BIMobject® maintains impressive growth with launch of UK operation

Less than 18 months after initial launch BIMobject® AB, from Sweden, today announced the formation of a subsidiary – BIMobject UK Ltd – to address the needs of the UK construction market.   

Through its cloud based portal BIMobject provides the development, maintenance and syndication of digital replicas – as BIM objects – of manufactured building and interior products. These objects are available from the BIMobject portal, at no charge, to architects, designers and specifiers and are available in native format for a number of the model authoring tools including ArchiCAD®, Revit®, SketchUp and also AutoCAD®. Other formats are also available.

A recent winner of a Red Herring Top 100 Award, which recognises Europe’s most promising start-up companies for their innovations and technologies, BIMobject has quickly become the leading source worldwide for BIM objects. With a reputation for technical innovation and quality of delivery BIMobject has been assessing the UK market for some time and, encouraged by the Government’s support of BIM adoption, it believes the conditions are now right for market entry.  

“This is a really exciting and challenging time for the UK construction industry and we are delighted to be able to contribute our knowledge and services to supporting the industry transition” says BIMobject co-founder and CEO, Stefan Larsson. “We have been tracking UK needs and we will work with product manufacturers to ensure objects on the BIMobject portal include local requirements such as Uniclass classification and COBie compliant information. So not only will the architect be able to use real world objects in their designs, and increase design accuracy, but the objects will also carry information which will benefit both the construction and operation of the building. This offers a real win-win to manufacturers, designers, constructors, operators and clients.”

BIMobject UK is based in Newbury and the office can be contacted at 0844 854 9214 or through http://info.bimobject.com . An announcement will be made shortly on personnel.