Author
Model and documentation produced to the MIDP task card. Self-review against the project QA checklist before submission.
Status: WIP
Systematized BIM services in Portugal.
Production, coordination and governance to ISO 19650, delivered as a full BIM team for consultants, contractors and developers. No internal hire, no management overhead.
Design-side
For consultants
Documentation produced to your standards and your graphic conventions, so the package still reads as yours. Your team sells design, ours produces the drawings behind it.
Explore Build-sideFor contractors
Coordination models and trade drawings for contractors delivering at home and abroad, resolved against every discipline before mobilisation.
Explore Owner-sideFor developers
Consistent information delivery across mixed consultant teams, with the EIR enforced as a working document through the CDE.
ExploreLean Portuguese studios win work that demands the output of much larger firms. We add the production depth.
A lean studio can hold the design intent on a large project, but the drawing list outgrows the team. JES carries the production: 260+ engineers behind yours, coordinated through our Ortenberg office on your working day, with three-stage QA on every file.
Six services. One team behind yours.
Every line of scope runs through the same QA gates, the same ERP tracking and the same ISO 19650 setup, whether the project sits in Porto or abroad.
BIM Delivery.
Discipline models, federation and drawing production at export quality. The set you issue to a foreign client survives that client's audit.
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Virtual Design & Construction.
4D and 5D analysis that lets your practice discuss programme and cost with contractor-grade evidence.
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Information Management
We administer the CDE, hold the naming convention and run the exchanges, so a two-person BIM function performs like a department.
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Digital Twins
Asset information models prepared for the operator from the outset, so handover means a usable dataset rather than a folder of PDFs.
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QTO & Cost
Quantities lifted straight from the coordinated model, giving your cost consultants one defensible source for BOQs and variations.
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As-Built Documentation
Scan-verified record models that document the building as it stands, not as the design assumed.
ExploreThe full scope, one engagement
Eight services from one supplier, so your studio can take international scope without growing its payroll.
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3D BIM modelling
Revit production across all major disciplines, run to a single documented standard from first model to final issue.
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Revit family creation
Component libraries built to your office template, with the parametric behaviour and LOD your projects need.
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4D, 5D and 6D simulation
Sequencing, cost and performance dimensions added to the model where they sharpen decisions: 4D, 5D and 6D as the brief requires.
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Shop drawings & detailing
Shop drawings coordinated and dimensioned for the fabricator, checked against the federated model before they leave us.
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Scan to BIM
Point clouds from survey partners converted into dependable existing-condition models for renovation work.
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CAD to BIM conversion
Flat 2D archives redrawn as structured 3D models, so older documentation becomes usable project data.
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BIM for facility management
Operations-ready asset data assembled during delivery, structured for CAFM import at handover.
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Quantity take-off & BOQ
Model-based measurement aligned to your cost framework, keeping estimates current as the design develops.
Three sets of eyes before it leaves.
Every JES deliverable moves through a fixed Author-Checker-Approver gate, tracked in the CDE. The same standard whether it's engineer 3 or engineer 250.
Checker
Independent review against the BEP and federated model. Defects logged, deviation report returned to Author.
Output: Deviation report
Approver
Signed off against EIR and LOIN. Promoted from WIP to Shared or Published in the CDE.
Status: Published
Lose that control and the costs stack: missed issue dates, conflicting trade drawings, a BEP that fails review and asset data missing at completion. In a lean practice each one lands on the same few desks. The JES gate names an author, a checker and an approver on every file, logged in ERP.
Carried to handover
Airports, metro lines and resort programmes in the Gulf, taken through coordination and handed over under ISO 19650. A selection below.
DWC Airport
Terminal-scale design packages for Dar Al-Handasah on Dubai World Central's next…
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Dubai Metro Blue Line
MEP modelled and coordinated across Blue Line stations and depots for MNG Esmas,…
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Wynn Ras Al Khaima
Over 100 people at peak across MEP, structural and interior fit-out packages on …
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Stargate Data Centre
Every N+1 and 2N redundancy path verified in 3D against Tier-rating requirements…
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Zayed National Museum
Mechanical, electrical and plumbing threaded through Foster + Partners' steel-fe…
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Emaar Golf Hillside Tower
Shop drawing release synced to the tower pour cycle on AFE's fast-track golf-fac…
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Al Badia
Every consultant and contractor on Al-Futtaim's master-planned villa and low-ris…
Read the caseWhat changes when delivery runs to a system
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Construction-ready output
Drawing sets delivered against the agreed programme from a clash-cleared federated model, so issue day stops being a risk event.
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Your team stops chasing deliverables
Progress is read, not requested. ERP dashboards show every deliverable's position and its full Author-Checker-Approver history.
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Runs to standard
ISO 19650 in place before modelling begins: EIR interpreted, BEP authored, CDE structured.
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From LOD 350 to fabrication-ready
Why "coordinated" models still cause site rework, and the handoff that fixes it.
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5 min
The BEP subcontractors actually follow
The difference between a filed document and a working agreement is five sections.
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5 min
Clash detection to zero
Zero hard-clash is table stakes. Here is the tolerance standard we hold a federated model to before sign-off.
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6 min
QTO as the single source of truth for variations
When quantities come straight from the model, variations stop being arguments and become deltas.
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5 min
As-built from day one
Retrofitting an as-built at practical completion is a tax. Updating it weekly is a habit.
ReadCommon questions about BIM in Portugal
Both. We produce the discipline models, federation and drawings and we govern the standards behind them: the CDE administered, the naming convention held, the exchanges run. One accountable team does both, so a two-person BIM function performs like a department. You are not managing a consultancy that advises beside a separate shop that draws.
Yes. You get a dedicated outsourced BIM team under one named lead, 260+ engineers behind yours, so a lean studio can hold a large project without the drawing list outgrowing it. Capacity scales against the programme, not a permanent hire. Coordination runs through our Ortenberg office on your working day, with three-stage QA on every file.
Yes. Our consultants embed in your delivery, set the BEP and LOD schedule and hold the work to ISO 19650, coordinated through our Ortenberg office on your working day. One named lead stays accountable across the programme, and every file clears the author, checker and approver gate before the set you issue meets a foreign client's audit.
Yes. We convert survey-partner point clouds into a scan-verified record model that documents the building as it stands, not as the design assumed. Architectural, structural and MEP coordinate against that base. For the renovation work behind much of Portugal's pipeline, it gives your team a dependable existing condition to start from.
Architectural, structural and MEP. We author them in Revit and federate them in Navisworks with regular clash cycles on one model, authored, checked and approved against the BEP before issue. Coordination models and trade drawings are resolved against every discipline before mobilisation, for contractors delivering at home and abroad where the set has to survive a client's audit.
Cost follows scope, the disciplines involved, the LOD you need and the programme length, so we scope each engagement to the actual work rather than a day rate. A large project's drawing list carries more than a single package. The zero-cost pilot on one package lets you see the output and the QA first.
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