Beca’s Mitchell Roberts on collapsing clash coordination timelines from days to hours
Client overview
Beca is one of Asia-Pacific's largest employee-owned engineering and consultancy firms. Founded in 1920 and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, the company has grown to more than 4,300 staff across 25 offices globally. Beca delivers consultancy services across buildings, government, industrial, power, transport, water, and digital services.
How Beca put complex BIM data into everyone's hands
Mitchell Roberts, Senior BIM Manager at Beca, highlights the engineering firm’s deep history with Revizto, which dates back to early legacy versions like Revizto 4. What continues to anchor Beca to the platform is its capacity to act as a universal collaboration hub. By uniting engineers, architects, design managers, clients, and external stakeholders within a single, shared workspace, Beca successfully drives a unified source of truth across its massive geographical footprint in New Zealand, Australia, and Southeast Asia.
“Revizto is just a platform for us to bring everyone together and all work in the same place… We would take a process that takes traditionally days in terms of assigning clashes, reviewing, prioritizing. With Revizto, we’re able to streamline that down into hours.’’
Mitchell Roberts, Senior BIM Manager, Beca
On large-scale consultancies, coordinating different design disciplines traditionally meant sifting through thousands of individual geometric conflicts—a process that manually devoured days of review, prioritization, and assignment. With Revizto, Beca has completely transformed this administrative bottleneck. By utilizing high-powered automated tracking, the company collapses that multi-day workflow into just a few hours.
The immediate result of this compression is a massive return of time to Beca's active design teams. Instead of spending hours combing through raw clutter, practitioners can immediately focus on strategic problem-solving and smart design execution. By automating the mechanical tasks of clash distribution, Revizto ensures that engineering resources are spent designing, not administrative auditing.
Mitchell’s top Revizto features:
FAQs
When coordination processes take days to assign and prioritize, design progression stalls while engineers wait for actionable feedback. By utilizing Collaborative Clash Automation to compress this cycle into mere hours, project teams can maintain continuous design momentum. Decisions are reached significantly faster, risk is mitigated early in the lifecycle, and engineers have more hours to dedicate to smart, constructible design development rather than issue administration.
Complex international projects require a platform that functions seamlessly across different engineering disciplines, design offices, and client stakeholders. The Revizto Collaboration Hub removes traditional access barriers by providing an intuitive workspace accessible to both BIM veterans and non-technical clients. This shared visibility ensures that everyone operates with identical context, dramatically reducing cross-border communication errors and keeping projects aligned across entire regions.
Large-scale engineering consultancies generate vast quantities of model parameter data that can quickly turn into background noise during coordination. Advanced Search allows teams to group specific model components based on distinct properties, parameters, or priorities. This prevents teams from running blunt, messy clash tests, allowing BIM managers to target specific systems and isolate high-impact conflicts without cluttering the workflow with irrelevant data.
