Autodesk Honors RTKL for Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration With Revit BIM Experience Award
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"Revit enables us to design better buildings by allowing for a better understanding of the building before construction begins. We use the technology as a crystal ball to see the future and to more completely understand the building and its relation to the environment," said Douglas Palladino, Principal RTKL. "RTKL is committed to being a leader in the use of BIM, so we are honored to be presented a Revit BIM Experience award for our use of the Revit platform."
A global architecture, engineering and planning firm, RTKL has over 1,000 professionals in 10 locations around the world. Founded in 1946, the firm has been repeatedly honored for its work worldwide, receiving more than 20 project and individual awards in 2006 alone. RTKL made the strategic decision to move to BIM in order to build better buildings, and implemented Revit Architecture software in 2003 followed by Revit Structure and Revit MEP software applications. Today, RTKL's Washington, D.C., and in Dallas offices are at the forefront of using BIM on large-scale projects.
RTKL is currently using Revit to design buildings for a 4.7 million square-foot camps for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in White Oak, Md., and a 2.4 million square-foot facility for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency in Virginia. The Revit BIM platform is helping the architects and engineers collaborate to solve complex challenges, and design better performing buildings. RTKL uses Revit Architecture to generate dynamic area analyses and solar studies as the basis for designs that yield maximum space and energy efficiency and limit solar glare. Architects and engineers are using Revit Structure to coordinate column sizes, beam sizes and locations, slab openings, duct runs and shear walls with minimal disruption due to discrepancies. RTKL also uses the Revit model to quantify materials with greater precision for more accurate cost estimation.
"RTKL continues to be a leader in their commitment to fully realizing the benefits of BIM across architecture, engineering and construction. The firm is to be commended for its use of BIM to control costs and complexity on long- running projects such as the FDA campus consolidation," said Jim Lynch, vice president of marketing, Autodesk AEC Solutions. "RTKL has set an example in the industry for their use of BIM to improve collaboration and we're proud to present them with a Revit BIM Experience award."
About the Revit BIM Experience Award
The Revit BIM Experience Award celebrates building industry professionals and educators around the world who are helping to drive transformation of the building industry through building information modeling. Autodesk honors firms with this award for innovation and excellence in implementing the Autodesk Revit platform for building information modeling including Revit Architecture, Revit Structure and Revit MEP on one or more projects. For more information on the Revit BIM Experience award visit http://www.autodesk.com/revitbimaward.
About Autodesk
Autodesk, Inc. is the world leader in 2D and 3D design software for the manufacturing, building and construction, and media and entertainment markets. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk has developed the broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art digital prototyping solutions to help customers experience their ideas before they are real. Fortune 1000 companies rely on Autodesk for the tools to visualize, simulate and analyze real-world performance early in the design process to save time and money, enhance quality and foster innovation. For additional information about Autodesk, visit www.autodesk.com.
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