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News Release from: Autodesk
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Team on 15 October 2002
Casco selects Autodesk Revit
Casco has purchased 55 licenses of Autodesk Revit, a powerful building design and documentation system.
Casco has purchased 55 licenses of Autodesk Revit, a powerful building design and documentation system Casco serves major national and international retail, hospitality and restaurant clients
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 14 Sep 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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Ranked 9th in the ENR 2002 Top Retail Design Firm list, Casco specialises in developing and adapting prototype facility designs for clients such as Extended Stay America; Toys "R" Us; Circuit City; Petsmart; Payless ShoeSource; Sale Corporation; and Bed Bath and Beyond.
By using Autodesk Revit for concurrent design and documentation, Casco believes it can deliver higher quality buildings to its clients by improving its communication with contractors.
"Revit puts the pencil back in the architect's hand as a design tool rather than just a drafting tool", said JC Alberts, president of Casco.
"We're excited by Revit's inherent ability to relate design to issues of constructability.
This will bring more control back to the architect as the master builder and there's a greater likelihood that the final product-the building-will be better".
Casco selected Autodesk Revit for its ability to eliminate much of the fragmentation caused by today's specialisation in the building industry, ending conflicts among different project team firms that cost time and money.
Casco was initially drawn to Revit as a presentation tool but soon became interested in its power to revolutionise mainstream CAD technology.
With Autodesk's building information modelling strategy, Casco can do more than merely mimic fragmented drawing processes; designers can produce renderings that assist clients in visualising design concepts while behind-the-scenes the Revit technology creates an accurate building model that simultaneously provides design and construction documents.
Casco, which is currently in the process of deploying Revit throughout its organisation, has already benefited from the efficiencies of using the application on selected projects for a significant retail client.
The entire team is enthusiastic about the potential of using Revit to provide executives of the company with high-quality information for the evaluation of a new prototypical retail store in preparation for the rollout of the concept.
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