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Athie | Wohnrath Wins Autodesk BIM Experience Award
Sep 08, 2010 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) --
Autodesk, a developer of 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, recently announced that Athie | Wohnrath has received an Autodesk BIM Experience Award for the use of a Building Information Modeling (BIM) process on more than 200 projects to date, including interior design, building design, retrofit and new construction.
The award further recognizes the firm's commitment to BIM through its employee training, implementation strategy and the application of BIM on two recent projects - the Baker Hughes Rio Technology Center in Rio de Janeiro and the interior design of Dow Chemical's new Brazilian corporate headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Athie | Wohnrath is also being honored for its use of software for BIM, including Autodesk Revit Architecture and Autodesk 3ds Max Design software. The firm also uses Autodesk Inventor software to design office furniture and lighting fixtures.
"Adopting a Building Information Modeling process has helped increase the speed of our design and cost estimating, as well as enhancing multi-disciplinary team coordination and design integrity," said Alessandro Lopes, CAD quality and process manager at Athie | Wohnrath. "We are 100 percent committed to BIM and, in fact, require that every new designer must fully understand how to use a BIM process and be trained on Autodesk Revit Architecture."
One of Athie | Wohnrath's recent projects based entirely on a BIM process is the 4,700 square-meter Baker Hughes Rio Technology Center designed to support research for the oil and gas industries. For this project the firm provided architectural, engineering, interior design and construction services. The technology center project, which includes laboratory facilities, a workshop floor, and an administrative office area, presented several challenges to the 20 designers assigned to the task. From the bid stage through to the current production of building documentation, the project was subject to multiple client change requests.
With the update and multi-disciplinary collaboration capabilities of a 3D model-centric, all-BIM process using Revit Architecture, the Athie | Wohnrath team was able to address and communicate significant plan changes. For example, to more resolve change requests the team used model-based 3D views generated by Revit Architecture to help the customer analyze multiple design options for space optimization. Overall the team experienced a significant reduction of the time needed for communication, early clash detection, project coordination, design review and cost estimating.
BIM is an integrated process for exploring a project's key physical and functional characteristics digitally before it is built. Coordinated, consistent information is used throughout the process to design projects, better visualize and simulate real-world appearance, performance and cost and create more accurate documentation.
Athie | Wohnrath is a provider of integrated services to plan and execute all phases of an AEC project, from conceptual design to managing implementation, including interior design, retrofit, construction, commercial and industrial building design, technology, home and product design.
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