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Complete your precast building projects faster, at less cost, with better coordination and quality, minimizing the material’s negatives and maximizing its long-term benefits.
Enduring value
The elements of each client solution work as a unified system, generally with Autodesk® Revit® as a common environment. That helps unlock the full potential of prefabrication, automation and digitalization.
Design power
Getting digital construction projects right from the design stage maximizes savings and efficiency. BIM tools let you intelligently consider more design options. For functionality. For life-time energy efficiency and sustainability. To pass on sound models, data and documentation.
Access to advances
From automation to AR, IoT, AI and whatever’s next, new building technologies require timely data in the right form. ARKANCE enables that. In data management, we’re ahead of the industry. We have state-of-the-art methods and tools for precision exchange and classification of building information.
Quality assurance
True BIM technology is built into Be.Smart software. Drawings and take-offs update automatically as a model evolves. Clashes are found and fixed in virtual space. So your data and documentation are always accurate. That avoids not just errors but also material waste and costly rework on site.
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 industry inside and out. And an impressive international network of expert AEC practitioners and trainer-consultants.
Building lifecycle
For each core lifecycle process in precast concrete construction – planning (design), execution (fabrication, logistics, on-site construction and assembly) and operation (facility management, maintenance, eventual demolition and element reuse) – digitalization solutions create specific value for the diverse stakeholders.
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Planning & design
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Fabrication
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Logistics
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Builder's work
Planning & design
BIM software, like Revit and ARKANCE Be.Smart applications, permits precise, efficient and flexible 3D modelling and management of building information with real-time collaboration by architects and structural and MEP engineers. 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. So sound design and quality information get passed on for use in later project stages.
Fabrication
Precast building modules and components are manufactured off-site in a controlled environment. Machinery in precast factories increasingly use data from 3D models. Prefabrication may involve the production of steel reinforcement (rebar) cages and/or the full production of reinforced concrete elements using forms. Digitalization is required for automation of machines that cut, bend and weld rebar, fabricate and fill forms, cut insulating materials, etc.
Logistics
BIM enables better sequencing of building processes. It also provides more accurate take-offs to ensure delivery of the right materials at the right time. This eliminates unnecessary transport and storage (or waste) of materials and delays that extend work on site. BIM models that include gravity points make it possible to embed hooks in large precast elements during fabrication so that they can more easily be lifted and moved.
Builders’ work
Proper digitalization of precast construction processes enables all those involved on site to confidently do their job well. So, building work is fast, clean and quiet. Solutions also provide the data needed for other emerging building technologies with potential to further improve efficiency and reduce costs and waste: AR/VR applications, robotization of construction tasks and 3D printing, IoT uses and more.
Operation & beyond
High-quality physical assets are made possible by precision design and execution. Plus, there are digital assets to hand over to owners: as-built models with the information to drive effective facility management and maintenance for many years. And when, in the far future, the building is decommissioned, design optimization early in the project will maximize reusability and recyclability.
High performance
Functionality, adaptability and aesthetics, durability and longevity, energy efficiency and general sustainability.
Emerging tech
Smart facility management systems and future AI systems can tap into the required building data.
Minimized environmental impact
Over a building’s operating lifetime of operations through to eventual demolition.
Stakeholders that benefit
Engineers and Manufacturers of prefab building components, Facility Managers, Contractors, and Owners
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