Regarding the home for the ABC Network show "Extreme Makeover – The Dore Family". This architectural work was completed and permitted in 11 days with the house construction completed in 4 days, 9 hours.
"Centex Homes Cuts Turnaround Times with DWF." Autodesk WEB and Industry. Autodesk, Inc - San Francisco, CA, 2002. Dissatisfied with PDF, Centex, one of the top 10 homebuilders in the U.S., migrated to DWF for more effective design information sharing and management.
“Buzzsaw has taken us to a whole new level of efficiency and productivity. On average, we’ve cut design time by about 35 percent, and one of our highest-volume divisions has cut design production time in half. The cost savings have been tremendous, too. We’re saving $874,000 on printing each year.”
" Better with the DWF File Format." Autodesk Collaboration Solutions. Autodesk, Inc - San Francisco, CA, 2004. The Ideal Format for Digital Design Information - "We wanted our divisions around the country to see the latest designs created by any other division. The idea was that with DWF anybody could grab them and use them…
"Building Stronger Collaboration." Knowledge Management. Knowledge Management. Finding better, faster ways to put up buildings. Instead of dealing in prefabricated structures or space-age materials, focusing on something much more basic: communication. In an industry seen as stubbornly old-fashioned and paper-based, he is a vocal proponent of using the Internet and online collaboration to streamline the processes.
"You've Been Framed." CAD User. Business and Technical Communications, 2004."COINS Framing in homebuilder drawings is the particular wood framing package that will easily merge with our current CAD drafting system and has the potential to accelerate achieving our vision".
"The McMansion has been Supersized." Real Estate Journal.com. Real Estate Journal.com, 2005, 3. Big homes are getting bigger..what makes a best seller?
