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Byrne Consultants’ Complete Business Solution     

Byrne Consultants is an Australian civil engineering consultancy with 40 staff across their Darwin and Gold Coast offices. Founded fifteen years ago, Byrne manage a large range of projects from small rural roads to major highway upgrades. They handle everything from concept design to detailed design, and support contractors in the construction administration space

Byrne faced the challenge of managing and sharing data across their Darwin and Gold Coast offices; over 3400km in distance

Their large datasets - particularly CAD and 12d Model projects - restricted their ability to efficiently collaborate across both offices

They adopted a user-dependent system to manually file and track their data, but this quickly became challenging at the expense of productive and profitable workflows.

As Byrne Consultants’ Senior Civil Draftsperson, Kerrie Signorini, explains: “Working across the two offices was challenging with a number of data sharing inefficiencies.

12d Synergy solved this. We were able to quickly and easily adapt to the COVID workplace restrictions, enabling efficient operations across remote locations and home offices.”

Automated Quality Control
12d Synergy enabled Byrne to integrate their offices into a common data environment. This gave them a secure network with a digital audit trail of any updates and changes from all their data: everything from CAD files to Word documents. 12d Synergy’s enforced folder structures and file naming also enabled Byrne to implement and retain standardised QA protocols between both their offices to avoid duplicated, misnamed and misplaced documents.

Collaborative Mobility
Previously, Byrne’s staff members were unable to work flexibly or remotely. 12d Synergy streamlined their multi-office collaboration, giving their team the freedom to work seamlessly in the field, on the road, or from home. This also gave Byrne staff the freedom to balance their work-life and family commitments.

As Kerrie explains: “Having two young children, 12d Synergy makes it far easier to work between the office and home. When we travel up to the Darwin office, we can log straight into the system and start working right away.”

Full CAD Workflow Management
Without a controlled data environment, Byrne’s engineering professionals were at risk of issuing duplicate drawings with outdated data. 12d Synergy transformed Byrne’s drawing management by enforcing drafting standards and enabling Xref tracking and audit trails. They were able to integrate their multi-office workflows knowing who is working on each drawing, and when, and importantly, track drawing version history.

Automated Title Block Management
12d Synergy’s Title Block Manager has enabled Byrne to automatically update CAD attributes without opening any DWGs. This has supercharged Byrne’s CAD drawing productivity.

“12d Synergy has saved me a lot of time, particularly editing the attributes of over 200+ drawings, which can be done without opening CAD whatsoever,” Kerrie says.

Complete Workflow Solution
12d Synergy’s complete integration of CAD, 12d Model, Email and Microsoft Office gave Byrne the ‘total’ solution. 12d Synergy handles every kilobyte of their project data, enabling the workflows of each office to be streamlined into one place.

Competitive Industry Advantage
When multi-million dollar projects, partnerships and opportunities arise, Byrne has the competitive edge by integrating their data with partnering consultants that already use 12d Synergy.

“A number of the larger consultants use 12d Synergy. It gives us a competitive advantage by easily integrating with their systems and providing people that understand 12d Synergy,” Byrne Principal Phillip Weightman explains.

Full CAD Management
With 12d Synergy, Byrne’s CAD library and standards are centrally accessible and managed - streamlined across their remote offices. This enables them to productively work on their CAD drawings with more automation and less risk.

As Kerrie explains, “controlling CAD with 12d Synergy enables us to confidently manage our CAD drawing production in a more efficient and smarter way.”

“Would I recommend 12d Synergy? Absolutely. It’ll transform your business. I’ve worked with a number of organisations that are quite large in infrastructure and size, and they all have various document management systems… there hasn’t been one system that’s handled everything as well as 12d Synergy.” (Phillip Weightman, Byrne Principal)