Beca's Richard Wager on model transparency and design confidence
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.
A lot of people who have 3D modelling skills can use Revizto
Richard Wager, Technical Director at Becca, shares how Revizto has changed the way his building services team collaborates on complex healthcare design. Working on the Denon Hospital project, Richard's team needed a way to bring non-modelers into the conversation — giving them direct visibility into the model without requiring Revit skills.
However, with Revizto, team members who had never worked in 3D could navigate the model, annotate directly, and follow the full thread of a comment from first flag to resolution.
For Richard, one of the most valuable outcomes is what he calls "design confidence" — a clearer understanding of how much thought has gone into a given element, and at what stage of design development it sits. That visibility, he believes, will drive real efficiency gains as the project moves forward.
"It's increased the transparency of what we're modeling. A lot of people who don't have 3D modeling skills can use Revizto to see what's happening and directly direct the team."
Richard Wager, Technical Director, Becca
Richards’s top Revizto features:
Integrated Issue Management Log, annotate, and track comments directly in the model. For Richard's team, this replaced fragmented feedback chains with a single, traceable thread.
Unified 2D/3D Environment Non-modelers on Richard's team can navigate the 3D environment, apply filters, and annotate without any Revit background.
Appearance Profiler Richard sees significant potential in being able to communicate design development stages within the model — making it clear what's been thought through, what's still developing, and what shouldn't be treated as a final solution.
FAQs
Many design team members need visibility into BIM models but don't have the technical background to use tools like Revit. Revizto solves this by providing an intuitive 3D environment that anyone can navigate — applying filters, viewing annotations, and following design discussions without specialist software knowledge. For Richard Wager's team at Becca, this opened the model up to a much wider group of contributors.
Losing the thread of design feedback is a common problem on complex projects. Revizto's Integrated Issue Management keeps every comment, annotation, and response in one place, attached directly to the relevant part of the model. The full history is visible, issues can be closed out when resolved, and items that become irrelevant as the model develops simply disappear — giving the team confidence nothing has slipped through.
Design confidence refers to how clearly a model communicates the development status of any given element — how much thought has gone into it, and whether it represents a tested solution or a work in progress. Without this visibility, team members may act on assumptions and treat developing design as final. Revizto helps teams communicate model maturity more clearly, reducing rework and improving efficiency through the design process.
Healthcare projects like hospitals involve complex building services, multiple design disciplines, and long design development cycles. Revizto brings the full team — from technical directors to non-modelers — into a single coordinated environment, with real-time visibility into the model, traceable issue history, and tools that make it easier to communicate design intent and development stage across the project.
