Building Design – Agacad | Enabling Innovations Together

Tomorrow’s design technologies integrated into tailored BIM workflows for timber, light-gauge steel and precast building projects as well as highly advanced façades and MEP systems.

Complete your projects faster, at less cost, with higher quality, ensuring a smooth and responsible experience for everyone involved – from idea to handover and beyond.

End-to-end value

Getting digital construction projects right from the design stage maximizes savings and efficiency across the building lifecycle. Our solutions help you work faster, consider more options, and pass on better models, data and documentation. For functionality, sustainability and well-being.

Holistic approach

The elements of each solution work as a unified system, generally with Revit as a common environment. That lets you focus on sound decisions to unlock the full potential of good design.

Quality assurance

True BIM technology is built into Agacad software – drawings and take-offs update automatically as a model evolves. That’s unique. And it avoids errors, ensuring your data and documentation are always accurate. Clashes, too, are found and fixed in virtual space.

Access to advances

From robots to AI and beyond, new building technologies require timely data in the right form. Agacad enables that. In data management, classification and exchange, we’re ahead of the industry. So, whatever you design can be fabricated, built and operated in the most effective modern way.

Expert resources

Solutions draw on not just our own tools and custom development expertise, but also partner technologies. And in-house engineers who know the building industry inside and out. And an impressive international network of expert AEC practitioners and trainer-consultants.

Industry focus

Architects and engineers should spend their time making good design decisions and passing on quality information for use in later project stages. So, we automate drafting, data entry, calculations and documentation. And we optimize your processes in collaborative workflows that leverage the specifics of wood, steel, concrete and other types of construction. Solutions by Agacad create specific value for the diverse stakeholders in each building industry.

Timber construction

Metal framing

Precast Concrete

Façades

Timber construction

BIM software, like Autodesk® Revit® and Agacad applications, permits precise, efficient and flexible 3D modelling and management of building information for traditional wood framing, heavy-timber post-and-beam structures, CLT, SIPS and more. Analysis in virtual space enables better design choices as well as clash detection and resolution with no physical cost. Data sharing and 3D visualizations help stakeholders spot errors and reconsider poor design decisions early. All of which helps to unlock wood’s benefits for ecology and human well-being.

Eliminate routine drafting

Designers (architects, structural engineers, MEP engineers) get precise drawings and data straight from the 3D model for easy sharing with other stakeholders.

Improved productivity & quality

BIM managers enjoy increased productivity and higher project quality. In large part, that’s due to great coordination between different disciplines.

Forecast costs more accurately

Cost estimators forecast project costs better to find the most profitable design solutions. They also exchange information with contractors faster and more accurately.

Manage construction easily

Contractors and subcontractors more easily manage prefabrication planning and construction tasks. They save costs and resources and improve communication and collaboration. All this contributes to higher quality and better project results.

Be confident of your project results

Ultimate clients and project sponsors receive a digital prototype of their building to know early on what it will look like and cost. They can have confidence that they will live or work in a precisely designed timber structure. Built without errors, on time and on budget.

Metal framing

BIM software, like Revit platform and Agacad applications, permits precise, efficient and flexible 3D modelling and management of building information with real-time collaboration by architects and structural and MEP engineers. For clean, highly efficient projects. Analysis in virtual space enables better design choices as well as clash detection and resolution with no physical cost. Data sharing and 3D visualizations help stakeholders spot errors and reconsider poor design decisions early. All of which helps unlock steel’s advantages of near-zero waste, recyclability/reusability, and ease of insulation.

Eliminate routine drafting

Designers (architects, structural engineers, MEP engineers) get precise drawings and data straight from the 3D model for easy sharing with other stakeholders.

Improved productivity & quality

BIM managers enjoy increased productivity and higher project quality. In large part, that’s due to great coordination between different disciplines.

Forecast costs more accurately

Cost estimators forecast project costs better to find the most profitable design solutions. They also exchange information with contractors faster and more accurately.

Manage construction easily

Be confident of your project results

Ultimate clients and project sponsors receive a digital prototype of their building to know early on what it will look like and cost. They can have confidence that they will live or work in a precisely designed metal-framed structure. Built without errors, on time and on budget.

Precast Concrete

BIM software, like Revit and Agacad applications, permits precise, efficient and flexible 3D modelling and management of building information. For smooth processes and durable, versatile results. Analysis in virtual space enables better design choices as well as clash detection and resolution. Data sharing and 3D visualizations help stakeholders spot errors and reconsider poor design decisions early. This avoids not just errors but also waste of materials and costly rework on site. All of which helps unlock the full potential of prefabrication, automation and digitalization to minimize concrete’s negatives and maximize its long-term benefits.

Eliminate routine drafting

Detailing is easy with batch insertion of connectors, support elements, openings, etc. Designers (architects, structural engineers, MEP engineers) get precise drawings and data straight from the 3D model for easy sharing with other stakeholders.

Improved productivity & quality

BIM managers enjoy increased productivity and higher project quality. In large part, that’s due to great coordination between different disciplines.

Forecast costs more accurately

Cost estimators forecast project costs better to find the most profitable design solutions. They know exactly what quantities of rebar, connectors and bracing are needed. They can compare alternatives in real time and exchange information with contractors faster and more accurately.

Manage construction easily

Be confident of your project results

Ultimate clients and project sponsors receive a digital prototype of their building to know early on what it will look like and cost. They can have confidence that they will live or work in a precisely designed precast structure. Built well, on time, on budget, and with a better sustainability rating.

Façades

The design of a modern building envelope generally involves a supporting structure for the building skin, external aesthetic and functional elements, like cladding and insulation. We offer custom BIM workflows for curtain walls, ventilated facades, sandwich panels and more. BIM software, like Revit and Agacad applications, permit precise, efficient and flexible 3D modelling and management of building information. It also facilitates the many types of analysis relevant for façade design. The result is better design choices and clash resolution in virtual space. Data sharing and 3D visualizations help stakeholders spot errors and reconsider poor designs early. All of which helps optimize a building’s interface with the world: for appearance, energy usage, ecology and human well-being.

Eliminate routine drafting

Improved productivity & quality

BIM managers enjoy increased productivity and higher project quality. In large part, that’s due to great coordination between different disciplines.

Forecast costs more accurately

Cost estimators forecast project costs better to find the most profitable design solutions. They also exchange information with contractors faster and more accurately.

Manage construction easily

Contractors and subcontractors more easily manage production planning and construction tasks. They save costs and resources and improve communication and collaboration. All this contributes to higher quality and better project results.

Be confident of your project results

Ultimate clients and project sponsors receive a digital prototype of their building to know early on what it will look like and cost. They can have confidence that they will live or work in a well-designed building. Built without errors, on time and on budget.

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