Building Studio Uses Bentley Software to Deliver Exceptional, Large-scale Projects
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Case Study Image courtesy of Building Studio Summary Organization: Building Studio Architects Location: Sydney, Australia Business Objective: • Enable 3D design capabilities as part of an efficient BIM delivery process • Establish a single document management and collaboration solution that makes project files easy to manage and access • Maximize resource utilization and enable design teams to collaborate virtually • Increase operational efficiency by streamlining the flow of design information Products used: AECOsim Building Designer, ProjectWise Fast Facts • Building Studio embraced BIM workflows to ensure design quality while maximizing productivity • AECOsim Building Designer enables Building Studio to work faster and win bigger, more challenging projects • ProjectWise enables designers to collaborate more closely with third-party resources and customers, sharing data in a fast, safe, and secure way ROI • Enables smaller teams using BIM workflows and AECOsim Building Designer to produce the same work of larger design teams • Effective collaboration with contractors and consultants as a result of AECOsim Building Designer’s interoperability and ease of data exchange • Reduction in construction errors with precise models, coordinated drawing sheets, and detailed scheduling of component quantities Building Studio Uses Bentley Software to Deliver Exceptional, Large-scale Projects AECOsim Building Designer Ensures Design Quality while Maximizes Productivity Enabling Designers to Work Smarter and Faster When Gerard Outram, CEO of Building Studio, founded his business in 2007, he did so with an eye to the future. “As a start-up business owner, I knew the 3D world was a wave of the future and Bentley offered a great platform to help Building Studio meet our vision. “Over time, we’ve moved to new iterations of Bentley’s 3D design software – AECOsim Building Designer – and it’s been a fantastic platform for growing our business.” Based in Sydney, Australia, Building Studio uses Bentley software to design and deliver complex buildings for corporate, institutional, and government clients. The company is well known for producing creative, rigorously tested solutions that meet each client’s unique needs and aspirations. To date, the company’s 20 employees have used AECOsim Building Designer – and, more recently, ProjectWise – to design, document, and build more than 90,000 square meters of buildings. Investing in Productivity and Innovation Image courtesy of Building Studio But Outram considered other factors as well, such as how the product worked technically and the total cost of ownership. “I really liked the federated data model built into Bentley products,” he explained. “Construction projects contain an enormous amount of data that places significant demands upon IT systems. I knew that when starting my business, I couldn’t make the investments in heavy-duty servers needed to achieve the performance levels we’d need using software based on a single database. Bentley’s federated model offered a great solution that could get us started and grow with the business.” He also knew that Bentley offered the most sophisticated 3D modeling capabilities and visualization tools. “We could quite literally model anything – and not be limited in any way by the software,” noted Outram. “At the same time, we could quickly reel off 10 or 20 different renderings of various views of a design – good quality images that really help clients understand the design and feel like they are a part of the design process.” Without AECOsim Building Designer, Building Studio would need to use separate teams to create 2D drawings, 3D models, and lastly the renderings, which would involve a much more labor-intensive process. Outram knows the value of Bentley’s platform having spent 12 years working with it alongside competitor products, which gave him a solid basis for comparison. “With Bentley’s Collaborating on Bigger, More 3D software we could innovate Complex Projects faster and achieve a very high With AECOsim Building level of productivity. AECOsim Designer deployed across the Building Designer’s BIM Located on Collins Street at the gateway to Melbourne’s business, Building Studio has workflow also enabled us to Docklands precinct, the Lantern Building is a landmark been able to work faster and creatively explore design development with striking facade design. win far bigger, more opportunities knowing we challenging projects than would have seamless would be expected from a young company. For example, one integration with the document production workflow. When I project Building Studio won was a research center for a considered my personal productivity using different tools, I university in Sydney. “We were approached by one of consistently got better results using AECOsim Building Australia’s biggest tier-one contractors to redesign a Designer. So, from that point of view, there was no question 45,000-square-meter biology research building,” commented which design software I wanted to deploy.”

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“We can quite literally design and model anything – and not be limited in any way by the software.” — Gerard Outram, CEO, Building Studio Find out about Bentley at: www.bentley.com Contact Bentley 1-800-BENTLEY (1-800-236-8539) Outside the US +1 610-458-5000 Global Office Listings www.bentley.com/contact Outram. “We used Bentley software to model every space and feature of the building and create the plans and images that convinced the university our alternative proposal was the best way forward. We were able to solve the architectural and technical problems that were driving up the cost...

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