revit 2016 to 2017

[Anonymous]

Our project for a commercial office tower has been designed by all disciplines using Revit 2016.

A new tenant has come in and model and then issued their fitout drawings in Revit 2017 which is not backward compatible.

My question is, is it easier for our Base Building team to upgrade to 2017 Revit programme rather than the fitout team (architectural and services) to re draw their drawings?

If so, given that we are 6 months into construction and our subbies have been producing their shop drawings in 2016 Revit, what implications may there be for them?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Natalie

[ToanDN]

Don't you have a contract agreement with everybody on what version should be used?  Do you know if everyone have 2017?  Have you heard of the text issue in 2017?

If the new tenant created the incompatible version against the contract then make them fix it instead of make everyone fix theirs.

[Anonymous]

Hmm, I echo all of Toans comments and will add my own:

Fitout people: "just update your 2016 model to 2017"

Me: "over my dead body".

Whatever the decision, someone is about to learn a valuable lesson.