Oversized Revit models, render queues and studios split across sites all burn design hours your practice has already paid for. GPU accelerated VDI built for architecture puts that time back, on one contracted, predictable platform: the same one Grimshaw, Hopkins Architects, Morris+Company and Rolfe Judd run their studios on.
designers Grimshaw migrated to Inevidesk virtual desktops across its UK and European studios, in days rather than weeks.
lower carbon impact per vdesk than an equivalent physical workstation, independently assessed in 2024.
the year Hopkins Architects became the first Inevidesk customer. Nearly 150 vdesks now run their BIM and rendering.
Revit models keep growing, point clouds and federated models crawl, and a workstation that was fine two years ago now stutters through orbits and syncs. Every pause is design time your practice has already paid for, on projects with fixed fees.
Enscape, Twinmotion, V-Ray and Lumion runs tie up workstations exactly when teams need them most. Visualisation queues push design reviews late and force overnight babysitting of renders before every submission.
Hybrid working has spread live models and client information across endpoints, VPNs and personal machines. Clients, insurers and frameworks now ask exactly where project data lives and who can reach it, and ISO 19650 expectations make endpoint sprawl a hard answer to defend.
Workstation refresh capex lands in lumps every three to four years, while project based headcount means machines sit idle between jobs or run short mid bid. Public cloud swings the other way, with usage metered bills finance cannot forecast.
Virtual desktops are GPU accelerated and tuned for graphics intensive architecture and BIM software, including:
Your BIM environment comes with you. Revit worksharing, BIM 360 and Autodesk Construction Cloud, Newforma and your file server workflows run exactly as they would on a physical workstation, against the same central models.
All product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Running something else? Tell us in the assessment. If it needs a GPU, it is in scope.
Danny Gillmore — Head of Information Technology, Grimshaw
Inevidesk
Each designer gets a high performance virtual workstation, accessible from the studio, site, a client’s office or home. Large Revit models and viewport heavy work run on dedicated GPU resource in the data centre, not on whatever machine is to hand.
Inevicloud
Servers, project data and applications run on private infrastructure operated from the UK by a UK incorporated company, under ISO 27001 certified processes. Your project information stays off endpoints and where you can account for it.
Migration
We start with an assessment of your current environment, run a scoped pilot with a real project team on your real models, then scale on the evidence. No rip and replace, no big bang cutover, no disruption to live projects.
The technical case and the financial case for this decision are different, and both have to stand up. Here is each, in its own language.
Track A
GPU resource specified for large Revit models, real time visualisation and rendering, not general purpose compute dressed up for design work.
Infrastructure that removes waiting, crashes and render contention is the cheapest capacity a practice can add, and it shows up on every deadline.
Data in the data centre is a smaller target than data on every laptop. Access is managed, logged and auditable, which is the answer security minded clients want to hear.
Designers, contractors and external collaborators work in the same controlled environment against the same central models, with access granted and revoked centrally rather than by shipping files.
The same GPU private cloud foundation carries rendering growth, computational design and AI workloads when your roadmap gets there.
Track B
Fixed, contracted per-desk pricing replaces three-to-four-year refresh spikes and the shadow spend on top-up machines between them.
Not refresh capex, and not the usage-metered cloud where 29% of spend is estimated to be wasted. A contracted number finance can hold against budget.
A scoped pilot limits commitment to one project team. Performance and pricing are contracted in writing before anything scales.
ISO 27001 certification, UK incorporation and documented architecture, ready for audits, PI insurers and supplier due diligence.
Developers, public sector frameworks and international clients increasingly ask where project data lives and who can reach it. Centralised, UK operated infrastructure gives you a defensible answer, and removes a growing obstacle to winning their work.
| What matters | Physical workstations | Hyperscaler public cloud | Inevitech |
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance on large models and rendering | Good until the model outgrows the box. Then another refresh cycle. | Capable, but GPU instance choice, tuning and latency are your problem. | GPU infrastructure specified and tuned for BIM, 3D and visualisation workloads as the core product. |
| Cost predictability | Lumpy capex every three to four years, plus shadow spend on top-up machines. | Usage-based billing. 85% of organisations name managing cloud spend their top challenge, and around 29% of cloud spend is wasted (Flexera, 2026). | Fixed, contracted pricing per desk and workload. Costed in the assessment, before you commit. |
| Where your project data lives | Scattered across machines, studios and laptops, wherever the last deadline left it. | In-region storage available, but on shared infrastructure governed by the provider’s terms. | On private infrastructure operated from the UK by a UK-incorporated company, under ISO 27001 certified processes. |
| Compliance and audit evidence | Endpoint sprawl. Hard to evidence, harder to audit. | Provider attestations cover their layers. Your configuration and usage remain your audit problem. | ISO 27001 certified operations, documented architecture, one accountable provider. |
| Who you deal with | Hardware vendors and your own IT team’s weekends. | Tickets, tiers and account managers. | The engineers who built and operate the platform. Direct. |
VDI for architecture is not a side project for us. The platform was built with and for architecture practices, and it runs production BIM, CAD and visualisation workloads for established UK studios today. Yours would run on the same platform, not a new one.
We are not reselling someone else’s cloud. The platform is ours, which is why performance and pricing can be committed in writing.
ISO 27001 certified, UK incorporated, UK operated. Your security and procurement teams get documentation, not promises.
A scoped pilot means exposure is one project team, not the whole practice. You expand when the numbers justify it.
Case studies
The platform grew up inside architecture. Grimshaw, Hopkins Architects, Morris+Company and Rolfe Judd all run their studios on it today.
Global architecture practice that moved around 220 designers across UK and European studios onto Inevidesk virtual desktops in days.
Award-winning architects in London and Copenhagen, cutting workstation carbon by 62% while collaborating in real time on live models.
The first Inevidesk customer in 2020. Nearly 150 vdesks now power BIM and rendering across their London and Dubai teams.
A technical conversation with the people who run the platform, not a sales pitch. You will leave with:
• A read on whether your BIM and visualisation workloads are a fit for GPU virtual desktops.
• A realistic view of pilot scope, timeline and what migration would involve alongside live projects.
• A costed picture for your practice, so finance can compare it against the next refresh budget.
30 minutes. No obligation. We respond within one working day.
On private infrastructure operated from the UK by a UK incorporated company, under ISO 27001 certified information security processes. The full architecture, including data centre locations and access controls, is documented and walked through in the assessment so your IT or security lead can evaluate it properly.
Both. GPU virtual desktops cover interactive design work in Revit, Rhino, Archicad and similar. Rendering in Enscape, Twinmotion, V-Ray and Lumion runs on dedicated GPU resource, so a long render no longer locks up a designer’s machine. The assessment maps your specific workload profile to the right configuration.
Yes. Revit worksharing, BIM 360 and Autodesk Construction Cloud, Newforma and your existing project folder structures run exactly as they would on a physical workstation, against the same central models, with the same workflows.
We start with a scoped pilot for one project team, running alongside your existing environment on your real models. Nothing is decommissioned until the pilot proves performance. Most designers are productive on a virtual desktop within their first session, because the software is identical. Only the hardware underneath has changed.
Fair question, and the right one to ask. We are ISO 27001 certified, UK incorporated, and we own and operate our infrastructure rather than reselling capacity. The platform was built with architecture practices and already runs production workloads for Grimshaw, Hopkins Architects, Morris+Company and Rolfe Judd. The pilot model exists precisely so you can verify all of this with limited exposure before committing.
It depends on the number of desks, the GPU profile your software demands, and your rendering requirements. Pricing is fixed and contracted, not usage metered. The assessment produces a costed proposal for your practice, so finance compares a real number against the workstation refresh budget rather than a generic rate card.
Contract terms, including exit and the return of your data, are agreed in writing before you commit. Your project data remains yours throughout. We expect to win renewals on performance, not on the cost of leaving.
ISO 27001 certification, an architecture overview, and security documentation under NDA. Enough to complete supplier due diligence and answer the security questionnaires your clients, insurers and frameworks send you.
The infrastructure is GPU based private cloud, which is the same foundation AI, machine learning and computational design workloads need. The assessment covers how the platform supports your roadmap, so you are not building on infrastructure you will outgrow.
