Customer Stories

Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo counts on Revit® Architecture software and the Autodesk® Buzzsaw® service for increased competitive advantage—and sees a significant increase in profitability.

Hytrol Conveyor Company uses DWF to manage and accelerate its design, sales, and manufacturing processes.

Advanced Dynamics uses Autodesk® Design Review software to streamline workflow from the design department to the shop floor.

With Autodesk® Design Review, the Crom Corporation accelerates its review processes and realizes more value from AutoCAD® software.

Autodesk Developer leverages DWF platform to create time-saving search application that helps companies access their digital data quicker.

Autodesk® Design Review provides the collaboration backbone to award-winning civil engineering firm, CTE and improves design review process among remote offices.

Homebuilder Centex efficiently distributes designs to 58 divisions using DWF.

Barraco and Associates, Inc., standardizes on DWF for more effective design management through the project lifecycle.

Lincoln-based power utility uses DWF to quickly and efficiently share complex construction drawings with its office and field personnel.

A global leader in the fertilizer market, Agrium KNO has increased the accessibility of business-critical operational information by using the Autodesk® DWF™ Viewer.

Autodesk® DWF™ Viewer enables Siemens L&A to distribute complex design data to non-AutoCAD® users.

Autodesk Architectural® Desktop plays a major role in BAA's drive to reduce costs at London Heathrow.

Busy structural engineering, MKM & Associates, replace paper-based design review with a purely digital process to reduce cycle times by 75% and save $100 per print job.

$2.7 billion hotel casino opens on time with Autodesk Buzzsaw Collaborative Project Management

Learn how this public owner used Constructware to coordinate hundreds of architects, engineers, and contractors on a $380 million program to transform five miles of West Manhattan’s waterfront docklands into a series of parks and public spaces.

Set in a steep hillside on a cramped site, Carnegie Mellon’s new 133,000-square-foot research center for collaboration in science, engineering, and technology was itself a study in collaborative design and construction.

The eye-catching new 700,000-square-foot Caltrans headquarters in downtown Los Angeles features high design from lead architect Morphosis and a slew of construction coordination challenges for design/build team leader Clark Construction Group.

L. Robert Kimball & Associates is a multidisciplinary design firm that sets the bar for quality, service, and results in the architectural and engineering industry.

Station Casinos Uses Autodesk® Buzzsaw® to Keep Billion Dollar Projects On Track By More Effectively Managing and Sharing Information.

The national pet supplies retail chain uses the Autodesk® Buzzsaw® on-demand collaborative project management solution to manage a portfolio with as many as 100 active projects. By using Buzzsaw, PETCO saves its store designers almost 180 hours each year, cutting two weeks from design review cycles and saving $10,000 annually.

Autodesk Collaboration Services help Wyndham International share design plans and construction information from corporate headquarters in Dallas to worldwide locations.

DWF™, Autodesk® DWF™ Viewer, and Autodesk® DWF™ Composer provide historic Lisbon, Portugal, with standardized, cost-effective and easy-to-use tools to share design information and manage design review.

Home to more than 560,000 people, the City of Fort Worth, Texas is growing fast. According to the Census Bureau, Forth Worth’s growth rate was 6.1 percent between 2000 and 2002, making it the second fastest growing city in the United States.

Several years ago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) decided to build a new home for computer, information, and intelligence sciences at the Institute.

Without Buzzsaw, we would be spending 25 percent more time managing input from the hospital. Beyond the collaboration aspect, simply managing and disseminating information on a project this size could easily be a full time job. That time can now be spent on the design itself.

“Buzzsaw has reduced our printing and delivery costs, but consolidating our design centers has resulted in far more notable cost savings. When we began using Buzzsaw, we operated 70 separate centers; now we operate only eight.” -Eli Tollin, Weyerhaeuser Building Materials

With a student body expected to grow to 30,000 students by 2010, University of California Irvine's 2.5 million square-foot expansion plan included new housing, educational and administrative buildings, and a new medical center.

The Dimension Group, a Texas design and construction firm, used the Autodesk Buzzsaw online collaboration service during a huge Texaco station conversion project. The service has helped the company reduce the number of questions called in to staffers, freeing them for more essential tasks, and has helped them save money on delivery and printing.

Ellerbe Becket, one of the world’s leading architectural firms, used the Autodesk Buzzsaw online collaboration service during the Seahawks Stadium building project in Seattle.

Hacienda Builders (Hacienda) has made a name for itself in the hot and ever growing Phoenix, Arizona, home market. Of course, the home market isn’t the only thing that’s hot in Phoenix—outside summer temperatures regularly top 105 degrees Fahrenheit. All Hacienda homes are Energy Star certified and feature 46% more insulation than new homes in other cities.

A Silicon Valley-based contractor turned to the Autodesk Buzzsaw online collaboration service for a secure, centralized location for storing and sharing information and the means to track all the activities within a project. The result—money earned and saved and a selling point when pursuing new business.

C&C Technologies, an international mapping and survey company based in Louisiana, made headlines when its underwater roving camera uncovered a sunken German World War II submarine in the Gulf of Mexico. After the discovery, the company chose the Autodesk Buzzsaw service to share information with clients as easily and quickly as the camera delivered the data.

LPA, Inc., with one office in Colorado and two in California, made the leap into online collaboration with the Autodesk Buzzsaw service. Now everyone from their landscape architects to civil engineers and plumbing contractors are using it. The result is better communication, improved overall efficiency, and cost savings.

As Clarke/Tamaccio Architects began using the Autodesk Buzzsaw online collaboration service to manage project design, team members from other disciplines also began using the service—until finally the whole team was involved. The consensus was that they functioned better as a team—enjoying better productivity, time savings, and lower operating costs.

TKG Consulting Engineers uses the Autodesk Buzzsaw online collaboration service to keep more than 90 users connected on a large expansion project for Pfizer, the global pharmaceutical giant. Slated for completion in 2004, the project includes more than 90 project members, who use the collaboration service to exchange drawings, respond to changes, and share ideas.

AREP (Amenagement, Recherche, Pole D’Echanges) is an engineering design office and architectural agency with close links to the French Rail Board. In addition to railway design and construction projects in France, AREP also manages large-scale projects in China. By choosing the Autodesk Buzzsaw online collaboration service, AREP resolved complex exchange and collaboration issues.

Executives of Avalon Bay Communities, Inc., a Virginia real-estate investment trust, turned to the Autodesk Buzzsaw online collaboration service as a way to provide team members with the information they need, whenever they need it. As a result, the company has eliminated delivery costs, and teams are collaborating more successfully than ever before.

The Autodesk Buzzsaw online collaboration service changed the way the team members of a Japanese construction and civil engineering company did their jobs. Without the limits imposed by distance or time, the central administrator can control a project no matter how many members are involved. And because it is easy to use Autodesk Buzzsaw, people could start using it quickly.

When Ellerbe Becket was working to meet the demanding timeline of a huge design and construction project in South America, the firm chose the Autodesk Buzzsaw online collaboration service to help keep their team connected. In addition to eliminating many of the costs associated with faxing, extended travel, document delivery, and international phones, Buzzsaw helped the project move at a quicker pace.