When you hire a Revit specialist from us, an established team picks up the work, not someone who still has to be recruited. Our large, variable team is made up of drafters who each have more than ten years of CAD experience, and it scales with whatever the project requires.
Sam, our team leader, directs the whole process, has a background of more than fifteen years in architecture and still works as an engineer alongside his role in project supervision.
Barry, our project manager, is usually the first point of contact for a new enquiry, after which Sam takes over the technical side. We draft and model in Revit, supplemented by AutoCAD and Rhino where needed, always with the latest versions. Every piece of work goes through at least three review layers, from the drafter to Sam as team leader and Barry as project manager, before it reaches you. That way we keep the number of errors to a minimum in practice, even at high volume.
Cable tray routing in the model, built with parametric families that carry the material schedule with them.
Who should hire a Revit specialist
Hiring a Revit specialist often comes up at architectural practices and engineering firms that work largely in Revit and find that their own team can no longer keep up with the inflow of work. Contractors and manufacturers working with Revit models run into the same problem, especially when a project grows and more detailing is needed than originally planned. The problem rarely lies with the knowledge within the company. The knowledge is often there, but the time to finish everything within the schedule is missing. A project leader sees a model keep growing while the in-house modellers are already fully occupied with other parts of the same project.
A team leader notices that a set of Revit families has become clogged with old, duplicate or inconsistent components, and that cleaning it up simply keeps getting pushed aside by ongoing work. The people at the table for questions like these are usually managers, team leaders or owners who want to solve a capacity problem without permanently expanding their headcount.
We step in with a team in which everyone has more than ten years of CAD experience, directed by Sam, our team leader, who has a background of more than fifteen years in architecture. We work according to your drawing conventions and standards, so the model or drawing fits with what already exists within the project. For companies that find this problem is not a one-off but keeps coming back with new projects, hiring our specialists is a structural way to relieve the pressure on their own team.
What a Revit specialist delivers, from model to material schedule
A Revit specialist working with us primarily delivers modelling work in Revit, from building elements to MEP components, depending on what the project requires. Where needed, we also deliver 2D drafting, as well as as-built drawings or revisions to an existing model. A large part of the work consists of parametric Revit families: smart components that adapt to a new situation or a different size. We build such a component properly once, after which you can use it again and again without anyone redrawing it. The material schedule updates automatically.
If the part changes, the schedule changes with it, with no manual updating. We clean up existing families and templates that have become messy over the years, or rebuild them where that is quicker. Which is the better choice depends on the state of the existing set, and we look at that together in the first conversation. We deliver the output in the common Revit formats and, where needed, in DXF, DWG or STEP, so it fits with other software within the project. We always work with the latest version of Revit, supplemented to a limited extent by Dynamo where it can speed up a task.
Every piece of work goes through at least three review layers before we deliver it, from the drafter to Sam and Barry. We explicitly do not do engineering, structural calculations or permit applications, even though the work comes close to those areas in terms of content. We set out this boundary in the first conversation, so it is clear which part of the model we do and do not take on.
No ongoing payroll costs and no idle staff once the peak is over. If one of our people is off sick or on holiday, we replace them and the work simply carries on.
What it costs to hire a Revit specialist
The cost of hiring a Revit specialist depends heavily on the size of the project, although we cannot give a specific amount here. We work on an hourly basis or for a fixed price per project, and we decide together with you which option suits best. For a well-defined model whose scope is clear in advance, a fixed project price is often the obvious choice. For work whose scope may still change, such as cleaning up a clogged set of Revit families, an hourly basis suits the situation better. In both cases, we only bill pure working hours. If a modeller steps away for five minutes to get a coffee, we stop the clock. We do not work with a prepaid hours card or a monthly hours subscription, where the hours often do not match the actual work.
What keeps costs down the most is the degree of repetition within the project. Repetition lies mainly in parts that recur in different sizes within the same model. Parametric Revit families that we build properly once never have to be redrawn, which can save at least seventy per cent of the time in that kind of work. Following your existing CAD standards also saves time, because we do not have to set up a separate convention and then undo it again. Our estimate is drawn up after the first conversation, once it is clear which part of the model or drawings is involved. A short first assignment is a good way to experience how our team works before you scale up to a larger project.
Getting started with a Revit specialist: information and lead time
Getting started with a Revit specialist begins with a conversation in which you share the project details. It usually concerns an existing model, a set of drawings or a family library that needs revising or extending. It helps to have your CAD standards, layer structure or naming conventions within the existing Revit families to hand, so we do not have to start from scratch.
We respond to new enquiries within 1 to 2 working days, after which we schedule the conversation. As soon as we have enough information about the scope and the required output, we can start, without a long run-up. Barry is usually the first point of contact for this enquiry, after which Sam takes over the technical side and agrees the schedule with you.
We usually start a small project with one modeller and a large project with as many modellers from our large team as needed, who first familiarise themselves with the existing set before adding new work. When things are urgent, we scale up immediately with extra people from our team. We then deliver in stages, so you can review and adjust course along the way before we pick up the next part.
We tailor the meeting rhythm to the project, from weekly to every two days, depending on the pace required. As a result, a first, smaller part of the work is often visible within a short time, while we complete the rest of the project step by step. That gives you a quick impression of how we work, even before the full model or the entire family set is finished.
Frequently asked questions about hiring a Revit specialist
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