BIM in the cloud accelerated after COVID-19. With so many of us working remotely, maintaining in-house hardware became complex.

One Engineering consultancy told us it had been offline for three days because the only person who knew how to reset the servers was off sick.

The costs of keeping I.T. up to date to run BIM data effectively are prohibitive for many smaller organizations, and there is always the need to have someone dedicated to managing it.

Connection

The big difference between construction and many other industries is the degree to which key team members are remote from the office.

This has always been the case, but with the increased reliance on drawings, documents, and now meetings managed in Cyberspace, having a business system designed to operate in diverse locations and on a wide range of devices is more important than ever.

When working on-site, it is crucial to connect with the project information, it saves a lot of time, improves communication, and speeds up answering queries on a project. Only the cloud can keep you connected all the time.

Collaboration

Collaboration has, again, always been a part of the construction industry.

Site meetings are now virtual more often than physical. With multiple stakeholders dialing into a conference from across the world, being able to call up project drawings or show clients and other project partners around a 3D visualization of a proposed building is best achieved using reliable cloud computing.

Website loading speed has become a critical indicator of performance so viewing and interacting with project data and colleagues needs to be swift and seamless.

Budget

The cloud works for your budget in two main ways:

Scaling a business when needed you only pay for the storage space and computing power used. The investment in costly servers, the rooms required to host and cool them, high-grade desktop or laptop computers to run the software, and the need to upgrade regularly put a strain on any company’s budget.

You can also support the budget through better communication between the site where goods are ordered and delivered and the finance office where they are paid. Communicating price changes, discrepancies and changes in work schedules can save time and money.

Driving Vision’s Flexicloud is cloud computing for all your planning, visualization, and administration tasks. Whether you are running CAD 3D rendering software, a general management tool such as Procore, or working with our BIM management partners Plannerly there will always be power and space to spare.

A virtual PC on the cloud, accessible by a laptop, a Mac, a Smartphone, or a tablet means you will never be out of touch.

Taking away the expenditure of an in-house I.T. system and adding the convenience of improved communication, collaboration, and cost control frees up valuable time to focus on project work, and adds immediately to the bottom line on every piece of work you carry out. Get in touch to learn more about Driving Vision’s cloud computing options.

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