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Hi. My name is David Robinson.
I'm the managing director of IBSECAD.
We're a BIM consultancy to the construction industry.
BIM stands for Building Information Modeling.
What we do is we create a building in the virtual world before it goes to site.
We're working with design teams, architects, structural
engineers, M&E services engineers, the builders and
the trades to create a building in a virtual world before it gets to site.
We're then there to work with the client to keep it for
its full life cycle.
Now, traditionally the construction industry works
through the communication medium of drawings.
So, we leave cumbersome, large bits of paper everywhere.
Now, because of the number of people involved there,
and the different people working on different elements, architects doing
his bit, M&E services guy doing his bit, builder
doing his bit, and they're working in their different places,
they need to get together to have workshops in a collaborative approach.
That was done traditionally by getting around the
table, and pouring over drawings all day long, spilling coffee on them,
making markups, big red-line drawings, and this became a contractual document.
This was very laborious, time consuming, and difficult to get all the right people
around the table at the right time as well, so it is an inefficient process.
IBSECAD is a forward-thinking company, and we're always looking for ways
and the latest innovation ideas to improve our service to our clients.
We're always looking for ways to save our clients time and money, and make
a project run more smoothly and effectively.
We've found using SMART Board interactive whiteboards was a
perfect means of doing that, in terms
of we could allow anybody that needed to
be at the workshops, remote access from their desktops,
from their iPads, or from their iPhones on site.
They could dial into the meeting for the bits that they are required to, so they didn't need
to lose a whole day in travel to get there just for their half-hour slot.
They could dial in when needed.
But, they can also input, too.
Through our SMART Board, they can actually interact, put their
comments on and it's saved to an email in an instant.
An example of a specific project where this was absolutely paramount
to our delivery of this project was the University Medical Center in New Orleans.
This is a $700 million project
so you can imagine the number of people
involved with this, and the number of meetings,
the number of inputs that need to go
into this information before it actually goes to site.
So there was a number of meetings happening on a daily basis.
Now, we need to be part of most of those, and in order to
do that remotely from overseas, the only way for us to deliver it was the
SMART Board solution.
Without it, we would not have been able
to service this project remotely or from overseas.
We just simply wouldn't have been able to attend all those meetings.
It would have been cost prohibitive for the
amount of flights, let alone the carbon footprint.
SMART Board interactive whiteboards have made
IBSECAD a much more efficient, streamlined business.
It has allowed us to work in marketplaces we might
not have been able to do quite so quickly.
It has given our
clients a level of service that surpasses our rivals.