"Inventor software enables West Hills Construction to generate productionready models, and Vault Manufacturing helps us capture immediate feedback, preventing costly errors later in the process. On a job of this nature, Autodesk software may save us from misquoting by $200,000 in net profit."

“It begins with five guiding principles: a clear project narrative illustrating our client’s mission, our focus on interconnecting site properties and sustainable qualities within the natural cycle and built environment, conveying construction as a tectonic art, supporting the poetic identity with our sense of place, and our need for civic …

“When we work on affordable housing, we can still work to apply a lot of these design concepts even with a more limited budget and get to a great design."

“Vegas came together first. We had a great matte painting and texture team, environment team, lighting team, and modeling team. We broke up Vegas into big blocks of builds and each block into A, B, C levels of detail. Every day we watched dailies, and the energy in that room—between …

“We also must target to reduce water usage by 40 percent. We do this by collecting and reusing water on-site, and we have the goal to reduce CO2 emissions by 15,000 tons per year, which is about 30 percent, comparable to a project about one-tenth the size of ours.”

“Our model is to teach the local professionals and then step back into a supporting role. So it’s also an opportunity to provide jobs and advanced expertise for people in the countries in which we’re working."

“Concrete is one of the world’s only truly plastic building materials, and it allows architects to design iconic structures that stand the test of time, with low maintenance over 100-year life cycles."

“Then we do a full as-built as well, just to make sure that everything was built exactly as the drawings show that it was going to be built. Those are generally the starting points.”

“The processes that we use in theater, and the speed of change, AutoCAD just enables us to really keep up with the process unlike any other program. It allows us to be accurate in what we’re producing but also organic, which is a really hard balance to find.”

“We’ve been building these facilities for over 30 years and have trained operating staff on numerous occasions."

"There’s a lot of back and forth involved in bringing ideas forward and in how the design ultimately gets developed. AutoCAD provides a common ground to help everyone stay coordinated and automates things. It brings all the technical layers together and ensures accuracy when multiple groups are working together on …

“I work in millimeters to get everything so precise. Before, the amount of time it took to cut and punch every rivet and hole was immense. Now, once the design is created in AutoCAD LT and the photo tooling is made from the drawing, I can order the material from …

“How does the building fit well on the site in terms of solar orientation or breezes? How can we build around existing trees? We want to find ways to cleverly work around these things: Keep the tree, find the square footage for the building, and really create something that is …

“It was quite clear that due to the geometry of the lot, we weren’t going to be left with much of a backyard."

"You can think of it as an interior street with very wide hallways. You feel as if you’re walking in a small town’s downtown with all of the storefronts—except it’s inside.”