CHALLENGE
Managing the expectations of a client can be challenging. Balancing construction timescales, and budgets, meeting structural safety requirements and the local council’s expectations can result in many design iterations. Communicating design changes and on boarding the client can be a difficult task when there have been many design revisions.
BENEFITS
Virtual workspace design can be used as a communication and collaboration tool to help on-board clients and get their feedback on draft designs.
It is easy for clients with no CAD skills to create draft designs for the architects to then create structural drawings
Being able to view a design in 3D can help the client get a spatial awareness of the structure before key decisions are made.
Design iterations can be easily saved and shared
Custom rule sets can be created to visualise what is possible, for example in areas of outstanding natural beauty (ANOB) planning permission guidelines differ compared to other areas within the same district. Rules such as the size of an extension, position within boundaries and other factors can be visualised in the design in real-time
As VWD can be used as a remote collaboration tool as well as in person, the client can also use the tool to communicate changes down the supply chain, for example, the builder can also feedback on the design to provide suggestions to reduce construction costs