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# Skanska

**URL:** https://eaglepoint.com/case-study/skanska/
**Type:** Case Study
**Modified:** 2025-02-06

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###### Software

- Pinnacle Series
- Autodesk

Case Study

Operating around the world in selected home markets in Europe and the US, Skanska is listed on the Stockholm stock exchange and headquartered in Sweden’s capital city. Recent project highlights consist of:

- With a value of more than £400 million, seven Crossrail contracts have been secured by a Costain-Skanska joint venture since 2010, including Bond Street and Paddington stations.
- Water – Skanska is delivering long-term value for Thames Water, Welsh Water and Anglian Water, using collaborative working to create broad-based, innovative solutions that benefit consumers.
- In the last 10 years, Skanska has built, refurbished and extended over 40 schools in Bristol to deliver over 7,500 new primary places, and improved the learning environment for more than 13,600 secondary pupils.
- New Papworth Hospital – part of a new biomedical campus in Cambridge, this cardiothoracic center of excellence will provide 310 beds, seven operating theatres and five catheterization labs, funded through a private-finance initiative.
- In joint venture, Skanska delivered the £1 billion widening of the M25, one of the world’s busiest motorways, ahead of schedule in 2012. A £320 million design and construction contract to upgrade further sections was again completed early in 2014. Skanska is also part of the team managing and maintaining the 440km of motorway until 2039.
- The Monument Building in London and 66 Queen Square in Bristol are Skanska’s first UK developments under its Workplaces by Skanska banner, bringing distinctive, high-quality and sustainable office and retail space to a competitive market.

#### The Challenge

Skanska is **committed to a digital transformation strategy** to deliver better outcomes, faster, for its customers. Part of this strategy is around creating great places to work. By making sure people have the right tools for the job, this can develop their careers and skills within a supportive environment, and can gain the satisfaction of making increasingly valued contributions to what Skanska does.

Excitech has been supporting Skanska, as its Autodesk partner, with consultancy training and support for their digital transformation for the past 15 years. Having taken on Pinnacle Series initially as a way of providing learning and on-the-job support, **Skanska wanted to move to the next level** **and use Pinnacle Series to deliver learning paths **for individual job roles. This ensures that people can hit the ground running when they take on new projects or job roles.

“Our BIM community started using Pinnacle Series straight ‘out-of-the-box’ which **enabled us to get people up to speed quickly with BIM working practices**,” explains David Throssell, BIM & Digital Engineering Operations Manager, at Skanska UK.

“This soft roll-out covered 250 Autodesk users; **people who use Autodesk products every day and need quick answers** to questions on the go, without having to go searching on the Internet or seeking the input of colleagues simply to perform an Autodesk function they’re not personally familiar with.”

The **‘out-of-the-box’ platform** provides access to key learning materials, as well as online live technical support provided by Excitech. The next phase for Skanska is to **customize the software to build in their own protocols** and methodologies supported by the development of role specific learning paths.

The company identified specific milestones for realizing this strategy: creating the digital project site and workplace, enabling it to deliver new services and products. “Within this strategy, digitally enabling our people and processes, particularly through digital collaboration and a BIM way of working are **key drivers of change within the organization**,” says Throssell.

#### The Solution

**Excitech worked alongside the Skanska team** to arrive at a definitive set of job descriptions that would require specific learning pathways. This phase of the development involved identifying what an individual would need to learn, and what the timeframe would be for acquiring the identified skill. Excitech compared Skanska’s requirements against existing Pinnacle Series content to **home in on**

**where the gaps were.**

For each learning path, the Excitech consultancy and training team created the paths as well as any content not available, including **specific course and training videos** wherever applicable.

> Our BIM community started using Pinnacle Series straight ‘out-of-the-box.’ This soft roll-out covered 250 Autodesk Users; people who use Autodesk products every day and need quick answers to questions on the go.”

This development exercise involved liaising with third parties for **specific vendor generated input** where the software concerned is not in the Excitech solutions portfolio. The pathways for the first phase included:

- Administration/reception
- **Asset and facilities management**
- All staff (cross-company procedures such as Health & Safety and HR)
- **BIM management** and coordination, design management
- BIM management for commercial, environmental, procurement, estimating, and quantity surveying
- **Construction** manager, supervisor, and engineer
- General management
- Handover and completion, insulation and commissioning, **quality management**
- **Planning**

Speaking about the development process with Excitech, David Throssell says “I know that some organizations choose to develop their own customized modules. We decided not to go down this route for two reasons. Firstly, we prefer to allocate all our resources to customer-facing projects; focusing on what we do best: contributing to building, upgrading and maintaining the country’s infrastructure.

Secondly, also part of the same thought process, we know that Excitech have **the resources and talent to develop such content faster and smarter than we ever could.** Our view is that if you want an expert job done then you have to call on the experts to do it.”

#### The Results

A year into the exercise, the initial deployment of Pinnacle Series used by 250 Autodesk users **has now grown to 700 users**, with a full roll-out across the company expected within the next 12 months.

**“Pinnacle Series is not just an engineering tool,”** says David. “It has far broader use and relevance across the business. It gives us consistency in internal processes and professional skills. It also supports continuity since** it makes the company less dependent on the knowledge that people hold in their heads**; this is important for organizational development.”

> Pinnacle Series in not just an engineering tool, it has far broader use and relevance across the business. It gives us consistency in internal processes and professional skills… this is important for organisational development.”

Skanska have now started to evaluate how they might extend Pinnacle Series across their supply chain, with their top 250 suppliers, to elevate skills and consistency across the chain. “**Pinnacle Series improves the confidence for the individual and the team** but also has a broader impact; inspiring confidence among customers that we provide consistency in skills levels.** When we present bids now, we highlight our use of Pinnacle Series**. Some of these bids are on major infrastructure projects that will last 20 years or more.

Demonstrating that you have a robust framework for embracing new technologies and rapidly disseminating the skills necessary to optimize their use across the project team is invaluable. Our customers understand that **Pinnacle Series enables Skanska to do that**,” says Throssell.

### Thousands of on-demand resources at your fingertips

With Pinnacle Series, your team gets on-demand access to libraries of learning content covering the software skills they need to know to work efficiently and productively.

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## Site Description

Eagle Point Software is the creator of Pinnacle Series and Pinnacle Lite, an e-learning employee training system for architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and multidiscipline industries.

## Company FAQ

**What content do you provide?**

The Pinnacle Series comes pre-loaded with thousands of assets covering the products listed below. You can subscribe to one library, or all libraries! This interactive catalog allows you to browse all asset libraries available in Pinnacle Series.

In addition to pre-loaded content, the Pinnacle Series interface allows you to customize any content or upload your own.

- Adobe
- Autodesk
- Autodesk Construction Cloud
- Bentley
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- Business & Management Skills
- Enscape
- Global BIM Standards
- Health and Safety
- Ideate Software
- Lumion
- McNeel
- Microsoft
- Pinnacle Series
- SketchUp
- V-Ray

Drill deeper into the catalog – https://eaglepoint.com/course-library

**How long has Eagle Point Software been in business?**

We officially launched in 1983. We have been helping organizations in the AEC space become more efficient for nearly 40 years, and we’re looking forward to continuing that mission for years to come.

**Who creates your content?**

Pinnacle Series content comes from two key sources. First, Eagle Point Software’s own team of industry experts creates original content designed specifically for AECO and manufacturing professionals. Second, we partner with leading software vendors to bring their official training, workflows, and best practices directly into the platform. This blend of vendor-supplied and in-house content ensures our customers have access to both authoritative resources and practical, applied learning tailored to real-world projects.


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