Build
CAD and BIM environments
Models that crawl between offices, licences that drop on deadline day, drivers that differ from desk to desk: we build the environment your models run on, for every site you work from.
Large models need an environment built for them.
A Revit model, an iTWO estimate or a stack of Bluebeam markups is large, shared by several people at once and opened from the office, the site office, home and the firms you work with. An environment that grew desk by desk shows it: a model that opens in seconds at one site and minutes at another, a licence server that drops out with the connection, a GPU driver that differs from the one next to it. We build the environment as one piece: the workstations, where the project files live and how each site reaches them, the licence servers, and how a new workstation gets the same setup every time. Then it stays fast on deadline day.
The route
From the slow model to the same setup on every site.
A CAD and BIM environment follows the same route as every Build project. Its switchovers are planned around submission dates, because the week before one is no time to move a project share.
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Kick-off: how your teams work
Which models, which software versions, how many people in a model at once, which sites and which firms outside yours. And the submission calendar, which decides when nothing may change.
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Access and safeguard
The project data backed up and a restore tested before anything moves. A model that’s open on two sites is the last thing to risk.
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Workstations as one standard
Hardware, GPU drivers and software versions defined per project, so a model opens the same way on every machine. Revit, AutoCAD, iTWO and Bluebeam deployed by tested scripts, so a new workstation is set up like every other one.
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Project files where the work is
Where the shares live, how each site reaches them and how the firms you work with get in, decided for the models you actually run and written down. Fast access from the office, the site container, home and abroad.
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Licence servers that hold
Network licences placed where every site reaches them, monitored, and documented with their renewal dates, so a licence doesn’t drop out at the one moment it matters.
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Switchover, hypercare, daily operations
Shares and licence servers switch out of hours, between submissions, each with its way back. Thirty days close to the teams, then into Manage, where the workstations are patched, monitored and kept to the standard.
On record
In the project order and the handover documentation.
- The workstation standard: hardware, drivers and software versions per project
- Where the project files live and how each site reaches them
- The licence servers, with their renewal dates
- The scripts a new workstation is set up with
- The archive structure and retention, planned for warranty periods
Your project data stays findable and readable for the years you’re liable for it, long after the software has moved on.
What usually goes wrong with CAD and BIM.
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The environment that grew desk by desk
Every workstation set up by a different person in a different year. The model behaves differently on each, and nobody knows why the one in the corner is fast.
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The share moved in submission week
A change timed by the IT calendar instead of the project calendar. The team finds out on the evening before the submission.
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Licences counted, not placed
Enough licences on paper, but on a server one site reaches slowly and another not at all. On deadline day the licence is there, and not available.
Also under Build
- Provider exits and takeovers Access secured, systems documented and the switchover planned around your deadlines, even when the handover isn’t friendly.
- Microsoft 365 and Azure migrations Servers and VPNs in the office retired where they no longer earn their keep, service by service.
- Mergers and carve-outs One tenant or two, turned into the structure the deal needs by the legal date, nobody stopping work.
- Office moves and new sites Network, internet, phones and printing ready before the first desk is occupied, with a plan B for the line.
- Rollouts New laptops, software or phones rolled out in waves, a pilot group first, without a lost working day.
Questions we get
Do you know Revit, AutoCAD, iTWO and Bluebeam?
Yes. We install, update and license the software your projects depend on and keep the workstations it runs on healthy; our guides come from that work. For deep application questions we work with the vendor directly. Engineering and architecture is where we come from.
Can firms outside ours work in our models?
Yes, on purpose and on record: the firms you work with see what you share with them, for as long as you share it, and who may share what is decided with you and written down. The sharing rules are part of the environment, not an afterthought.
Our people work from site containers and from home. Does that change the design?
It decides it. Where the files live and how each place reaches them is designed for the sites you actually work from, the site office included, and the same access rules apply everywhere, so a model is as protected on the road as at the desk.
What about the archive once a project ends?
Warranty periods mean project data has to stay findable and readable for years. The archive structure, retention and backups are planned for those years, not just for next week, and they’re part of the handover documentation.
Start
Do your models slow down between sites?
In a first call we go through where your project files live today, how each site reaches them, and what the next submission date leaves room for.
- No first level
- No surprises
- Pilot before you buy