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 :
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 42% 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3D architectural design tools have not evolved quickly enough and are outdated.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 but they still lag behind those of other industries in terms of 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.
Most architects love designing buildings, but they are not very interested in drafting the documentation required by BIM.
Design, for architects is the fun part of their 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 as it is painful and time consuming to create drawing sheets and adding dimensions, tags, keynotes, legends, notes, and cross-references. Drafting has very little value add for 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 has been created to capture enough information to automate this task.
a standalone 3D modeling platform automates construction documents. When a user builds a Modumate model, the software instantly exports construction grade drawings, quantity estimates, and renderings for them.
Over the next two to three years, the company’s vision is to offer a library of algorithms that automatically add dimensions, tags, notes, titles, legends, and other drawing annotations. Its first algorithms—floor plan massing, framing, and opening dimensions— is released in May 2021. These will help designers focus on the meaningful, enjoyable work: design.
In essence, 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 a number of well-established CAD and BIM tools available on the market, and architectural designers tend to stick to the ones they’re familiar with. Modumate is intended for use as a 3D companion to a 2D drafting platform like AutoCAD, which it feeds with high-quality DWGs and an increasing number of drafting automations.
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, then export to a downstream rendering tool to make beautiful images.
Powered by the photorealistic graphical capabilities of Unreal Engine, scenes designed in Modumate represent the final product much more accurately. This enables architects to design with confidence about the look and feel of their spaces.
When it comes to modeling, most mainstream CAD-based tools encourage users to sculpt shapes vertex-by-vertex. But 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.
Plannerly is a cloud-based BIM Management tool for architectural, engineering, construction companies and building owners, designed to simplify BIM planning, execution and monitoring; improve collaboration & communication; maximize efficiency, save time and minimize cost.
for architectural, engineering, 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 to help our clients to be compliant with international standards and simplify the tedious task of documenting a project it reduces the time to document a project by automating your processes
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:
Templates are aligned to US & UK BIM Standards: Level 2 / PAS1192 / BS1192 / ISO 19650 / AIA and BIM Forum.
Real-time BIM Access anywhere, anytime.
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.
The most simple and streamlined approach to contracting for Building Information Modeling (BIM) following the ISO 19650 appointment workflow. AECO industry runs on contracts – Plannerly makes them ridiculously simple to prepare, agree and act on! - Fast BIM Contracts Do business faster Without needing to be physically present – eSignature is trusted by hundreds of 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, document type (and others) in one simple online workflow. - BIM Team Contract Access Control access 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.
Modernise 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.
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