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Engineering Firm Gain Increased Awards when Autodesk Solutions Implemented

Engineering Firm Gain Increased Awards when Autodesk Solutions Implemented

Customer challenge

Smada Consultants, as an international engineering consultancy firm in the Civil Structural Engineering industry, were early adapters of high-tech solutions, and therefore in the process of meeting their demanding projects workflow, developed an extensive archive of digital content produced with Autodesk AutoCAD. Their clientele grew and so did the need to enhance productivity while maintaining efficiencies and reducing the need for rework or risk loss of data. Local services had to be scaled up to support International engineering consultants with increased of BIM prospects.

Project goals

Smada’s MD (Managing Director) states “Novgar is always readily available by phone, internet or face to face contact”. During one of these calls we setup the grounds for consultation to analyse the needs and to determine how best to increase workflow of design civil infrastructure while maintaining the integrity of the archived digital assets. Next would be the Engineer also wanted to produce “Speedy graphical presentation of existing underground structure” over time. Besides that, the incorporation of BIM tools to support their growing interest with Consulting Engineers overseas and. Finally, the Ongoing staff training with the least amount of disruption of office workflow.

Solution

The solution was a phased delivery of implementing Autodesk AutoCAD and Autodesk Civil 3D to install and configuration to main the integrity of the archived project assets, then engaging the users with a combination of multi-modal training including interactive 24/7 access to training resources. The use of Autodesk Revit was another key tool to be deployed via the implementation of the Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction collections. The final stage of the project saw the integration of cloud-based design technologies supporting co-authoring of design projects with the international Partners using Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro to facilitate a total Autodesk solution delivery.

Business outcome

Now, with the Project goals met, “Yes” said the MD in agreement that the Autodesk/Novgar’s solution has a positive impact on his business and has improved his workflows. He further remarked that “the new installs facilitate the computation of quantities for pricing” with the added benefit of “greatly improving the display of the structural elements.” This total Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction solution now allows for the “production of 3D images of pictorial views of the planning concepts of our architectural clients appear to have increased their interest in our services.”

Conclusion

The Company is completely satisfied with the outcome as there are no unresolved issues over the project, but multiple benefits were sighted by the MD stating, “This definitely increased our competitiveness.” Finally, with this increased capacity the firm was awarded the ‘Design and Supervision of over 1600 Metres of shipping berth at Kingston Port (5 projects)’.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 365
  • 2020-06-06

    Autodesk solutions

  • Architecture
  • Engineering & Construction Collection
  • BIM 360 Collaborate Pro

    Services provided

  • Product Activation & Onboarding
  • Technical Support
  • Product Training
  • System Implementation
  • Configuration & Deployment

    Customer industry

  • Architecture, Engineering & Construction
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