Workshare provider Satellier and its 40-year-old CEO Michael Jansen are working to take building information modeling out of the confines of the workstation. "We are experts at sharing work remotely," says Jansen, who has built a thriving outsourcing practice in India that extends the resources of high-profile design firms around the globe.
Satellier is implementing a new system that combines telepresencing using iRooms (a kind of video conferencing on steroids), "smart" boards that allow users to share desktops and customized work-flow software that tracks and optimizes processes. "It lets us work on design development and BIM analytics" in a way that was impossible in a traditional FTP-site-driven environment, Jansen says.