Pollard Thomas Edwards Enhancing UK Towns, Cities and Villages

Pollard Thomas Edwards  (PTE) works with communities, local authorities and commercial clients to design homes, neighbourhoods, public and mixed-use buildings throughout the United Kingdom. With over 45 years of experience, PTE understands the needs of its clients as well as the areas in which they operate. By placing people first, PTE creates a work environment where employees can thrive while creating designs that emphasize the way buildings will look, how they will be made, how they will be used and how they will age. This approach has contributed to PTE winning more than 250 awards, including Architect of the Year and three project awards at the 2020 British Homes Awards.

One of the ways PTE helps its 150+ professionals focus on enhancing the local towns, cities and villages is by using Ideate Software tools.

Steve Deadman, Head of BIM at PTE said, “I have been a fan of Ideate Software for several years. Their tools simplify a lot of Revit tasks the team and I perform every day.”

When talking about some of their favorite uses of Ideate Software tools, Steve mentioned: 

• “The Query function within Ideate Explorer is powerful. I do a lot of model auditing, and this tool speeds the process by making it easy to find in-place families. I can either let the team know about them or simply delete them. This task would be a struggle without Ideate Explorer.”  
• “We’ve all been in the situation where a rogue level appears in a project, and we’re tempted to hit the delete button. Before taking that step, we use Ideate SmartDelete to see what will be deleted along with the level. We then remove anything we need to keep.” 
• “Everyone on our team loves Ideate Clone. Copying a sheet and its viewports should be native in Revit, but it isn’t. The ability to do it in Ideate Clone is very useful and saves us a lot of time.” 
• “We really like the new function within Ideate SheetManager that allows us to place unplaced views onto sheets using another one as a template. This process gives us another dimension for managing sheets quickly.” 
• “Where would we be without Ideate BIMLink? From simple data management tasks like updating sheet information and editing schedule information to project setup tasks such as creating views and sheets and placing views on the sheets, Ideate BIMLink does it all. We simply would waste so much time without it.”

Project Awards Presented to PTE by British Homes in 2020