In every workplace, Driving Vision works we noticed that too little time is dedicated to the design, but too much time is spent drafting and documenting plans, scope, contracts. As a result, there is very little time for architects to incorporate sustainability in their projects :

• lower energy use,
• lower carbon footprint,
• acoustic comfort, and other meaningful design improvements.

So we believe that Drafting and Documenting are preventing designers and builders to construct sustainable assets.

Growing climate change conditions require urgent actions from the construction industry, as buildings represent around 40% of humanity’s carbon footprint. Would it be easy to reduce this by 50% tomorrow? Maybe if architects were getting more time to simulate building performance during design.

3D architectural design tools have not evolved quickly enough and are outdated. Some software companies are doing their best to develop new tools. However, they still lag behind other industries in graphic quality, modeling efficiency, UX, collaboration, and automation.

Driving vision is always exploring the market for innovations that could help their clients to be more efficient so we believe we found a solution to increase design time and reduce drafting and documenting time.

Minimizing Arduous Drafting Tasks

Most architects love designing buildings but they are not very interested in drafting the documentation required by BIM.

Design is the fun part of the architect's work as it involves choosing and assembling the various parts of the building, using their skills in aesthetics and problem-solving to improve the Build outcomes. Unfortunately, it represents only 45% of the hours spent on a project or even less.

Drafting is a mundane task that should be automated. Creating drawing sheets and adding dimensions, tags, keynotes, legends, notes, and cross-references is painful and time-consuming.

Drafting has no value added to the design but is an important task as it explains the decisions made during the design process to an important audience of permit officials or builders. Architects spend over 55% of their project timeline on this task.

Driving Vision has found a new tool that creates and captures enough information to automate this task.

Modumate:

It is a standalone 3D modeling platform automating construction documents.

When a user builds a Modumate model, the software instantly exports construction-grade drawings, quantity estimates, and renderings for them.

With Modumate, you can produce a detailed 3D model in 5-10x fewer clicks the designs are rendered, the background DWGs for CAD sheets, and quantity estimates are produced.

Modumate is like a hybrid of SketchUp, Revit, and The Sims. It combines the planar modeling of CAD tools like SketchUp, the parametric assemblies of BIM tools like Revit, and Unreal Engine’s visual quality.

There are well-established CAD and BIM tools available on the market, and architectural designers tend to stick to the ones they are familiar with. Modumate is intended for use as a 3D companion to a 2D drafting platform like AutoCAD, it feeds with high-quality DWGs and an increasing number of drafting automation.

• Model a complete building more efficiently

Building designers want to design spaces that feel good to live in, and it’s easier to judge (and sell) the quality of a design when the image is photorealistic.

Currently, most architects are forced to create 3D models in unrealistic apps and then export them to a downstream rendering tool to make beautiful images.

Powered by the photorealistic graphical capabilities, the scenes designed in Modumate represent the final product much more accurately. This enables architects to show how the spaces look and feel.

When modeling, most mainstream CAD-based tools encourage users to sculpt shapes vertex-by-vertex.

Buildings aren’t sculptures—they’re a kit of parts, made up of components like studs, blocks, boards, panels, and handles. Building designers have recipes for how to assemble these parts—we call these recipes walls, floors, roofs, and doors.

Modumate includes a set of BIM tools for modeling these parts and assembles them in one click each. By working with these BIM objects, architects get a clean, clear model of their building much more efficiently, and Modumate keeps track of all the parts with a real-time quantity estimate, takeoff, and bill of materials.

Modeling in real-time collaboration

Plannerly is a cloud-based BIM Management tool for architects, engineering and construction companies, and building owners designed to simplify BIM planning, execution, and monitoring; improve collaboration & communication; maximize efficiency, save time, and minimize cost.

• Driving Vision and Plannerly share the same vision of simple BIM planning.

Plannerly is a cloud-based BIM Management tool

It is designed for architectural, engineering, construction companies, and building owners. It simplifies BIM planning, execution, and monitoring; improves collaboration & communication; maximizes efficiency, saves time, and minimizes cost.

Driving Vision and Plannerly share the same vision of simple BIM planning to help clients to be compliant with international standards and simplify the tedious task of documenting a project reducing the time spent to document a project by automating your processes.

BIM Execution Planning

You can drag and drop from hundreds of free BEP templates to quickly create and agree on your BIM standards, processes, and contracts.

You can create BIM contracts quickly by dragging and dropping from:

• industry-standard BIM templates,
• your company standards,
• previous projects.

Templates are aligned to BIM Standards: BS1192 / ISO 19650 / AIA and BIM Forum.

Real-time BIM Access anywhere, anytime.

Plannerly allows you to:

• Instantly see team updates and comments in a live online environment
• drop in images, tables, videos, and more, then edit everything in your browser
• add videos and rich media to your BEP from many web-based tools like process maps from draw.io, YouTube training videos, surveys from Typeform, slides from Google, 360 photo walkthroughs from Matterport, and even BIM360 models
• copy and paste from Word and Excel to your BEP in current standards detecting styles from Microsoft Office allowing you to clean formatting when pasting – helping you to standardize your content across all templates.
• simple approval workflow: “Moving sections from “Work In Progress (WIP) to “Shared” to “Published” lets your team achieve solid and continual agreement on your project
• formatted BEP PDFs: No more hours spent on formatting, versioning, and sending your BIM Execution Plan pdf by email. We prefer one-click, custom-branded documents with auto-archived backups and private or public hyperlinks. Your choice!

Visual BIM scopes that everyone can understand

A collaborative framework to define ISO 19650 requirements for geometry, documentation, and Information (Level of Information Need BS EN 17412-1).

Traditional BIM scopes can be rigid, wasteful, and confusing – it’s time to help teams define the optimal BIM requirements.

• Simple to implement ISO 19650 (Level of Information Need EN 17412-1), US AIA, BIM Forum, Uniformat, Uniclass – and many more – BIM standards.
• BIM Object Library Templates Library Drag and drop to build your BIM uses from a complete BIM object library – with industry-standard templates for Uniformat, Uniclass, Revit Categories, MIDPs, and more!
• ISO 19650 Level of Information Need software for simple BIM scoping to BS EN 17412‑1:2020 BIM Scoping MIDP level of information need
• Real-time BIM Collaboration. simple to define the Who, What, When, and Why. Set your Information Delivery Milestones. Define Geometry, Information, and documentation requirements to ISO 19650 Level of Information Need.
• print BEP as PDF. No more hours spent on formatting, versioning and sending PDFs by email. We prefer one-click, custom-branded documents with auto-archived backups and private or public hyperlinks. Your choice!
• Real-time BIM Collaboration Model Checking Use Plannerly’s Verify module or download the Scope data for model checking in Solibri, 3D Repo, BIM Assure, Assemble and others to check the model meets your requirements.

Contract

The most simple and streamlined approach to contracting for Building Information Modeling (BIM) compatible with ISO 19650 appointment workflow. AECO industry runs on contracts – Plannerly makes them ridiculously simple to prepare, agree, and act on! - BIM electronic contracts do business faster without needing to be physically present – eSignature is trusted by millions of people worldwide and more than half of eSignature transactions are completed in less than 24 hours – compared to days or weeks for traditional methods! - Signature for BIM contract Legally Binding + Secure Data encryption, audit trails, tamper-proofing, and industry-standard compliances are default. - BIM Contracts reduce the manual steps to filter by Appointment and merge EIR (Exchange Information Requirements), BEPs (BIM Execution Plans), Responsibility Matrices, Information Protocol, and more(!) into a single beautifully formatted PDF. - Happy BIM Customer Delight your clients by improving customer experience making it easier for companies to do business with you. Simplify each team’s contract documents by filtering and creating targeted appointment documents to the exact requirements by company, milestone, and document type (and others) in one simple online workflow. - BIM Team Contract Access Control accesses each document while keeping all contracts stored securely with the relevant project data. - BIM Agreements Collaborative Contracting. Simple collaboration to request one or more team member’s document approval with a simple checkmark. - BIM and paperless contracting Eliminate The Paperwork – Literally.

Modernize your approach to procurement by streamlining your company’s entire contracting process. Plannerly’s Contract module integrates the role of multiple tools to create professional agreements with integrated eSignature in just a few clicks.BIM Contract Certificate Electronic certificates Electronic certificates are provided with every signed document and can serve as evidence should a dispute arise.

Implementing BIM can be daunting, but Driving Vision is here to help you at the pace you are comfortable with. Get started by getting in touch now