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SHP Leading Design Earns Autodesk BIM Experience Award for Advancing Industry Process Change

12.03.09

Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, announced that SHP Leading Design, a multidisciplinary architectural design and engineering firm based in Ohio, has been selected to receive an Autodesk BIM Experience Award for its industry-wide advocacy of Building Information Modeling (BIM) as a process and its extensive use of BIM for integrated design and construction, sustainable design, and facilities management.  The award also highlights the firm’s over 150 BIM process-based projects to date, as well as its work with educational clients including the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Indiana University.

“With BIM we can develop projects that are extremely well integrated and coordinated, substantially increasing our efficiency and lessening construction time,” said Dick Thomas, vice president, SHP Leading Design.  “Our commitment to BIM, use of an extensive set of Autodesk software for BIM, and our requirement that our consultants use Autodesk Revit platform software helps make it possible for us complete projects on-time and on-budget.” 

Exemplary Application of BIM for Educational Clients
In addition to SHP Leading Design’s BIM-based general body of work, the award also highlights two noteworthy educational client projects: the $6.3-million Welcome Center project for the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and development of a BIM Standards Specification for Indiana University.

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Welcome Center renovation and expansion project included the institution’s admissions office, security offices, as well as a large alumni room, a lounge with a theater, and a new cafeteria.  SHP Leading Design effectively applied BIM to complete the work in less than one year.   To meet an aggressive project timeline, SHP’s architectural and MEP designers, and the project’s structural engineering consultant, collaborated using Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk Revit Structure and Autodesk Revit MEP software.  Autodesk Navisworks was also used to create a single 3D digital model for clash detection, to help keep costly field change orders to a minimum and to sustain an aggressive construction schedule. SHP Leading Design and its consultants also employed an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) approach to foster shared stakeholder responsibilities, and to help increase design and construction accuracy to reduce financial risk for their client. 

Early this year, Indiana University also commissioned SHP Leading Design to develop “BIM standards” for transitioning into a BIM environment. The objective was to create an approach for moving the institution and the marketplace from one set of delivery models to a new set that are built upon the foundation of BIM. The new BIM standards will be applied for all future Indiana University projects of $5 million or more.

Founded in 1901, SHP Leading Design is a multidisciplinary design practice with 135 employees and three offices in Ohio.  The firm offers planning, architecture, interior design, engineering, construction administration and facilities management services.  SHP adopted a BIM process in 2005.  In addition to Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk Revit MEP, Autodesk Revit Structure and Autodesk Navisworks the firm also uses Autodesk Ecotect Analysis, Autodesk Green Building Studio, Autodesk 3ds Max Design and AutoCAD.  Louisville, Kentucky-based Advanced Solutions, Inc. (ASI) provides Autodesk software and implementation support to SHP Leading Design.

The Autodesk BIM Experience Award recognizes professionals and educators around the world who are helping to drive industry transformation through building information modeling. Autodesk honors organizations for their innovation, leadership and excellence in implementing BIM with the help of core BIM products, including one or more of the Autodesk Revit platform products, and/or AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and other Autodesk products that complement the BIM process, such as AutoCAD software. 

BIM is an integrated process for exploring a project’s key physical and functional characteristics digitally before it is built. Coordinated, consistent information is used throughout the process to design innovative projects and conduct analysis from the earliest stages, better visualize and simulate real-world appearance, performance and cost, and deliver projects faster and more economically, while minimizing environmental impact.

About Autodesk
Autodesk, Inc., is a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software for the manufacturing, building and construction, and media and entertainment markets. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk continues to develop the broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art software to help customers experience their ideas digitally before they are built. Fortune 100 companies ⎯ as well as the last 14 Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects ⎯ use Autodesk software tools to design, visualize and simulate their ideas to save time and money, enhance quality, and foster innovation for competitive advantage. For additional information about Autodesk, visit www.autodesk.com.

SHP Leading Design offers a complete line of planning, architecture, interior design, engineering, construction administration and facilities management services. With more than 105 years of experience, the firm is committed to leading the community in innovative architectural design and sustainable design. Headquartered in Cincinnati, SHP also has offices in Columbus and Hamilton, Ohio.