Today’s construction projects are more complex than ever, requiring project teams to assess a myriad of project requirements. Submittals play a critical role in the building process and with specification documents exceeding thousands of pages, managing this information to generate submittal logs is a tedious and time-consuming process. Failure to follow a defined process can delay the start of a project by weeks and impact the project's budget and quality objectives.
To the relief of project teams everywhere, Autodesk BIM 360 provides a fluid submittal creation and management workflow that ensures accountability, reduce the risk of errors, and allows project teams to manage all information in a single document library.
A Painless Submittal Process
BIM 360’s submittal workflow creates clear accountability ensuring submittals move through the review process efficiently with actionable and conflict-free responses. Users can easily create submittal items and spec sections, add items to a submittal package, submit items for review, and collaborate in the activity section.
By design, only the designated Submittal Manager - the General Contractor – can review the submittal package and make the final decision on when it is ready for the design team to review. Once all times have been reviewed and approved, the Submittal Manager will close and distribute the package to the responsible contractor.
Of course, the key to success for any project procedure is the setup. With BIM 360’s integration with Pype, teams can enhance this workflow by automatically generating submittal item registries from the specification manual. This seamless import increases confidence in teams by ensuring they're working with complete information and allows them to hit the ground running.
Pype AutoSpecs and BIM 360 Docs Integration
Pype makes construction software that enables project teams to start projects faster and finish stronger. Pype’s AutoSpecs software allows users to generate detailed submittal logs in a matter of minutes. AutoSpecs’ powerful algorithms extract, validate, and categorize project requirements to generate submittal items. The patented software uses machine learning to identify action, information, closeout submittal, quality assurance, quality control, mock-up, test and inspection requirements and display them in an easy-to-understand format. Once generated, it also keeps track of spec changes between versions when you upload new specs, automatically identifying and updating the changes.
The new integration between Pype AutoSpecs and BIM 360 Docs eliminates the process of entering submittal items in BIM 360 Docs. Users can generate a submittal register in minutes, import it directly into BIM 360, and seamlessly maintain and manage the submittal register via Pype and BIM 360.
Pype can also easily narrow down spec sections to provide individual sections that help with bid and scope management with subcontractors. Those spec sections and requirements overviews are then easily exportable into BIM 360.
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