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How Graitec and Autodesk Software have helped Stelling Properties Achieve Integration, Collaboration and High-Quality Design Outcomes

How Graitec and Autodesk Software have helped Stelling Properties Achieve Integration, Collaboration and High-Quality Design Outcomes

Customer challenge

Stelling Properties is a multi-sector development company, which has an integrated approach to construction design. It is a vital element of the company's manufacturing of state-of-the-art modular systems from its dedicated factory in the UK. Modular design allows it to create a successful balance between standardisation and leveraging offsite value (quality/cost/control) and the variability and high-quality context-driven architecture its sites require. Stelling believes that getting this balance right brings great value to its customers and that the software infrastructure it provides supports and facilitates this and is necessary to its success. It also sees huge benefits in bringing offsite manufacture to the development process. It can bring precision to its product and control over materials and finishes quality, which is not always possible in traditional construction.

Project goals

Stelling delivered buildings traditionally before taking the technical leap into product design (due to the benefit going modular brings our projects/customers). It buys land and designs projects for it, including everything from planning for student accommodation to residential projects. It then carries out technical and manufacturing design in-house before fabricating and assembling offsite modules and products, which are then shipped to the construction site. It also has a construction team that delivers the project on-site before handing it over to the operations team, who own and operate the asset. Stelling Properties has an in-house architecture team that works across processes ranging from feasibility and concept design to technical delivery. It also works with external consultants in structural, civil and MEP engineering areas, who use Autodesk BIM 360, now part of Autodesk Build, to coordinate project designs with Stelling's in-house teams.

Solution

Stelling Properties partnered with Autodesk Solution Provider Graitec based on their responsiveness and expertise in Autodesk software. Graitec supplied Autodesk Revit for architectural design and Inventor for product design. Stelling Properties was looking for an approach to deliver 3D architectural design and, more importantly, efficiently manage the datasets it generates in its models. These models allow it to create links to procurement and supply chain processes and are effectively the lifeblood of Stelling's production and construction systems. They decided to use Autodesk software to deliver project-scale architectural design, including Autodesk® BIM Collaboration Pro (Building Information Modelling) software, Revit and Inventor, a professional grade design and engineering software for design, with the latter choice based on its prevalence across the broader marketplace and the tool's close links with Revit, together with the parametric tools and capability Inventor offers.

Business outcome

Stelling works parallel in Inventor and Revit, with a workflow developed in its BIM strategy and execution plans. This allows it to leverage the strength of both systems. It has tools and methods in place for coordinating and checking between the two. It especially sees the value of Inventor as a tool to develop its catalogue of products and Revit as a tool to configure its products into live projects. The capability of each platform in terms of data sets and technical detail suits this approach. Graitec also supplied the Autodesk Product Design and Manufacturing Collection (PDMC), a robust set of applications that enabled Stelling Properties to use connected products for 2D drafting, large-scale design review, and visualisation and connect to Fusion 360 to access next-generation capabilities and collaboration.

Conclusion

Having a dispersed architectural design team, partly in the UK and in South America, the need for this team to collaborate on their designs and share work led to the purchase of Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro. This cloud-based collaboration solution connects BIM data with construction workflows in a common data environment. As they continue to grow, it is likely to adopt an intelligent strategy focused on product reuse and building intelligence into the design. In pursuing and delivering this design vision, Stelling Properties has found the support of Graitec and the rich functionality of the Autodesk software to be invaluable.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 5
  • 2021-09-08

    Autodesk solutions

  • BIM 360 Collaborate
  • Architecture
  • Engineering & Construction Collection
  • Product Design & Manufacturing Collection
  • Vault Professional
  • BIM 360 Build
  • BIM 360 Collaborate Pro
  • Inventor
  • Revit
  • Fusion 360

    Services provided

  • System Integration
  • Product Training
  • Technical Support
  • System Implementation
  • Configuration & Deployment

    Customer industry

  • Construction
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