The Wates Group, established in 1897, is one of the leading privately-owned construction, development and property services businesses in the UK employing approximately 4,000 people.
As part of their education design process, Wates required a BIM Object Library for their BIM teams and external designers to use.
The platform needed to host generic and manufacturer objects as part of a ‘kit-of-parts’ used to construct DfE funded school buildings.
bimstore proposed Node, their cloud-based private information portal where users can host documents, BIM components, videos and models in a controlled environment for distribution across project teams.
User permissions allow control of access to the various areas of the site giving you maximum flexibility. Analytics allow you to monitor information and control who is downloading what and when with individual libraries allowing you to control information at a project level.
After an extensive procurement process, the Wates team selected the bimstore Node platform to not only manage their information but to also create the content to be hosted within the library.
The site will be live in December with the initial components available by the end of the month.
Ryan Wigham, Content Team Leader said: “We are delighted to have been selected by Wates and are looking forward to developing a strong partnership in the years ahead.”
