Thornton Tomasetti receives Revit BIM Experience Award for building

Thornton Tomasetti, Inc. has been honored with Autodesk's Revit BIM Experience Award for its use of Revit Structure to coordinate structural design and analysis and to collaborate with other design disciplines using the Revit platform. The Revit BIM Experience Award honors organizations, including commercial architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) firms, educational institutions, and individuals for their innovation and excellence in implementing the Revit platform for building information modeling (BIM). Candidates are judged on their ability to create quality and complex designs, collaborate across the building design disciplines, and drive increased productivity in the building design process. Thornton Tomasetti was recognized for creative design and analysis, and effective use of Revit Structure for multidisciplinary integration. The engineering and design firm implemented Revit Structure in 2004 and has since successfully used it on several large, complex projects. Revit Structure is specifically developed for structural engineers and operates between analysis and design models and the actual model production software, which has enabled cross-discipline integration, significantly improved coordination, eliminated duplicate modeling efforts on projects and improved the quality of the deliverables. "Revit Structure is built specifically for our particular type of work and no other software package has been able to offer us the same level of capabilities," said Ken Murphy, BIM manager at Thornton Tomasetti. "With Revit, we are able to create production BIM models straight out of the box, allowing us to more easily communicate project updates with clients. Interoperability gains we've seen while using Revit have made our projects more efficient and vastly improved our business." One of Thornton Tomasetti's current projects is a 2.2-million s/f sports stadium.