The new standard for
design coordination
Spend less time coordinating. More time designing.
70%+ less resources for coordination. 3.6x faster.
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Companies trust Align
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Engineering hours saved
Less
Coordination effort
faster
Markup turnaround
BUILT FOR BOTH SIDES OF THE DRAWING
Engineers keep their margin. Architects keep their design.
One shared drawing, two different wins. Here is what Align changes for each side.
FOR ENGINEERS
Improve your margins and precision
Place systems on real spatial data from day one.
FOR ARCHITECTS
Protect your design intent
Coordinate early, so services fit the building you designed.
THE PROBLEM
Today’s coordination tools were built for PDF markups, not coordination.
- Design changes create hours of work.
- The software has no intelligence about the design.
- Coordination decisions become disconnected from the design.
Align is built specifically for design coordination.
SOLUTION
Align is built for design coordination. Not just PDF markups.
Align gives design teams purpose-built tools that reduce repetitive work, add intelligence to drawings and make coordination faster.
Built for Coordination
Work in 2D. Design in 3D.
The drawing is flat. The building isn’t. Neuron connects information across floors, revisions and the wider building — so you keep working in 2D and stop working drawing by drawing.
Purpose-built tools
Made for design coordination.
Automate the repetetive
Less rechecking. Less remarking.
Stay connected
Design changes. Coordination fllows.
0% Engineering
spatial assumptions
Keep the same workflows but remove the repetition.
3.6×
Faster than a typical design coordination process.
~70%
Less effort for design coordination.
13 weeks
Per year resources gain across 10 typical projects
WHO IT'S FOR
One coordination problem. Different reasons to care.
Align changes different parts of the job for different people. Choose the way in that matches yours.
More time for engineering.
Remove repetitive coordination and give technical people more time for checking, judgement and actual engineering.
More time for precision
Less repetition. More room for judgement and checking.
Design changes, information follows
Stop rebuilding coordination around every new drawing.
Create time to check
Speed where it should be. Precision where it has to be.
More engineering capacity. Same headcount.
Align removes a major source of repetitive engineering effort so your team can deliver more work without compromising technical quality.
13 working weeks back per year
Less repetition. More room for judgement and checking.
More of the fee for engineering
Fewer hours lost to redraw and rework. More left for technical work or margin.
Senior time where it counts
Review risk and decisions, not what changed.
Stop designing to engineering assumptions
Bring technical constraints into the design conversation earlier — while you still have the freedom to respond without undoing weeks of work.
Protect the design vision
Design & coordinate to engineering constraints .
Get engineering spatials early
Understand the engineering impact while you can still respond.
Less redesign
Coordinate directly with your engineers and save days of redesign.
Protect commercial viability from day 1
Reduce the assumptions sitting underneath decisions around planning, area, layouts, programme and cost.
Constraints resolved early
Protect area, layouts and the decisions underpinning the scheme.
Less consultant ping-pong
Shorten the path from technical problem to decision.
Risk found while it's cheap
The later an issue appears, the more cost and programme it disturbs.
Keep design coordination moving.
Less chasing. Less rebuilding context. Faster decisions across the design team.
Know what changed
No more reconstructing the project from emails and drawings.
Comments become owned actions
Clear who owns it and whether it’s closed.
Issues reach the right people
Less lag between problem and decision.
Resolve engineering uncertainty before it becomes a cost problem.
Bring greater technical clarity into the design while commercial decisions can still respond.
Earlier clarity
Engineering assumptions become decisions sooner.
More cost certainty
Fewer unresolved technical assumptions in the cost plan.
Less late change
Understand major implications before they reopen the design.
Start construction with a better coordinated design.
Solve more of the coordination problem before it becomes a site problem.
Clearer information
Fewer ambiguities handed into construction.
Fewer surprises
Less discovered for the first time on site.
Less downstream rework
Reduce the cost of unresolved design decisions.
Engineering input that changed the numbers
Trusted by engineers across the globe.
Hear from the firms that bring Align into their cooridnation workflow.
We have been working closely with Neuron on a number of recent projects and have found the benefits of instant accurate engineering advice for us and our clients to be significant.
The platform has helped improve workflow efficiency and reduced project turnaround times across multiple engineering tasks.
The automation and engineering intelligence built into the system has made decision-making significantly faster and more reliable.
We’ve seen measurable improvements in delivery speed, project coordination, and overall client confidence since implementation.
A noticeable difference to how we manage the concept design phase of our large projects. It's a smooth process that saves us time and makes project delivery easier.
We were thoroughly impressed with the results. I highly recommend Align for any construction project, big or small.
We have found the benefits of instant accurate engineering advice for us and our clients to be significant.
The platform has helped improve workflow efficiency and reduced project turnaround times across multiple engineering tasks.
FAQs
Common questions.
What is Align?
Align is a design coordination platform for architects, engineers and design teams. It helps teams coordinate building design in a connected environment instead of repeatedly marking up and reissuing disconnected drawings.
What is design coordination software?
Design coordination software helps architects, engineers and other consultants resolve spatial and technical issues as a building design develops. Align is built specifically to make that process faster, clearer and more connected.
What is the best software for design coordination?
The right design coordination software should help teams work faster, understand changes across the building and reduce repetitive coordination work. Align is purpose-built around those workflows rather than treating coordination as a series of independent PDF markups.
How is Align different from Bluebeam?
Bluebeam is widely used for PDF markup and construction workflows. Align is built specifically for design coordination, helping architects and engineers work with connected design information as the design evolves.
Is Align an alternative to Bluebeam for design coordination?
Yes. Teams that currently use Bluebeam heavily for design coordination can use Align for the coordination process while continuing to use other tools where they make sense for documentation and construction.
Who is Align designed for?
Align is designed primarily for architects, engineers and design teams. It can also help engineering leaders, developers, design managers and other project stakeholders who depend on better coordinated design.
Can Align reduce design coordination time?
Yes. Align is designed to remove repetitive coordination tasks such as recreating markups, repeating information across drawings and reworking coordination every time the design changes.
How does Align reduce design rework?
Align keeps design information connected so teams can respond to changes without rebuilding the coordination process from scratch every time a drawing changes.
Can Align coordinate design across multiple floors?
Yes. Align helps teams understand how engineering systems, shafts, risers, plant and other elements relate across levels rather than treating every floor plan as an isolated drawing.
Can I work in 2D and still understand the building in 3D?
Yes. Align is built around the idea of working in 2D while designing in 3D, so teams can retain the speed of drawing-based workflows while understanding spatial relationships across the building.
Do I need to be a BIM expert to use Align?
No. Align is designed to make connected spatial coordination accessible without requiring every user to work through a full BIM modelling workflow.
How does Align help teams respond to design changes?
When the architecture changes, Align helps teams understand what needs to be reviewed and coordinated rather than manually recreating the same information across multiple drawings.
Can multiple users work on the same file?
Yes. Align is a live collaborative environment allowing the entire design team to markup, comment, create issues, upload plans and drastically reduce the volume of emails and meetings, and time required to coordinate.
How much is Align?
Align is a licensed software and full pricing is available upon request.
How does Align help engineers?
Align reduces repetitive coordination work so engineers can spend less time marking up drawings and more time engineering, checking and making design decisions.
How can engineers coordinate drawings faster?
Align reduces drawing-by-drawing repetition by keeping coordination information connected across the design. This makes it easier to update, review and coordinate information as the project changes.
Can Align reduce the time engineers spend marking up PDFs?
Yes. Align is designed to reduce repetitive markup, block recreation and coordination work that is often repeated every time architectural drawings change.
How does Align help engineers when the architect changes the design?
Instead of recreating the same coordination work from the beginning, engineers can update and review connected design information as the architecture evolves.
Can Align help engineers improve accuracy?
By reducing repetitive production work, Align gives engineers more time for checking, technical judgement and design review
Can engineers keep control of their engineering information in Align?
Yes. Align is designed so engineering information remains controlled and changes can be visible and tracked, helping teams collaborate without losing responsibility for their work.
Does Align help reduce missed coordination items?
Align provides a more connected view of design information, helping teams identify changes and coordination issues that can be missed when information is spread across multiple PDFs and revisions.
Can Align help engineers coordinate during design meetings?
Yes. Align supports a more live coordination process, allowing architects and engineers to review changes and resolve issues together rather than waiting for another round of drawings.
How does Align improve architect-engineer coordination?
Align gives architects and engineers a shared way to coordinate design changes earlier, reducing delayed responses and repeated drawing exchanges.
Can I start a project part way?
Yes. You can import and export files directly back to layered PDFs for bluebeam or other tools with corresponding schedules.
How does Align help engineering consultancies improve productivity?
Align reduces repetitive coordination work, helping engineering teams spend a greater proportion of their time on technical work rather than drawing production and markup.
Can Align help engineering teams deliver more work without increasing headcount?
By reducing repetitive coordination and rework, Align can help increase the capacity of existing engineering teams.
How can Align help improve engineering project margins?
Less time spent recreating markups and reworking coordination can improve utilisation and reduce time lost to repetitive, non-technical work.
Can Align reduce engineering write-offs and rework?
Align is designed to reduce the repeated coordination effort created by design changes, helping teams spend less time redoing work that has already been completed.
How can Align improve engineering team utilisation?
By automating or reducing repetitive coordination tasks, engineers can spend more of their available time on engineering, review and project delivery.
Can Align help junior engineers work more efficiently?
Yes. Junior and project engineers often spend significant time on repetitive coordination tasks. Align reduces that manual workload so they can focus more on technical work.
How does Align support engineering quality?
The aim is not simply to make teams faster. By reducing repetitive production work, Align gives engineers more time for checking, technical judgement and considered design.
How does Align help architects?
Align helps architects bring engineering into the design process earlier, so spatial and technical constraints can be understood while the design is still developing.
How can architects coordinate engineering earlier in the design process?
Align allows architects and engineers to review design information together earlier, reducing the risk of engineering constraints appearing after major design decisions have already been made.
How does Align help architects protect design intent?
By making engineering requirements visible earlier, architects can design around constraints rather than discovering them after the design has progressed.
Can Align reduce late engineering changes?
Align helps teams surface spatial and engineering constraints earlier, giving architects more opportunity to resolve them before they become major redesign issues.
How can architects avoid redesign caused by engineering?
Earlier coordination gives architects greater visibility of engineering requirements while the design is still flexible, reducing the likelihood of major late-stage changes.
Can Align help architects get faster feedback from engineers?
Yes. Align supports a more immediate coordination workflow so questions can be reviewed and resolved without relying entirely on repeated PDF exchanges and long response cycles.
How does Align help architects understand engineering in 3D?
Align connects information across floors and levels, helping architects understand how elements such as risers, shafts and plant affect the building spatially while still working from familiar 2D plans.
Can architects use Align without becoming BIM modellers?
Yes. Align is intended to keep the speed and simplicity of plan-based design while giving architects greater visibility of spatial relationships across the building.
How does Align improve collaboration between architects and engineers?
Instead of engineering arriving after the architecture has already developed, Align helps architects and engineers coordinate together as the design evolves.
Can Align help architects spend less time waiting for engineering responses?
Yes. Align is designed to shorten the coordination cycle so design teams can review and resolve engineering questions earlier and more quickly.
How does Align help developers?
Align helps design teams resolve issues earlier, reducing redesign, shortening coordination cycles and improving visibility before changes become expensive.
Can better design coordination protect development value?
Earlier coordination can help reduce avoidable redesign, programme delays and spatial decisions that affect usable or sellable area.
Can Align help reduce project delays?
Align helps teams shorten coordination cycles by resolving design issues earlier and reducing repeated exchanges of drawings and markups.
How can Align reduce design risk?
Align helps surface coordination issues while the design is still developing, when they are generally easier and less expensive to resolve.
How does Align help design managers?
Align gives design managers greater visibility of what has changed, what needs resolving and where coordination is holding up the design process.
Can Align reduce the number of coordination meetings?
By making design information and changes easier to review, Align can help teams resolve more issues directly and reduce unnecessary coordination cycles.
How does Align improve visibility across the design team?
Align provides a shared coordination environment so project teams can better understand changes, responsibilities and unresolved design issues.