DCOH employs Oracle Aconex Model Coordination for large, complex civic project
The construction firm in Australia’s Northern Territory standardizes building information management with Aconex for better project coordination.
“It's great looking around the office and seeing colleagues use Aconex Model Coordination. Our site managers and supervisors who typically pick up 2D plans, now can see what we're building. The accessible and easy-to-use Oracle Aconex is really valuable to our team.”
DCOH, a longtime development and construction firm in Australia’s Northern Territory, began a technology overhaul in 2022 when it adopted construction management application Oracle Aconex. After implementation, the company determined that some project stakeholders still managed building information modeling (BIM) in competing platforms. The company needed collaborative model management in a secure common data environment because it was important to connect all teams and data or risk missing deadlines. BIM is vital to improving construction project delivery and should feed into a common data environment to provide the entire project team with a virtual representation of the physical structure. Instead, information was spread across different systems and resulted in multiple versions, which led to poor communication and the potential for errors that could affect cost, quality, and schedule. With its newest project, Darwin’s Civic Centre, ready to break ground, the company adopted Oracle Aconex Model Coordination to simplify model coordination. Model coordination and BIM management, now included with all Aconex projects, holds project participants accountable and helps DCOH manage a job’s progress. Running clash detection to address issues before they arise on the job site also proved beneficial to deadline management.