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CONSTRUCTION COLLABORATION SOFTWARE
Real-time collaboration software
built for construction
No more version chaos or tools that don’t talk. Bluebeam helps AEC pros mark up, review and close out documents together in real time.
Trusted by over 4 million AEC professionals
Smarter collaboration for every role
Architects
Collaborate on design comments and keep review sets in sync.
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Capture design markups, RFIs and revisions directly on shared drawings
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Coordinate architectural, structural and MEP comments in one markup set so every discipline sees the full picture
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Export summaries to document decisions and share context with downstream teams
WORKFLOWS
Key Workflows
Drawing & Document Management
Store, manage and organize entire drawing sets.
Design Review & QA/QC
Speed up reviews with real-time digital collaboration.
“It’s taken a stunning amount of time out of our QA/QC process.”
Matt Forman
CannonDesign
5 ways Bluebeam simplifies construction collaboration
Bluebeam makes complex, multi‑team construction collaboration easier to coordinate and control, helping architects, engineers and contractors move projects faster with fewer errors.
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Alignment: Keep every team working from the same construction documents with Bluebeam Studio Projects and Sessions, reducing version chaos and disconnected email threads.
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Access: Collaborate on drawings from the office or field using Bluebeam on web and mobile, so markups and reviews continue on desktop, browser, iOS and Android without extra file handling.
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Accountability: Track every markup, comment and decision in the Markups List and Studio Session Record, making responsibilities and status clear across disciplines.
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Flexibility: Run real‑time or asynchronous reviews in Studio Sessions so architects, engineers, GCs, subs and owners can participate on their schedule without passing PDFs around.
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Intelligence: Use AI in Bluebeam Max to summarize RFIs and field reports, compare drawings and surface potential design issues, so teams focus on resolving problems instead of hunting for them.
Discover the Bluebeam difference for markups
Bluebeam empowers teams to collaborate more efficiently, profitably, and securely.
60%
faster reviews
Arup used industry-standard markup tools to cut design review times by as much as 60% while maintaining quality.
50%
time savings
Márkus Engineering used Bluebeam’s integration with Archicad to standardize communication with architects.
100k
comments streamlined
Bluebeam helped AECOM manage 100,000 comments across 400 collaborators during design review.
HOW-TO
How to start collaborating with Bluebeam
Bluebeam makes it easy to bring every discipline onto the same document. Here’s how to get started.
1. Create a Studio Session
Studio is Bluebeam’s real-time collaboration environment. To create a Studio Session, navigate to the Studio tab, select “Add > New Session.” Then name the session, add PDFs, set collaborator permissions, and click “OK” to create and upload files.
2. Invite collaborators
You can invite teammates and stakeholders to participate in a Studio Session — even if they don’t have Bluebeam. Go to your Session or Project, select “Invite.” Then type or paste their emails. You can customize messages, individual permissions, and more.
3. Mark up and measure together
Studio Sessions lets collaborators add markups to the same PDF document together in real time. All markup activity is tracked in the Record that conveniently links back to the Session PDFs, and a built-in chat feature aids communication.
Integrations
Connect Bluebeam to your favorite tools.
Whether you’re using one of our ready-to-use integrations or building your own with Bluebeam Studio APIs, you can connect the applications you rely on for smoother workflows that keep projects moving.
