While many architectural firms use standard software and apps, developing our own means we don’t have to bend to the way other people work – we can lay down our own track before we run our own race.  

This approach encourages blue sky thinking and is more economical, from both time and budget standpoints.  

Here are three examples of inhouse solutions, made possible thanks to our stand-alone Digital team of software specialists.

Layer0 provides ‘block and stack’ data visualisation to help understand complex space scenarios in the early planning stages of projects.

This space planning strategy is important for activities such as relocations, redevelopments, and new builds. Layer0 is also used to help owners visualise, and manage the complex spatial arrangements of a campus or facility. 

The Architectus Delivery Tool (ADT) integrates our project delivery processes within SharePoint, while web solutions developed by our team collect real-time model metrics. This allows us to monitor the health of working environments and allocate support where it’s needed most. By creating our own solutions, we maintain control over our delivery approach, adapting swiftly to industry changes.

BCapp is a customisable place for capturing and collaborating on project tasks. It also allows us to tag, track, and report tasks, and to generate data analytics. 

This makes the project’s progress transparent to the project team, regardless of access to the technology we use for delivery. 

We regularly invite collaborators onto BCapp, free of the subscription and cost constraints associated with similar solutions on the market. This allows the project team to get straight to business.