Software developers are using the cloud to dramatically expand the collaborative potential of building information modeling (BIM) when it comes to project management tasks by enabling stakeholders to contribute or participate in the work process, irrespective of their physical location or working hours.
Autodesk’s BIM 360 Team provides stakeholders with a cloud-based project management workspace that can be accessed by all team members, thus enhancing BIM’s ability to expedite collaboration on complex, multidisciplinary undertakings.
Rendering of the Brentwood Mall Residential Towers. (Image courtesy of Autodesk.)
Cloud-based project management also means that all clients, contractors, team members and stakeholders are capable of directly marking up or commenting on designs that are jointly shared and accessible, thus ensuring that everyone is up to date and on the same page when it comes to key project data.
They achieve this by means of now-ubiquitous mobile smart devices, regardless of whether they’re in the office, at a client’s location or at the point of construction.
By situating the project management system in the cloud, stakeholders who are located in disparate real-world locations can also jointly participate in real-time design review sessions.
Given the broad-based access and collaborative usage at the heart of cloud-based BIM project management, BIM 360 Team supports a broad variety of over 50 design file formats, including AutoCAD…