USA and Crescent Pre-construction personnel , the latter used 3D modelling to illustrate the massing of the project as the group was collaborating in real time . The Massing Models were saved using Nextplans , a workflow tool that makes it possible for them to be accessed by all .
At the end of this six-hour meeting they arrived at Crescent Stonewall Station ’ s ultimate design .
“ The concepts created that day are very similar to the building you see standing today . It ’ s pretty amazing how that all came together ,” he says .
Brand new tech This real-time methodology , using software such as NextPlans that allows all the partners to be involved from start to finish is typical of Crescent ’ s projects .
“ It ’ s a collaborative platform . We ’ re able to customise folders and have secure access to all our projects , granting access to partners . This software for internal construction serves as
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a facilitation software . It also has a tablet and phone app so you can walk around and pull up the drawings on an iPad .”
Crescent has recently started using Bluebeam , a piece of software that allows them to edit and share documents online .
“ We saw that most of our architects were using it ” Rothrock says . “ We prefer to control certain aspects of preconstruction and be the initiators of discussions , so we have all the stakeholders in the room and we can take notes in real time on the cloud . Our architects like it because it ’ s
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