Creating your first project

Invitation!

We will guide you through creating your first project - step by step.

Let us start!

Start a new project

A Project is the area that is being developed and can contain one or more buildings and infrastructe objects (construction objects).

Step by step:

1. From the Dashboard or the project page, click Start new project
2. Add details such as the Name/Distance/Location/Scheme/Description, and an image if you'd like.
3. Then click next, and add details to the first Construction Object (Name/Type/Construction begin/Construction completion)
4. (optional) Add another construction object, or more, if you'd like. You can also do that later.
5. Click save.

Add the first version to a construction object (e.g. building)

Each construction object can have many versions. The versions can be used to compare design alternatives in each project phase.

Step by step:

1. Click Add new version
2. Enter a name that you will remember, and select a project phase.
3. Choose how you want to add data to the version
   • Estimate with Automodel
   • Connect your BIM model
   • Import or enter manually

Estimate with Automodel

Automodel is an early-phase estimation tool that allows you to quickly create various designs in the early project phases. You can also use Automodel to create a "reference building" by which you can benchmark your design.

🍀 TIP

Automodel can also be used in later project phases, as a starting point, that you will then adjust to fit your specific project's conditions and technical solutions.

Connect your BIM model

The BIM integration is powered by speckle. Speckle allows you to direcly push your BIM model from Revit, ArchiCAD, and other software into reduzer, and whenever you update your BIM model, the data is automatically available in reduzer.

NEW! -> IFC

Now you can use also IFC format by uploading the file directly in Reduzer!

Import or enter manually

You can import data from a spreadsheet, import a copy of a template, or create an empty version and add data manually.

NEW! -> Results only version

Now you can create a results only version from your older projects, if you want to keep track of all your emissions in one place!