We have slowly moved over to Revit in our office and it is working well...
Production rates are better, information quality is incredible and we have virtually no issues on site - everything is resolved beforehand.
To date all the projects on Revit were small to medium sized... We've just started a very large office building.
The building shape is fairly organic & complex, the footprint in quite large (long direction more than 1500ft) and it will be broken into roughly 8 blocks by joints.
It consists of a double basement, sloping podium level rising to the Ground Floor and 5 (may increase to 7) office levels above.
From level 1-5 the floor plate footprints are fairly similar
The main office floors will consist of trough / ribbed slabs so we will be using LOTS of pan joist beam systems
What is the best way of modeling such a project in Revit.
At the moment it is a single project file (with work sharing of course) but we are beginning to pick up issues with our network traffic being to high.
Already maxing out our network switch and the model is only in the prelim design stage....
My plan is to break the building up into sub-models for each block and reference them all into a main model handling all the revisions, printing, etc.
Is this the correct way of doing it?
What would you recommend as the best approach?
All tips & suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Schalk