一个新的基于Web的结构工程BIM协作平台为其开发人员提供了一些有关产品如何使用的惊喜，并且加载了更多的小型项目。18luck官网

The Combine, an Atlanta-based software firm, developed Konstru in partnership with engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti’s technology incubator TTWiiN, which supplied the industry expertise. After a beta launch this spring, Combine co-founder and partner K.P. Reddy says, “What we’re really learning is that, although we expected it would solve a lot of complicated, hard problems, it’s being used for a lot of simple problems a lot of the market is dealing with. We thought adoption would be on the biggest, most complicated projects, but we’ve seen plenty of smaller and midsize [projects], like schools and office buildings.”

The Combine provides seed-stage expertise to develop and commercialize new technologies. It launched Konstru as a new “portfolio company” through the partnership with Thornton Tomasetti. In the first half of 2017, the team plans to spin off five companies, each of which will seek Series A investor funding. Konstru was the first.

Reddy says Konstru is a web-based platform that lets engineers collaborate via browser while letting them continue to use the tools they are accustomed to, such as Microsoft Excel, Autodesk Revit, Trimble’s Tekla, Bentley’s RAM Structural System, Grasshopper, and CSI’s ETABS and SAP2000. “Konstru is neutral. We’re the glue in the middle,” says Reddy.

Reddy补充说，为较小的公司和项目提供服务是一个良18luck官网好的市场，因为这些公司在很大程度上被忽略了。”“小公司被定价。”

Autodesk建筑业务线总监Sarah Hodges说，Kontu与Autodesk的BIM 360实时设计协作工具的投资组合，尤其是BIM 360 Glue的投资组合，这一胶水的收养量正在增加。她说，该行业正在“唤醒这种数字化建设的概念”。

Ricardo Khan, Sr. Director of Project Solutions at Mortenson Construction, says his team investigated Konstru and predicts Konstru “will be competing with Autodesk BIM 360 platform, specifically around [Autodesk’s] Glue application and the services Autodesk is building around BIM 360." Konstru is optimized for structural engineers and contractors especially with distributed teams. "It is always interesting to see new solutions emerge on the market to drive competition,” Khan says.

A 2016 survey by the Associated General Contractors of America and Sage Group found that 63% of construction businesses that use or are planning to use cloud-based platforms are doing so to improve access to information from any location, although many respondents noted that technical advances with 4D and 5D modeling tools, among others, are outpacing improvements in collaboration and communications.