Accelerate design processes. Include your clients and manager in the design process before it is real.

"We are building a lot of these huge projects that are quite complex, and it's a question of how do we get people in the field to interact with and understand the whole project at once," said Atul Khanzode, DPR's director of virtual design and construction.

"We have all of this knowledge, and this lets the foreman and laborers on site interact with it and for customers to understand it as well."

"The foreman and laborers might not be used to working with computers," he said, "but the inter­face is such that anyone who can move a block across a table can use it."