Case Study: HOK achieves streamlined BIM data integration and automated city-modeling workflows with Safe Software's FME

HOK - Customer Case Study

HOK, a global design, architecture and planning firm with about 1,600 employees in 24 offices, faced a large city-modeling task to represent roughly 2 million buildings over 130 square miles. The project exposed major interoperability problems: more than 150 different applications across disciplines (Revit, CityEngine, InfraWorks, CAD, GIS, raster formats, etc.) and a broader industry-wide lack of automation for BIM and enterprise data management.

HOK implemented FME Desktop to transform and integrate BIM, GIS, CAD and raster data—enabling complex manipulations (subsetting, attribute enrichment, value derivation) across many formats—and then began deploying FME Server to automate workflows (central syncs, self-serve exports, model comparisons, automated Revit loading). The result was streamlined data integration, reduced manual effort, improved efficiency and data quality, and the launch of company-wide automation initiatives for BIM and data management.

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Greg Schleusner

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