What are some of the practical things that construction sites can do today to reduce
their impact on the environment, to lower their carbon emissions?
Well, there is a huge emphasis now on reusing and repurposing existing buildings, whether that's actually
extending or improving an existing piece of real estate or perhaps replacing it.
You know we are seeing but probably one of the steps is for construction
teams to carry out a repurposing audit where really you should be identifying
materials that could be reused rather than recycled as a priority.
Really designing in a much more of a sort of a kit format where you can actually
construct a building but then is easily adaptable in its future. Generally, we're talking about
roughly 60 year life could be longer, but you've got to look at it at that time scale.
There's this whole issue about transportation to and from sites,
perhaps that could be more consolidated, so it reduces the amount of movements,
both in terms of materials the are bought to site, but also labour.
So, Bluebeam software supports sustainable business strategies in a few different ways.
I think the most obvious one is by removing paper and enabling digital workflows.
Bluebeam Revu, one of our solutions, it sort of removes any need for printing because
it provides the ability to take drawing output from virtually any authoring tool. Last year,
Bluebeam helped the construction industry digitize 80 million documents online and creating this many
documents digitally instead of using paper saves round about four and a half million kilowatt hours
of energy reduces greenhouse gases and greenhouse gas emissions by year by 2.3 million pounds.
Bluebeam Revu is built around the ability to work with PDF and PDF is, as you probably know is,
it's much more than just digital paper. This format allows 2D drawings to become data rich
and effectively contain BIM data. But also there's no there's no requirement for specialist training,
like there would be for that with big 3D BIM solutions. We're effectively
providing the right people with the right information at the right time,
and this helps reduce mistakes and rework, which of course leads to reductions in material waste.
Even today, in fact, I've just come off a meeting on a project where the poor structural engineer
is spending literally days trying to dig out boxes of paper drawings to try and find
things like the constructions of basements and piling mats for an existing building,
which is only about 30 years old. And it's it's an absolute waste of time, resources. And even
accuracy. Wheras this could all be embedded into a digital format, make it so much easier.
Bluebeam provides collaboration capabilities with Bluebeam Revu in the form of Bluebeam Studio,
and it has two primary sets of functionality. First of all, it allows users to upload and share
an unlimited number of documents or project files. We call this the studio project.
And it sort of makes sure that everybody is using the most up to date information. And secondly,
it allows users to collaborate and mark up drawings in in real time in a virtual
meeting room. So wherever they are in the world, they can access what we call a studio session
and work with the Bluebeam Revu functionality in a team. There's no longer need to travel
to the job site or to another stakeholders office for things like design review meetings.