May 29 - Tekla Among 9 IAI-Certified Vendors for IFC 2x3 2nd Step

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Tekla Among 9 IAI-Certified Vendors for IFC 2x3 2nd Step

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ESPOO, Finland, May 29, 2007 - Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) standardization proceeds further. International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) has certified nine software vendors that support the 2nd step of the IFC 2x3 standard. Three additional software systems have passed the 1st step certification. The IAI International Council is responsible for developing the open IFC format that enables communication between different construction software, communication within structural design, and communication with the software of other building and construction disciplines.

The certification meeting that was held in Espoo, Finland, 21-23 May 2007, continued testing the software to support the IFC 2x3 format for Coordination Views.

The following software systems, which have demonstrated continuous improvements in the IFC implementation and resolved issues from the last certification meeting held in the USA in March, were confirmed the 2nd step IFC 2x3 certification.

Active3D (Archimem Group).
AutoCAD Architecture & Revit Architecture (Autodesk).
Bentley Architecture (Bentley).
DDS-CAD Building Services (DDS).
MagiCAD building service engineering (Progman).
Nemetschek Allplan & Graphisoft ArchiCAD (Nemetschek Group).
Solibri Model Checker (Solibri).
Tekla Structures (Tekla).

The following software systems passed for the 1st step IFC 2x3 certification: SCIA.ESA PT (structural analysis), CADview3D (streaming viewer for Oracle database solutions) developed by Norconsult, Facility Online (FM solution) from VIZELIA, and VectorWorks (CAD for architects) from Nemetschek Group.

IFC certification is based on a facilitated self certification process, and the participating companies are committed to improving their software further. The recent meeting agreed on how to develop the IFC-based workflow in the construction industry. An IFC-based workflow starts from the architectural design and continues to structural modeling and analysis as well as to building service design. From the analysis, the building information returns back into structural modeling and needs to be coordinated among all disciplines. IFC certification advances building information modeling (BIM) by enhancing the standardization of information flow between the software systems used in the industry.

The meeting participants represented software vendors and organizations from several countries: Autodesk (US), AEC3 (Germany), Bentley (US), Vizelia (US), Archimen Group (France), Robobat (France), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (Germany), Nemetschek (Germany & US), RIB Software (Germany), SCIA (Belgium), TNO (The Netherlands), Graphisoft (Hungary), DDS (Norway), Norconsult (Norway), Kymdata (Finland), Progman (Finland), Solibri (Finland), and Tekla (Finland).

International Alliance for Interoperability

The International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) is a global alliance of organizations dedicated to bringing about a coordinated change for the improvement of productivity and efficiency in the industries of construction and facilities management. The organizations within the alliance are members of regional chapters. Currently, the IAI has chapters serving Australasia, the Benelux countries, China, the French-speaking countries, the German-speaking countries, the Iberian countries, Italy, Japan, Korea, North America, the Nordic countries, Singapore, and the UK. There are 447 organizations participating in the IAI. More information at www.iai-international.org.

About IFC

The IAI issued the first, full release of its Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) information model in January 1997. Several further releases have been issued since. IFCs have been endorsed by the International Standards Organization (ISO) as a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) under the label ISO/PAS 16739. Issued in October 2006, the IFC 2x3 marked a major change in the way that IFCs are developed and released. It has created a framework for the development of models that can progressively extend the range and capability of IFCs in a modular way. More information at http://www.iai-international.org/Model/IFC(ifcXML)Specs.html.

About Tekla Corporation

Tekla is a leading international software company whose innovative software solutions make customers' core businesses more effective in building and construction, energy distribution and municipalities. The company's model-based software products and related services are used in more than 80 countries. Tekla Group's net sales for 2006 amounted to nearly 50 million euros. At the moment, international operations account for 75% of net sales. Tekla has area offices in 12 countries: headquarters in Espoo, Finland, and offices in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the UK, France, the US, Japan, Malaysia, China, India and the UAE. In addition, Tekla has a worldwide partner network. Tekla was established in 1966 and is one of the oldest software companies in Finland. More information at www.tekla.com.

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