The BIM 360 Suite of cloud-based products offers a wide range of solutions to make design, construction and handover processes much more efficient.
BIM 360 Field is built for construction management processes such as managing quality, health and safety and commissioning which allows for easy information capture and review out on site. By utilising the cloud, project performance can be easily understood using intelligent reporting and dashboarding.
We capture and distribute a large amount of data in construction on a daily basis including emails, drawings, specs, RAMS or health and safety information. This data lives in various locations in various formats such as PDFs, Word and Excel. BIM360 Field enables capture of this data in a digital format or database which can then be updated, reused, reported on and shared with the project team instantly.
For example, a site manager does their site walk, taking photos and notes of any issues they come across. They then go back to the site office and spend time transferring the photos from their phone onto their PC to begin the resolution process via email. The more time we can save removing tedious tasks, the more time can be spent out on site making sure that works are being carried out correctly and in a safe manner.
This type of thinking is nothing new, we use social media on a day-to-day basis in our personal lives to manage our communication (group chats), photos and videos. We upload a photo, tag people and they have instant access, we can then communicate with our friends and family around that particular photo. Manging data on site should work in exactly the same way.
Moving to the cloud, capturing and re using data in new ways is the future of our industry and our world. Autodesk are at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence in construction and so the next generation of BIM 360 is now available for public beta-testing which combines what are currently separate modules (BIM 360 Glue, BIM 360 Field, Docs and Plan) into a unified platform. This opens up doors to a totally new way of working and integration with other systems, using their new platform built on Forge technology.
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