BIM Consulting
CG Visions is unique because of the way we focus on enhancing the builders efficiencies throughout their organizational departments by utilizing BIM Technology.
Looking to utilize a BIM software package without assistance can be a time consuming task and may cause the company to veer away from its core competencies. CG Visions constantly evaluates the BIM products on the market and utilizes multiple software packages at our own facility to know and understand the best business solutions for what our clients needs are.
Using the CG Visions BIM consulting service, you can expect the following:
- A high level of customer service
- An accurate analysis of your building practices
- An application customized to your building practices
- The ability to leverage the BIM to other aspects of your business
- Custom work flow applications to streamline your business processes
Business Evaluation
CG Visions kicks off the process by spending time embedded with the builder researching and understanding their critical building practices and operations. We understand this by sharing the perspective of the core management staff, CAD, purchasing and estimating departments, along with their construction staff, and if applicable, their manufacturing staff. This allows us to determine their exact needs, how data should flow, current bottlenecks, and building and operational processes.
CG Visions then assimilates the data and presents different BIM solutions, makes recommendations of how the processes can improve and present our recommendation of how they should move forward based upon the builders needs.
Software Customization
CG Visions takes the learned information and begins customizing the BIM software to fit the builder’s needs and building practices. This ensures that the BIM is a virtual representation of the final constructed home since every builder builds differently.
Training / Support
Once the software is customized, CG Visions has a staff to support the builder’s “ramp up time” with the BIM software. While the builder’s staff is being trained, CG Visions’ staff is moving forward with converting their legacy data or creating new product lines for the builder. Training classes can be held at the builders’ home office or CG Visions headquarters, which ever fits the client’s needs. CG Visions also supports an effective on-line training service, thus minimizing travel expenses for assisting and supporting the builders’ urgent request during high production times.
Material Setup & Programming
Once the plans are created in the BIM software, CG Visions works with other back office software solutions to create links and integration processes to pass data between the software. CG Visions believes that a BIM solution should not change the entire way a builder conducts their business. The BIM software is there to enhance the process by, creating material takeoffs and pushing that data into other software solutions.
By analyzing the BIM and evaluation of materials, the builder is able to reduce their field cycle time, reduce the amount of waste on the project, and evaluate the structure for value engineering. All are elements of the new trend to “build green.”
Final Staging
Once the BIM has been created, the model can be rendered to create marketing documentation such as renderings, animations and multimedia pieces.
The marketing material can easily, quickly and cost effectively be updated when a design change is made. This ensures that the marketing data matches what is being offered in the construction document sets.