Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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probably gone, oh, it's probably okay, as opposed to
what they did here. They got us a bigger
transformer. So there are significant advantages do
doing what we've done or what this one contractor
has now done and we are encouraging.
The bottom picture, as I said, it is
actually an implementation of the BIM, the Building
Information Management methodology. The mechanical
portion of that, OBO is trying to embrace the
Autodesk products at this point. We're approaching
the use of Revit. It turns out Revit is primarily a
structural and architectural version of the Autodesk
programs. When we went to this particular location,
we asked them what they are using. It is actually
an Autodesk product, but it is called Inventor. And
they were very adamant about making sure you use the
right tool for the right job. You can't, it said
you really do not want to do mechanical systems
using Revit. You do not want to do building systems
using Autodesk Inventor. You need to use the right
tool for the right job.
So they were very -- and I asked the
specific question how fast are you at doing this?
The young man that was doing most of their product
line at this point says I am approaching the same
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