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At Venture Architects we perform all design and production using a Building Information
Modeling (BIM) process; our platform of choice is Autodesk Revit Architecture. Using
this process gives us several advantages over our competition - advantages that can be
passed on to the owner in the form of smoother, faster projects and reduced cost.
The advantages of BIM fall into three main categories:
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More Efficient Design - Since everything is in 3 dimensions, our designers can
more quickly catch errors, conflicts, and poor aesthetics earlier in the process.
This leads to better solutions more quickly.
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Better Communication - With a virtual model of the building, it is much easier
for our designers to communicate effectively with owners, the public, or anyone
unfamiliar with reading a traditional set of plans. This allows the entire project
team to have a better understanding of the building and ensures that the owner is
getting what they think they are getting.
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Better Cost Tracking - BIM allows everything in the model to be digitally
scheduled and tracked. Items and materials can also be assigned costs which can
be extracted and totalled. All this leads to better, more accurate estimating
and cost tracking.
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In fact, we believe strongly enough
in the future of BIM that we have developed the Keynote Manager utility to aid working in Revit
and are sharing it with the industry at no charge. Just click the icon to the left to download!*
You can also click here for the readme/feature summary.
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*Note that Keynote Manger now requires .NET 4.0 to be installed. .NET 4.0 can be installed free from Microsoft
via the web
installer or the standalone installer.
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