To streamline our work flow and provide the support our team needs, especially when we onboard a new employee, we have authored and created a comprehensive 60 page interactive manual specifically geared to using Revit in landscape. We have fully trained our entire staff and retained a consultant to offer ongoing support, as well as developed custom built landscape templates. Adoption of the software is a long-term commitment. So those times when we are asked to quickly deliver a change, we can turn around the work at speeds not possible with AutoCAD. But with Revit we can all be in the same file at once. With AutoCAD only one person can be in a file at a time. The software has allowed us to accelerate changes which benefits us tremendously as a small firm. Incorporating this tool into our process 100% of the time has been fundamental to our growth and has made us more efficient, proactive and collaborative.

Our team uses Revit, the industry standard, to access BIM information and to design, collaborate and simulate. Our practice was conceived on the very belief that adoption of BIM was critical to our ability to integrate with our project partners and become agile collaborators.

Yet at Mantle, we deliberately chose to embrace BIM (Revit) for landscape architecture. Landscape architecture has been slow to adapt this technology, lagging on projects where BIM is the driver. BIM has wide penetration in the A&E sector, a survey by AIA in 2020 shows 100% of large architects use it and over 30% of small firms.

The driver for this collaboration in the A&E industry is BIM (Building Information Modeling) which is a cloud-based, intelligent modelling software that produces a digital representation of a project across its entire lifecycle. And, like most businesses today, it is crucial that everyone on the project team keep pace, in real-time, as the project progresses. As landscape architects, invariably we work in concert with other disciplines – civil and structural engineers, ecologists, lighting designers, and architects to name a few of our critical partners.

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