FEBRUARY - 2021CONSTRUCTIONTECHREVIEW.COM 19as well as generate overall savings in time and money," adds Tolentino. Through Aidea's advances in digital delivery, it provides solutions that encompass the entire building lifecycle. Appreciating Aidea's automation solutions, Graphisoft, said, "Aidea has been pushing Archicad's capabilities to its limits and automating the most tedious workflows that can save them the most time in delivering projects. Their level of documentation optimization makes it possible to deliver a project in a fraction of the time needed with conventional workflows. Of course, to do that, they are very strict in terms of modeling compliance, because everything from scheduling to automatically arranged and published layouts come from the model. This is how they create a competitive advantage." Aidea's add-ons automate repetitive tasks that liberate designers from the tedium of repetition and allow them to spend more time designing. The company aims to provide automation such that designers can creatively deep-dive as a rule, not a luxury. Describing a challenging project that Aidea had to complete, Tolentino said that they had to create a stadium with a design build contractor for the Southeast Asian Games in 2019 within 18 months. Aidea was called upon early in the design stage to assess the feasibility of the structural system. Aidea built a BIM model of the proposed design as a tool for testing and validating the concept for performance and constructability. Since none of the other project team members or stakeholders were BIM users, the model helped to visualize and define the project for all involved and allowed for full appreciation for the project mission. The model was also used for early fabrication of various construction components, fast-tracking the delivery process. Tolentino believes that with the BIM model as the central repository where all contributions were consolidated, coordinated, and aligned, the efforts among the architects and engineers crystallized in a design that remained true to the original intent. The project was completed ahead of time and generated overall project savings for all the stakeholders.As for the future of Aidea, "we would like to focus on high impact technology that addresses the needs of the construction and design industry by creating more solutions and tools." says Tolentino. The team at Aidea is also venturing into AI and generative design to create more responsive design solutions, and are working to integrate IoT and other emerging technologies. Lastly, Aidea is also developing its own facilities management platform to take BIM all the way to building management sites. "The goal is to be relevant on all the stages of a building life cycle," he concludes. Our plug-ins enable architects, engineers, and contractors to indulge in solving strategic and higher-order challenges, as well as generate overall savings in time and money
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