h2>Intelligence-Based Design</h2>
<p>At the core of OTJ's philosophy is a commitment to aligning design with each client's mission, operational needs, and long-term goals. The firm's intelligence-based approach leverages industry-specific research, data-driven insights, and evidence-based strategies to inform design decisions. Rather than relying solely on intuition, OTJ grounds its work in measurable outcomes, ensuring that each project maximizes the value of the built environment and supports organizational performance.</p>
<h2>A Digitally Native Process</h2>
<p>OTJ's digitally native process further distinguishes its practice. As early adopters of emerging technologies, the firm integrates artificial intelligence, advanced visualization tools, and robust data management systems into its workflows. This digitally integrated approach accelerates project delivery, enhances collaboration, and reduces uncertainty throughout the design process. Clients are empowered with clearer insights and more informed decision-making, resulting in higher confidence and better outcomes.</p>
<h2>Brand-Driven Design</h2>
<p>The firm's brand-driven design methodology ensures that every space communicates a client's identity and culture with clarity and impact. OTJ approaches each project holistically, weaving together architecture, interiors, and experiential design to create environments that resonate with users and reinforce brand values.</p>
<h3>Specialized Environments</h3>
<p>From workplace strategy to specialized environments such as laboratories, secure facilities (SCIF), and theaters, OTJ tailors its services to meet complex and evolving client needs.</p>
<h2>Human-Centered Design</h2>
<p>Human-centered design remains a guiding principle across all OTJ projects. The firm prioritizes the wellbeing, productivity, and experience of the people who inhabit the spaces it creates. By fostering collaboration, inclusivity, and innovation, OTJ designs environments where individuals and organizations can thrive.</p>
<h2>Wellness and Sustainability</h2>
<p>This commitment is reinforced by a strong focus on wellness and sustainability, supported by a team of LEED and WELL Accredited Professionals who develop solutions that balance environmental responsibility with economic viability.</p>
<h2>Measurable Client Outcomes</h2>
<p>OTJ's impact is reflected not only in its design work but also in measurable client outcomes. Firm-wide studies show that:</p>
<ul>
<li>94% of clients report improved efficiency</li>
<li>93% report increased productivity</li>
<li>92% note enhanced brand image</li>
</ul>
<p>These metrics underscore the firm's ability to translate strategy into tangible value.</p>
<h2>Signature Projects</h2>
<p>Signature projects highlight OTJ's breadth and expertise, including innovative workplaces for organizations such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Five Guys, PBS, Adobe, BMW, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The firm has also led transformative projects like the adaptive reuse of Visitation Frederick into a mixed-use and hospitality destination, the design and delivery of the Venue at Thunder Valley Casino Resort, and the renovation of the iconic Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know OTJ</h2>
<p>For organizations planning a workplace move, consolidation or repositioning, OTJ offers a useful model of research-led interior architecture combined with brand and experience design across the built environment.</p>

OTJ Architects is a national architecture and design firm delivering research-led workplace, government, life sciences and arts projects across the United State

OTJ Architects | Workplace & Interior Architecture

OTJ Architects

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

<h2>About iBUILT</h2>
<p>iBUILT is an integrated construction technology company, formerly known as Deluxe Modular. The name change marked a deliberate evolution from modular manufacturer to technology business, applying proprietary software, offsite manufacturing expertise and a design-build approach to problems the construction industry has struggled with for decades.</p>
<p>The company's positioning is unusually direct: by developers, for developers. It argues that more than 80 percent of construction projects run over budget and beyond schedule, and rejects the conventional wisdom that this is unavoidable.</p>
<h2>De-Risking Construction</h2>
<h3>The Fast Track Program</h3>
<p>Where conventional development is laden with delays and added cost, iBUILT's Fast Track programme delivers a fully designed building in eight weeks or less. The deliverable includes comprehensive interior and exterior designs, architectural and structural drawings, a complete schedule of finishes, and a guaranteed schedule and price.</p>
<h3>No Change Orders</h3>
<p>iBUILT commits to never issuing a change order unless the client requests one. This addresses a structural problem in conventional procurement, where contractors may bid low to win work and recover margin through change orders during construction - which the company notes typically add between 11 and 40 percent to initial quoted prices.</p>
<h2>Connected Construction</h2>
<p>Using controlled offsite manufacturing and digital tooling, iBUILT integrates design, detailing, fabrication and onsite assembly into a single process, aiming to deliver better quality at lower cost and in less time than conventional construction allows.</p>
<p>Its BIM models incorporate proprietary digital twin software, extending the benefit beyond handover by giving developers ongoing control of building management including preventive maintenance - the company cites potential savings of 70 percent of labour-related maintenance costs.</p>
<h2>End-to-End Digital Platform</h2>
<p>The company has been developing a digital platform intended to let developers generatively design buildings, customise finishes from a product library, apply for permits online on an expedited basis, procure a turnkey build with guaranteed price and schedule, and use digital twin software post-completion.</p>
<h2>Technical Achievements in Modular Design</h2>
<p>iBUILT has pushed past several conventional limits of modular construction:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Building height and volume</strong> allowing ballrooms, lobbies, gyms and theatres within modular structures - large-volume spaces are normally where modular fails</li>
<li><strong>Building without marriage walls</strong>, saving up to 8 percent of a building's floor area ratio and increasing rentable space</li>
<li><strong>Passive House insulation values</strong> through innovative insulation applications</li>
<li><strong>Space-saving floor-ceiling assemblies</strong> that reduce overall building height compared with conventional modular</li>
<li><strong>Heights up to 35 storeys</strong> using high-strength steel superstructures, limited mainly by crane reach</li>
<li><strong>Sustainable, water and mould resistant materials</strong> for healthier buildings</li>
</ul>
<h2>Why Offsite Matters</h2>
<p>The company points to improved productivity and quality through controlled manufacturing, greater budget and schedule certainty, environmental benefits in construction and operation, faster time to market, safer working conditions, year-round construction regardless of weather, streamlined inspection, and a viable response to skilled labour shortages.</p>
<h2>iBUILT Parking</h2>
<p>The group includes iBUILT Parking, formerly SyncPark, which commercialises a patented energy-efficient automated parking system.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know iBUILT</h2>
<p>For developers and designers evaluating industrialised construction, iBUILT is a useful case study in how modular, digital delivery and guaranteed pricing can be combined across the built environment.</p>

iBUILT is an integrated construction technology company delivering modular multi-storey buildings with offsite manufacturing, digital twins and guaranteed prici

iBUILT | Modular Construction Technology Company

iBUILT

iBUILT is an integrated construction technology company combining offsite modular manufacturing, a proprietary design-build approach and digital twin software to deliver multi-storey buildings for developers with guaranteed price and schedule.

<h2>About HKS</h2>
<p>HKS is an interdisciplinary global design firm founded in Dallas, Texas in 1939 by Harwood K. Smith. What began as a Texas architecture practice has become an international organisation whose team extends well beyond architects to include researchers, urban designers, nurses, anthropologists, artists and scientists.</p>
<p>That composition is deliberate rather than decorative. A firm designing hospitals benefits from employing nurses who have worked in them; a firm designing for communities benefits from anthropologists who study how people actually use space. The mix reflects HKS's position that design should be driven by research and a deep understanding of human needs.</p>
<h2>Origins</h2>
<p>Harwood K. Smith was a gifted painter who studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before choosing to channel his artistic training into architecture. He moved to Dallas after graduating and founded the practice in 1939. The firm describes the Texan spirit - entrepreneurial, proud, resourceful and independent - as still underpinning its culture.</p>
<h2>What HKS Believes</h2>
<p>The practice states that design should build trust between collaborators, clients and the people who inhabit the places it designs, aiming to inspire and empower the communities that encounter its work while creating places that conserve and rejuvenate natural resources.</p>
<h2>Practice Areas</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Health</strong> - hospitals, clinical facilities and specialist care environments, a long-standing core strength</li>
<li><strong>Sports and entertainment</strong> - major stadiums and arenas, including SoFi Stadium</li>
<li><strong>Hospitality</strong> - hotels and resorts internationally</li>
<li><strong>Life science</strong> - research and laboratory buildings</li>
<li><strong>Aviation</strong> - terminals and airport facilities</li>
<li><strong>Education</strong> - university and campus buildings</li>
<li><strong>Mission critical</strong> - data centres and continuously operating facilities</li>
<li><strong>Cities and communities, arts and culture, government</strong></li>
<li><strong>Mixed-use, office, multifamily residential and senior living</strong></li>
</ul>
<h2>Services</h2>
<p>Beyond architecture, HKS offers interior design, landscape design, planning and urban design, structural engineering, sustainable design, equitable design, experiential branding, advisory services, alternative project delivery and dedicated research. Citizen HKS is the firm's public-interest design programme.</p>
<h2>Research and Computational Design</h2>
<p>Research is a named service line rather than an internal function, covering evidence-based design in healthcare, the effects of environments on wellbeing, and computational design methods that let teams test and evaluate options quantitatively. In healthcare particularly, evidence-based design has measurable consequences - room layouts affect infection rates, falls and staff walking distances.</p>
<h2>Global Reach</h2>
<p>HKS operates from offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, including Dallas, New York, Los Angeles, London, Dubai, Riyadh, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, New Delhi, Brisbane and Mexico City.</p>
<h2>Recognition</h2>
<p>Recent honours include a 2024 AIA Architecture Award for SoFi Stadium, two 2024 AIA Healthcare Awards, a 2023 AIA COTE Top Ten award for the UC San Diego Living and Learning Neighborhood, recognition as a Forbes Best Mid-size Employer, an Equality 100 award for LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion, and a MIPIM Asia Gold Award.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>HKS competes among the largest global architecture firms, with particular authority in healthcare and sports - two sectors where technical complexity and stakeholder demands are unusually high.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know HKS</h2>
<p>For owners and designers working on hospitals, stadiums or research facilities, HKS is a leading reference point for evidence-based and research-led design across the built environment.</p>

HKS is a global interdisciplinary design firm founded in 1939, known for healthcare, sports and entertainment, hospitality and life science architecture.

HKS | Global Health, Sports & Hospitality Design

HKS is an interdisciplinary global design firm founded in Dallas in 1939, working across health, sports and entertainment, hospitality, aviation, life science, education and mixed-use projects with in-house research, structural engineering and interiors.

<h2>About HitechDigital</h2>
<p>HitechDigital is a globally recognized digital solutions company specializing in end-to-end business process management, operational optimization, and technology-driven services. With more than 30 years of industry experience, the company has established itself as a trusted global partner for businesses looking to improve efficiency, streamline workflows, and accelerate digital transformation.</p>
<h2>Global Presence</h2>
<p>HitechDigital serves clients across more than 50 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, Canada, and the Middle East. The company provides customized and scalable solutions designed to meet the changing needs of modern businesses.</p>
<h2>Industries Served</h2>
<p>HitechDigital works with organizations across multiple industries including Manufacturing, Construction, Architecture, Engineering, Real Estate, Retail, Healthcare, ITES, eCommerce, and Finance. By combining industry expertise with innovative technologies, the company helps businesses improve productivity, reduce operational costs, and achieve long-term growth.</p>
<h2>Services</h2>
<p>HitechDigital offers a wide range of professional services, focused on delivering high-quality outcomes that support better decision-making, operational efficiency, and business scalability.</p>
<ul>
<li>Data Collection, Data Processing and Data Annotation</li>
<li>AI Training Data</li>
<li>Business Intelligence</li>
<li>BIM Services and CAD Drafting</li>
<li>Engineering Support</li>
<li>Software Development</li>
<li>Image Editing</li>
<li>Document Management</li>
<li>Digital Transformation solutions</li>
</ul>
<h2>Team and Scale</h2>
<p>One of the major strengths of HitechDigital is its experienced team of more than 1,200 skilled professionals. The company supports over 5,000 customers worldwide and is committed to delivering reliable, accurate, and cost-effective solutions.</p>
<h3>Customer-Centric Approach</h3>
<p>HitechDigital follows a customer-centric approach where every project is customized according to client requirements, business goals, and industry standards. This approach has helped the company build strong long-term relationships with global clients. The company continuously invests in innovation and process improvement to deliver efficient and scalable digital services.</p>
<h2>Recognition and Credibility</h2>
<p>The company is widely recognized for maintaining high standards of quality, operational excellence, and financial stability. HitechDigital has received recognition from Dun &amp; Bradstreet (D&amp;B) for business credibility and market reliability. Additionally, CRISIL, an S&amp;P Global company, has awarded HitechDigital its highest ratings for financial strength and operational excellence. These recognitions reflect the company's commitment to transparency, quality assurance, and long-term business sustainability.</p>
<h2>Customer Satisfaction</h2>
<p>Customer satisfaction is a key focus area for HitechDigital. The company's strong commitment to quality services and client success has resulted in a customer attrition rate of less than 10 percent. HitechDigital believes in creating value-driven partnerships that benefit clients, employees, and strategic partners. By delivering customized solutions and maintaining consistent communication, the company ensures successful project execution and measurable business outcomes.</p>
<h2>People and Culture</h2>
<p>HitechDigital also emphasizes employee development and continuous learning. The company encourages innovation, teamwork, and skill enhancement to help employees stay updated with the latest technologies and industry trends. This strong work culture enables the organization to consistently deliver high-quality services to clients worldwide.</p>
<h2>Looking Ahead</h2>
<p>As businesses continue to adopt digital transformation strategies, HitechDigital remains committed to helping organizations adapt to changing market demands through reliable and technology-enabled solutions, supported by decades of experience and a strong global presence across the built environment and beyond.</p>
<h2>Why Businesses Choose HitechDigital</h2>
<p>With decades of experience, a strong global presence, a highly skilled team and a proven record of quality delivery, HitechDigital positions itself as a long-term partner rather than a transactional supplier. Its combination of business process management, engineering support and digital services allows organisations to consolidate several outsourced functions with a single provider.</p>
<p>For AEC organisations specifically, the BIM services, CAD drafting and engineering support lines are the most directly relevant, offering design and documentation capacity that scales with project workload without permanent headcount.</p>

HitechDigital delivers BIM services, CAD drafting, engineering support and digital transformation solutions to clients across more than 50 countries.

HitechDigital | BIM, CAD & Digital Solutions

HitechDigital Solutions

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

<h2>About Heatherwick Studio</h2>
<p>Heatherwick Studio is a British design and architecture practice founded by Thomas Heatherwick and based in London. It has grown into a team of more than 200 makers and inventors working across buildings, public spaces, masterplans, infrastructure and objects.</p>
<p>The studio is explicit that it has no signature style. Its work is led by human experience rather than fixed dogma, with the stated aim of creating emotionally compelling places and objects while casting the smallest possible climate shadow. That combination - emotional response and low environmental impact - is an unusual pairing of ambitions, and it explains why the studio's output looks so different from project to project.</p>
<h2>A Design Studio, Not Only an Architecture Practice</h2>
<p>Heatherwick Studio operates across a far wider range of scales than most architectural offices, from handheld objects and furniture through to bridges, buildings and city districts. The practice emerged from a background in three-dimensional design and making rather than conventional architectural training, and that origin is visible in how it approaches problems: materials, fabrication and physical prototyping tend to drive the design rather than follow it.</p>
<h2>Notable Projects</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Coal Drops Yard, London</strong> - the rehabilitation of a pair of Victorian coal storehouses at King's Cross into around 100,000 square feet of retail and public space, celebrating the texture and history of the industrial buildings while sweeping two roofs together into a new covered gathering place</li>
<li><strong>Little Island, New York</strong> - a public park and performance space raised on 132 sculpted concrete columns above the Hudson River near the Meatpacking District</li>
<li><strong>Vessel, Hudson Yards, New York</strong> - a climbable structure of approximately 2,500 copper-clad stairs rising some sixteen storeys with eighty landings</li>
<li><strong>UK Pavilion, Shanghai Expo</strong> - the Seed Cathedral, formed from thousands of fibre-optic rods each containing a seed</li>
</ul>
<h2>Adaptive Reuse and Existing Buildings</h2>
<p>Coal Drops Yard illustrates a strand of work that has become increasingly central: intervening in existing structures rather than replacing them. Retaining Victorian industrial fabric while inserting contemporary retail required resolving structure, weatherproofing and circulation within constraints a new building would not impose - and produced something neither the old nor a new building could have been alone.</p>
<h2>Public Space and Emotional Response</h2>
<p>A recurring theme is the belief that buildings and public spaces should provoke feeling rather than indifference. Thomas Heatherwick has argued publicly and at length that much contemporary development produces environments people find flat and forgettable, and that this is a design failure with real social consequences. Whether or not one accepts the argument, it explains the studio's consistent emphasis on texture, human scale and tactility.</p>
<h2>Sustainability</h2>
<p>The commitment to the smallest possible climate shadow shapes material choices, reuse of existing structures and the studio's interest in longevity - buildings people care about are less likely to be demolished, which is itself a carbon argument.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Heatherwick Studio occupies a distinctive position between architecture, product design and public art, competing for high-profile cultural, public realm and mixed-use commissions worldwide on the strength of conceptual originality.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Heatherwick Studio</h2>
<p>For designers and clients interested in adaptive reuse, public space or the relationship between fabrication and form, the studio is among the most distinctive practices working in the built environment.</p>

Little Island – New York, United States

Heatherwick Studio is a London practice of 200+ makers creating buildings, public spaces and objects, including Coal Drops Yard, Little Island and Vessel.

Heatherwick Studio | London Design & Architecture

Heatherwick studio

Heatherwick Studio is a London design and architecture practice of over 200 makers and inventors, creating buildings, public spaces, masterplans, infrastructure and objects led by human experience rather than a signature style.

<h2>About HDR</h2>
<p>HDR is a 100% employee-owned global professional services firm specialising in architecture, engineering, environmental and construction services. Headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, the company employs more than 15,000 people working from over 200 offices in 15 countries, and has been in practice for more than a century.</p>
<p>The firm is best known for high-performance buildings and smart infrastructure, but describes its multidisciplinary teams as including scientists, economists, builders, analysts and artists alongside architects and engineers - a breadth that lets it advise on questions well before a project takes physical form.</p>
<h2>Employee Ownership</h2>
<p>Complete employee ownership is central to HDR's identity. Staff-owners have a direct stake in long-term performance rather than in quarterly returns to outside shareholders, which tends to favour patient investment in expertise and client relationships. It also aids retention in a sector where senior technical staff are scarce and heavily recruited.</p>
<h2>Markets Served</h2>
<p>HDR works across seventeen markets, an unusually wide span even among large multidisciplinary firms.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Health</strong> - acute and ambulatory care, cancer centres, paediatrics, behavioural health and translational health sciences</li>
<li><strong>Transportation</strong> - aviation, transit, highways, freight rail, ports and maritime</li>
<li><strong>Water</strong> - drinking water, wastewater, conveyance, fisheries and water resource management</li>
<li><strong>Science</strong> - laboratories, cleanrooms, containment facilities, vivaria and life sciences</li>
<li><strong>Power</strong> - generation, renewable energy, transmission and distribution</li>
<li><strong>Civic and justice</strong> - government buildings and courts</li>
<li><strong>Education</strong> - K-12 schools and higher education</li>
<li><strong>Defense and intelligence</strong> - installations and mission-critical security</li>
<li><strong>Industrial</strong> - advanced manufacturing, mining, agribusiness, oil, gas and chemicals</li>
<li><strong>Technology and data</strong> - data centres and semiconductor facilities</li>
<li><strong>Urban and community development</strong> - community design, parks and transit-oriented development</li>
<li><strong>Waste, commercial real estate, hospitality, culture, finance and aerospace</strong></li>
</ul>
<h2>Services</h2>
<p>Alongside architecture and engineering, HDR offers asset management, commissioning and operations, coastal engineering and restoration, economics and finance, environmental sciences, planning and consulting, program management, project delivery, research, right of way, and sustainability and resilience.</p>
<p>The economics and finance capability is worth noting. Major public infrastructure rarely fails on engineering grounds - it fails on funding, benefit-cost analysis and political case-making, and having those skills in-house lets HDR support clients through approval as well as design.</p>
<h2>Values</h2>
<p>Five stated values guide the practice: live the network, thinking globally while acting locally; listen first, on the basis that understanding a problem's root precedes solving it; hold ourselves accountable; push boundaries; and design smart, tailoring the approach to each situation rather than applying a standard method.</p>
<h2>Corporate Sustainability and the HDR Foundation</h2>
<p>The firm publishes corporate sustainability commitments and operates the HDR Foundation, a philanthropic arm making grants in the communities where its people live and work.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>HDR ranks among the largest architecture-engineering firms in the United States and competes globally, particularly in healthcare, transportation and water. Its combination of scale, employee ownership and market breadth gives it unusual stability across economic cycles.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know HDR</h2>
<p>For owners and consultants planning hospitals, transit systems, water infrastructure or research facilities, HDR is one of the most significant multidisciplinary firms to understand in the built environment.</p>

HDR is a 100% employee-owned global firm delivering architecture, engineering, environmental and construction services across health, transport, water and scien

HDR | Employee-Owned Architecture & Engineering

HDR is a 100% employee-owned global professional services firm of over 15,000 people, specialising in architecture, engineering, environmental and construction services across health, transportation, water, science, power and civic markets.

<h2>About Hassell</h2>
<p>Hassell is a leading international design practice founded in Australia in 1938. From its origins as an Australian architecture firm it has grown into a multidisciplinary studio operating across Australia, Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States, with studios including Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, London and San Francisco.</p>
<p>The practice summarises its purpose simply: it designs places people love. That phrasing sets a higher and more awkward standard than functional success, because affection for a place is determined by everyday experience rather than by the drawing.</p>
<h2>Integrated Disciplines</h2>
<p>Hassell works across four principal disciplines, deliberately combined rather than separated.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Architecture</strong> - commercial, civic, education, health, transport and mixed-use buildings</li>
<li><strong>Interior design</strong> - workplace, hospitality and public interiors</li>
<li><strong>Landscape architecture</strong> - parks, public realm, campuses and waterfronts</li>
<li><strong>Urban design and planning</strong> - district frameworks and city-scale strategy</li>
</ul>
<p>The practice also offers research, strategy and experience design alongside these core services. Its argument for the mix is economic as much as aesthetic: bringing several perspectives together unlocks the economic, social and cultural value of a project in ways a single discipline cannot.</p>
<h2>Integrated Design Teams</h2>
<p>Projects are delivered by integrated teams because, in the firm's view, they produce the best outcomes. Increasingly complex client briefs demand a culture built on collaboration, creativity and innovation in both design thinking and delivery.</p>
<p>This matters most where disciplines meet - the edge between a building and its landscape, or between interior fit-out and base build, is exactly where fragmented teams tend to produce compromised results.</p>
<h2>Sectors</h2>
<p>Hassell works across workplace and commercial development, transport and infrastructure including major rail and station projects, health and medical research, education from schools to university campuses, civic and cultural buildings, residential and mixed-use development, sport and recreation, and public realm and parks.</p>
<h2>Studios as Design Statements</h2>
<p>The practice treats its own workplaces as demonstrations of its thinking. The Melbourne studio at 55 Collins - located within Collins Place, the modernist complex designed by I.M. Pei - occupies an entire floor conceived as a laboratory-like work lab, deliberately arranged for flexibility, creativity and co-creation with clients.</p>
<h2>Global Practice, Shared Values</h2>
<p>Design values are held in common across every Hassell studio, shared by architects, interior designers, landscape architects, urban designers, planners and specialist consultants. That consistency lets the practice move expertise between regions while retaining local knowledge of climate, culture and regulation - particularly valuable across the very different contexts of Australia, East Asia and the UK.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Hassell is among the most established design practices in the Asia Pacific region and competes internationally on the strength of its multidisciplinary model. Clients include state governments and transport authorities, universities, health services, developers and global corporations.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Hassell</h2>
<p>For teams working on transport interchanges, campuses, workplace or public realm projects - particularly in Australia and Asia - Hassell is a significant reference point for integrated design across the built environment.</p>

Hassell is an international design practice working across architecture, interiors, landscape architecture and urban design from studios in Australia, Asia, the

Hassell | Architecture, Landscape & Urban Design

Hassell

Hassell is an international design practice founded in Australia in 1938, working across architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and urban design from studios in Australia, Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

<h2>About Ha/f Climate Design</h2>
<p>Ha/f Climate Design is a climate consultancy for the built environment, based in Canada and working across the Greater Toronto Area and internationally. The practice was established on a single premise: the construction and operation of buildings account for most of a city's greenhouse gas emissions, and addressing how we build cities is among the most important challenges in reducing them.</p>
<p>The name states the goal. Ha/f exists to work with designers, planners and city builders to halve those emissions within this decade - a deliberately specific and time-bound target rather than a general commitment to sustainability.</p>
<h2>Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment</h2>
<p>The team specialises in Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment (wbLCA) for new construction projects. Where operational energy modelling addresses how a building performs once occupied, wbLCA measures the carbon embodied in producing, transporting, installing, maintaining and eventually disposing of everything the building is made from.</p>
<p>This distinction matters increasingly. As buildings become more energy efficient in use, the proportion of their lifetime carbon locked into structure, facade and finishes grows correspondingly - and unlike operational emissions, embodied carbon is largely spent before anyone moves in. Ha/f provides clients with carbon reduction and material reuse opportunities that balance design, cost, constructability and carbon together, rather than treating carbon as a constraint applied after the design is fixed.</p>
<h2>Circular Economy Services</h2>
<p>The practice is advancing adoption of the circular economy through pioneering research and demonstration deconstruction projects. Rather than demolishing a building and landfilling the result, deconstruction recovers materials with residual value for reuse in new work.</p>
<p>Demonstration projects are important here because the barriers to material reuse are rarely technical. Insurance, warranty, certification and supply-chain logistics are what stop reclaimed steel or timber being specified, and only built examples resolve those questions credibly.</p>
<h2>Research and Policy</h2>
<p>Ha/f works with public, private and non-profit organisations on research into wbLCA and circular economy policy, with a particular focus on the Greater Toronto Area. The work looks ahead to accelerating adoption of the circular economy, bio-based materials and high-performance buildings.</p>
<p>Policy engagement is a deliberate lever: individual project decisions matter, but building codes and procurement rules determine what the whole market does.</p>
<h2>Advocacy and Education</h2>
<p>Teaching whole life carbon best practice is central to the firm's stated mission. As a globally active collaborator in whole life carbon and sustainable design, Ha/f positions itself as a conduit for knowledge sharing, advocating industry-wide adoption of sustainable practice rather than treating its expertise as purely proprietary.</p>
<h2>Who Works With Ha/f</h2>
<p>Typical clients include architects, developers, municipalities, institutional owners and non-profit organisations - anyone required to quantify or reduce the embodied carbon of a project, whether driven by regulation, corporate targets or genuine conviction.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Ha/f occupies a specialist niche that is expanding quickly as embodied carbon reporting moves from voluntary to mandatory across an increasing number of jurisdictions. Its combination of assessment capability, circular economy research and policy work is unusual for a firm of its size.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Ha/f</h2>
<p>For architects, engineers and developers facing embodied carbon requirements, Ha/f is a useful reference point for life cycle assessment, material reuse and deconstruction practice across the built environment.</p>

Ha/f Climate Design delivers whole building life cycle assessment, embodied carbon reduction and circular economy consulting for the built environment.

Ha/f Climate Design | Embodied Carbon & wbLCA

Ha/f Climate Design

Ha/f Climate Design is a Canadian consultancy specialising in whole building life cycle assessment, embodied carbon reduction and circular economy services, working with designers, planners and city builders to halve construction and operational emissions.

<h2>About Gindi Studio</h2>
<p>Gindi Studio is an architecture and interior design practice based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The studio is a collective of around 25 designers, architects and architectural engineers who describe themselves as wow makers - a reference to the Milton Glaser line the practice adopts as its standard: there are three responses to a piece of design, yes, no and wow, and wow is the one to aim for.</p>
<p>The studio is led by Vered Gindi, a registered architect who holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Tel Aviv University and a professional Master of Architecture from the University of Toronto. After extensive experience in Canada designing and delivering public buildings including schools and community centres, she returned to Israel and established the studio as a leading name in interior design for global and Israeli corporations.</p>
<h2>Design Philosophy</h2>
<p>Gindi Studio holds that intelligent design results from research, dialogue with clients and stakeholders, and genuine team effort rather than individual authorship. Its work aims to break down boundaries between different interior environments and create spaces people love working in.</p>
<p>Central to the approach is identifying the specific DNA and look and feel a client wants, then resolving it into a single coherent human experience of space. The studio places equal weight on practicality and user experience - a workplace must function efficiently and feel good to occupy, and the practice treats these as one problem rather than two.</p>
<h2>Services and Specialisms</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Architecture and interior design</strong> for complex projects</li>
<li><strong>Corporate workplace and office campus interiors</strong> - the core of the practice</li>
<li><strong>Public interiors</strong> - civic and shared environments</li>
<li><strong>Hotels and hospitality interiors</strong></li>
<li><strong>Graphic and product design</strong> integrated with spatial work</li>
<li><strong>Change management</strong> - supporting the organisational side of relocation alongside the design</li>
</ul>
<h2>Technology</h2>
<p>The studio combines architecture, interior design, graphics and product design with advanced technology that ties the disciplines together. It works with parametric design, BIM and 3D virtual reality to develop concepts into buildable reality, and is regarded as a leader in Revit within the Israeli market.</p>
<p>VR matters particularly in workplace design, where a client organisation must commit to an environment its staff have not yet experienced. Letting decision-makers walk through a space before construction reduces the risk of expensive late change.</p>
<h2>Change Management</h2>
<p>An unusual strength is the studio's involvement in corporate relocation as an organisational process, not only an architectural one. Moving a company into a new environment changes how people work, and resistance is common. Gindi Studio supports the internal communication and programme-building side of that transition alongside the design itself.</p>
<h2>Clients</h2>
<p>The practice has designed workplaces for major global technology and professional services organisations with operations in Israel, including Google, Microsoft, Mobileye, Oracle, Sapiens, BMC, Deloitte, and the development centres of General Motors and Daimler, alongside banking clients such as HSBC, Citibank and Bank Hapoalim.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Gindi Studio competes at the top of the Israeli corporate interiors market, where multinational technology companies expect international design standards delivered with local knowledge. Its combination of workplace specialism, technological capability and change management support is a genuine differentiator.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Gindi Studio</h2>
<p>For designers and clients working on workplace interiors, office campuses or corporate relocation, Gindi Studio offers a useful model of technology-led interior practice in the built environment.</p>

Gindi Studio is a Tel Aviv architecture and interior design practice specialising in corporate workplace, office campus, public interior and hotel projects.

Gindi Studio | Tel Aviv Workplace Interior Design

Gindi Studio

Gindi Studio is a Tel Aviv architecture and interior design practice of around 25 designers, specialising in corporate workplace interiors, office campuses, public interiors and hotels using BIM, parametric design and 3D VR.

<h2>About Gensler</h2>
<p>Gensler is a global architecture, design and planning firm founded in 1965. It has grown into one of the largest design practices in the world, with more than 6,000 professionals working from 58 offices across 16 countries and partnering with clients in over 100 countries each year. Its mission is stated simply: to create a better world through the power of design.</p>
<p>The firm describes itself as a powerful catalyst for positive change, uniting creativity, research and innovation, and measures the value of its work by its effect on human experience rather than by built output alone.</p>
<h2>The One-Firm Firm</h2>
<p>Gensler's operating model is captured in a phrase it uses repeatedly: the One-Firm Firm. The idea is that the practice functions as a constellation of stars - globally connected but locally expert - rather than as a set of semi-independent regional offices.</p>
<p>This matters commercially. A client with locations across several continents can engage one firm and receive consistent design standards alongside genuine local knowledge of codes, contractors and culture in each market. Few competitors can offer both at this scale.</p>
<h2>Breadth of Expertise</h2>
<p>Gensler practises across an exceptionally wide range of sectors, including workplace and build-to-suit headquarters, aviation and mobility, sports and live performance venues, retail and mixed-use centres, hospitality, healthcare and wellness, sciences and technology, education, residential and senior living, government and defence, industrial and logistics, critical facilities and data centres, and culture and museums.</p>
<p>Alongside these it offers brand design, digital experience design, product development, strategy and consulting - services that extend well past drawing buildings into how organisations use and communicate through space.</p>
<h2>Building Transformation and Adaptive Reuse</h2>
<p>Office-to-residential conversion has become a defined practice area, reflecting one of the most pressing questions in contemporary real estate: what to do with commercial buildings left underused by changed working patterns. Conversion is technically awkward - floor plate depth, window positions and services routing all resist it - and Gensler has published substantial research on when it is viable.</p>
<h2>The Gensler Research Institute</h2>
<p>The firm's research arm is unusually substantial. It maintains a network of researchers studying the connection between design, business and human experience, and has captured millions of data points informed by more than 700,000 employees.</p>
<p>Its published work includes the annual Design Forecast, the Global Workplace Survey, and City Pulse, which surveyed 33,000 people across 65 cities to understand what makes a city attract and retain residents. This research is widely cited beyond the firm and gives Gensler influence over how the industry frames questions about work, cities and buildings.</p>
<h2>Sustainability and Resilience</h2>
<p>Gensler's Product Sustainability Standards set requirements for the products it specifies on behalf of clients, published as an open-source tool for manufacturers and designers alike. Given the firm's specification volume, standards of this kind exert real pressure on the supply chain.</p>
<h2>Recognition</h2>
<p>Gensler has been named among Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies, recognised by Forbes among America's Best Large Employers, and ranked by Interior Design as the leading firm in the world.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Gensler</h2>
<p>For anyone working in workplace design, adaptive reuse or large-scale commercial architecture, Gensler is both a dominant competitor and one of the most useful research sources in the built environment.</p>

Gensler is a global architecture, design and planning firm with 6,000+ professionals across 58 offices, spanning workplace, aviation, sports and mixed-use desig

Gensler | Global Architecture & Design Firm

Gensler

Technology that drives performance. New and innovative ways to activate the built environment and leverage data to measure performance and inform future designs

Gensler is a global architecture, design and planning firm of more than 6,000 professionals working from 58 offices across 16 countries, serving clients in over 100 countries each year across workplace, aviation, sports, retail and mixed-use projects.

<h2>About Franz N&uuml;sing</h2>
<p>Franz N&uuml;sing GmbH &amp; Co KG is a German manufacturer of movable partition walls, based at Borkstra&szlig;e in M&uuml;nster, North Rhine-Westphalia. The company designs and produces custom mobile walls that provide flexible room separation, and describes itself as among the largest and most successful manufacturers of movable partitions internationally, with products installed worldwide.</p>
<p>The business employs roughly one hundred people, split between production staff, commercial employees and apprentices, and remains family-led across four generations.</p>
<h2>A Long Industrial History</h2>
<p>N&uuml;sing was founded on 10 June 1878, when master carpenter Franz N&uuml;sing established a billiards and blinds factory in M&uuml;nster. For four decades the workshop built billiard tables, work demanding considerable precision - a single three-centimetre slate bed and a complicated levelling mechanism left no room for approximation. The last billiard table left the factory at the end of the First World War.</p>
<p>Blind manufacture led naturally to roller shutters before the turn of the century, and from there to the insight that has defined the company since: a firm capable of making precise moving screens for windows can also make them for rooms. By the early 1920s N&uuml;sing had adopted new techniques and extended production into folding partitions - the first movable room divisions. Over subsequent decades it developed single-shell and sound-absorbing variants using new surface materials, and by the 1960s had become the leading German folding door manufacturer, with installations across Europe and the Middle East.</p>
<h2>Product Range</h2>
<h3>Movable Walls</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Premium Greenline</strong> - the sustainability-focused system</li>
<li><strong>Premium EASYmatic</strong> - semi-automatic operation</li>
<li><strong>Premium Glass</strong> - glazed movable partitions maintaining daylight and visual connection</li>
<li><strong>Premium Classic</strong> - the core solid-panel system</li>
<li><strong>Premium Acoustic</strong> - high sound-insulation performance</li>
<li><strong>Premium Protect</strong> - fire and smoke protection systems</li>
</ul>
<h3>Movable Glass Walls and Folding Partitions</h3>
<p>The Visioline glass wall system, alongside the Flexi and Faltina-plan folding partitions, extends the range into lighter and more compact division solutions.</p>
<h2>Performance and Certification</h2>
<p>Acoustic, fire and smoke performance are where movable walls succeed or fail. A partition that divides a hall into two rooms is worthless if speech carries between them, and one that forms part of a fire compartment must be certified accordingly. N&uuml;sing holds the necessary certificates for fire protection, smoke protection and sound insulation, operates its own in-house test laboratory for continuous verification, and is certified to DIN EN ISO 9001. The company describes itself as market leader in noise, fire and smoke protection partitions.</p>
<h2>Service and Specification Support</h2>
<p>The company supports architects and specifiers directly, assisting with tender text preparation and design drawings, and its field service covers the process from planning through site measurement to assembly. For a product installed into a structural opening with demanding acoustic seals, accurate measurement and skilled installation matter as much as the manufactured item.</p>
<h2>Applications</h2>
<p>Movable walls are used wherever a space must serve several purposes - school halls and classrooms, hotel ballrooms and conference suites, offices and meeting rooms, community and religious buildings, and exhibition venues. They allow a single volume to be reconfigured daily, improving utilisation without additional floor area.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know N&uuml;sing</h2>
<p>For architects and contractors specifying flexible interiors, N&uuml;sing is an established European reference point for acoustically and fire-rated movable partition systems across the built environment.</p>

Franz Nusing manufactures movable partition walls, glass walls and folding partitions with certified acoustic, fire and smoke protection performance.

Nusing | Movable Partition Walls Manufacturer

Franz Nüsing GmbH & Co KG

Franz Nusing is a German manufacturer of movable partition walls, glass walls and folding partitions, producing acoustic, fire and smoke protection systems in Munster for flexible room division in schools, offices, hotels and conference venues.

<h2>About Foster + Partners</h2>
<p>Foster + Partners is a global studio for architecture, engineering, urban and landscape design, rooted in sustainability. Founded by Norman Foster in 1967 and headquartered in London, the practice has grown into one of the most influential architectural organisations in the world, with studios across multiple continents.</p>
<p>Despite that geographic spread, the practice describes itself as working as a single entity - ethnically and culturally diverse, with people central to all its endeavours. Operating as one studio rather than a federation of regional offices means design standards and technical knowledge are held in common rather than duplicated.</p>
<h2>Integrated Disciplines</h2>
<p>What distinguishes Foster + Partners from most architectural practices is the range of expertise held in-house. Rather than coordinating external consultants, the studio employs specialists across the disciplines a complex building requires.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Architecture</strong> - the core practice across every building type</li>
<li><strong>Structural engineering</strong> - working alongside architects from concept stage</li>
<li><strong>Environmental engineering</strong> - energy, daylight, thermal comfort and building physics</li>
<li><strong>Urban planning and landscape design</strong> - masterplanning at district and city scale</li>
<li><strong>Interiors and workplace consultancy</strong> - internal environments and how organisations use them</li>
<li><strong>Industrial design</strong> - furniture, fittings and products</li>
<li><strong>Project management and design management</strong></li>
<li><strong>Applied research and development</strong> - materials, fabrication and emerging technologies</li>
</ul>
<p>Having structural and environmental engineers in the same studio as the designers is decisive on technically ambitious buildings, where form, structure and energy performance cannot sensibly be resolved in sequence.</p>
<h2>Sustainability</h2>
<p>Sustainability has been a central theme of the practice for more than five decades - a commitment that predates the mainstream environmental movement in architecture by a considerable margin. The studio audits its projects not only against global standards but also against its own Responsibility Framework, which covers ten sustainability themes and sets requirements beyond those imposed externally.</p>
<h2>Research and Innovation</h2>
<p>A dedicated applied research and development capability investigates materials, structural systems, fabrication methods and computational design. The practice has explored territory well outside conventional architecture, including studies for extreme environments and off-planet construction - work that tends to feed back into terrestrial projects through advances in materials and automated fabrication.</p>
<h2>Project Types</h2>
<p>The portfolio spans airports and transport infrastructure, tall buildings and headquarters, cultural and civic institutions, higher education and research facilities, workplace and commercial development, residential projects, retail and hospitality, and city-scale masterplanning. Few practices operate credibly across such a range, and fewer still at this scale.</p>
<h2>Global Practice</h2>
<p>Studios across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia allow the practice to work in very different regulatory and climatic contexts while maintaining consistent technical standards. Projects are frequently delivered in joint venture with local architects and engineers who bring code and construction-market knowledge.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Foster + Partners sits at the very top of global architectural practice, competing for the most prominent commissions worldwide. Its clients include governments, airport authorities, global corporations, cultural institutions and major developers - organisations whose projects carry public visibility and long design lives.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Foster + Partners</h2>
<p>For architects, engineers and clients, the studio remains one of the essential reference points in the built environment, particularly for integrated design, environmental engineering and technically ambitious long-span and tall building work.</p>

Foster + Partners is a global studio for sustainable architecture, urbanism, engineering and design, founded by Norman Foster in 1967 and based in London.

Foster + Partners | Global Architecture Studio

Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners is a global studio for sustainable architecture, urbanism, engineering and design, founded by Norman Foster in 1967 and headquartered in London, working across airports, towers, cultural buildings, workplace and masterplanning worldwide.

<h2>About EM2N</h2>
<p>EM2N is a Swiss architecture practice founded by Mathias M&uuml;ller and Daniel Niggli, operating as EM2N AG from Binzstrasse in Zurich with a second office, EM2N Architekten Berlin GmbH, in Berlin. The practice marked its 25th anniversary in 2023 and also works through Atelier Kanal Architects in Brussels on its major Belgian commission.</p>
<p>The office is a member of the Swiss professional bodies SIA and BSA, and its founders maintain an active teaching and lecturing presence at institutions including ETH Zurich, TU Berlin, the Milan Polytechnic and the Melbourne School of Design.</p>
<h2>Working With What Exists</h2>
<p>EM2N's defining preoccupation is the transformation of existing buildings. The practice argues that existing structures should be understood not merely as heritage to be preserved but as a resource for sustainable transformation - a position summarised in project titles such as adaptation instead of new build, and never demolish.</p>
<p>This is more than a stylistic preference. Roughly a third of global carbon emissions are associated with construction, and a large share of that is embodied in materials already standing. A practice that specialises in converting rather than replacing is addressing that problem directly, and EM2N has described its ambition as regenerative architecture rather than merely sustainable architecture.</p>
<h2>Notable Projects</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Toni-Areal, Zurich</strong> - conversion of a former dairy plant into a major arts university campus containing concert halls, a ballet hall, cinema and studios, one of the most significant adaptive reuse projects in Switzerland</li>
<li><strong>Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels</strong> - transformation of a former Citro&euml;n garage into a contemporary art museum, delivered through Atelier Kanal</li>
<li><strong>Binzstrasse office and commercial building, Zurich</strong> - a stepped, heavily planted building honoured with a Swiss Arc Award</li>
<li><strong>Heuried Sports Centre, Zurich</strong> - ice rink and swimming facility</li>
<li><strong>Briesestrasse housing, Berlin Neuk&ouml;lln</strong> - experimental housing nominated for the DAM Preis</li>
<li><strong>Museum and archive building, Basel</strong> - bringing two collections of knowledge under one roof</li>
<li><strong>Temporary pavilion for Zurich Opera House</strong> - a demountable structure exploring temporary building in the city</li>
<li><strong>Stadtpark Apartments, Uster</strong> and <strong>Sagi Areal</strong> - residential and mixed-use development</li>
</ul>
<h2>Sectors</h2>
<p>The portfolio spans cultural buildings and museums, housing at scale, education and university campuses, sports and leisure facilities, offices and commercial buildings, and urban masterplanning - including new quarters in Basel and Berlin.</p>
<h2>Competition Practice</h2>
<p>Like most serious European practices, EM2N wins a substantial share of its work through open competition, regularly placing first in contests for schools, sports halls, housing ensembles and civic buildings across Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium. Competition success at this frequency is a reliable indicator of design standing among peers.</p>
<h2>Sustainability and Materials</h2>
<p>Alongside reuse, the practice explores vertical greening, energy-generating buildings, buildings conceived as material stores for future reuse, and modular construction - themes visible in projects described as energy machines and materials stores.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>EM2N is among the most respected mid-sized practices in the German-speaking architecture world, competing on conceptual rigour and a distinctive expertise in complex conversions of industrial and institutional buildings.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know EM2N</h2>
<p>For architects and clients considering adaptive reuse, industrial conversion or low-carbon transformation of existing stock, EM2N is one of the most instructive European practices working in the built environment today.</p>

EM2N is a Swiss architecture practice in Zurich and Berlin, known for adaptive reuse, cultural buildings, housing and the Toni-Areal and Kanal Centre Pompidou.

EM2N | Swiss Architects, Zurich & Berlin

EM2N

EM2N is a Swiss architecture practice with studios in Zurich and Berlin, known for cultural, housing, education and sports buildings and for transforming existing industrial structures into new civic and creative uses.

<h2>About DPR Construction</h2>
<p>DPR Construction is a technical builder, self-performing commercial contractor and construction manager operating globally. Ranked among the top 50 general contractors in the United States since 1997, the firm has grown alongside its customers by concentrating on complex, technically demanding work. Its purpose statement is deliberately plain: we exist to build great things.</p>
<p>Whether the project is a multi-million-dollar technical facility or a conference room renovation, DPR describes executing every job with relentless accountability - listening to client goals, developing strategies around their business and tracking its own performance against them.</p>
<h2>History</h2>
<p>DPR was founded in 1990 by Doug Woods, Peter Nosler and Ron Davidowski, whose initials give the company its name. The founders set out to build a different kind of company in an industry resistant to change - one they describe as surprising, personal and family-like without being family-owned. More than three decades later the firm serves customers worldwide.</p>
<h2>Core Values</h2>
<p>Four values are treated as inviolable beliefs rather than marketing language.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Integrity</strong> - conducting business to the highest standards of honesty and fairness</li>
<li><strong>Enjoyment</strong> - work should be fun and intrinsically satisfying</li>
<li><strong>Uniqueness</strong> - being different from and more progressive than other construction companies</li>
<li><strong>Ever Forward</strong> - continual self-initiated change, improvement and learning</li>
</ul>
<p>These support an entrepreneurial structure in which staff are empowered to make decisions and challenge traditional ways of working.</p>
<h2>Markets Served</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Healthcare</strong> - hospitals, acute care and medical facilities</li>
<li><strong>Life sciences</strong> - laboratories, cleanrooms and biotech manufacturing</li>
<li><strong>Advanced technology</strong> - semiconductor and high-tech production environments</li>
<li><strong>Mission critical</strong> - data centres and continuously operating facilities</li>
<li><strong>Higher education</strong> - academic and research buildings</li>
<li><strong>Commercial and office</strong> - workplace construction and fit-out</li>
<li><strong>Manufacturing, research and development, and hospitality</strong></li>
</ul>
<h2>How DPR Builds</h2>
<h3>Self-Perform Work</h3>
<p>Self-performing is central to the DPR model. By employing its own trade crews rather than subcontracting everything, the company retains direct control over quality, schedule and safety on the most critical elements - a meaningful advantage on projects where a single delayed trade can stall an entire programme.</p>
<h3>Preconstruction and Design-to-Build</h3>
<p>Early involvement lets DPR shape cost, constructability and programme while design decisions remain open, rather than reacting to a completed design.</p>
<h3>Prefabrication</h3>
<p>Components are manufactured off site in controlled conditions, improving quality and compressing site schedules - particularly valuable in healthcare and life sciences, where site access is restricted and tolerances are tight.</p>
<h3>Virtual Design and Construction</h3>
<p>Collaborative virtual building and BIM are used to coordinate complex mechanical, electrical and process systems before installation, resolving clashes digitally instead of in the field.</p>
<h3>Special Services Group and Sustainable Construction</h3>
<p>A dedicated group handles smaller, fast-turnaround and specialist work for existing customers, while sustainable construction practices run across the portfolio.</p>
<h2>Mission 2030</h2>
<p>DPR has set itself the goal of becoming one of the most admired companies by 2030, with explicit benchmarks: people practices as influential as Hewlett Packard's, quality and innovation doing for construction what Toyota did for the auto industry, and a brand as consistent as Disney's. Publishing comparisons at that level is a demanding standard to set publicly.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>DPR competes at the top of the US technical construction market, particularly in healthcare, life sciences and advanced technology, where process requirements and commissioning complexity favour builders with genuine self-perform and VDC capability.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know DPR</h2>
<p>For owners and designers planning laboratories, hospitals, data centres or semiconductor facilities, DPR is one of the most significant technical builders to understand in the built environment.</p>

View From Above: Block 185 Crown Install – Austin

DPR Construction is a self-performing technical builder delivering healthcare, life sciences, advanced technology, data centre and higher education projects.

DPR Construction | Technical Builder & Contractor

DPR Construction

DPR Construction is a self-performing technical builder and construction manager delivering healthcare, life sciences, advanced technology, mission critical, higher education and commercial projects, with strong preconstruction, prefabrication and virtual design and construction capability.

<h2>About Bryden Wood</h2>
<p>Bryden Wood is a design and technology company working at the intersection of architecture, engineering and manufacturing. Its team deliberately combines technologists, designers, architects, engineers and analysts, on the principle that new methods of building cannot be developed by any single discipline working alone.</p>
<p>Over more than 25 years the practice has built its Design for Manufacture and Assembly expertise into a leading position within the global Modern Methods of Construction movement, with the explicit aim of bringing manufacturing-sector benefits - safety, productivity, quality, speed and performance - into an industry that has struggled to achieve them.</p>
<h2>The Productivity Problem</h2>
<p>Bryden Wood is unusually direct about the problem it exists to solve. Construction is beset by low productivity, poor value, an ageing workforce and insufficient new entrants. Unlike manufacturing, which has transformed itself repeatedly through standardisation and automation, construction still assembles largely bespoke products by hand on open sites in variable weather.</p>
<h2>Platform Design for Manufacture and Assembly</h2>
<p>P-DfMA is the firm's central idea and its principal contribution to the industry. The concept is elegant: create standardisation at component level while retaining flexibility of design at asset level.</p>
<p>This distinction is what separates platforms from conventional modular construction. Rather than repeating whole buildings, a platform provides a kit of standardised, manufacturable components that can be configured into very different assets - a school, a hospital ward block, a laboratory - without redesigning the underlying parts each time. Manufacturers gain the production volumes that justify investment in automation, while clients and designers retain architectural freedom.</p>
<p>The firm reports that overall capital cost and time reductions of around 30 percent are not uncommon with its DfMA approach.</p>
<h2>Automation in Construction</h2>
<p>P-DfMA brings automation to construction in two places: in the factory manufacture of individual components, and in the assembly processes that create whole assets on site. Designing explicitly for automated assembly is a significant departure from traditional practice, where buildability is often considered only after the design is largely fixed.</p>
<h2>Digital Configurators</h2>
<p>Bryden Wood develops digital configurators as early-stage design tools, allowing options to be generated and tested far faster than conventional methods permit. Where a traditional feasibility study might examine two or three options over several weeks, a configurator can generate and evaluate many variants against cost, programme and performance criteria - shifting decision-making to the point in a project where it carries the most influence.</p>
<h2>Integrated Disciplines</h2>
<p>The practice works across architecture, structural and building services engineering, digital design and data analysis. Because platform thinking demands that design, manufacture and assembly be resolved together, keeping these disciplines within one organisation is a structural necessity rather than a convenience.</p>
<h2>Sectors Served</h2>
<p>Bryden Wood applies platform approaches across education, healthcare, life sciences, industrial and manufacturing facilities, infrastructure and defence - sectors where public sector clients build repeatedly and therefore stand to gain most from standardised components.</p>
<h2>Sustainability</h2>
<p>Platform and lean construction methods reduce waste, material use and rework, and factory production allows tighter control of both quality and offcuts. The firm positions P-DfMA as a route to a smarter and more sustainable construction industry rather than purely a commercial efficiency.</p>
<h2>Market Position</h2>
<p>Bryden Wood occupies a distinctive position between design practice, engineering consultancy and technology developer. It is frequently cited in UK government and industry discussion of construction productivity and platform approaches.</p>
<h2>Why AEC Teams Should Know Bryden Wood</h2>
<p>For anyone following industrialised construction, DfMA or computational design, Bryden Wood is among the most influential organisations shaping how buildings will be designed and made across the built environment.</p>

Bryden Wood is a UK design and technology company pioneering Platform Design for Manufacture and Assembly, digital configurators and automation in construction.

Bryden Wood | Platform DfMA Design & Technology

Bryden Wood

Bryden Wood is a UK design and technology company pioneering Platform Design for Manufacture and Assembly, combining architects, engineers, technologists and analysts to bring manufacturing productivity, digital configurators and automation into construction.

<div class="flex flex-col text-sm">
<article class="text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [&amp;:has([data-writing-block])&gt;*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]" dir="auto" tabindex="-1" data-turn-id="request-69739efa-f908-8327-aa73-df64ebb2d711-6" data-testid="conversation-turn-30" data-scroll-anchor="true" data-turn="assistant">
<div class="text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @w-sm/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @w-lg/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)">
<div class="[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn" tabindex="-1">
<div class="flex max-w-full flex-col grow">
<div class="min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1" dir="auto" data-message-author-role="assistant" data-message-id="321ebfe8-2b4e-4fe2-95ce-077acda9c11e" data-message-model-slug="gpt-5-2">
<div class="flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]">
<div class="markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word light markdown-new-styling">
<p data-start="156" data-end="186"><strong data-start="156" data-end="186">Why choose Ideate BIMLink?</strong></p>
<p data-start="188" data-end="784">Linking Revit and Excel with Ideate BIMLink enables you to export data from Revit to Excel, streamlining data management tasks and dramatically reducing the time they take to perform. By creating a bidirectional connection between the model and a spreadsheet environment, teams can extract large volumes of element data, edit parameters in bulk, validate information, and apply changes using Excel&rsquo;s powerful sorting, filtering, and formula tools. This eliminates the need to manually open and edit individual elements in Revit, significantly reducing repetitive work and the risk of human error.</p>
<p data-start="786" data-end="1485">Importing data from Excel back into Revit means that your models are instantly updated with approved changes, helping ensure they remain clean, coordinated, and accurate. Ideate BIMLink provides access to nearly all instance and type parameters, including many that are difficult to manage efficiently using native Revit schedules alone. This expanded access gives teams greater control over project data, improves consistency across models, supports internal standards, simplifies model auditing, and strengthens overall data governance practices. It also enables collaboration with stakeholders who may not work directly in Revit but can safely contribute through structured Excel-based workflows.</p>
<p data-start="1487" data-end="1547"><strong data-start="1487" data-end="1547">Boost the Power of Ideate BIMLink with Ideate Automation</strong></p>
<p data-start="1549" data-end="1915">Add Ideate Automation to your subscription* to reduce the cost of repetitive BIM tasks by letting them run in the background while your staff focuses on higher-value work. This scripting solution can be run manually or scheduled to operate at convenient times, providing just-in-time insight into key Revit model metrics while automating essential workflows such as:</p>
<p data-start="1917" data-end="2062">Producing document issue records<br data-start="1949" data-end="1952">Exporting PDFs<br data-start="1966" data-end="1969">Exporting health check data<br data-start="1996" data-end="1999">Preparing COBie data drops<br data-start="2025" data-end="2028">Generating quantity takeoff data</p>
<p data-start="2064" data-end="2302" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">By automating these recurring processes, teams improve efficiency, strengthen data accuracy, increase consistency, reduce risk, and deliver more predictable project outcomes without interrupting daily production workflows across projects.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="mt-3 w-full empty:hidden">&nbsp;</div>
</div>
</div>
</article>
</div>

Ideate BIMLink - Overview on Data Management

Ideate BIMLink

<p>D5 Render is a leading real-time rendering solution that revolutionizes the architectural and design workflows. Powered by AI-driven and cutting-edge technologies, D5 empowers architects, designers, and visualization artists to work more efficiently and collaboratively, accelerating creation while ensuring consistently accurate and photorealistic results.<br><br>-Best balance between speed and quality<br>-Seamless integration with your favorite design workflow<br>-User-friendly for designers, architects, visualizers, and archviz animation professionals alike<br>-Free access and a cost-effective teams subscription option<br><br>D5 Render is transforming the world of architectural visualization by bringing real-time rendering into everyday workflows&mdash;without sacrificing quality. Designed with architects, designers, and visual storytellers in mind, D5 combines high-speed GPU processing with an intuitive interface, allowing users to create photorealistic renderings, animations, and walkthroughs almost instantly.<br><br>Unlike traditional rendering engines that require long wait times and technical know-how, D5 simplifies the process through real-time preview and rendering capabilities. Users can drag and drop assets, make lighting and material adjustments on the fly, and see results in seconds&mdash;all while working within a seamless, responsive environment. It also supports live sync with popular modeling tools like SketchUp, Rhino, Revit, and Archicad, streamlining the design-to-render workflow.<br><br>What sets D5 apart is not just its speed, but also its ability to handle large, complex scenes with remarkable performance. Its AI-powered denoising engine and built-in library of assets&mdash;including vegetation, lighting, and materials&mdash;help elevate visualization without external plugins or post-production tools.<br><br>Architects and design firms using D5 report significant time savings, improved client communication, and enhanced design decision-making. By eliminating the barrier between modeling and rendering, D5 allows teams to visualize concepts earlier and with greater clarity&mdash;ultimately leading to better outcomes.<br><br>For firms working on tight deadlines or aiming to elevate their presentations, D5 offers a powerful solution that redefines what&rsquo;s possible in real-time rendering. It&rsquo;s not just a tool&mdash;it&rsquo;s becoming a core part of the modern architectural tech stack.<br><br>Check out our latest article: https://www.aecplustech.com/blog/rendering-redefined-d5-real-time-revolution-architects-design-firms</p>

D5 Render

Featuring D5 Render at the AEC Innovate Conference

Rendering Redefined: D5’s Real-Time Revolution

Tools Leading the Way in the AEC+Tech Community

Why Every Designer Needs Collaborative Rendering (Webinar)

Why Every Designer Needs Collaborative Rendering

<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ichi is an AI-powered code compliance and automation platform built for architecture firms.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The platform helps architects navigate complex building codes, automate time-consuming construction administration tasks, and strengthen QA/QC across the entire project lifecycle&mdash;from early design through construction.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Designed specifically for the realities of architectural practice, Ichi augments professional expertise by automating previously manual processes, improving accuracy, and minimizing costly downstream rework. The platform supports both project-level execution and firm-wide knowledge sharing, helping teams work more efficiently while maintaining accountability and control.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Key Features</span></strong></span></p>
<ul>
<li dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">AI Code Compliance Reviews</span></strong></li>
</ul>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ichi enables architects to quickly search, interpret, and validate applicable building codes and jurisdictional requirements. AI-assisted guidance is presented alongside authoritative source language, allowing teams to confidently apply code requirements during design, documentation, and review&mdash;without relying on generic or unverified AI outputs.</span></p>
<ul>
<li dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Automated Construction Administration</span></strong></li>
</ul>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The platform helps automate and support manual construction administration workflows, including navigating construction documents, responding to RFIs, and reviewing submittals. By reducing the time spent on repetitive coordination tasks, Ichi helps keep projects moving while easing the administrative burden on architectural teams.</span></p>
<ul>
<li dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">QA/QC at Scale</span></strong></li>
</ul>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ichi strengthens QA/QC by assisting with plan set reviews, cross-sheet consistency checks, and document validation across large and complex drawing packages. This allows architects to identify issues earlier, improve document quality, and reduce risk prior to submission or construction.</span></p>
<ul>
<li dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Institutional Knowledge Management</span></strong></li>
</ul>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ichi acts as a living knowledge base for architecture firms. Project-specific decisions, jurisdictional nuances, and internal best practices can be captured, shared, and reused across teams and over time&mdash;helping firms preserve institutional knowledge as staff, projects, and regulations change.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Who Should Use Ichi?</span></strong></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ichi is designed for:</span></p>
<ul>
<li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" aria-level="1">
<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Architecture firms working across multiple jurisdictions</span></p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" aria-level="1">
<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Design teams navigating complex or evolving code requirements</span></p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" aria-level="1">
<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Firms seeking to reduce QA/QC risk and rework</span></p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" aria-level="1">
<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Architects managing heavy construction administration workloads</span></p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" aria-level="1">
<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Practices looking to capture and scale internal expertise</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">While built with architects at the center, Ichi also supports collaboration with engineers and contractors by improving clarity, consistency, and access to critical project information.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Why Ichi?</span></strong></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ichi is purpose-built for the architectural profession. Unlike general-purpose AI tools, it is designed to operate within the constraints of real-world practice&mdash;prioritizing accuracy, traceability, and professional responsibility.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">By combining AI-driven code compliance, QA/QC automation, construction administration support, and firm-wide knowledge management in a single platform, Ichi helps architects spend less time on rote tasks and more time on high-value design and decision-making. The result is better documentation, smoother project delivery, and more resilient architectural practices.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Learn More</span></strong></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ichi is helping architecture firms modernize how they manage code compliance, QA/QC, and knowledge across their projects, all on one platform.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">👉 Visit https://www.ichiplan.com/ to schedule a demo or learn more about how Ichi is helping architects and other AECs build cities of the future.</span></p>

Ichi

<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>
<ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3">
<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="519">MeltPlan is the AI-native planning engine for the built environment, built to help architects, engineers, and contractors plan projects better &mdash; earlier, faster, and with far more confidence. Construction planning today is still fragmented across disconnected tools, spreadsheets, PDFs, and tribal knowledge. Teams are forced to manually connect decisions across code compliance, estimating, scheduling, and value engineering, which leads to slow iterations, missed scope, costly rework, and avoidable project risk.</p>
<p data-start="521" data-end="1082">MeltPlan solves this by creating a unified planning platform that connects the four planning pillars that shape every project: code compliance, cost, schedule, and value engineering. Instead of operating like a black-box AI assistant, MeltPlan is built for accuracy and transparency. It understands real AEC context &mdash; including codes and standards, building assemblies and elements, quantities and scopes, and project-specific conditions. Every output is designed to be defensible, with clear assumptions, step-by-step reasoning, and verifiable sources.</p>
<p data-start="1084" data-end="1355">At the core of MeltPlan is the belief that planning isn&rsquo;t just producing a schedule or an estimate &mdash; it&rsquo;s making the right decisions early, before mistakes become expensive field problems. MeltPlan helps teams move from &ldquo;searching and guessing&rdquo; to &ldquo;knowing and deciding.&rdquo;</p>
<p data-start="1357" data-end="1398">Today, MeltPlan offers two core products:</p>
<h3 data-start="1400" data-end="1417">Melt Code</h3>
<p data-start="1418" data-end="2324">Melt Code is the first building code research AI built to make compliance transparent and decision-ready. Instead of giving a generic answer, Melt Code provides project-specific compliance requirements along with a step-by-step reasoning trail and direct citations to every relevant code section. It also maps out Compliance Paths, guiding architects and engineers through multiple valid routes to compliance based on project variables like occupancy, construction type, sprinkler conditions, height/area thresholds, and fire ratings. Melt Code understands exceptions, cross-references, tables, diagrams, and code math &mdash; and can generate project-specific compliance illustrations to make requirements easier to interpret and communicate. It also includes workflow tools like Projects and Checklists, helping firms capture institutional knowledge and standardize compliance across teams.</p>
<h3 data-start="2326" data-end="2346">Melt Takeoff</h3>
<p data-start="2347" data-end="2980">Melt Takeoff is an AI-assisted takeoff service designed for contractors and estimators who need speed without sacrificing trust. It combines AI vision for fast quantity extraction with onshore, field-experienced senior estimators who verify outputs and add detailed allowances for scope not shown on drawings. Melt Takeoff detects hundreds of building elements, flags drawing/spec conflicts, structures takeoffs in MasterFormat&reg;, UniFormat&reg;, or custom standards, and delivers interactive outputs with sheet-linked traceability and clean Excel exports. It enables faster bids, fewer missed scope items, and more confident pricing.</p>
<p data-start="2982" data-end="3167" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">Together, Melt Code and Melt Takeoff form the foundation of the MeltPlan platform &mdash; a connected planning engine that brings clarity, speed, and trust to preconstruction decision-making.</p>

MeltPlan

<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Pirros is the AI project hub for architects and engineers. Our mission is simple: make managing projects easier for firms. We reduce the burden of producing hundreds of details and families 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 content that already exists somewhere in the archive, Pirros centralizes every detail and family a firm has produced and makes them accessible with a simple search.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">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 retrieving and managing Revit content. The technology industry has overlooked the AE design space and the strategic importance of details and families to a firm's success. Pirros is on a mission to change that.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The four pillars of Pirros:</p>
<ol class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3">
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">No upfront work. Upload and instantly search across projects without 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.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-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.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">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.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Built-in QA workflows. Review and approve standard content automatically surfaced based on analytics across projects. Approval workflows live inside the platform instead of in committee meetings and email chains.</li>
</ol>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Pirros is backed by Y Combinator, SOC 2 certified, and trusted by leading AE firms across North America, Australia, and the UK.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<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>
<ul data-start="923" data-end="1834">
<li data-start="923" data-end="1042">
<p data-start="925" data-end="1042">AI Vision measurement detecting 800+ building elements with counts, lengths, perimeters, areas, and volumes</p>
</li>
<li data-start="1043" data-end="1129">
<p data-start="1045" data-end="1129">Automated scope recognition across architectural, structural, and MEP drawings</p>
</li>
<li data-start="1130" data-end="1256">
<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>
</li>
<li data-start="1257" data-end="1351">
<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>
</li>
<li data-start="1529" data-end="1691">
<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>
</li>
<li data-start="1692" data-end="1834">
<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>We lead the construction industry in quality control. No more stumbling blocks. Constructing flawless buildings is now easier than ever. <br><br>Solibri Office imports building models from all major BIM software using the standardized IFC interface. It identifies potential problems early, preventing issues during construction and beyond, ensuring smooth project execution and long-term building performance. <br><br>Solibri offers the most advanced and comprehensive library of customizable rule templates to tackle the most demanding quality assurance tasks. Choose from over 70+ predefined rule templates or customize your own to ensure no stone is left unturned. <br><br>Go beyond clash detection and take your BIM quality to the next level. Solibri offers a wider range of checking capabilities than any other tool in the market: geometry, clearance, accessibility, information &amp; property checking, building code compliance, model revision, fire safety and more.<br><br>Solibri understands your role and offers you a set of rules, classifications, and reporting templates that you can customize to match your company, project, local, or national needs. <br><br>Use organizational tools like classifications and filters to streamline model checking, to takeoff quantities and data, or to visualize the BIM data/components in the model. Information takeoff allows you to extract quantities based on different criteria more easily. Share the information using your own customized Excel templates.<br><br>Information takeoff allows you to extract quantities based on different criteria more easily. Share the information using your own customized Excel templates.<br><br>Share project information and collaborate seamlessly and reliably through Solibri&rsquo;s integrations, BCF Live Connector and API.<br><br>Automate tasks, such as running checks, exporting the identified issues as BCF files and creating presentations, and run them at a convenient time with Solibri Autorun.<br><br>Easily integrate with your workflows: Solibri is founded on openBIM standards to foster interoperability and enable transparent, open cooperation among all project participants. This allows model authors and collaborators to connect Solibri's quality assurance capabilities with the tools of their choice.</p>

Solibri Office

Eight categories reveal how AEC technology evolved on aec+tech.

Building Better with BIM QA: 2025 Interview with Solibri

Checking Revit Models in the Cloud with Solibri

Featuring Solibri at the AEC Innovate Conference

<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>

SWAPP.AI

The AI Co-Pilot for Construction Documentation

Swapp: The AI Co-Pilot for Construction Documentation

Featuring SWAP AI AI at the AEC Innovate Conference

Featuring Swapp at the AEC Innovate Conference

AI-Powered Automation for Smarter Architectural Workflows

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

MOREgroup scales AI across 11 parallel design teams with SWAPP

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

BIM quality control at Pellikaan: Zoetermeer wellness complex

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>The world's only software for generating, iterating and sharing floor plans live to supercharge your work.</strong></p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">laiout is the self-served, end-to-end platform for AI-powered commercial space planning. Upload a plan, generate multiple test fit options in seconds, and iterate live with clear metrics on capacity, cost and carbon. Where most platforms handle a single part of the workflow, such as renders, drafting integrations or detailed architectural output, laiout covers the full journey from first floorplan to a decision ready pack you can share in one place.</p>
<h3 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">What it does</h3>
<ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3">
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Creates multiple test fit options from a blank or messy plan in seconds.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Places rooms and furniture with code aware spacing and practice rules in mind.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Surfaces live metrics on capacity, cost and carbon so trade offs are explicit.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Lets you steer the plan with rules for programme, adjacencies, densities and clearances.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Adds AI-generated renders as an optional layer, so you can visualise a scheme without leaving the platform.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Captures decisions and keeps the team aligned with an interactive link you can share.</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">How it works</h3>
<ol class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3">
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Upload and brief.</strong> Add a plan and set your requirements. No CAD experience needed.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Generate.</strong> Get 2D and 3D options that follow architectural logic and constraint aware rules.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Iterate live.</strong> Adjust programme, adjacencies, densities and spacing, then regenerate in seconds.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Compare and decide.</strong> View scenarios side by side with clear metrics, such as cost and carbon.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Export and share.</strong> Publish an interactive link, or export a full pack: drawings in PDF, DWG and IFC, Revit files, 3D snapshots and renders, and CSV schedules for counts and areas.</li>
</ol>
<h3 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">What you can do with it</h3>
<ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3">
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Go from shell plan to several lease ready options during a single client call.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Hit a headcount or density target, then tune meeting mix, focus spaces and support areas.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">De risk delivery with overlays for structure and services, and with code aware spacing and clear routes.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Produce a clean pack for leasing and design: plans with scale, schedules, 3D views, renders, and a link stakeholders can review without software.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Shortlist a preferred option with evidence that explains why it works. Hand the scheme to design with data, not just drawings.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Accelerate bids and RFPs by generating options and a quantified rationale in hours, not days.</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">Why it is unique</h3>
<ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3">
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>One place for the whole workflow.</strong> Most platforms handle a single piece, such as renders, drafting integrations or detailed architectural output. laiout takes you from first floorplan to a shareable pack without switching platforms.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Instant generation</strong> guided by constraint aware rules that reflect real practice and code.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Evidence first</strong> with capacity, cost and carbon surfaced live to keep decisions honest.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Workflow friendly.</strong> Share a link for review. No viewer licences needed.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Interoperable outputs.</strong> Export DWG, IFC and Revit files, attach 3D snapshots and renders, and create polished PDF packs.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><strong>Proven across markets.</strong> Used by landlords, tenants, brokers, designers and flex operators in more than 36 countries.</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">Who it is for</h3>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">Landlords, tenants, brokers, designers and flex operators who need rapid, data backed office layouts in competitive markets.</p>
<h3 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">Results</h3>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">60 to 80 percent time savings in early planning, more options explored, and clearer, faster decisions. Many teams move from weeks of revisions to a single working session with stakeholders.</p>

laiout

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

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

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

Result

Case Studies "287 results"

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

MOREgroup scales AI across 11 parallel design teams with SWAPP

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

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

BIM quality control at Pellikaan: Zoetermeer wellness complex

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

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

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

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

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

Agentic Quantification of a Federated Healthcare BIM

206 S Main Street – Greenville, SC

Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College

200 E Bay St – Charleston, SC

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

Phoenix Office of Innovation shares Infrastructure, Housing futures with inCituAR

Automating Municipal Planning in the City of Riviera Beach

Altis Lake, Florida

906 Studio Supercharged Project Delivery with ARKI

Melt Code AI for reliable building code research