Gilfillan Callahan Nelson Architects is a public architect that serves the greater Chicagoland area. The firm is responsible for designing innovative, safe and cost-effective spaces for public use. These include schools, village halls, libraries, police stations, fire stations and recreation facilities.
The firm's differentiator is its combination of highly skilled architects and its use of the latest virtual design technology, Building Information Modeling (BIM). The firm made a significant investment years ago, attracting top-notch designers, and migrating from the standard, two-dimensional drawing software, AutoCAD, to the 3-D modeling platform Revit.
While many competing firms claim to "know" Revit, there's a difference between those who dabble in it...and those who have dedicated themselves to the steep learning curve required to master it.
Gilfillan Callahan Nelson Architects is proud to be among the latter. Today, the firm is one of the few public architects in the Chicago area that uses Revit exclusively.
This innovative mix of forward-thinking staff and virtual technology brings an exactness to our designs, resulting in pinpoint-accurate construction documents. Revit also features powerful calculators that extract data from each virtual model we produce. These data-rich models generate complex algorithms that provide the detailed information that accurately determines construction costs, necessary building materials, and future energy costs. It recalculates this each time the model is revised.
The use of select, engineering consultants who are skilled on this platform allows our firm to fully implement Revit to its fullest potential. The design industry calls this an "Integrated Approach."
On behalf of Gilfillan Callahan Nelson Architects, and its partners, we look forward to serving you.
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