Cadpro New Zealand Ltd
Success Story
Atco Steel Embraces Digital Transformation with Autodesk BIM 360 Build
Customer challenge
Atco Steel Developments are a structural steel firm in Wellington New Zealand, who specialize in the fabrication and installation of structural steel for the residential, commercial, and earthquake strengthening markets. Established in 1939, Atco Steel has built a solid reputation providing turn-key solutions for the NZ construction market. As a result of increased emphasis on health and safety protocols, quality assurance, and quality control processes, Atco Steel were looking for a suitable software solution to manage their construction processes. They required a cloud-based solution that would enable teams to connect and collaborate in real-time between office and field.
Project goals
Atco Steel had a number of specific project goals to achieve with the use of Autodesk solutions. Such as the strict record-keeping of all health and safety activities. In addition to that, coordination and quality control of all models, drawings, and documents between the design office and field teams. Lastly, is the requirement for a platform to keep the whole project team, including the client, up to date with the latest project information.
Solution
With technical support and services provided by CADPRO, Atco Steel implemented Autodesk Construction Cloud technology for managing construction projects. Autodesk BIM 360 Build was adopted with checklists and reporting as the first modules to be implemented. Drawing issues, document control, and 3D model-based workflows in Autodesk BIM 360 Build were further implemented to streamline processes. Checklists were developed to facilitate FSC certification, while daily logs captured site deliveries and daily planning. Staff were quick to adopt Autodesk BIM 360 Build’s mobile technology and recognizing the collaborative benefits it provided.
Business outcome
With Autodesk BIM 360 Build, health and safety activities and project information can now be captured quickly and efficiently during construction to produce detailed building compliance reports. Labour-intensive administration tasks have been reduced to minutes as information is automatically defined, visible to all stakeholders, structured, and collated during the project process. Furthermore, utilizing robust checklist and report templates within Autodesk BIM 360 Build has seen document control tasks more tightly managed with further certainty around the quality and correctness of information.
Conclusion
The adoption of Autodesk BIM 360 Build has enabled Atco Steel to transition from a ‘paper-based’ system to a cloud-based digital solution. This transformation has enhanced Atco Steel’s overall quality assurance, quality control, and document control processes, reducing project errors and cost. Ultimately, resulting in improved productivity, as well as enhanced team collaboration and project transparency for all stakeholders.
Project summary
- 20
- 2022-07-30
Duration & delivery
- BIM 360 Build
- Build
Autodesk solutions
- Configuration & Deployment
Services provided
- Architecture
- Civil Engineering
- Construction Design
- Facility Management
- MEP Engineering
- Mining & Quarrying
- Oil & Gas
- Other Engineering Industries
- Structural Engineering
- Utilities & Telecommunications
- Water & Wastewater
Customer industry
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