Ideal number of Users

[raddis]

We are going to be implementing Revit on a "limited" basis this year (kicking the tires).
We do mostly healthcare, but some small scale housing, etc.
I have 10 licenses of older software about to expire, and the office doesn't want to upgrade all of them from ADT to Revit/Revit Up.

My question, if it is possible to answer, is what is the ideal team size for a Revit project, say a three or four story free standing buiding, maybe 8-10,000 sq ft. foot print. Is is three people, four people, etc.

Thanks.

Regards,
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Reid M. Addis
Registered Architect
Architectural Applications Specialist
Granary Associates
411 North 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Ph. 215-665-7056
Cell. 215-313-0995
email: addis@granaryassoc.com

[Scott D Davis]

We would typically use one or two people on a Revit project of that size.

[raddis]

Thanks.

Reid

[patricks]

I think it would really depend on how in-depth and detailed your drawings are. I have worked in healthcare architecture, at Gresham, Smith & Partners in Nashville, TN, and from my experience, healthcare projects require TONS and TONS more information in the CD's than do small-scale commercial, which is what I mostly do now, and even more so than residential.

I still have a set of working documents from a healthcare expansion project I worked on several years ago. I keep it around just to see what kind of CAD standards they had, details, etc. There's usually interior elevations of all walls of nearly every room in a healthcare project, and equipment is quite extensive. I would think if doing this in Revit you would need more people than if you were doing the same size building as just commercial office space, or leasable tenant office or retail space, just because of the detail and information requirements.

I would think you would want a license for each specialized person you have who typically works on your projects. For example, on a healthcare project, if you typically have one person who works on floor plans, one person who works on interior elevation, and another person who works on details, you would probably want at least 3 or 4 licenses for that. Most likely one person would end up doing exterior walls in plan and exterior elevations, another person for interior elements and interior elevations, another person for wall sections and details, and maybe another person for whatever else you have, maybe site or something.

[aaronrumple]

I've done sets of 4 story, 80,000 s.f. pretty much single handed. We made well beyond our profit margin on that project.

[Martin P]

In my office we found the approach of letting 1 person get very well into the bones of Revit worked well for us (me in particular as it was me!) - when the others started to come over to Revit I was generally able to solve/answer any problems that they had very quickly, as opposed to 4 people trying to work out the same thing till somebody "got it" we just had one.

I started on small projects and worked up into larger ones. That said 8.1 is quite a bit more capable than 4.0 was!! - so maybe people will get into it a lot faster now? I would still recommend you pick a "power" user for the office though.....

[Tom Dorner]

I would say 1 maybe 2.

I've worked on projects approaching 200,000 SF through SD's all by myself. I figure a Revit team of 2-3 to bring it to full CD's. The third person would be working on custom content for the most part to replace the "placeholders" of things like doors, railings, stairs etc. that where placed in SD but not customized to the project.

Tom