IDP | Contractingspecs

Digital Media Practices

Integrated Project Delivery: A project delivery approach that integrates people, systems, business structures and practices into a process that collaboratively harnesses the talents and insights of all participants to optimize project results.

Building Information Modeling: An intelligent 3D model-based process that gives architecture, engineering, and construction professionals the insight and tools to more efficiently plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure.

3DEXperience

Dassault Systèmes invented 3D Experience to create and visualize products and experiences, simulate and test the possible business solutions in the virtual world, gather and gain insight from data to optimize product development, and manage data and collaborate with stakeholders in and outside the company.

Formit

Another AutoDesk product, FormIt is an intuitive 3D sketching tool for the conceptual design phase. This allows for making informed decisions earlier in the design process with site context, solar impact, and energy analysis.

Digital Project

Developed by Gehry Technologies, Digital Project enables information to be sent directly to manufacturer, rather than needing to be processed separately in preparation for sending out of house.

Revit

This update of Revit introduced system families, such as walls, floors, roofs, and ceilings, built inside a project, loadable families/components, which are built with primitives (extrusions, sweeps, etc.) separately from the project and loaded into a project for use and in-place Families, which are built in-situ within a project with the same toolset as loadable components

Generative Components

Developed by Bentley Systems, this software epitomizes the quest to bring parametric modeling capabilities of 3D solid modeling into architectural design, seeking to provide greater fluidity and fluency than mechanical 3D solid modeling.

AutoDesk Revit

In 2002, AutoDesk bought Revit, allowing more research, development and improvement of the software. Autodesk has released several versions of Revit since 2004. In 2005 Revit Structure was introduced, then in 2006 Revit MEP. After the 2006 release Revit Building was renamed Revit Architecture.

Revit

Originally created by Charles River Software, Revit was intended to allow architects and other building professionals to design and document a building by creating a parametric three-dimensional model that included both the geometry and non-geometric design and construction information.

AutoDesk Navisworks

Formerly known as JetStream, this program allows users to open and combine 3D models; navigate around them in real-time and review the model using a set of tools including comments, redlining, viewpoint, and measurements.

Onuma

The main goal of Onuma creator, Kimon Onuma, was to integrate fully with internet technology and design and construction industry.

Building Design Advisor

BDA was the first graphic interface to deal with daylighting and building technologies within the design process.

ProEngineer

Founded by Samuel Peisakhovich Giesberg Pro/ENGINEER was the first commercially successful parametric feature based solid modeler. Their first customer was John Deere.

MINICAD

Richard Diehl founded Graphsoft, which was the company that developed both MiniCAD and Vectorworks.

Riyadh University Computer Aided Production System was developed by Dr. John Davison and John Watts, and sold to architect Gollins Melvin Ward.