Important steps taken towards the world-wide building industry

Innovative technology

Concad, founded in 1989, is a well known leader in the area of technical data systems integration area, with a highly focus to the building industry. The company developed the version 1.0 Toolbox for the IAI standards and is also a contributor to various application protocol in the ISO 10303 standards. Other business is performed in data exchange, primarily in the central European region.

- EPM Technology provides a complimentary technology to the IAI Toolbox that is needed to support the next generation of IAI implementation, and to integrate applications in a STEP database environment. Says Bernd Ingenbleek, President and founder of Concad GmbH.

- We are very pleased that EPMT and Concad can co-operate in the area of developing commercial tools for implementation of our most important industry standards. Feedback from real-life implementations is the only way to make better and industry-accepted standards, says Richard Junge ISO/TC184/SC4 /WG3 convenor and responsible for data modeling in IAI.

A breakthrough

- The working relations between our two companies represent a significant breakthrough for the building industry, says Kjell A. Bengtsson, senior vice-president of EPMT. - And it will give positive repercussions. Concad's domain expertise in the building sector may be utilised in other related industry markets to provide the best and most cost-effective Express based solutions.

IAI standard programmers will be allowed to use the upgraded version 2.0 standard with the familiar function call of Concad's library, a new viewer, the instance browser and the Standard Data Access Interface (SDAI) - ISO 10303-22 for sharing of object data. Optionally, the complete product range from EPM Technology can be plugged in to provide functionality for data modelling (Express-G), generic SDAI/EDMinterface, Express object database and other functions from the EXPRESS Data Manager will be offered.

Covering the life cycle in the building industry

IAI's mission is to integrate the AEC/FM industry. This is done by specifying Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) as a universal language to improve the communication, productivity, delivery time, cost and quality throughout the design, construction, operation and maintenance life cycle of buildings.