Flux.io – The Google Doc-ification Of BIM Workflows – RTC News

Session: BILT Asia – Session 2.3 – Friday 31st March

What is Flux and what are people using it for? In this session you will see first hand how firms around the world are employing Flux on live construction projects to minimise data management pain and broaden participation in digital and automated workflows.

To get started with learning how people are employing Flux on their projects today, it’s useful to recap on what Flux is. Like any kind of ‘platform’ or ‘tool set’, it can be a lot of different things to different people. A hammer can have a different value to carpenter or a thief, so it’s important to present the tool in context! This is what this session is about.

First of all – consider Flux as three key components:

• Data
• Integrations
• Apps

Each of these components make up the whole Flux system or ‘platform’. However, each component can be used in isolation or by a different person in a team.

Data – Flux stores data on the web. Big deal…

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