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What do think the biggest changes in our trade have been?
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<blockquote data-quote="BVK" data-source="post: 459117" data-attributes="member: 28112"><p>Hi all, new poster.</p><p></p><p>Biggest changes? Well funny enough I have been doing a sort of business development plan today as a small business. Nothing too complex, just working out where we are and where they want to be. So I wrote out what the industry was like from as business point of view 10 years ago and now. Now this is for jobs of say £30k - £100k, but most fairly small commercial fit out run into that.</p><p></p><p>So 10 years ago I used to receive drawings an specifications my mail. Not usually too complex as paper and postage cost money so the clients tended to send the minimum.</p><p></p><p>5 years ago I received the same stuff but by email as PDF's, occasional as zip files. But usually not too complex.</p><p></p><p>Now we get sent a drop box file with every drawing door the entire building project, the mech specification, 200 page electrical specification, and on, and on. So pricing a job has become blooming complicated and time consuming. </p><p></p><p>Nearly by every job requires design calls and cad drawing to the latest version of AutoCad. So that's a lot of time and subscription money.</p><p></p><p>in five years from now the same jobs will probably require to be done on Revit and be fully BIM standard.</p><p></p><p>so it worries me that in five to ten years, the only jobs a micro business will be able to do will be small domestic work, and small commercial jobs and maintenance. The really big boys will have taken us out of the equation.</p><p></p><p>i might be wrong but that is certainly what I am seeing drop on my desk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BVK, post: 459117, member: 28112"] Hi all, new poster. Biggest changes? Well funny enough I have been doing a sort of business development plan today as a small business. Nothing too complex, just working out where we are and where they want to be. So I wrote out what the industry was like from as business point of view 10 years ago and now. Now this is for jobs of say £30k - £100k, but most fairly small commercial fit out run into that. So 10 years ago I used to receive drawings an specifications my mail. Not usually too complex as paper and postage cost money so the clients tended to send the minimum. 5 years ago I received the same stuff but by email as PDF's, occasional as zip files. But usually not too complex. Now we get sent a drop box file with every drawing door the entire building project, the mech specification, 200 page electrical specification, and on, and on. So pricing a job has become blooming complicated and time consuming. Nearly by every job requires design calls and cad drawing to the latest version of AutoCad. So that's a lot of time and subscription money. in five years from now the same jobs will probably require to be done on Revit and be fully BIM standard. so it worries me that in five to ten years, the only jobs a micro business will be able to do will be small domestic work, and small commercial jobs and maintenance. The really big boys will have taken us out of the equation. i might be wrong but that is certainly what I am seeing drop on my desk. [/QUOTE]
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