5D estimating or modelling software system.
And really connect the two together in order to make meaningful representations
of the data.
Make decisions, really understand the current state of the process
project delivery, connecting with the schedule, etc.
We are seeing a new world of really connecting those pieces and talking.
I participated last week in, this is last week being October 2016,
in Lean Construction Institutes Congress.
And at the congress I happened to see a presentation from individuals at
Boulder Associates, a architectural engineering firm that works in
hospital and other large commercial projects.
And they did a presentation where they had taken, using Tableau Software,
which is just a software that can bring together disparate databases and
present from a dashboard perspective.
That intended use wasn't necessarily design, but they did a whole presentation
on how they were able to focus on the workflow from a design perspective,
in this case particularly door hardware.
And really cycle through the process from a designer's viewpoint.
Stitch in the Revit database from the Revit API, bring in relevant information
from product submittal data from PDFs, and create door schedules.
And really streamline and
take error-proofing into the execution of the process.
That to me is just a perfect example of taking the parts that we already have and
interconnecting them in the right way.
What you see on the screen now is just further example from their firm's use of
on an IPD project of bringing the cost control part into it.
Using that same background, that same framework, the Revit model, and
the cost forecasting from the individual companies participating in a project.
And really bringing together, in real time, in a meaningful way,
a visual control of where the project is heading from a resource and
labor utilization perspective.
It gives us the opportunity to connect pieces of information that otherwise
were not possible to be connected without a lot of effort from a human counting, and
summarizing, and bringing together standpoint.