GHD signs up with Autodesk

The deal will enable GHD access to 25 Autodesk products and in excess of 1000 licensed seats globally. In addition, GHD will have access to Autodesk consulting services to integrate the technology and assist in optimising its investment.

“We are extremely pleased to further strengthen our long-standing relationship with GHD with this global agreement,” said Paul Arthur, sales director, Autodesk Australia and New Zealand. “GHD is a true Australian success story, delivering innovative and world-class design solutions across five continents. We are delighted that Autodesk software and services will enable GHD to support their further push towards 3D design solutions as they scale for future growth.”

GHD works across a wide range of international projects, some requiring them to collaborate across time zones and markets. The interoperability of Autodesk’s technology solutions combined with this new flexible licensing arrangement will allow GHD design teams to collaborate and be more resource-efficient.

“We needed a solution that was flexible, allowing us to scale and collaborate effectively across multiple sites around the world,” said Gavin Cheetham, global CADD manager for GHD. “Autodesk was able to offer the best solutions to streamline our licencing while enabling us to use the latest Building Information Modelling (BIM) software tools to support our clients’ current and future needs.”

GHD is seeing strong demand from its customers for 3D solutions and is planning to pro-actively use BIM to design innovative projects, reduce costs and deliver better performance. BIM is an integrated process for exploring a project’s key physical and functional characteristics digitally before it is built, helping to deliver projects faster and more economically, whilst maximising environmental outcomes.

Autodesk made its annual software release in March, offering a new range of 3D design, engineering and entertainment software and suites.

Contacts:
www.autodesk.com.au
www.ghd.com