Embassy Revit Workflow Change

Embassy Group, a leading development firm in real estate commenced its operations in 1993 led by Jitu Virwani, Chairman and Managing Director of the group. The establishment has developed 62+ Million Sq. Ft of Commercial, Residential, Retail, Hospitality, Services, Educational and Industrial Warehouse spaces and holds an extensive land bank of 1,000+ acres across the country. The operation spans across Indian and international markets that include Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Coimbatore, Trivandrum, Serbia and Malaysia.

Embassy has an incredible track record in the Real Estate industry in the Indian Subcontinent. 

They have a variety of departments which include:

• Commercial Real Estate

• Residential Real Estate

• Hospitality

• Education

• Interiors

• Co-living

• A variety of Services for infrastructure management

UnoTEAM has recommended Embassy India to use Autodesk Revit as the advantages of using Revit are many and this would help the design user team tremendously. Some of the problems that needed to be addressed by UnoTEAM were as follows:

• The amount of symbols that have to be generated are many due to which the selection structure needed to be standardised.
• Multiple departments working together in one project mean that there was a certain amount of rework that needed to be addressed due to miscommunications among them.
• Project Scheduling workflows needed to be optimized.  
• MEP Engineers were facing issues with changes in the models with respect to specific needs of the current design.

Some of the Advantages that Embassy has benefited from are stated below:

1. Parametric Components

Revit organizes parametric components into families to streamline the modeling process. Every element, from 3D views and title blocks, all the way to individual building components, is part of a “family” in Revit software. “Families” are created by assigning dimensions and properties to information, which a Revit user can then modify by changing specific parameters. Parametric components, or parametric modeling, gives engineers, architects, and other users more control over the total building design.

2. Collaborative Tools

Collaboration is how top builders achieve their greatest successes. An advantage to using Revit is that all aspects of BIM are collaborative. Multiple users can work on the same model at the same time. A useful “Sync with Central” tool allows users to push their changes to a central model to avoid overwriting or duplicating their efforts. Revit is also fully interoperable with other Autodesk software, including FormIt and AutoCAD, to facilitate collaboration between outside organizations.

3. Lack of Repetition

Revit’s database plays a big role in the software’s overall usefulness for MEP engineers and architects. Specifically, the software database decreases the repetition that is usually involved in BIM. Rather than making minor changes across multiple drawings, engineers that use Revit make changes once in the centralized database, and the software automatically updates all drawings with the latest parameters. One of the biggest benefits of Revit is that it decreases repetition, which increases productivity and accuracy.

Additional advantages that Embassy has benefited from are stated below:

4. Project Scheduling

Teams that use Revit software for scheduling are able to minimize the time spent developing and managing project workflows. Revit can be set up to automatically update project schedules as changes are made to the building model. This is a major benefit of Revit over other competing BIM software since manual project scheduling is a time-consuming task that adds hours each week to the overall project. Revit schedules can be exported to other project management software, which is useful when collaborating with external teams and organisations.

5. Software Libraries

Revit’s digital libraries have become a useful tool for MEP engineers. Libraries serve as repositories for parametric components, which engineers can pull out and edit based on the specific needs of a current design. With unlimited storage, engineers can store new components, as well as edits to existing components. Any of these designs can then be accessed immediately from a connected device.

6. Remote Access

Cloud-based computing has become the norm in today’s world. Revit BIM software takes advantage of cloud-based access, so users can access models and database files any time, from any location. BIM 360 from Autodesk is one of many cloud-based platforms that work with Revit. The platform acts like a server, allowing remote users to save models and push changes through a web browser. Using a cloud server extends the capabilities of Revit BIM software.

All the above mentioned advantages have helped Embassy India to create a more optimised workflow that enables the teams in the company to increase their levels of efficiency and outputs. 

This level of efficiency is of utmost importance in this Industry as any mistake will only result in a substantial expense increase resulting in the budget allocated for the project to increase.

The use of Revit 3D by Embassy India has helped them increase their productivity by 20% and their time taken for change management has also reduced by 15%.