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Arc 1: BIM 2.0 | The Next AEC Tech Stack

Arc 1 of The Next AEC Tech Stack: BIM 2.0. Your authoring tool is no longer the only game in town. What's genuinely faster, what just moves the technology tax, and what it costs to move.

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Graitec provides AEC software, training, and expert support to help architects, engineers, and construction teams design, build, and manage projects more effectively.

Arc 1: BIM 2.0

Your authoring tool is no longer the only game in town. A generation of startups is building around the model instead of inside it, and the incumbents are rebuilding too: Autodesk with Forma, Graphisoft with AI-assisted Archicad. Which leaves you with the practical questions: what's genuinely faster on a real project, what just relocates the technology tax to a different line item, and what happens to twenty years of content and muscle memory if you actually move.

Three episodes, working through it with the people building these tools and the people using them every day.

With support from
AVAIL

AVAIL's content management system (CMS) helps architecture and engineering teams find, manage, and reuse their Revit, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and other technical content in one place.

Episodes in this Arc

The Next AEC Tech Stack, Arc 1 episode 1: Half Your Day Isn't Design
1: Half Your Day Isn't Design
The Next AEC Tech Stack, Arc 1 episode 2: You're Not Going Home Early
2: You're Not Going Home Early
The Next AEC Tech Stack, Arc 1 episode 3: I've Got to Get My Project Out on Friday
3: I've Got to Get My Project Out on Friday

Carl Christensen
Carl Christensen
VP Product
Autodesk
Ariel Cooke-Zamora
Ariel Cooke-Zamora
Product Operations Lead
Bimbeats
Clifton Harness
Clifton Harness
CEO & Co-Founder
TestFit
Holger Kreienbrink
Holger Kreienbrink
Director, Product Intelligence & Partnerships
Graphisoft
Gavin Nicholls
Gavin Nicholls
BIM Educator
The Aussie BIM Guru
Marty Rozmanith
Marty Rozmanith
CTO & Co-Founder
Skema
Dimitrie Stefanescu
Dimitrie Stefanescu
CEO & Co-Founder
Speckle
Randall Stevens
Randall Stevens
CEO & Founder
AVAIL
Jesper Wallgren
Jesper Wallgren
CPO & Co-Founder
Finch
Matt Wash
Matt Wash
CEO
Bimbeats
Campbell Yule
Campbell Yule
AEC Tech Enthusiast
campbellyule.com

In their words

Moments worth reading twice, pulled straight from the tape.

“I wouldn't say that what we're seeing [with new tools] is making anyone go home any earlier.”
Matt Wash
Bimbeats
“Revit is not being killed per se, but Revit is, in a sense, being surrounded.”
Dimitrie Stefanescu
Speckle
“I was not paid more hourly for being intelligent, which was one of the first times I [realized], ‘Oh, designers are getting screwed.’”
Clifton Harness
TestFit
“You have to value your own time first in order to want to save it.”
Marty Rozmanith
Skema
“The software is maybe only 10% of the actual cost. The [real] cost is in training, getting people to stop what they're doing for a minute, and learn that there's something new.”
Randall Stevens
AVAIL
“You're buying into what you believe [a vendor's] vision is for the future more than you're buying into what they do today.”
Campbell Yule
campbellyule.com
“You shackle your own creativity to the capability of the tools you shackle yourself to.”
Gavin Nicholls
The Aussie BIM Guru
“The people that are learning Finch and adopting it the fastest are the people that play around with it during evenings, and then bring it into the office again. And of course, that is a tall order.”
Jesper Wallgren
Finch
“You need to be aware that for a time, nothing is as it was before, and productivity will go down. People will complain.”
Holger Kreienbrink
Graphisoft
“Deadlines are real. If you get told, ‘If you learn this tool, you're going to be doing it faster,’ you're probably going to default to the way that you know works.”
Ariel Cooke-Zamora
Bimbeats
“You can't rely on billing for the time it takes you anymore. You have to be an outcome-based business that delivers an outcome [so] that you can charge for the value of that outcome.”
Marty Rozmanith
Skema
“[Firms] delete models on purpose so that those models cannot be handed over to the end user of the building, because of the risk.”
Dimitrie Stefanescu
Speckle
“Getting people to do something different tomorrow than they did today is hard.”
Randall Stevens
AVAIL
“[McKinsey comes back] every few years and remind[s] us how bad the industry is, and [how to fix it], and then we just go back and continue doing what we're doing.”
Campbell Yule
campbellyule.com
“We've built Speckle with the assumption that we need to build ladders to the future that are anchored in the present.”
Dimitrie Stefanescu
Speckle
“No matter how well something has been designed, if you don't use it very often, you're basically frustrated every time you come back to it because you've forgotten how it works.”
Randall Stevens
AVAIL
“Culture eats strategy for lunch. And that is the issue [when it comes to adopting new tools].”
Marty Rozmanith
Skema
“I sound pessimistic. I'm not a pessimist. But the marketing around BIM 2.0 is just a little bit too high level without appreciating the playing field.”
Campbell Yule
campbellyule.com
“People come from the outside and marvel at how slow things are, and think ‘People must be slow.’ But they're not. They're working really hard, and there are really good reasons why this is complex.”
Carl Christensen
Autodesk
“The way projects are staffed is based on the way we did it last time. So the expectation is it's going to take that much time. And there's not a lot of incentive to cut that down, because there still is this real heavy anchor that we bill by the time we put in — and yet there's never enough time.”
Evan Troxel
Host, TRXL
“There's a lot of muscle memory in some of these tools, and that muscle memory is also something that's been holding people back from looking at new solutions.”
Evan Troxel
Host, TRXL

Arc 1 partners

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Autodesk

Autodesk makes software that helps people design, build, and operate the buildings, infrastructure, products, and experiences that shape our world.
AVAIL

AVAIL's content management system (CMS) helps architecture and engineering teams find, manage, and reuse their Revit, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and other technical content in one place.
Bimbeats

Bimbeats is the tool that shows you how the rest of your tech stack is working.
Finch

Finch is an AI-native building design platform for architects.
Graphisoft

Graphisoft empowers teams to design great buildings through AI-assisted software solutions, learning programs, and professional services for the AEC industry.
Skema

Skema turns your hard-won design knowledge into a reusable asset, so every new project builds on what you've already proven.
Speckle

Speckle makes design data actually usable across projects, so your team can trust it, own it, act on it, and make better decisions faster.
TestFit

TestFit is a real estate feasibility platform that automates site plans with real-time insights on design, cost and constructability.
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