"Architects can't work from home" claims a recent article from the UK Architect's journal.
"Companies don't have enough laptops; it's difficult to co-ordinate CAD drawings from home – if you even have CAD at home as the licenses are so expensive; you need to be able to print things and sketch ideas out collaboratively; even if work laptops are available, you won't be able to use Revit," said architects from the UK Architect's Journal.
This resulted in quite a heated debate on twitter. We believe that what the article meant to say is not that architects can't work from home; but rather, that they can't without the right set-up or WFH tools.
建築師如何才能遠端存取 Revit 或其它佔用大量 CPU /資源的軟體？
他們如何像在家中一樣在家中工作？
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But don’t just take our words for it. We have a story to back it up.
一家領先的建築師領導的公司如何在48小時內使1350名員工實行居家辦公
BDP, an international, interdisciplinary practice of architects, designers, engineers, and urbanists, got all employees working remotely in 48 hours with Splashtop Remote Access Solutions.
該公司面臨與上述挑戰類似的挑戰：
>員工會否擁有一台可以在家中連接的個人電腦，還是只擁有公司配發的筆記型電腦？
> BDP 如何保持一切穩定，包括使用 Revit 等軟體？
除了這些挑戰之外，新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 還帶來了緊迫感。
BDP had a staff base of approximately 1,350 in 16 locations around the world, who already had 650 laptop users, and who could all connect into the BDP network using Microsoft Direct Access, allowing day-to-day working from any location. However, while this system worked successfully for the majority of software architects used, it did not work for Revit. In addition to Revit, BDP had over 400 separate software titles that needed to be installed on each user's machine if they were to use them to work remotely.
"It would have been an impossible task to install all these natively as many did not work at all when off LANs," said Alistair Kell, Principal and head of information technology and processes at BDP. It would also have been quite costly to purchase so many additional licenses for 400 software titles.
那就是 Splashtop 登場的時候了。
Splashtop：一種可靠、安全、易於使用的遠端存取解決方案，不會中斷資金。
Splashtop Remote Access allowed 1,350 BDP architects to remotely access their work machines as if there were sitting in front of them. So there was no longer a need for natively installing any software on the laptops, and remote work could be enabled faster.
BDP 的內部 IT 團隊將 Splashtop Streamer 部署到了所有機器上，並且每個地點的員工機器ID相匹配，並支援註冊。
Splashtop，而一個中央管理小組則將用戶與他們的工作 PC 對齊。
整個過程耗時一個星期，一旦 BDP 宣布需要完全遠端化，就只需 48 小時即可使公司實現遠端化。
BDP is now using Splashtop Remote Access across all locations from Toronto through the UK, MENA, India, and China. You can read the full BDP story here.
現在，下一次您聽到有人問建築師是否可以在家工作時，您就會知道答案：有了 Splashtop 和正確的設定，他們可以做到。
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