Melinda Hoffman

Melinda Hoffman began her career as an architectural designer and has worked in technology market for the Architectural/Engineering/Construction industry for over 12 years. As Virtual Construction Manager, she plays a critical role throughout construction.

Currently, Ms. Hoffman manages the emerging Virtual Design &Construction department at LPCiminelli handling all the Building Information Modeling (BIM), Mobile Technology with a four-person staff. Her duties include training Revit, aiding in pre bid estimating and visualizations, managing workloads for staff, laser scanning to document existing conditions, model logistics, as-built documentation, scheduling and coordination. She assists project teams with preconstruction services, to establish & implement virtual construction procedures and techniques to assure timely modeling. She collaborates with the clients’ design team and in-house estimating on the use of models for 5D quantity takeoff and pricing. Ms. Hoffman leads clash detection and RFI resolution with project teams during preconstruction efforts. Additionally, she assists with creating marketing visualizations to convey logistics plans during business development efforts.

Previously, Melinda worked for a nationally ranked Architectural firm doing Revit Architecture support and training, animations, renderings, researching and developing new software, and presenting how building information modeling can assist owners and contractors.

Melinda specializes in Autodesk® Revit® Architecture and visualization. She is the in-house Revit Architecture trainer and has presented Revit and BIM concept to numerous clients and at conferences. Melinda has been a beta tester on numerous multi-user collaboration tools for sharing Revit work across offices and the globe. She has been incorporating Revit and BIM in the construction industry to produce better quality projects. She has been using 3D CAD products for the past twelve years.

Her specialties include: Autodesk Quantity Takeoff, Autodesk Navisworks Manage, Autodesk Navisworks Freedom, Autodesk Green Building Studio, Autodesk Ecotect Analysis, Autodesk Design Review, Autodesk 3ds Max, AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite, AutoCAD Revit MEP Suite, AutoCAD Revit Architecture Visualization Suite, AutoCAD Revit Architecture Suite, AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk Revit MEP, Autodesk Revit Structure, Autodesk Recap, Autodesk Infraworks and Autodesk Showcase.