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Civil Engineering Software
Enhance collaboration and increase productivity with a construction project management tools for civil engineers
Civil Engineering Workflows
Perform precise measurements for accurate estimations, leading to winning more bids.
Create, document, and manage comprehensive site plans.
Effortlessly submit RFIs on drawings and distribute them among AEC teams.
Efficiently assign, track, and resolve snag list items.
Mark up and collaborate live PDFs, accelerating design and QA/QC project workflows.
Bluebeam is used by more than 3 million design and construction professionals globally, including 82% of the top 50 UK AEC firms. It empowers construction teams with all the digital tools they need to do the job faster.
Access to Fresh and Insightful Information
Eliminates data redundancy and ensures seamless access to all the required resources in the cloud with centralised documents and drawings management in the cloud.
- With Bluebeam Cloud, AEC teams can collaborate, access, review, edit, and track all the latest changes to the project documents on a web or iOS device, anywhere and anytime.
Adhere to the SOPs in Project Workflows
- Ensure compliance with coherent project workflows and adhere to SOPs throughout the project lifecycle.
- Effortlessly create, annotate, and edit PDFs and documents.
- Enhance collaboration by creating custom tools, markups, stamps, or symbols to reuse or share them with other team members easily.
Drive your Decision with Data-driven Insights
- Markups List in Bluebeam Revu is your dashboard to seamlessly track all markups and measurements placed on a PDF.
- Markups list gives you a holistic insight into markup details, including author, label, date, comments, and statuses.
- You can also create custom columns for measurements and text in Revu to maximise the value of your design review process.
- The markup list data can be exported to Excel or your preferred BI tool to scale the insights for more complex and organised calculations, estimates, and decision-making that significantly impact your project's success.
Markup and Collaborate in Real Time
- Bluebeam Studio has Studio Session to track session updates and Studio Projects to save your PDFs, drawings, and other project documents in a centralised repository.
- Skyrocket and improve your design review process by inviting your in-house or remote team members to collaborate live to review, annotate, modify, and update documents on a desktop with Studio in Revu.
Accelerate Measurement Precision and Integration with Excel
- Modernise your construction takeoff and estimation processes by taking measurements to new heights with Bluebeam's civil engineering solution.
- Bluebeam offers all the required tools that directly enable rapid, highly accurate measurements from PDF documents.
- You can dynamically link your measurement data to Microsoft Excel as you draw or select measurement areas. This seamless integration ensures that totals from multiple PDFs are consolidated efficiently, significantly speeding up the review process and enhancing the accuracy of your measurements.
Streamline Site Inspections and Workflow Management
- Revolutionise your site inspection, Request for Information (RFI), and submittal processes using state-of-the-art web and iOS-based tools. Bluebeam's carefully created civil engineering solutions and tools are designed with smart markup capabilities.
- Add actions to markups by hyperlinking for quick access to relevant documents, pages, sections, or websites within documents.
- With Bluebeam Cloud, sharing updates in real-time with project partners, irrespective of their location, ensures that everyone is on the same page, thereby curbing any chances of errors, minimizing repetitive workflows, and improving collaboration.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What are the benefits of using Bluebeam construction software as an engineer?
Bluebeam offers a centralized platform for engineers to manage and preserve data integrity throughout a project's lifecycle. Key features include:
- Centralized Data Storage: A centralized repository serving as a single node for storing, annotating, and managing drawing sets.
- Markups Tracking: All changes are systematically recorded in the Markups List in Revu.
- Device Accessibility: Secure access to the latest updates on any device via Bluebeam Cloud.
- Customizable Markup Tools: Tools can be personalized, reused, and shared, ensuring consistent team communication.
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What construction software or civil engineering solutions do engineers use for collaboration?
81% of civil engineers in the UK and a vast majority of top construction firms globally prefer Bluebeam Revu for its collaborative capabilities, which include:
- Studio for Real-Time Collaboration: A built-in platform in Revu for digital markup and document review, accessible from anywhere in real-time.
- Bluebeam Cloud for Fieldwork: Extends Revu's functionality to web and iOS devices, enabling markup and collaboration in the field.
- Efficient Communication: This process streamlines communication from the start to the end of the project, enhancing team coordination and project efficiency.
Exceptional Partner Support
Brighter Graphics is the Platinum Partner of Bluebeam Revu, offering comprehensive support for all things related to Bluebeam. Whether it’s onboarding or technical support, Brighter Graphics is your go-to platform with an extensive library of resources, how-to guides, video tutorials, and training. Explore our Resource Center to make your journey with Bluebeam in AEC seamless.
Experience the Bluebeam Difference
Civil engineers use Bluebeam Revu to ditch paper markups, collaborate on plans in real-time, automate quantity takeoffs, manage documents centrally, and streamline RFIs. This translates to better communication, faster project delivery, and improved efficiency.