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Autodesk®

Buzzsaw®

Centralize, collaborate, deliver.

Use Autodesk Buzzsaw in Your

BIM and IPD Workflows

Building information modeling (BIM) is an

integrated process for exploring a project’s

key physical and functional characteristics

digitally—before it’s built. Autodesk BIM

solutions facilitate an improved way

of working, using a model created from

coordinated, consistent design information.

BIM and project delivery processes

such as Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)

require new ways of working —across

stakeholders, across companies, and across

locations. By helping teams to eciently

and more securely centralize and share

project data and models over the Internet,

Autodesk Buzzsaw complements the BIM

process by linking project team members,

oering access to a shared digital project

vision. This improved visibility helps all

project stakeholders stay coordinated,

improve accuracy, reduce waste, and make

informed decisions earlier in the process and

throughout the project lifecycle—facilitating

the project’s success.

Your projects are more complicated. Your schedules

are tighter. Fewer people are responsible for more

work, and they might be located down the hall or

across the world. New project processes mean you

need to share information securely and eectively

with team members inside and outside your

company and across the world. You need a way

to connect your project team so they can easily

access and manage up-to-date project information

and communicate more eectively.

Autodesk® Buzzsaw® software as a service (SaaS)

delivers document, data, and design management

solutions to architecture, engineering, and

construction (AEC) firms and owner-operators.

Autodesk Buzzsaw helps organizations centralize

and more securely exchange project information

inside and outside their organization. And with

proven SaaS technology, your company can focus

more on project delivery and less on managing

costly IT infrastructure.

Accurate, Up-to-Date Design and

Project Information

Autodesk Buzzsaw provides secure web access to

project documents and data, from anywhere at any

time. Distributed design teams, both inside and

outside your organization, can find and manage

the most current project information and models

more quickly. Team members can better manage

their workflows and help improve productivity by

uploading and retrieving project design files directly

from their Autodesk® design applications, including

software based on the AutoCAD® and Autodesk®

Revit® software platforms. With more reliable,

on-demand project information, your project

stakeholders have permission-based access to the

latest design information, helping to increase design

coordination and improve quality.

Better Communication Across Project Teams

Poor communication can increase the risk of project

delays and costly change orders. Autodesk Buzzsaw

enables the faster exchange of project documents,

data, and designs between project team members,

regardless of geographical location. Available in

8 languages (English, Simplified Chinese, French,

German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish),

Buzzsaw helps you to work more easily with

domestic and international project team members

alike. And the software’s security capabilities and

robust permissions administration help keep the

right people connected to the right information.

More ecient data sharing enhances the way your

project teams work together, which can result in

faster project delivery with fewer errors. Sharing

data electronically can also help lower costs and

avoid the delays associated with the production

and distribution of paper-based designs and

documentation.

Secure, On-Demand Information Management

Help reduce the need to maintain a costly and

complex IT infrastructure by relying on SaaS

technology for your document, data, and design

management. Using Autodesk Buzzsaw, you can

store all your project information in a more

secure, professionally managed environment.

Eciently share project data with your extended

team—without worrying about managing necessary

IT resources. The Autodesk Buzzsaw SaaS solution

lets you more securely share information externally

without compromising your firewall or exposing

your corporate network.

Document, data, and design management

Manage your project and design information for more

ecient, eective collaboration and project delivery.

Get connected and deliver your projects faster and

more economically.

Autodesk Buzzsaw is a leading solution for

architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC)

firms and owner-operators who are interested in

improving their project document, data, and

design management.

Eciently Control Documents

Create a single repository for all your project-

related documents, contracts, and information.

Team members can manage, share, find, view, and

update the latest project documents. File locking

keeps documents more secure and helps project

teams minimize unintended mistakes. Access to

documents is controlled, so only one person can

edit a document at any given time.

Version control capabilities help you preserve a

record of all document versions, as well as track

and manage multiple versions. Activity tracking and

audit trail features give you greater visibility into

the activies that occur on your Autodesk Buzzsaw

site, including who accessed, edited, uploaded, and

downloaded any document and when they did it.

Keep Designs Coordinated

Keep your model-based designs in one virtual

location. Project members can more quickly view

and mark up the latest drawings and models without

the original design creation software, so everyone in

the review chain can stay on top of design reviews

and edits and comment on drawings directly in the

Autodesk Buzzsaw environment.

Autodesk Buzzsaw integrates with your design

team workflows by enabling project team members

to save design models and files directly from their

Autodesk® design applications. With the ability to

automatically synchronize local files with Autodesk

Buzzsaw, your project team members can be more

confident that they are working with the latest

project documents and designs.

Notifications help inform project team members of

updates and changes. Notify project team members

whenever you upload a drawing or make changes to

a design. Better maintain the integrity of drawings

and communicate your intentions with layer and

Xref Management. When you upload DWG files

to Autodesk Buzzsaw, you decide which xrefs

to include.

Seamlessly Manage Project Information

Better manage your project communication and

data distribution processes by using Autodesk

Buzzsaw to manage and disseminate project

information. On-demand information helps limit

the miscommunications and delays associated with

working across locations and companies or using

paper-based distribution. When drawings or models

are uploaded or changed, automatic notifications

decrease ad-hoc information sharing and help

your project team members get access to the

latest information.

During the project lifecycle, Autodesk Buzzsaw can

be an ideal hub for storing and sharing documents

from design through construction and operations.

To minimize information bottlenecks in the field,

contractors can log onto one central system to

find and view design and construction drawings

and other project documents at any time from

any place. To efficiently manage and maintain

as-built information, owner operators can store

and share facility information like equipment

specifications, warranties, and manuals—making

them accessible to the people who need to keep

them up and running.

Guide the flow of information.

We have quite a large

Buzzsaw site. We’re

using it on several major

international projects,

where we have to

contend with multiple

time zones, geographic

separation of design

teams, and vast amounts

of data being manipulated

and edited daily. Buzzsaw

has virtually eliminated

the need for us to ship

CDs and DVDs. Not

only is it much faster,

but it’s also helped us

cut communications

costs tenfold.

— Bill Moore

Stantec’s Practice

Technology Coordinator

Collaboration is the key to successful projects,

and Buzzsaw helps us collaborate better. It’s as

simple as that.

— Anthony Broccolini

Project Manager

Broccolini Construction

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