The strategy for utilizing BIM on this Siska
mall project was developed by b.i.m.m. GmbH,
a European technology firm offering BIM
implementations services. “As an integrated
interdisciplinary design firm, ATP’s in-house
groups provide all the design services needed for
a project such as this,” explains Anton Gasteiger,
b.i.m.m.’s managing director. “Revit is an ideal tool for integrated design because all different design disciplines access a central Revit project model that is shared between users. For example, the architect works independently in a local copy of the model and the software synchronizes changes made to that local model back into the master project file. In turn, the architect refreshes the local copy with changes from other users in other disciplines such as the structural engineer and the building technician. In this manner, all the project design teams work in the same model simultaneously.”