Lemay Focuses on Customers, Communities, and Future Generations

Visit the Lemay website, and you can’t help but be impressed with the long list awards it has received in a wide range of areas, including architecture, landscaping, interiors and urban design. Here are just three out of the 20 it received in 2019:



Lemay, a well-established Quebec firm, designs environments for its clients, the community and future generations. Its professionals bring a wide range of talents to create innovative solutions. They focus on design excellence, net positive and flawless execution to push design limits, create sustainable environments and attain perfection without worry.


Lemay and Ideate Software

Lemay and Ideate Software

“Our teams are motivated by design challenges,” said Jean-Marc Demeo, Gestionnaire BIM Principal, Lemay. “You can see, hear and feel the energy as they work together to explore options and create solutions.”


To help them stay focused on creative thinking, Lemay provides the best technology, including Autodesk Revit software and Ideate Software applications. “The Ideate Software portfolio is awesome. Our teams are really happy with the tools,” said Jean-Marc. “Ideate Explorer is a strong and stable tool we use every day, and Ideate StyleManager has been a huge game changer for many people in our company.”

Here are some ways in which Lemay uses Ideate Software tools:

Lemay and Ideate

Ideate Explorer

  • BIM Coordinators in charge of quality control use Ideate Explorer to get a quick view of a model and its current state
  • People looking for specific items / families that they know are in a project save time by using Ideate Explorer to easily find them
  • Everyday Revit users address model warnings fast and efficiently by using the Warnings Manager component of Ideate Explorer to focus on those that are most relevant.
Lemay and Ideate Software

Ideate StyleManager

  • BIM Coordinators love using Ideate StyleManager to understand the use of filters and to be able to wipe unused ones
  • People use Ideate StyleManager to see doubles in linestyles, fill patterns and other styles, and to merge them 

Images:

  • Top: Bellechasse Transport Center
  • Middle: Place Vauquelin
  • Bottom: Espace CDPQ


About Ideate Software


Ideate Software allows Revit users to have unprecedented control over their data and solve persistent problems in Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Owner (AECO) workflows. Ideate Software solutions enable Revit users to save time, increase accuracy, improve project deliverables, and elevate design.

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