Open the Way to Smarter Opening Coordination with Naviate BWO

Builder’s work openings may be a small part of a building model, but coordinating them can have a significant impact on project progress and quality. Every opening for a duct, pipe, cable tray, or other building service must be considered in relation to structural design, architectural intent, technical requirements, and construction.

This requires several disciplines to exchange information, review proposals, communicate decisions, and respond as designs evolve. When information is spread across models, emails, PDFs, and separate communication channels, maintaining a reliable overview becomes difficult.

Naviate Builder’s Work Openings (Naviate BWO) provides a connected workflow for creating, reviewing, tracking, and resolving opening requests across disciplines. Developed around real-world project requirements, it helps teams coordinate openings through a structured and traceable process.

A shared workflow for opening coordination

Opening coordination is not simply about transferring geometry between models. It is a collaborative process involving questions, decisions, revisions, and approvals.

With Naviate BWO, opening requests can be created in Revit, grouped into deliveries, and published to a shared project space. Other disciplines can import a delivery into their own Revit models, inspect the openings in context, and respond with clear statuses and comments.

This creates a round-trip workflow between the teams proposing openings and those reviewing them. Rather than relying on separate messages and documents, project participants can follow the current status and history of each request in one shared process.

Review decisions and changes in context

For structural engineers and architects, context is essential. An opening cannot be evaluated in isolation. Its dimensions, location, host element, and relationship to the surrounding design all affect whether it can be accepted as proposed.

Reviewers can inspect each request in the relevant Revit model, mark it as Accepted, Conditional, or Rejected, and add a comment explaining the decision. When an opening is accepted, the requirements remain connected to that specific request, giving the source team clearer information about what needs to happen next.

As designs develop, openings may be moved, resized, changed to another type, or removed. Naviate BWO keeps statuses, comments, and geometric changes connected to each request. Teams can see what changed, who made the update, and when, creating a clearer and more traceable project record.

Keep the wider project team informed

Revit is the natural working environment for many specialists creating and reviewing openings, but not everyone who needs visibility into the process works directly in the model.

Naviate BWO enables designers to coordinate openings in Revit while giving the wider project team visibility through the web application. Designers can publish and import deliveries, review requests, record decisions, and synchronize feedback. Project managers and other stakeholders can follow projects, deliveries, opening statuses, and activity without opening the relevant Revit model.

The two environments serve different purposes while keeping participants connected to the same project information. This combines model-based review with project-level visibility.

Customer value across the project team

Opening coordination brings together several disciplines, each with a different responsibility. MEP designers typically create opening requests, structural engineers and architects review them against their requirements, project managers need visibility into progress, and contractors rely on coordinated information for execution.

Naviate BWO supports these roles through one shared workflow:

• MEP designers: Publish opening requests in a structured way and receive clear feedback on which requests can proceed or require further work.
• Structural engineers: Review requests directly in the structural model and communicate decisions with the context needed to assess feasibility.
• Architects: Evaluate proposed openings against spatial requirements, finishes, and the wider architectural design.
• Project managers and stakeholders: Follow deliveries and progress through the web application without requiring every participant to work directly in Revit.
• Contractors: Benefit from clearer, coordinated opening information for downstream activities such as casting, drilling, coring, and installation.

The broader value comes from connecting these perspectives. Each discipline contributes its own expertise while the information around every opening request remains visible and traceable.

Improve productivity through clearer coordination

Productivity in BIM workflows is not only about automating individual tasks. It also depends on how efficiently information moves between people and disciplines, and how quickly teams can understand the current situation and act on it.

Naviate BWO combines expertise validated in practice, workflows proven in project delivery, and technology designed around the way BIM professionals work. A shared workflow can help teams spend less time searching for current information, interpreting unclear feedback, repeating reviews, and manually compiling updates from different sources.

The goal is simple: spend less time establishing what has happened and what needs attention, and more time resolving the issues that require professional expertise.

A smarter way to coordinate openings

Naviate BWO turns opening coordination from a series of disconnected exchanges into a shared, traceable workflow. It helps teams review openings in context, communicate decisions clearly, and maintain visibility across disciplines. The result is a more consistent coordination process that supports productivity and collaboration from design towards execution.

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