Project Assistance

Graphisoft Australia is very cognisant of the constant change taking place in the professional building market place. In meeting this challenge, Graphisoft has assembled a team with a joint over 40 year architectural practice experience to offer a new suite of services. Project assistance is a fresh new program designed to assist expanding firms to cope with larger projects.

The suite comprises a range of areas related to both the office and project environment. The service aims at adapting the company’s standards, graphics and procedures to the ArchiCAD environment from a practice point of view. They include:

• Office standards
  • ArchiCAD PLN template
  • PlotMaker LBK Template
  • CAD Office standards
  • Project setup procedures
• Projects
  • Project assessment
  • Project types strategy
  • Model Management
    • Team leader model management
    • Team members modelling input
  • Team Management

These areas will ebb and flow depending of the specific need of the particular firm. As a general description, the following

 

1. Work-flow at planning and design stage
2. Work-flow continuity between planning and documentation
   1. What is the detail extent of the ArchiCAD model for DA
   2. Process for the hand-over of the model for documentation
3. Customisation of the documentation adapted to the ArchiCAD process
   1. Templates
   2. Trade package structure – when dealing with novation to builders and fast tracking
   3. Re-utilisation of existing AutoCAD details and other.
4. Documentation control:
   1. Project set up
   2. Coordination of architecture, structure and services
   3. Constructability analysis
   4. Automation of document cross-referencing
   5. Annotation process
      1. Documents annotation
      2. Specification link
   6. Tender packages
      1. Set-up
      2. Process
   7. Managing changes during the documentation process
   8. Scheduling
   9. As built documents
5. Team requirements and gearing
   1. Team size
   2. Team structure and organisation
   3. Team skill set
   4. Team gearing in relation to the project time line
   5. Team induction

Ours is an ever more demanding world where more accuracy less time and lowering of risk has become essential objectives in maintaining a practice afloat and profitable. Graphisoft’s commitment is to assist the improvement of the processes.

For more information on GRAPHISOFT Consulting, please email: info@graphisoft.com.au

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