Manama, 2023 - Leading Geographic Information Systems - GIS solutions Provider Company MicroCenter Group has officially announced its partnership with Autodesk as authorized reseller at a major launch event took place in March at Wyndham Grand Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain under the theme of “Power of Autodesk-Esri Platform for Design, BIM & Construction”.

Since the year 2000, MicroCenter group is the sole distributor in Bahrain for Esri (USA). Esri is the global market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), offers the most powerful mapping and spatial analytics technology available, since 1969. Together Autodesk and Esri solutions will enable a broad range of industries to gain better context by visualizing, analysing and managing data of the man-made world, the environment, citizens and the networks that weave it altogether.  

At the beginning of the event Dr. Ghulum Baqeri, Founder & President of the MicroCenter group welcomed the Guest of Honour & Keynote speaker, His Excellency, Eng. Naji Sabt Salem, General Director, Survey & Land Registration Bureau, Kingdom of Bahrain to the event and other distinguished guests.

His Excellency Eng. Naji Sabt Salem made the Keynote Address and shared his vision in implementing Autodesk-Esri joint solution to the National mapping platform from Survey & Land Registration Bureau. His Excellency further explained his ideas about the Geospatial environment, significance of Constructive & BIM Data for engineering, construction, design and building of infrastructures, and leveraging the integration of BIM and GIS through GeoBIM.  

Multiple technical sessions were delivered by Mr. Ahmed Khairat, AEC Technical Specialist , Mr. Sam Faekk, Technical Solutions specialist at Autodesk for the Middle East and Africa and Dr. Yves Abou Rjeily an Autodesk Product Specialist.

Mr. Ahmed Khairat and Mr. Sam Faekk from Autodesk demonstrated about how increasingly engineering firms are using Autodesk-Esri technology in innovative ways to reinvent their internal processes and change the way they approach large-scale infrastructure projects in detailed manner.

Mr. Ahmed Khairat explained about significance of Building Information Modelling-BIM in the construction & infrastructure projects. Ahmed further explained how the Building Information Modelling-BIM is helping construction managers reduce time and cost overruns and how with BIM, AEC & other users can build projects virtually—fixing errors in the digital model rather than on the job site, saves time and money, help avoid rework and labor costs during construction.

Mr. Sam Faekk explained in detail about the Autodesk Construction Cloud, which is a powerful and comprehensive construction management platform, and how this application & tools can easily help to collaborate on centralized, shared designs and how this improves BIM collaboration, streamline workflows, and provides real-time data insights. Sam further explained that how Autodesk Construction Solutions delivers unified data, analytics, and reporting capabilities for architecture, engineering, and construction customers.

Mr. Ahmed Khairat explained about the Autodesk Platform Services (APS) - formerly Forge and how APS can offer APIs and services that help you access and use your design and engineering data. How this platform helps to automate processes, connect teams and workflows, visualize data in 2D & 3D and how easy one can now create applications and more with Forge APIs.

During next session, Mr. Ahmed Khairat explained about the significance of the AEC Collection and how the software & tools provides designers, engineers, and contractors a set of BIM and CAD tools that support projects from early-stage design through to construction. They further demonstrated how integrating ArcGIS Online from Esri in Autodesk Infraworks can better support your design workflows.

Dr. Yves Abou Rjeily presented Autodesk Innovyze solution for Smart Water Infrastructure, Modelling & Simulation.  

With the last session, Mr. Ahmed Khairat speaks about Autodesk-Esri collaboration and ArcGIS GeoBIM, fusing Esri’s ArcGIS mapping service with Autodesk cloud-based BIM data.

"I'm thrilled to learn the Autodesk and Esri applications magic in solo and jointly," said Dr. Ghulum Baqeri, the President of MicroCenter group. Autodesk and Esri plan to work together to better integrate their respective technologies, allowing industry professionals to synthesize information from both BIM and GIS to enable a more connected infrastructure. Benefits are expected to include unprecedented reductions in permitting through improved stakeholder engagement, more sustainable and resilient design through enhanced project insight, and reduced risk via improved end-to-end flow of materials, resource availability and scheduling during construction.

Dr. Ghulum Baqeri further said that MicroCenter Special Projects division is working with the Autodesk and Autodesk-Esri solution partner jointly offer differentiated services and solutions with Autodesk and with Esri GeoBIM solutions. This includes but not limited to the Complete BIM adoption & implementation process, standards and last but not the least integration.

Microcenter relationship with Autodesk & Esri is the kind of partnership that will strengthen our vision to be able to make anything anywhere with ESRI & Autodesk platform services. We are working closely with Autodesk & Omnix to bridge CAD, CAE, Design to BIM, BIM & GIS, cloud connected workflows to the Design, Infrastructure, Building, Construction, Utilities and other owners, “said Dr. Anirudha Kale, CTO of Microcenter Group.

Dr. Anirudha Kale further narrated about Microcenter group’s vision announced by Dr. Ghulum Baqeri to establish BIM Lab at the University & Academic institutions. This is an opportunity to learn and connect with industry experts who are progressing architecture, engineering, construction, design, manufacturing, and media and entertainment.

Currently, the attention of Civil and Architectural Engineering education is oriented to BIM, and it is up to the university/academic institution, as the main trainer of the future engineer, to introduce this theme, as a concept that should be transmitted, contributing to support all new subjects, included in the curriculum, on a BIM-based digital support. The requirement of BIM skills in the sector has imposed an educational maturity of alert in relation to its need in society, which has led to a progressive adaptation of the curricula taught.

The special event ended with a speech by Dr. Abu Bashar, Business Development Manager of Microcenter Group.

For more information, contact the MicroCenter Special Projects Division at 33502335 or email- anirudha.kale@microcentergulf.com.

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