Every project starts with goals. Meet deadlines, stay on budget, deliver quality. But goals don’t guarantee success, systems do. In BIM and digital construction, it’s not the companies with the best aspirations that succeed, it’s the ones with the best workflows, automation, and data structures. Everyone Has the Same Goals, But Not the Same Systems.At the start of a 100m…

I once took over a Revit project that was an absolute mess. The modelling practices were sloppy, content was pulled in from everywhere, and the result was a bloated model filled with hundreds of unused parameters. There were:✅ Parameters from other consultants✅ Random project parameters no one could explain✅ Parameters from content downloaded online✅ Duplicate parameters with the same names…

A while ago, my wife wrote a blog post about The Button—specifically, the electric push-button and how it transformed the way we interact with machines. Before the push-button, people had to manually operate machines using cranks, levers, and mechanisms. When buttons were introduced, they revolutionized convenience—but not without resistance. Some worried that push-button technology would make people lazy, eroding their…

When working in Revit, copied elements will inherit instance parameter values that should be unique—room numbers, tracking codes, asset IDs, or any other metadata that doesn’t logically carry over. Problem: Copying elements can introduce data inconsistencies if certain instance parameters retain values they shouldn’t. Solution: A Revit API Updater that automatically clears specific parameters whenever elements are copied. This tutorial…

When working in a Common Data Environment (CDE) hosted in the cloud, it’s easy to assume that data is automatically backed up. After all, the vendor running the platform has redundancies in place, right? The reality: While cloud-based CDE providers may have their own backup processes, these are not intended for end-user recovery. If something is accidentally deleted, overwritten, or…