Anticipating the sector's movement, the company adopts Autodesk's technological solutions and conquers a competitive differential in public tenders for transport infrastructure works.
Planservi Engenharia – a civil engineering studies and projects company specialized in transport infrastructure, with extensive experience in road systems and urban mobility projects – a few years ago identified the need to train its professionals to develop, control and deliver projects and works with based on the BIM (Building Information Modeling) methodology.
Walter Luis Guimarães Nieyama, Information Technology coordinator at Planservi, says that in 2014, as was already happening in the construction sector, the infrastructure market also started to look for projects based on BIM. "The company saw, through its technical director, engineer Carlos Yukio Suzuki, an opportunity to differentiate itself from competitors", he says.
At the same time, says the coordinator, the company noticed the convergence of the market in the sense of having products delivered using Autodesk software. "Using BIM in Autodesk before other players in the sector was a business strategy for Planservi", he says. The strategy had the full support of the technical board, contract management teams and Planservi specialists, which facilitated its implementation, according to Nieyama.
For this, a multidisciplinary team of studies was formed to understand the best way to adopt BIM in the company's projects. The company was quickly ready for modeling based on the information methodology. “We needed to integrate a tool for the management of modelling, documents and project information”, explains the IT coordinator.
Planservi opted for the Autodesk AEC suite. In addition to the functionality of Autodesk tools, says Nieyama, the suite has a plugin that facilitates the export of all information and properties generated in other software to Revit, allowing the project to be delivered using Autodesk technology. "Structure specifics are still established in different software, but many bids are already starting to require deliveries in Autodesk as standard", reveals the coordinator.
reference project
The example case refers to a recent bid won by Planservi for the delivery of a road work contracted by a large concessionaire. "The requirement was that the project be delivered both in the BIM methodology and in the traditional way. It was a hybrid project, but it contributed to Planservi starting to be seen as a reference in BIM in the road infrastructure sector", he celebrates.
Nieyama reveals that through Autodesk management tools it was possible to identify conflicts between the disciplines of geometry, drainage, geotechnics, structures and lighting that were not easily detectable in traditional design. "We were able to correct the project based on the BIM studies and our information management capacity", evaluates the specialist.
According to him, in general, Planservi projects average initial savings of 15% to 20% in the value of a work that starts, progresses and is delivered based on BIM.
ready to grow
In Nieyama's assessment, the BIM methodology is established in the infrastructure market. "Metro, CPTM, the highway and rail market are already asking for BIM", he says. "Planservi noticed this movement before and prepared itself", he guarantees. He says that the company already works on three other projects that require the methodology and, for that, it has 20 Autodesk users focused on BIM. "But all professionals in each specialty already use Autodesk software in some way to support development, adding up to another 60 users", he concludes.
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