Secure the win with SketchUp

Potential projects may be complex, but you don’t need complex design and build software to win them. SketchUp’s simplicity helps you create data-enriched models quickly, meet BIM mandates confidently – and blow potential clients away with immersive AR/VR.

How SketchUp helps with RFPs

Collecting information on new projects is hard and slow work. SketchUp’s 3D modelling environment is location based, so placing your design in a specific location or representing a site’s massing is easy and fast.

Create and present working drawings and concepts to client

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Show how the design could look in reality

Create realistic renderings. Place a building mass on the site. Study its shadows and sun exposure in specific orientations, wind patterns and more.

Present directly from drawings

More accurate modelling means more accurate estimating. Use SketchUp to guide the estimation process via basic area/volume calculations and quantity take-offs – and visually validate proposed designs.

Iterate with confidence

Model quickly to generate more iterations. Create multiple test-fitting options with ease, to overcome project/location restraints – and understand client likes and dislikes, what works and what doesn’t.

How SketchUp helps with bids

No matter how good your chemistry with a client, if you can’t inspire them, you won’t get the job. SketchUp helps create a clear picture of how you see the project, what the logistical issues are – why you’re the obvious choice.

Tell a clear story

Create coordination models in SketchUp to help navigate and comprehend the complexity of every phase of the project. Show sequencing and time using scenes or with extensions like Phases 4D.

Design an effective construction site

Easily prepare Site Logistics Plans to show delivery routes, storage, staging and wash out areas, to reassure clients your teams will work safely, with maximum efficiency.

Estimate with confidence

On smaller projects, use SketchUp to guide estimators when elements of the design are still not completely settled. For large-scale projects look to SketchUp’s sister, Sefaira.

Demonstrate constructability

Forget costly Field mockups. Create Virtual mockups in 3D to explore construction options more effectively. Produce multiple versions to evaluate materials and assembly processes.

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