Project SummaryTTT Architects is one of the most visionary and successful design firms in Vietnam. Since 1992, it has completed more than 1,500 major projects—offices, hotels, resorts, shopping centers, and residential complexes—for a variety of local and multinational companies. TTT can deliver turn-key projects to clients and, through consulting, design, fitting-out, MP&E engineering, and furnishing, can make a project come alive. TTT is also highly committed to implementing new design technologies, such as building information modeling (BIM). Recently, TTT was awarded the landmark Opera View project in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. “The clients made no demands about what kind of tools we should use to make the presentations and design documentation,” says Khoi Nguyen, managing director at TTT Architects.

“They just wanted the end results to be impressive.” That’s why TTT adopted Revit Architecture—design and documentation software that works the way architects think.

The Challenge“This was a highly prestigious project,” says Trung Khanh Tran, project director. “It is directly across from the beautiful opera building, with estimated construction costs of more than US$3.6 million. Because we have many tourists visiting this area for sightseeing, the idea was to house retail boutiques for the 10 biggest brand names in the fashion industry within the complex.”

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An architect should create a project in reality and not just on drawings. It is their responsibility to produce a perfect design along with complete design documentation that has accurate information to support and execute the project successfully. Revit Architecture provides this support to architects, which helps them fulfill these two tasks.—Trung Khanh Tran, AIA International

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Before beginning this project, the firm’s architects relied primarily on AutoCAD® software for drafting. But on Opera View, Khoi Nguyen wanted something new—a tool that could significantly improve design quality and impress the client with its remarkable presentation and precise engineering capabilities.

“We wanted our design teams to be challenged by a tool that can make them perform more efficiently,” says Nguyen. “And with the boom in the southeast Asian architectural industry, there is also a race to have the best technology.”

The Solution“When we started working with Revit Architecture, we realized how easy it is for architects to implement it into their workflow,” says Khoi Nguyen. “It works the way architects think.” With the complete backing of the firm’s management, Khoi Nguyen was quickly able to build a small team of designers proficient on Revit Architecture software.

Design Freely“The biggest advantage of adopting Revit Architecture was that our project architects could totally concentrate on design rather than on drafting,” says Tam Minh Tran, chairman, TTT Architects.

Deliver EfficiencyFor example, Khoi Nguyen believes that the firm’s overall productivity improved dramatically as a direct result of using Revit Architecture. “All of the information contained in the building information model helped us produce our drawings much faster. Revit Architecture helped us go from conceptual drawings to completed drawings in record time.”

Increase Coordination and QualityAnd, because Revit Architecture is purpose-built for BIM, anytime the designers made a

change, anywhere, the change was automatically coordinated everywhere in the project. “This synchronization led to good coordination between team members, consultants, and engineers,” says Khoi Nguyen.

Accelerate Decision MakingIt also led to increased accuracy. “In a large organization such as ours, it is of the utmost importance that the margin of error on any project be reduced to the bare minimum,” says Khoi Nguyen. “Using Revit Architecture, we could make sure that mistakes and errors were detected at a very initial stage. As a result, we could reach decisions faster since all the information was right in front of us.”

Enhance Client Communication “Our client invested heavily in this project,” says Khoi Nguyen. “Using Revit Architecture, we were very satisfied that we could inform our client about every aspect of the project and enable the client to see an actual model of the project. And with the help of third-party analysis software supported by Revit Architecture, they could simulate how it reacts to real-time climate conditions—before construction.”

The Result“Using Revit Architecture, we exceeded our client’s expectations on the Opera View project,” says Khoi Nguyen. “We achieved a new pinnacle of creativity, yet spent hardly any time on cumbersome drafting and scheduling of doors, windows, materials, and quantities thereof.” As a result, TTT not only impressed the clients but also earned the National Design Award 2006, Vietnam’s highest honor in creative design. TTT has now begun two more prominent projects in Revit Architecture.

Using Revit Architecture software, TTT Architects improved productivity by 40 percent on the Opera View project.

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