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Transition to BIM Helps Racey Engineering Gain Enhanced and Earlier Coordination Capabilities

Transition to BIM Helps Racey Engineering Gain Enhanced and Earlier Coordination Capabilities

Customer challenge

Racey Engineering, PLLC is a fully licensed and insured Virginia Professional Engineering and Surveying Company and has worked on more than 7,800 Projects as a Company since 1994. From evaluations and inspections to designs and shop drawings, Racey Engineering offers a wide scope of civil, structural, and mechanical engineering services. Racey Engineering partnered with MicroCAD to gain expertise with Revit and Navisworks for their mechanical and structural teams.

Project goals

The Key Goals: 1. Develop a custom course curriculum for Racey Engineering’s structural and mechanical teams. 2. Introduce the user interface and the basic building components of the software that makes Revit a powerful and flexible structural modeling tool. 3. Teach the structural team the concepts and principles of creating 3D parametric models of structural buildings from engineering design through construction documentation. 4. Educate the mechanical team on the basics of a full MEP project.

Solution

MicroCAD coordinated with Racey Engineering to create a flexible training schedule to accommodate the busy calendars of several engineers. MicroCAD developed a hybrid training environment including both in-person and web-based instructor-led training sessions. MicroCAD’s senior BIM Specialist conducted the training and provided ongoing support for the students.

Business outcome

Racey Engineering gained the capability for enhanced and earlier coordination while achieving a higher level of collaboration.

Conclusion

By partnering with MicroCAD, Racey Engineering was able to further educate and grow the capabilities of their mechanical and structural teams. Training and support from MicroCAD's Senior BIM Specialist will be ongoing -as they have developed a close partnership.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 365
  • 2020-10-15

    Autodesk solutions

  • Architecture
  • Engineering & Construction Collection
  • Navisworks Manage
  • Revit

    Services provided

  • Technical Support
  • Product Training
  • Business Transformation Consulting

    Customer industry

  • Civil Engineering
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