How C4R and BIM 360 Provide Improvements to AEC Projects Provide Improvements to AEC Projects

How C4R and BIM 360 Provide Improvements to AEC Projects
Multiple teams and project stakeholders are involved in various stages during the design of
a construction project. When teams of different disciplines are working from various
locations on the same model, seamless collaboration and sharing of project data,
synchronised coordination, two-way communication and the ability to review and comment
upon a design can heavily influence the success of a project.
The conventional practice in architectural 3D BIM modeling and sharing, involved using Revit
server, typically a firewalled, enterprise-wide, server set up, housing Revit files that were
shared via firewalled and protected data environments. However, whilst the Revit Server
software was cheap, the hardware was very expensive, requiring servers at the multiple
locations housing the model. The platform also required a dedicated IT team as well as a
robust server, wherein collaboration, communication and coordination of teams happened
after team members created their individual models. More recently, the advent of
Collaboration for Revit (C4R) has seen an upsurge in collaboration, as the tool is cloud based
and requires minimal IT expertise or IT set up time. To enable collaboration, communication
and anywhere, anytime access to project data throughout the building construction
lifecycle, there are cloud-based collaboration and work sharing tools such as BIM 360 Team
(known earlier A360), and more recently introduced Collaboration for Revit (C4R)
which are both used in today’s AEC industry.
BIM 360 – A Construction Management Tool
BIM 360, a construction management tool, is designed to help project managers, BIM
managers and field managers to collaborate with various project stakeholders, to deliver
projects faster while adhering to design standards and project requirements in an