Connect the Docs: BIM 360

CARL STORMS: I just do this up here last year I had some issues with my data sets in my presentations. They weren't following where they needed to be inside of the Autodesk world of things. So I now have this great, big, huge QR code that you could read from outer space if you needed to. So all the latest and greatest document and imitation is up there. So that you can certainly find that. Although this year, Murphy's Law, everything's fine on the app. But just in case you needed any updates we'll go there. There's also a link to a Dropbox on the actual handout itself. So I think I got all my bases covered.

A quick little agenda of what we're talking about today. So as I mentioned, we'll do a quick introduction. We'll do an overview of what BIM 360 is and then we'll take a look at the ecosystem. And then of course, any questions. So introductions, it's always awkward to talk about yourself. That's why I love PowerPoint because it does the talking for me. So this handsome looking fellow up there is in fact me. My name is Carl Storms, I work with IMAGINET. I'm from the Great White North up in Calgary, Alberta. And all the rest, you can read from the slide.

Usually the joke that inserts here is that I've done architecture, GC, just a little of everything so that I'm well-rounded. And then everybody laughs. So let's take a look at BIM 360. So what is BIM 360? So it's a bunch of tools just for BIM managers. It's all point solutions, so it only ever does one thing. Contractors use it but they only use it when they're working in 3D. So if you're not working with BIM, it's not for you. You have to have Apple to use it. And really it's just glue, that's the only thing. How many people believe any of those statements? Perfect, there should be no hands and there was none. Because all of that is not true. That is the exact opposite of what BIM 360 is.

So what BIM 360 allows us to do is it allows us to have a connected and enabled workplace. So we can have anytime, anywhere access to the content that we want. Now, of course, if I had a big asterisk I would put it up there. Because anytime, anywhere access implies that you have access to the internet or your mobile data. If you don't have access to that, then you don't have access to the content unless you synced it beforehand which you can do on the app as well.

So that's a beautiful thing if you're working with one of the apps is you can download your content that you need, do what you need to do in the field where you don't have access, and then once you get back to where you have connection it syncs up and everybody's involved in the system. Everybody can easily take advantage of the content. Everybody can play, so it's not just for the architects, it's not just for the engineers, it's not just for the contractors. Everybody that's part of the team can play along. And the fact that we can see all the data that's involved in our projects, we can analyze that data. And data analytics is a big thing right now.

So how do you currently take a look at your data? What are you currently doing? So some of our processes may look like this. Perhaps instead of FTP we've gone past that hurdle and now we're looking at SharePoint or some sort of online cloud service where we store our data. The problem with that is not everybody has access to it. Not everybody's using that same shared data site. So we need something a little more connected.

So what we do then with the BIM 360 platform is it allows us to have that anytime, anywhere access, caveat implied, where we can access the data that we need when we need it as we're working our way through. So what this helps us do is it helps us reduce risk. We all like to reduce risk. If we look here, we see these sort of time, data reliability, safety, and quality. So if we are using something, a process, a workflow, what have you, that gives us some or even better all of those things, well then the cost and the customer satisfaction just follows along. So we don't need to worry about those top two. If we get the bottom four, everything sort of follows suit.

And the way that the platform does that is for all those things that we mentioned previously. It allows us to track all of this information and make sure that we're keeping on guard. Now for actual BIM 360 platform as it currently stands, and we're not going to delve into stuff they talked about on Monday, way to throw a wrench into somebody's presentation, let me tell you. But as everything was, we're talking about what is included with BIM 360. So currently there are seven applications.

So we have BIM 360 Team. Another thing that I'll mention about my pretty little slide here, I've got my six areas, everything is equally spaced. I think we all know working in the industry that the amount of time it takes to design something is probably not the same amount of time that a building is going to be in operations. Pre-construction, construction, probably not the same amount of time. So take sort of the length and size with a grain of salt, but the idea is that it touches inside of these different areas. And we see that Team can take us from early on design all the way through into pre-construction.

The next one in the lifecycle is Glue, take us through into the construction. We've got Docs, and it covers the biggest amount of ground from design into commissioning and handover and even into operations would you be carrying your data on past that. BIM 360 Layout, a little bit more specialized, it plays with Glue but certainly has its place on the construction area. BIM 360 Plan, lean, pull-planning, that type of thing. Again, we use that in construction, but we can certainly use it on bookending to that as well.

Field is our tool for actually doing our information in the field. Which is why BIM 360 Field is a great name for it. It allows us to get out there in the field and do our QA/QC, our safety checklists, all of that stuff. And the final one, and I guess you could call the newest member to officially be called BIM 360, is Ops. Used to be an app called Building Ops, now its officially part of the team, BIM 360 Ops. And this allows us to start playing in the operations owners maintenance area where we have a handheld app that we use on our iPhone that we can go out and do basically our maintenance checklists.

So that's the entire portfolio of products as it stands now. ANd as you see, right from design all the way through the operation we've got something that's going to touch. Again, remember that each slice of the pie is maybe not exactly the same amount of time but that's how it works.

So now we're going to delve into the ecosystem itself. And I'm going to spend a little bit of time on each one of the seven products. Then we're going to do a little bit a summary and we'll have time for questions at the end. So I'm not doing these in alphabetical order anything like that. I'm going as they showed up on the charts. So the first one that we were talking about is BIM 360 Team. So here's sort of a close up of that particular portion of the chart. Dealing with just Team and what it does throughout the life cycle. So as you can see, we can get that into design right up through into pre-construction, getting into construction. And as we see it's collaboration-based for the design team.

As I talk about and show what we can do with BIM 360 Team, you're going to see there's some definite similarities between what we can do in Team and what we can do inside of Docs. But there are differences as well, which is why they're separate. Team works for the design end, Docs gets more when your actually get in the field working with construction. So when we're working with Team, and you're going to find this is sort of a common theme as we're working our way through, what we want to do is get rid of some of the clutter that we're currently dealing with in our collaborative processes.

So right now we might be working with something like email where we're working with a project, we send a bunch emails, and we have to track them. So we have a folder, maybe we working with something like [INAUDIBLE] we have some way to keep track of all that information. But it's sort of lives and dies inside of emails unless you're that unlucky person on the project. So you know at the end of the month and the end of the project has to hit print on 1,000 emails, organize them, put them in a binder, and then put them in a folder on a shelf in the back of the room never to be opened again. You don't want to be that person.

You know SharePoint, network drives, cloud storage, all these different ways we can sort of track and store information and give people access to it. But they all have their varying degrees of ease to do that. And this sort of gives us a demonstration of what happens there. Now when we put all these things together and we have workflows, we can get a pretty good system together. But the problem is that if we go from project to project, we're working with different collaborators, different pieces come in and come out of that workflow.

At the end we look at all the cloud storage, well, in project A, we are working with OneDrive, then we're working with Google Drive, then Box, then Dropbox. Where is this information? Where does it all get sorted? So it gets confusing it certainly murkies up the water. So if we bring in something like BIM 360 Team, the real benefit to working with this is that we have the ability to have all the information in one place. A term you're going to hear me say several times throughout the presentation is that single source of truth. So we know for this project if we go to this location, all of our information is going to be there.

Now when I say all of our information, not only does it handle our project documents, so whether it be 2D or 3D, but it also handles any other content that we want to deal with that. So we have a storage location where we can put everything. A lot of that information on the 2D and 3D workflows, we can view. So we can click on that document and right inside of this location where we want to be on site our web browser or in the app, we have the ability to see that information. So we can view the different products. I think it's right around 60 different products that we can live view in the app itself or on the website.

We can share the information, whether it's people involved inside of the project or not, we can send them an email. They simply click on that email, the web link pops up, and they have access to that information that they need to see. So again, it gives us the ability to have that one location for all of our project information. Now you may also see kind of here on the side we've got this sort of ongoing commenting stream. So while there is an anaphase to actually store our email inside the project location, we can remove ourselves from those email strings and change by commenting and adding information inside the project. That way we know exactly when the information was added, who said it, how it was said, and it stays with the project so we can always track it. So we're not going back through our inbox trying to find where that email is.

A little more sort of close up idea of what we could do. One of the things that really differentiates what we're doing inside of Team versus what we do inside of Docs is an example is this one right here. Where we have the ability to do our live review meeting. And what this allows us to do is if we have a project team that's all over the world, we can do an actual live review session where we pull up our model, everyone is inside the same model, think of WebEx on steroids, and we're able to navigate around, taking a look at the model, and have access to the actual content inside the model. Again I'm talking about Revit file in this particular instance.

So everybody can be in one spot and we're looking at the same document. So it's not like having a WebEx where Bob opens up last week's version and Ted has three-month-old version, people are using different content to review that meeting, or we have to fire up WebEx and everybody has to get that link and find that information. We can simply pull up our app, click on the invitation to the live request, and we're all viewing the same model. There's one model so we're all seen the exact same content. So that's one of the real benefits of working in the design phase with something like BIM 360 Team.

And of course another benefit if you're working with BIM 360 Team and you are working with Revit, is that it's the backbone for Collaboration for Revit, or as affectionately known as C4R. So what this allows you do instead of sending up Revit's server, or AO's complicated IT things, we can use Collaboration for Revit for our collaboration sessions with Revit and all of the content that we have gets stored inside of BIM 360 Team. So not only do we get the benefit of that turnkey solution for our Revit environment, we also get all the extra benefits that I just mentioned about working inside of BIM 360 Team as part of the package. So while you can definitely get access to Team on its own, when you get access to Collaboration for Revit, Team is already included in that package.

Yes?

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] Is the intent to have production [INAUDIBLE] team, or [INAUDIBLE] available for consumption?

CARL STORMS: So it depends on what you want to do and what content the models are in. It definitely would be where you might store them. But it may not necessarily be where you would view them or action them. So if you're working on something other than Revit Inventor or what have you, you could certainly store the content up there, but it might not be where you actually action. But the benefit of storing it inside of Team is again, you can document when it was put up there, it's versioned, all that stuff is up there for you.

So next one is BIM 360 Glue. Again, a little bit further down the slide. And Glue was sort of the first BIM 360 product that came out, or one of the first Glue and Field. And what this allows us to do, and you'll hear a lot of people say this, it's kind of like Naviswroks in the cloud. How many people here work with Navisworks? All right, awesome. If you've worked with Navisworks and you haven't worked with Glue, picking up Glue is a snap because it's very similar interface to working in Navisworks. So that's a very good product.

So when we're working with BIM 360 Glue, one of the things that we can do is what we call one click to BIM. And a lot of time when we're working with this interface we may have say for example, an owner. He likes to know what's going on, or she, and they want to make sure that they have access to what's going on. Can you imagine letting an owner into your Revit file? This is where we all laugh because we don't want to do that.

And what we do then is, if we're working with Glue, we can upload that same content into Glue. We can send them an invitation to review. They simply click the link if they have the app or just email and it automatically opens up the interface and takes them directly to that model. Or if there's a particular view where they need a question answered, it takes them right to that view. So not only does it give them access to what they need, but it takes the fear out of them as well. They don't worry they might do something wrong with the model. They can partake in the planning process by not only looking at it, but also adding markups and comments at the same time. So they can become part of the process without having that fear that they're going to make some mistakes along the way.

Coordination, we talked about how it can accelerate our coordination. We can do clashing. We talked about Navisworks, we can do clashing inside of Glue as well. Now, it doesn't have the ability to save search sets, it's not as tuned I guess as Navisworks is because we can't change to soft clashes. But it still does a really good job with the clashes, especially for what I think its intent is, which is predesigned clashing. So when you're doing your prototyping of your building, your project, we can do all those clashings very early on. And more on that in a minute.

And of course we also have the ability to push data out to the field. If we are working with BIM 360 Field and BIM 360 Glue together, we have the ability to have Glue be the engine that pushes the 3D models into Field. And we can see that 3D content when we're working with Field.

We also have the ability working with Glue, particularly if you're working with Revit or Navisworks or Civil or AutoCAD, to have a direct tie with the authoring platform. So through these little add ins that come standard now in those platforms, we can see where there was an issue. We can hit the Glue button to add something instantly up to the cloud. So we can say, OK, this is the view we want to share with the team, I can hate Glue It, and it goes up to the cloud.

If there's an issue, so if we found a clash, we can hit the clash pinpoint and it's going to highlight inside the Revit model, we'll use that as an example, exactly where that clash is. So the person working on the authoring tool can make those adjustments, Glue it back up to the cloud, and the team has solved that issue without waiting for the weekly coordination meeting. All of that stuff again, it's a way to be proactive in the process.

We also have over 70 formats that are supported. So that means if you're not using an Autodesk authoring tool but something else, we can still play in this sandbox. We may not have a direct ad-in, but we can simply drag and drop or upload our files, we can still view them in the web interface or on the app, we can still mark them up, they're still part of the process. Again, very similar to what we do inside of Navisworks.

And of course, we have rules. So we can apply different levels of access to this content inside of Glue so the right people have the right abilities inside of the project. And one of the things that a lot of people get excited about when you're on the BIM management tech side, is that when we're pushing this content from Revit up to the cloud, we're not actually taking the entire model and putting it in the cloud.

So there's two benefits to that. One, it's way quicker. And two, if something happens, it's just a DWF or an NWC version of that. We haven't done any harm to our actual Revit file. So a lot of the BIM managers breathe easy with that interface as we're working our way through.

So how many people have been involved in one of these, a coordination meeting? OK, I was going to say, somebody has to have been. This is a very generic flow that they all could be a little bit different. And where we see our friend the BIM manager, that really could be anybody. The idea is that when we're doing these coordination meetings, there's typically a person that's charged with collecting everything, vetting it, and then sending it back out. Or as I like to call them, the bottleneck.

So in that workflow, we sort of see how it works, and it goes through and the ideas that it takes five days to get to this process. The other thing anybody's been involved with this understands is that when we get to the actual meeting on Friday, that half of that meeting is spent coordinating the meeting that you're currently sitting in because of the way the process is designed and set up.

So this is where I break into my infomercial and say there has to be a better way. And of course, there is! Sham-wow! So then we move into a coordination meeting with Glue. And the benefit here is that we have the ability of all the content is in the cloud. So people have access to it all the time. So all of the people that are involved, design, structural, MEP, what have you, they're always involved. They always have access.

So as we're going through the week and stuff changes, we see that our MEP person sees that structure made a change. Well they can make a change and update the content real time. As we go by, structure updates because of MEP, which causes design to update. And then on Thursday, everyone has access to the information. And we can actually get down to the coronation meeting right on time. We're not dealing with coordinating the coordination meeting because everybody has access to the same content.

Now on the slide we show there's no Friday. And the reason why is that the stats and the studies show that this process with a clatter enable thing, saved 20% of your time. So one day off the week. So that means everybody gets Friday off. When I say that, usually that doesn't go over well. But it means you can get back to what you actually have to do on Friday when you're getting there. So you get that time back and use it however you want. I still vote for taking Fridays off.

So now we go in to Docs. When we're looking at 360 Docs as I mentioned before, we're going to see some similarities with what we can do with Docs and what can do with Team. But they do have some differences. So when we get into Docs, you see it generally takes a longer life cycle. And the idea is that once we get involved, it does have some construction workflow sort of embedded in it. Which is why we tend to say it's designed for the construction team.

But we can certainly get people involved early on. Just like working on any of your BIM projects, the more people you have involved earlier on, the smoother it goes. Likewise with this platform. So what we can do with the AAC team that is working with us, again it's designed for the entire team. It doesn't have to just be your GC's, your architects that are involved. We can view, review, markup, do what you need to do, with 2D and 3D content. And that's a big thing. We're all here, we all know what BIM is, we all love the idea of working in 3D. But sometimes some of our subs might not be there yet, or sometimes the project doesn't call for it. So we don't want be stuck with a tool for 2D and a tool for 3D. We want a tool that allows us to do both in the same platform. And this does that.

Again the same anytime, anywhere access with the caveat that you have to have access to the internet or the app and download your content before you go. And the big thing here is the versioning. So we know that we've got the proper documents because all of the content for our project is stored in that one location. Similar to Team, automatically versioned as it comes up. Now this is where I say the caveat. The way that it works is it automatically versions based on date. So I load up version one, a week later version 2, a week later version 3.

If somebody somewhere accidentally uploads the version from three weeks ago, that does become version four. So you need to be aware that the versioning is based on how it's uploaded. So there's usually a fail safe imply there and somebody that's checking when you're going through. Beware of that when you're going through the versioning that it is real time versioning.

I've said it before, I'll say it again, heck, I'll even put a slide up for it. A single source of truth, this is the benefit of working with these platforms, all of your information is in one place. It's not like we have to say, we go to Dropbox to find something, we've got [? Blueing ?] we fire that up and we get our PDFs, and then we go with our field wire out in the field and use all that to get our mark up. So everything happens in one spot. We know where it is. We know where to find it.

Some of the cool things that we can do with Docs is we can do markups. Well we can do that with a lot of tools. But we also have the ability to do issues. So that means we can track issues. Again, another thing why we bring into the construction area. But as we're working through, we can put issues into our project, we can track them, we can assign them to people, we can give them a due date.

We also have the ability to do RFIs, requests for information. Again, another thing that brings us back to the construction workflow. And again, we have the ability to put in two ways of doing this. We can have an RFI system that goes from the creator to somebody that manages, says yes OK this is in our files, Send it on. And someone that reviews it. We also have the ability to do a double reviewer system if we need that fail safe. So if somebody goes on vacation, we want to make sure there's two eyes looking at these RFIs before they answer it. And we have the ability to bring them through.

One thing that I will say about that when it comes into play when we're dealing with Docs, is think about the issues and the RFIs as issues and RFIs dealing with the documentation. When we get into BIM 360 Field and we're dealing with issues, we're dealing with things that are dealing with on the site. So similar but slightly different. And that's sort of the easiest way for people to justify the difference between the two. One's dealing with the documentation, one is dealing with actually on the site.

A cool feature about working with BIM 360 Docs is the automatic sheet extraction. So if you have a Revit file, you drag and drop your Revit file, it automatically goes through and pulls all the sheets from that file and puts them into single files. So I can click on the sheet, I don't have to extract, export a bunch of DWFs or PDFs. It does it for you automatically. It also does that with a multi-page PDF. So your subcontractor sent you a 500 sheet PDF, it's a single PDF. You just drag it in, automatically uses OCR, enables names each PDF based on the project name as well as the sheet number. So we can access that information instantly.

And one of the new features why I'm calling it out specifically by itself, is the 3D Model Compare.

We have the ability to review our content in 3D. We also have the ability to do it in 2D. Which is cool, but 3D is a little bit more fancy. When we're doing the 3D content, as long as we have two versions, we can review version 1 versus version 2. Or we can review version 7 versus version 15. And it's going to show us things like what's been added, what's been removed, what's changed, each one has its own color code.

And then we can also get into things down in here where we can see which discipline made those changes and we can filter out. So if we only want to see what's been added by the architect, we can uncheck all those other boxes and we're only going to see what's been added by the architect in our two views. So again, it gives us a quick visual reference of what's been added and what's been changed. Of course during those coordination meetings we talked about, everybody is going to have a list of what they've changed, and what they've done, and all of it's documented. And we all know that that's how that always happens. We never have to find that stuff on our own on a project, right? Right.

All right, BIM 360 Layout. So this product works with BIM 360 Glue. So as we're working with BIM 360 Glue, the Layout is free. So we can get this app and we are able to do all sorts of great things. Well, what sort of great things, you ask. I'm glad you asked. What we're able to do is take the power of BIM 360 Glue, which is holding our coordinated model. So our 3D [INAUDIBLE] BIM, if you will. And we can connect that up to Layout to use a robotic total station to actually do our field layout.

So we can walk around with an iPad and we can actually use a robotic total station to layout an entire project. Even more is that's not the only thing we can do with this. We can use it to come back the other way. And I'll talk about this a little bit more going on. But we can take that data, QA/QC, slab deviation, what have you, used that same iPad, use that same total station to do those scans, pick those points, bring it back the other way, and take it back in to our authoring tool to do investigations and to make adjustments.

So this is sort of the old way, for a lot of people it's still the current way, that you're going to do your field layout. So we get out the batter boards, we get out some spray paint, we get a lot of re-bar, we tie a lot of things down, and that's how we get our project in the ground. When we're working with BIM 360 Layout, this all becomes digital. We now have our iPad and we're walking around with what we see here. So we have the ability to walk through setting up, not only the total station or the robotic total station, but we also know how it's doing. And it gives us through a very easy step by step instruction to do that.

We can view our content that we brought in from Glue, either in plan view or in 3D. So whichever is most useful at that particular juncture as we're working through our project. We have that ability to do that. And again, if you're already using Glue, the navigation is exactly the same. So how we're walking around or navigating in the interface, you already know how to do.

And then of course it makes sure that we know where we're going and that we hit that target dead on by not only giving us visual cues, but it's also going to make noise as we work through to make sure that we hit that target dead on. So that as we're taking these points or using the points to lay them out with the robotic total station, that we're as accurate as we can be.

So I kind of talked about how this process goes. So we'll start off with taking our content from our model. Now normally when I do this, I'm working with Revit. That's how I bring the content out. But we can also bring information from AutoCAD and from Navisworks. We take that information and we upload it into Glue. So Glue is the go-between and that's why we need access to Glue to be able to use Layout.

So once we have the information inside of Glue, we can then take it on to our robotic total station to send the information. So currently it's TopCon, and one that starts with s that I was going to look up and forgot to look up, that we have partnership with now that AutoDesk works with. So that's sort of the flow. We take the information from our authoring tool, put it into Glue, and now we can use our iPad to use that information to feel.

What we can also go the other way. We can collect information with that robotic total station, we can send it back to Glue, and then we can send it back to our authoring tool to do deviation. To talk about what's the difference between the points. What did we actually design for. And what actually got built.

We also have the ability to play with Field. Now why would we play with Field you ask. Well, this allows us to do those deviations but it also allows us to track them inside of our lists. And we'll learn more about lists and QA/QC in Field in a minute, but this interface allows us to do that. The new icon up here that helps us and lets us play with this is a product called Autodesk Point Layout. So it's like the add on version of BIM 360 Layout. That's the brains behind this interface.

So again, it takes us into our BIM 360 web portal where we can bring up all that data, all those deviations. And from there, we can put it inside of a checklist. And the benefit to this is that now we're walking around with that same iPad that we can control our robotic total station with, and we can go around and we can check these deviations in these issues in a form that puts all that information back up into the cloud, into the project that everybody has access to.

All right, so now we're going to take a look at BIM 360 Plan. Anybody here use lean in their process? All right, got a couple. So this brings in the mentality and the workflow of working with lean or a pull planning process into the BIM 360 realm. So as you can see, because of that it's definitely in the construction area. But it does bleed over to both sides, commissioning and pre-construction. To give you the ability to use that task, to do short term scheduling.

So this might look a little bit familiar, the post-it notes on a wall. Well, this kind of takes that away from somebody having to do all those post-it notes, write all those stickies, stick them all around, and do what they need to do, and puts it into an easy to use app that you can put onto your mobile device or using the web interface.

You can see some of the benefits that we get here. The fact that it's mobile, so we can look at all this information while we're actually in the field. We can check those work sequences when we make changes, things adjust, it automatically updates real time. So everybody that's involved can see those changes inside the project.

We also have these sort of key features as you're working your way through. So this is an actual screenshot from an active project. We can see we're going through again. This doesn't replace Microsoft Project or Primavera. This isn't your real project schedule. This is your short term scheduling to get your pieces done. Now they say, how do you see an elephant one piece at a time? This is how you do that one piece at a time. Working your way through, using an app like this to get that short term schedule in play and making sure that everything's working through as it should.

And again, with some of these benefits the idea is that it's a collaborative tool. Everybody has access to this, you don't have to go back into the trailer to see that board. And we have all these benefits with it. We also track all the metrics. So as we have these schedule things come up in our plan, as targets are met, not met, early, late, all that information is tracked. So as you go from project to project to project, we have particular subs are always on time, we have particular subs that aren't on time or that are causing problems. We can see all of that information and we can gather all that data.

So now we'll move onto Field. Field was another one of the originals with BIM 360 Glue. And it does a lot of really cool stuff in-- wait for it-- the field! So the idea here is we're using this inside of construction. We could bring it into play a little bit earlier. It definitely comes into commissioning and handover. May even bleed a little bit into operations. But basically we're looking at that construction, commissioning, and handover segment.

So when we're working with BIM 360 Field, it's everywhere. Again, that's the real benefit. This is where the access anytime, everywhere, everything came about. The idea that we had the ability to access our company checklists, our company QA/QC, our safety, all that could be done on one area and one device. And to show you how accurate that was-- accurate's the wrong word-- how that was in when we first started talking about BIM 360 Field four or five years ago, one of the slides we used to always talk about showed that we could track the information anywhere.

And it showed somebody with a BlackBerry taking a picture. So there hasn't been a BlackBerry App for anything for a very long time. But the idea is that even today, if you had a BlackBerry on the Field, you could still be part of the process. Because what we do with Field is we give each project an email. So you're out in the field, you're walking along, you see a railing's falling down, there's a tripping hazard, something that's going to be a safety concern, you could simply click a picture on whatever device you have, whether you have the app or not, you can send that to the project email and that is tracked and that's part of the system. So everybody's aware of that and it gets looked after right away, quick.

So even if you're not working with the latest and greatest Apple 10 iPhone or whatever it is that you have, you can still be part of this system. And again, it deals with all of your people. You've got your project engineers, the architects, the owners, the actual boots on the ground, the sub consultants, and the sub trades, and even the subcontractors. When they're out there working, they have access to all the information based on a level of access.

So what can we do with BIM 360 Field? A lot of that stuff I just said. One of the big things is the fact that we can navigate our plans in 2D. And again, I've already mentioned it, we love 3D. We're working with BIM, it should be 3D. But not everybody's working in that environment and not everybody's comfortable with that environment. So now we have the ability to do all these things in 2D as well. So rather than carrying around those big rolls of paper around to the job site, or going back to the job site trailer to see if the person involved in taking all those RFIs and updates have cutted it out, took the red tape, put it in place, add the marker so you know where that bubble is, that all instantly comes to your plan. As you navigate through the system, if something's changed, it's there. It's for you.

The other nice thing about what they've done the last, I guess it's been a couple of years, is updating the system, is very intuitive. Some interfaces you're working with out in the field with a PDF plan or with a DWF plan, as you zoom in it gets very grainy, it's very hard to deal with. You don't have any of those issues with this app. It's always clear, it's always crisp, and you can actually see what you're doing. So if you have a monster plan and you have to zoom into one particular room, you can actually see the content you want in place.

We also have the ability to track our information. So there's a bunch of different content as we're going through that it's tracking. And that's good. The owner wants to see all that information. The general contractor wants all of that information. But not everybody that's involved in the project wants to see all the information. So when we get this dashboard, we have the ability to customize our dashboard for when we log in for what we want to see.

So if I'm Bob's Drywall-- I hope there's no Bobs in here because I talk about Bob a lot in this presentation-- Bob's Drywall I can see my issues, my delinquent issues, all of the stuff that I want that deals with me specifically in my dashboard. But the owner will have a completely different dashboard. So when you pick it up, you instantly know what you need to know about your project or your scope on that project.

And of course one of the best things about working with Field is how easy the actual interface is when you're out in the field. And yes, a lot of this stuff we can access on the web. But really this is an app that's designed to be an app, uses an app, out in the field in the app. So you're going to want to have your iPad or your iPhone when you're out there because it's a simple interface. So when you're working your way through, you have a question that comes up, has this room been completed? Yes, no. True, false. Whatever the response may be you simply click it and move on. And it gives you that really easy interface as you're working your way through in it. Yeah, that's exactly what it does.

Some of the other things that we can do, a lot of times as you're walking through, whether it's QA/QC, safety, you come across an issue. So we have the ability to do markups on a plan. So we can navigate to the room we're in, we're doing a checklist for room 205. We can say there's an issue, and as soon as you have a noncompliance on a checklist, it automatically creates an issue. So whether noncompliance means yes or no, it doesn't matter. You tell it what non compliant means when you're creating your checklists.

And as soon as you have a compliant answer, it's automatically going to create an issue. And with that issue it knows the location and who's involved. So it's a location about drywall and the room 207. So it knows there's an issue and it's going to send it to Bob's Drywall. But on top of that you can add as much information as you want or as little. We also have the ability to take pictures and to add markups. So as they say, a picture's worth a thousand words. If we automatically get that issue and we add a picture and we send it off, in this case it's Pete's Plumbing because he's got some h-vac issues.