West Coast Healthcare Client

This West Coast healthcare provider, with hundreds of locations across the U.S., was struggling to manage their extensive design standards. The old way of using a complex Excel spreadsheet was cumbersome and prone to errors. They were spending valuable time copy-pasting information from one application to another. Sharing their requirements with design consultants was tedious and the validation of designs added weeks to the project.

The Medical Equipment Planning team initiated an evaluation of dRofus, but it was the Planning and Design team who jumped onboard first, seeing the value in consolidating their standards information from various tools into one central database. “It’s all connected now; it’s great” says the Director of Planning and Design.

Sharing their design requirements has also become seamless, with design consultants able to connect their BIM tools directly to the project program. This has virtually eliminated the validation process that traditionally added weeks to the project. Design teams can see exactly what is required in each room, and the client can see real-time updates of the design teams’ progress. Design teams also love that they don’t have to plow through pages of room data documents to find information. It’s all there as soon as they log into the project and the dRofus BIM plug-in makes validation a breeze.