Speckle: AEC Teams’ Top Pick
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This blog post focuses on empowering teams to make the most of project workflows and deliveries.
Challenging Project Management in AEC
The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is known for its complexity, with projects being tied to deadlines, budgets, and resources. Traditional project management methods are prone to errors, leading to costly delays and overruns.
AEC teams are, by nature, project teams with their corresponding project managers. It’s important to equip the project managers with the right tools to maximise their chances of success!
Speckle: Your AEC Data Hub
Speckle started as a community-centric initiative, fuelling teams worldwide with tools and resources to connect their data, collaborate on workflows, and apply a team-oriented approach to project management.
Today, Speckle sits in the heart of the AEC industry as a digital data hub, acting as the glue between different software packages, unlocking interoperable workflows to save teams time and effort.
Being the AEC’s unique data hub means that Speckle allows you to:
- connect your existing AEC software used across a wide range of teams and departments
- enable teams to work from different time zones with different tools and models, bringing their skills to one single place
- give AEC teams full control over their data while empowering them with innovative workflows
We compiled a few stories highlighting the above points, and this is also an opportunity to shed light on our inspiring community of Specklers!
Why AEC Teams Can't Get Enough of Speckle
Different teams use Speckle differently and creatively. Here are a few examples:
UNStudio: Serving Design Teams
UNStudio leveraged Speckle to democratise the use of specific software and tools inside design teams.
No more wasting time on learning new design tools! By combining Speckle with UNStudio’s workflow, the team aimed to make things easier for designers to focus on what matters. UNStudio.Tools used Speckle to enable better communication and collaboration between different disciplines and tools, using in-house templates and workflows.
Arup’s Parametric Design Workflow
Speckle sits at the heart of Arup’s parametric design workflow as a single source of truth. Using data for interdisciplinary discussions and analyses saved Arup time and effort.
Aurecon’s Multidisciplinary Teams
Speckle is making any multidisciplinary team collaboration easier! A year ago, Aurecon rolled out Speckle to 7,000+ staff across its multidisciplinary business. Today, the team is using Speckle as a core central data infrastructure.
Global AEC Teams: Winning Hackathons Together
We’ve seen incredible teams creatively leverage Speckle to innovate across various workflows - and take over the win! Great examples include the AEC Tech Barcelona team, “C”, who built a way for designers to compare their models using Rhino and Speckle easily. This application allows users to push analysis data for collaborative evaluation.
Another example includes Beyond the Speckleverse winners who collaborated across different time zones to ship innovative solutions, such as Ark, who built an alternative project document platform. You can upload documents (Rhino or Revit), and Ark automatically generates deliverables, prints drawings, publishes the data to Speckle, and lets you view it online and share it.
What’s Next?
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