It’s an innovation the 11-year-old company has recently introduced where it has created a database containing the development regulations for every council in Australia.
The new tool also builds on Archistar’s current product suite where industry players can have a building computationally designed in minutes on a specific site once they enter in the size of the land.
CIM founder and chief executive David Walsh.
Co-founder of Archistar, Robert Coorey, says any layperson can use the software and have a home designed that is compliant with a specific local council’s planning rules.
“We’re dealing with everyone from homeowners doing a knockdown and rebuild to the nation’s tier one builders,” Coorey says.
And the business is not putting architects out of business, says Coorey because the software generates the bare bones of a building design while architects can then look after the details.
“Many of our clients are architects because they can log on to Archistar to generate initial designs for a developer before they’re commissioned. It saves them a lot of time so they can use it as a business development tool,” Coorey says.
According to Coorey, the last 12 months have not really affected the company’s operations because everything can be done remotely and we have “doubled revenue year-on-year every year for the last three years”.
He says large housing companies such as Rawson Homes are using the software as part of their sales process because clients can simply “load up the size of their block of land into Archistar and Rawson Homes can immediately provide them with a home that fits their land size and meets all local council requirements”.
The company was originally founded by Robert’s brother, Dr Benjamin Coorey, as an education portal where architecture firms and builders as well as universities could learn how to create the software that enabled computer design.
Dr Coorey brought his coding skills to design and this enabled him to generate hundreds of designs in one go. Around five years ago, the decision was made to change things up and rather than teach coding, the company would create software that assisted the whole industry.
What the company has created for architects and developers as well as home builders has proven to be a game-changer because people can now discover in minutes what’s possible and allowed on any specific building site.
As for the future, Coorey is very excited about expanding into the United States and UK. He says the company is currently in the process of building out a database of all the building codes for every council in the US and is working on some exciting developments in the UK as well.
Also tapping into Australia’s building boom and our broader interest in saving the planet is building analytics firm CIM, who are assisting Australian businesses optimise their buildings’ operations on the sustainability front.
CIM founder and chief executive David Walsh says the company is fast on track to being the world leader in building analytics software, “making it easy to operate large buildings at their peak operational performance, to deliver economic and environmental benefits for shareholders, tenants and society”.
“Peak performing buildings with smaller carbon footprints achieve better sustainability ratings, meet their environmental, social and governance goals, and deliver long-term value to shareholders and tenants,” Walsh says.
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