• Madrid is planning 25,000 affordable public housing units as part of Plan Vive, a programme that aims to reduce the current housing shortage. By January 2025, 2,480 flats have been delivered.
• The architectural projects comply with three premises: industrialised construction, environmental sustainability and digitalisation in all phases.
• The Autodesk Construction Cloud platform is the Common Data Environment that facilitates the coordination and management of data between the Culmia real estate platform and the participating engineering and architecture studios, including Ávita, SOCOTEC, ADYD Group and Cano y Escario.
• All the keys to this milestone in construction digitisation can be read here: https://boards.autodesk.com/plan-vive

Autodesk plays a crucial role in the Madrid Regional Government's Plan Vive, an ambitious initiative that aims to provide affordable housing solutions with the construction of 25,000 rental homes.

One of the winners of this ambitious project has been the real estate platform CULMIA, which has worked in collaboration with engineering and architectural firms such as Ávita SOCOTEC, ADYD Group and Cano y Escario to make a milestone of innovation in the sector a reality, focusing on digitalisation, industrialised construction and a firm commitment to sustainability.

Autodesk technology has been instrumental in the development of more than 3,000 homes. The projects have achieved BREEAM Excellent certification, a guarantee of reduced environmental impact and energy savings that benefit residents. Specifically, it has been possible to reduce on-site waste by around 75%, speed up construction by 30%, and achieve an accuracy with a margin of error of just 0.3%, thus configuring a successful workflow that has become a benchmark in the large-scale public housing sector in Spain.

At the heart of this initiative is the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform, which acts as the Common Data Environment, facilitating information management and collaborative work between technical offices, developers and manufacturing plants. Likewise, the integrated work of Autodesk solutions has made it easier for architecture and engineering studios to develop BIM models of buildings, structures and facilities in Revit and their coordination for collision detection in Navisworks.

Industrialised construction, on the other hand, speeds up the design and execution phases on site by working with repetitive components that are manufactured off-site and moved at the right time for installation, thus establishing a more reliable, safer and faster production chain than in traditional processes.

The success of Plan Vive is a testament to how digitisation and industrialised construction, supported by technology, can transform the real estate sector, delivering tangible benefits for both developers and residents, who achieve high standards of efficiency and sustainability.

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More information Lara Sanchez: lara.sanchez@autodesk.com

Ana Martin: Ana.martin@autodesk.com