laboration and growth is the mantra at ENGworks . The company prides itself in its ability to provide ingenuity while keeping the pulse of Designers, Contractors, Sub- Contractors, Manufacturers and Owners at each phase of the BIM life-cycle. “The bottom line is,” stresses Di Iorio, “we’re actually working in the space in all the phases every day for every type of client. That really helps us under- stand the challenges not only from an organization stand- point, but also from a user standpoint, so that helps us be a little bit more defined in what our solutions are.” So for ENGworks , BIM is not limited to the input of engineer- ing intelligence at the planning stage; it is limitless in its potential as an observable output of intelligence that can inform building and energy analysis and ultimately serve as an industry catalyst. This divergent thinking has paid off. In the current fiscal year, ENGworks projects an impressive growth percent- age of 300 despite having to decline projects because of the supply-limited, post-Recession economy. And fresh off the heels of what Di Iorio modestly calls “a very large project,” things are looking bright. The FMC Technolo- gies global headquarters in Houston, Texas is another feather in a very colourful cap for Di Iorio and his partners. “We were brought in to actually write the holistic life- cycle execution plan from design to operations,” Di Iorio explains. ENGworks’ participation was requested by FMC project representative Trammel Crow Company (TCC) , an international leader in development and investment in commercial real estate. The inclusion of ENGworks by
designing and implementing networks for architects and engineers.”
It was this vision and hands-on drive that propelled SimplyCAD through the 1990s, through the days of Autodesk 3D-Studio v1.0 early networks, and enormous 3D rendering farms. “For us,” Di Iorio recalls, “3D then was limited – as engineers we had the capability to do what we do today - we just didn’t have the tools, the speed. If you see a 3D model from 1994 and you see a model today the difference that one is database-driven and one isn’t. One is visual. You look at a BIM model today and that’s a database. Even the visual, not the graphics but now all the meta- data.” Bridging this gap throughout the decade became paramount for Di Iorio and the folks at SimplyCAD . Out of this growth spurt emerged CADworks in 2005 and in 2012, Di Iorio and his Illinois-based team amalgamated with ENGStudios of California to form ENGworks . “If you see a 3D model from 1994 and you see a model today the difference is one is database-driven and one isn’t. One is visual. You look at a BIM model today and that’s a database.”
Not surprisingly, nurturing the relationship between col-
“We had the capability to do what we did today - we just didn’t have the tools, the speed.”
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SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS • JULY 2016
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