Integrated design is the Causeway to success

[CAUSEWAY TECHNOLOGIES is the largest provider of specialist software for the UK construction market. The business offers an impressive set of cloud-based solutions spanning the entire built environment life cycle – from infrastructure design to maintaining and operating the built asset.

It’s no secret that the construction industry faces significant challenges across the construction lifecycle. At the design stage, a prominent skills shortage – combined with a need to provide more complex phased design submissions to meet new requirements – means that organisations must work more efficiently to hit deadlines.

To be successful, different disciplines must work together to produce a systematic design for delivery. With different disciplines often working in different teams or locations, design clashes or lengthy design change processes pose a significant risk.

Evidence suggests that the greatest inefficiencies are found in disjointed design workflows. Organisations commonly have a large software portfolio to cover different aspects of design and collaboration. Those tools are delivered from different software houses, leading to a lack of true integration, which impacts on efficiency and exposes organisations to unnecessary risk.

Digital transformation – and in particular automated design – provides a clear path to improved productivity and the best use of engineering resources.

Product Owner Tom Fox explained: “At Causeway we transform the commercial performance across the front line of our customers’ businesses. Our innovative design solutions provide consultants and engineers with accessible, integrated infrastructure and drainage design software to enable more efficient, compliant and optimal design.

“Causeway’s design solutions can be implemented standalone or integrated with your current solutions to streamline design and increase productivity. Our powerful SmartTools integrate different design disciplines within an Autodesk environment, irrespective of the original design software used.”

With Causeway, design changes are made seamlessly, auto-updating all disciplines and reducing the risk of design clashes. Everything beyond the design corridor – drainage, utilities, fences, crash barriers, lighting columns etc – is associated with and will update intelligently, based on any changes to the design corridor at any point in the project.

Users can streamline design with Causeway’s end-to-end live design platform. They can benefit from road and drainage design, road markings, signage and vehicle path analysis all on the one model.

The Causeway solution removes the need to rework designs when design changes are made, removes risk and gives added confidence to engineers.

Users can develop initial feasibility designs all the way through to detailed design and use the latest overland flooding technology to identify properties affected by potential flooding and mitigate risk.

Cloud licensing supports the way businesses work. Users have instant access to their design software wherever they are. Licences can also be taken offline for access even without an internet connection, when on site or travelling. Licence pooling ensures organisations only need to invest in the number of licences required.

Licences can be shared across numerous teams and office locations globally, supporting engineers working from home, travelling or on-site. The Causeway solution supports virtual server IT infrastructure and is securely hosted in a number of data centres.

BIM: all Causeway’s design software can deliver one-click BIM-compliant outputs which can be surfaced in popular BIM collaboration tools such as Autodesk NavisWorks. Approving authorities: one of the key challenges that engineers face is ensuring compliance with approving authorities. Causeway has built strong relationships with approving authorities across the UK to ensure designs from its software are easily assessed. q • For more information visit causeway.com/design or call 01628 552000. www.constructionnational.co.uk 35