Tech giant Autodesk launches global construction tender platform in Australia & New Zealand

Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced the international expansion of BuildingConnected, a construction management solution that centralises and streamlines the tendering process, and encompasses the Autodesk Construction Cloud builders network, a crowdsourced network of construction professionals.

Owners and general contractors use BuildingConnected to discover trade partners and identify the right subcontractor for the job, and to solicit and compare tenders from one central location. With its international expansion, the BuildingConnected solution is now available in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

BuildingConnected empowers preconstruction teams to:

Quickly solicit bids with customisable templates and accurately compare those bids in a side-by-side “apples-to-apples” fashion
Track against internal budgets with real-time cost updates
Easily collaborate with other estimators on the team, and follow communications and bid versions
Export bids and summary sheets for transparent collaboration with owners
Gain valuable insight into historical bid data and reports to optimise for future projects

Tomy Praveen, Managing Director, Asia Pacific Operations, Autodesk Construction Solutions, said, “Much like the impact of social media, BuildingConnected will better connect construction businesses to best use their time so that they can work more collaboratively, efficiently and have the opportunity to influence their services through our crowdsourcing network.”

“BuildingConnected will enable construction businesses in Australia and New Zealand operating in single or multiple states and locations to discover and engage with leading subcontractors. With this connected network, they will be able to benchmark pricing and better deliver projects on time and to budget,” said Mr Praveen.

Locally, BuildingConnected has tradespeople and subcontractors across Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand. Customers already using the platform include Serneke Australia and WZW Construction.

Mark Swann, Construction Manager, Serneke Australia, WA, said, “Information silos and communication breakdowns have unfortunately become an accepted part of the tendering process. BuildingConnected gives us back a tremendous amount of time from chasing emails and updating addendums to tenders. We can now immediately track and follow up with subcontractors, all from one location where we have access to the most up-to-date information for seamless and efficient tender management.”

For estimating teams, BuildingConnected helps save time and increases collaboration in managing the bidding process with automated workflows that facilitate securing the best team for a construction project. Estimators and bid coordinators can use the solution’s network of subcontractors and bid management capabilities to find, qualify and invite subcontractors to bid on a job, and then use its advanced bid comparison features to view all bid packages from one place with access to the real-time status of bids and project costs.

Join webinars to learn more about preconstruction and BuildingConnected

To learn more about connected construction and tackling procurement challenges in preconstruction, join us on November 4, 2020. We’ll explore recently conducted research to examine how clients, main contractors and subcontractors in Australia and New Zealand approach procurement today. You can find the registration link to attend here.

Our November webinar will host a panel of building procurement experts who will focus their experiences on procurement technology, plus share findings from our recent research examining how owners, head contractors and subcontractors in Australia and New Zealand approach procurement today.

BuildingConnected is now available for customers in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland. For more details and key features, you can visit here.