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Sun West Custom Homes Increases Collaboration Between Drafters & Field Teams with Autodesk Build

Founded in 1978, Sun West Custom Homes is a 30-person firm that designs and builds distinctive residential and commercial buildings in Nevada. Their unique buildings push the envelope in terms of design and include state-of-the art as well as experimental features, helping them earn the honor of designing and building The New American Home® for 2019, 2020, and 2024. The New American Home is the official home of the International Builders’ Show®, which brings together the best people in the residential construction industry to showcase cutting-edge trends.Sun West has two main departments: commercial and residential. In general, each department works autonomously, managing their own projects from design through construction. However, there are two people, Lee Nave, CAD Manager, and Cody Milford, Project Coordinator, involved in every aspect of every project.“While each department was effectively communicating via Microsoft Office tools, Cody and I were spending too much time trying to manage all the moving parts in both departments,” said Lee. “We were also starting to hear that some of our subcontractors, and we have hundreds of them, wanted to reduce the time it took for them to get information, submit RFIs, track updates, confirm resolutions, etc.”

Dillon Transitions AutoCAD Users to Revit with IMAGINiT's ProductivityNOW Platform

For the past 10 years, many of Dillon’s 500+ architects, engineers, and designers have used Autodesk Revit software to create, edit, and review 3D models. Today, one of the company’s goals is to transition everyone still creating 2D models in Autodesk AutoCAD to Autodesk Revit in order to:Align Dillon with the upcoming industry standardEnsure employees are skilled in the latest technologiesCut down on drafting timeReduce the chance of manual errorsEasily explore design options, such as color and texture“Walk” customers through 3D modelsStreamline the creation/updating of Quantity TakeoffsDeliver accurate Building of Materials to contractors“We know change is difficult,” said Shannon Zorgdrager, Associate, Dillon Consulting “To make sure all the AutoCAD users were excited about this change, we needed to clearly present the value of Revit, make sure they understood how it could make them better at their jobs, and give them the training they needed to quickly get up to speed and use it efficiently.”“Since we were going to be knee-deep in discussions about Revit, we decided to take the conversations a step further and get more familiar with the contents and capabilities of the Autodesk AEC collection, which we subscribed to a few years ago,” said Shannon.

Dillon Consulting Gains Tremendous Efficiencies with Autodesk Construction Cloud

When Dillon was awarded the multi-disciplinary Daly Overpass construction project in the City of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, they knew it was time to invest in a software solution that could house all project data in a central location, as numerous stakeholders would be involved in this large multidisciplinary project that consisted of a new four-lane bridge, a new pedestrian/active transportation bridge, new on/off ramps, new pathways and sidewalks, municipal service and private utility relocations, and land drainage infrastructure improvements.