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Fletton Quays

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Design Draughting Services

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Fletton Quays

Fletton Quays will be a government building hence the requirement to be BIM compliant. We as a drawing office have done similar projects in 3d using Revit but since been shown the capabilities of Tekla as a pose to Revit we decided to trial this job as our first Tekla BIM project. Through this, we detailed and modelled all SFS & cladding elements throughout the project and issued a full catalogue of drawings straight out of Tekla.

We believe this is the first rainscreen job to be drawn and modelled in Tekla and feel its a great project to show others what can be done from a roofing and cladding side in Tekla.

What were the challenges and what made the project successful?

The biggest challenge on this project was the fact that I had never touched Tekla before starting this project in September 2020. The mixture of learning and trying to produce a fully finished set of drawings and orders was very difficult, but I go there and this is the finished article. 

The biggest thing I'm personally proud of is how far I've come on Tekla from when I started a few months ago, but job specific, my biggest accomplishment was the custom components and learning how to use them to our advantage.

Coming from a 2D background the biggest thing Tekla has brought to me and this project is not having to imagine how everything is going to line up when the project goes to site. With Tekla being 3D I didn't have to think about flashing joints and what is going to line through with what it did it all for me and if something wasn't right you could physically see it isn't right. Also, the scheduling of materials has been a massive help. We used the organizer to pull off a majority of materials on this project.

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