Zaha Hadid Architects, Grimshaw and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners are among 17 major UK-based architecture studios that have signed an open letter to software company Autodesk criticising the rising cost and lack of development of its Revit application.
Written to Autodesk's president and CEO Andrew Anagnost, the open letter describes the studios' dissatisfaction with Building Information Modelling (BIM) software Revit, which they believe is having an impact on the efficiency of their businesses.
"Where once Autodesk Revit was the industry enabler to smarter working, it increasingly finds itself a constraint and bottleneck," said the letter.
"Practices find that they are paying more but using Revit less because of its constraints." Studios concerned over Revit's "increasing cost" and "lack of development"
The letter was the result of a survey carried out among some of the UK's largest architecture studios, which have spent a combined $22 million (£17 million) on Autodesk products over the past five years.
"Concerns relate to the increasing cost of ownership and the operation of Autodesk's Revit software and fundamentally its lack of development," said the letter.
The full list of signatories is AHMM, Aukett Swanke, Corstorphine + Wright, Glenn Howells Architects, PRP, Scott Brownrigg, Simpson Haugh, TTSP, Zaha Hadid Architects, Allies and Morrison, BVN Architectural Services, Fletcher Priest Architects, Grimshaw, Rogers ...