Partners

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Control Group has a proven track record of helping customers implement Autodesk Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions. Through the integrated BIM process, architects, engineers, builders, and owners have the ability to explore a project’s key physical and functional characteristics digitally—before it’s built. This allows them to design, analyze, document and deliver designs from the conceptual phase through the construction phase, and beyond. By using coordinated, data-rich information models, all members of a project can contribute to its success through improved accuracy, less waste, and the ability to make informed decisions earlier in the process.

The Autodesk approach to BIM provides a broad portfolio of integrated, state-of-the-art applications that help deliver projects faster, more economically, and with reduced environmental impact. Through comprehensive training and support, CADsoft Consulting helps you leverage BIM to truly experience your ideas before they’re real.

Sustainable Design

Autodesk BIM solutions help make sustainable design practices easier, more efficient, and less costly by enabling project participants to create coordinated, digital design information and documentation. This information can then be used to more accurately visualize and simulate performance, appearance, and cost, thereby helping to deliver the project faster, more economically, and with the potential for reduced environmental impact. Much of the specific information required for sustainable design, analysis, code compliance, and certification becomes routinely available as a by-product of the design process, helping to save time and money.

Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)

IPD is an emerging business model in the building industry that allows for the entire extended team to collaborate early in the process to make the most effective decisions together. The IPD process is built on behavior and contractual relationships that are greatly enhanced by incorporating the technology-based process of BIM. BIM helps project teams use consistent, reliable information in a common collaborative environment, increasing understanding of design intent, improving efficiency, and enabling new ways of working that inspire more sustainable design and construction.

Architecture

BIM helps architects stay competitive in an increasingly complex business climate by giving them the ability to better predict the outcome of a building before it’s built. It enables the creation of more sustainable, accurate designs with fewer errors and less waste, which can result in higher profits and more satisfied clients. And through the delivery of reliable, coordinated building information, BIM helps architects collaborate with team members more easily.

MEP Engineering

BIM gives mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering professionals the ability to better predict the outcome of their systems before they are built. By creating and analyzing designs in a model, MEP professionals can deliver sophisticated, sustainable building systems more quickly and economically than ever before. Plus, increased visibility facilitates coordination and collaboration with architects and other engineers to significantly reduce errors and improve the accuracy and reliability of MEP engineering design and documentation.

Structural Engineering

BIM helps structural engineers stay flexible and competitive by giving them the ability to better predict the outcome of their structures before they are built. With BIM, structural design and documentation can be integrated earlier in the process, so design interferences can be addressed before construction begins. And bidirectional linking to analysis applications from leading industry and regional partners helps reduce coordination errors and improve accuracy. BIM also helps to more efficiently accommodate design changes as they occur, and improves coordination with extended teams.

Construction

BIM helps construction professionals visualize, simulate, and analyze a project before construction even begins. BIM solutions can be used to perform quantity takeoffs, visualize construction processes through 4D simulation and clash detection, improve communication and collaboration among project stakeholders, and optimize execution in the field. Constructability is communicated and issues are flagged early on when changes are less expensive to make, thus minimizing material waste on-site, increasing productivity, and potentially lowering costs.

Solutions

Client Story

Grimshaw gets an entire IT department for less than the cost of a full-time staff.

"Control Group has exceeded our expectations for on-the-call service and forward thinking IT solutions."
- Shane Burger, Associate, Head of Computational Design Unit, Grimshaw

Grimshaw's New York office needed a cost-effective solution for an IT department, looking for a company that could support their complex network infrastructure as well as provide insight and direction from a design computing standpoint. They also needed a first-responder support mechanism for emergencies that could coexist with their internationally-based support resources.

Control Group was selected as their IT partner and is providing all necessary IT functions for one flat monthly fee, all for less than it would cost to have full time personnel. Working with their staff, we performed an assessment of their existing technologies and developed...[Read More]

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