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BIM practitioners vote ARCHICAD ‘BIM Product of the Year’ Ninth Year in a Row
BUDAPEST, November 21, 2019 – GRAPHISOFT, the leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) software developer for architects, has announced that ARCHICAD 23 has won the prestigious BIM Product of the Year award at the 14th annual Construction Computing Magazine Awards in the United Kingdom. This is the ninth year in a row that ARCHICAD has been honored with the top BIM product award. GRAPHISOFT also won Mobile Technology of the Year for BIMx, its award-winning presentation app.
The latest version of ARCHICAD delivers unprecedented software responsiveness, advanced modeling capabilities for prefabricated structures, and best-in-class multidisciplinary workflows. In particular, ARCHICAD 23 significantly improves the speed of the most essential daily processes such as software startup, file opening, working in multi-project environments and navigating between different views of the BIM project; the brand-new Opening, Column and Beam tools increase modeling accuracy and interoperability with engineering disciplines.
Affectionately known as ‘The Hammers,’ the Construction Computing Awards are nominated and voted for by industry-wide professionals and real users to recognize innovative solutions that are actively deployed and in use today. As one of the few awards covering the use of IT in design and construction, the awards are known for reflecting actual users’ experiences with products for delivering projects
Voters appreciated that ARCHICAD 23 delivers unprecedented software responsiveness, advanced modeling capabilities for prefabricated structures, and best-in-class multidisciplinary workflows. Most notably, ARCHICAD 23 significantly improves the speed of the most essential daily processes such as software startup, file opening, working in multi-project environments and navigating between different views of the BIM project; the brand-new Opening, Column and Beam tools increase modeling accuracy and interoperability with engineering disciplines.
Award-winning BIMx features the Hyper-model, a unique technology for integrated 2D and 3D building project navigation. BIMx helps bridge the gap between the design studio and the construction site.
“We are always proud to be recognized by our users,” said Akos Pfemeter, GRAPHISOFT’s Vice President, Marketing. “Our success in these 100% customer-voted awards underscore the value our users attach to both ARCHICAD and BIMx.”
“Doing so well in these awards for nine consecutive years means so much to us. Knowing our users value the work we put into developing ARCHICAD and BIMx makes these awards very special,” said Adrian Girling, Managing Director, GRAPHISOFT UK.
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About GRAPHISOFT
GRAPHISOFT® ignited the BIM revolution in 1984 with ARCHICAD®, the industry-first BIM software for architecture. GRAPHISOFT continues to lead the industry with innovative solutions such as its revolutionary BIMcloud®, the world’s first real-time BIM collaboration environment; and BIMx®, the world’s leading mobile app for lightweight access to BIM for non-professionals. GRAPHISOFT is part of the Nemetschek Group. www.graphisoft.com
About ARCHICAD
GRAPHISOFT ARCHICAD is the architects’ BIM software of choice. Natively available for both Windows® and Macintosh®, ARCHICAD offers a complete end-to-end design and documentation workflow for architectural and design practices of any size. According to user and analyst reviews ARCHICAD is the easiest to learn and most fun to use, while providing best-in-class capabilities. ARCHICAD’s unique multithreaded software architecture offers unrivaled performance for projects of any size.
About BIMx
GRAPHISOFT BIMx is the most popular BIM presentation and coordination app on both the iPad and iPhone, and on Android phones and tablets. BIMx features the 'BIM Hyper-model' – a unique concept that helps non-professionals easily explore the BIM project by superimposing 2D plans on 3D model views. Real-time model cut-throughs, in-context measuring and project markups in the model context make BIMx your best on-site BIM companion.
