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Massachusetts Water Resource Authority Partners with MicroCAD to Bring Retrofit Design Services In-House

Massachusetts Water Resource Authority Partners with MicroCAD to Bring Retrofit Design Services In-House

Customer challenge

MWRA is a Massachusetts public authority establish to provide wholesale water and sewer services to 3.1 million people and over 5,500 large industrial users in 61 metro Boston. MWRA was seeking to expand their knowledge of industry trends and design technology workflows to improve internal efficiency and external partnerships with consultants. Additionally, they had an initiative to bring more retrofit designs projects in-house, and they needed support to gain the necessary technical expertise.

Project goals

The Key Goals: 1. Expose managerial level personnel to cutting edge technology trends and workflows. 2. Educate MWRA design staff on how to leverage the AEC Collection toolset. 3. Share best practices for collaboration with consultants.

Solution

MicroCAD conducted sessions with MWRA managerial level personnel to provide an overview of product capabilities within the AEC Collection as well as hands-on workflow training for Recap, Revit, Navisworks and Civil 3D. MicroCAD shared best practices as it pertains to laser scanning, cross discipline coordination, and Revit vs. AutoCAD Plant 3D for treatment plant modeling. MicroCAD provided custom training for over 50 MWRA employees on the use of Revit, Civil 3D, and AutoCAD.

Business outcome

MWRA is able to leverage technology to work more efficiently internally and with external partners. They gained the knowledge and expertise to bring retrofit design services in-house saving time and money. In addition, MWRA identified many new items that should be included in their bid documents on future contracts.

Conclusion

Massachusetts Water Resource Authority's partnership with MicroCAD allowed them to bring retrofit design services in-house and improved both internal efficiency and external partnerships with their outside constants.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 180
  • 2019-10-30

    Autodesk solutions

  • Architecture
  • Engineering & Construction Collection
  • Revit
  • Civil 3D
  • AutoCAD
  • ReCap
  • Navisworks Manage
  • AutoCAD Plant 3D

    Services provided

  • Solution Adoption Services
  • Technical Support
  • Product Training
  • Business Transformation Consulting

    Customer industry

  • Water & Wastewater
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