The latest advances in AEC – Architecture, Engineering and Construction services have reached the point where the professional users can handle multiple buildings or sites models and run various analyses on 3D maps terrains directly from the browser! Over more, novel AI assistants are designed to streamline workflows and simplify collaboration. Our SOFTECH software development team from Romania, is proud to be part of this story from the beginning of CAD solutions, systems and BIM modeling solutions.
The challenges of the BIM software field are one of the most complex. The mix of real-time rendering for 3D graphics visualization, huge structured models based on engineering data, distributed systems that facilitate collaboration among teams, scalability powered by cloud computing, precision geometry based on CAD mathematics and complex professional workflows needing fine UX strategies puts pressure on the development teams and require multidisciplinary approaches.
In the following case study, we will present a glimpse of our work for one of the industry’s technology pioneers and business leaders.
About The Client Organization
Our long-term customer is an innovator and industry leader in AEC – Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry. Among the elements that stand about customer is that the company is the developer of the industry’s first BIM Software for architects and professionals, provider of the world’s first real-time BIM collaboration environment and the world’s first fully integrated building energy modeling application!
About The Industry
AEC – Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry ramifies in multiple branches. Among these BIM – Building Information Modelling software industry has known a particular evolution, thanks to a restrained number of pioneering teams. BIM software providers aim to support professionals to do building digital designs, to create simulations, to coordinate engineering systems, to manage large data volumes for their projects, smoothly manage team collaborations and to maintain digital building records and files.
The focal point of BIM industry is that to solve complex problems among execution teams and engineering teams by providing, preferrably, a single 3D building model, that can be used by all stakeholders.
Even if the specialization is high, we can also say that competition is high among historical providers and new entrants due to the high level of precision, massive data volumes and cost of managing the real-world projects. Currently the main aspects on which research and progress in being made refer mainly to design workflows, collaborative platforms, cloud BIMs, digital twins and sustainable modeling.
Project Summary
The project represents a next generation BIM Modeling platform for the web, making early stage design phase available for architects.
The solution has a thick client with C++-based webassembly codes running in the browser so the user can model and run analyses on many buildings and sites on a 3D map containing terrain data and adjacent buildings without network latency.
The backend hoists a micro-service based solution that lets multiple users work in parallel on the same project model across different GCP regions.
Project Features:
- Creating a web-based BIM Modeling Software
- Smooth collaboration between multiple users on the same project
- Focused on Early Stage Design Modeling
The Core Innovation
Bringing high-performance BIM modeling into the browser using WebAssembly and cloud-native architecture while enabling real-time multi-user collaboration at scale.
Our main contributions:
- Creating the development and cloud infrastructure from the ground up, improving it and maintain it over time as needs arise
- Building Frontend React based UI
- Building Backend Microservices
- Building Github based CI/CD pipeline
- Leverage GCP possibilities and deploy solution to Google Cloud Platform
Technologies: Nextjs + React, C++/WebAssembly, Nodejs, MongoDB, Docker, Github, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform
Our Experience in the Industry
SOFTECH Engineering is proud to count almost three decades in designing software for the AEC – Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry. This historical presence is based on the successful strategic partnership with one of the world’s leading providers of software for architects, interiors designer and building planners. Being present at the dawn of BIM software solutions give us a unique understanding of the systems and market evolution.
At the beginning of the millennium, we have also initiated our long-term collaboration with the pioneer technology company that launched the integrated construction management suite combining CAD/BIM models with cost and schedule data. The journey of allowing professionals to merge BIM models from multiple platforms and facilitate location-based scheduling and cost planning was one on which we were glad to participate.
Contact Our Software Engineering Team
If you are in search of a software development team able to modernize your existing software, to integrate AI technologies across your workflows, to scale your current solution or to develop a new software solution, we invite you to fill in the contact form or send us an e-mail directly to contact@softech.ro