61% admettent que les outils numériques seront fondamentaux dans leur travail après la pandémie. La crise a bousculé les traditionnels canaux de commercialisation.
Depuis l’avènement de la pandémie, le monde a connu une avancée spectaculaire dans l’adoption de la numérisation jamais vue auparavant. Du jour au lendemain, des entreprises du monde entier ont été contraintes de mettre en place le télétravail, la vidéoconférence ou le commerce électronique afin de maintenir leurs activités.
En ce sens, le secteur de la construction, l’un des plus traditionnels en termes de numérisation et d’adoption de nouveaux outils, n’a pas fait exception. Selon une étude réalisée par la plateforme de contenu BIM, BIMobject a recueilli les réponses de plus de 2 500 professionnels du secteur AECO (Architectes, Ingénieurs, Entreprises et Maîtres d’ouvrage), plus de la moitié d’entre eux déclarent que leur travail est devenu « beaucoup plus numérique » depuis le début de la pandémie.
Cette avancée dans l’utilisation des outils numériques par les professionnels du secteur, tels que les architectes et les ingénieurs, correspond aux chiffres enregistrés par Autodesk. Selon les propres données de l’entreprise, le nombre d’abonnés en Europe a augmenté de 350 % dans le monde depuis le début de la pandémie.
L’un des coups les plus durs que le secteur ait connu cette année a été l’annulation de multiples salons de la construction dans le monde entier. De Coverings à la Nouvelle-Orléans, le Salon du Mobilier à Milan, BAU à Munich, BIMexpo à Madrid, au MIPIM à Cannes, ou encore Equip’Hotel à Paris. L’impossibilité d’organiser de grands événements, en raison des mesures de sécurité strictes mises en place par les différentes autorités sanitaires, a coupé court aux projets de milliers de fabricants de matériaux de construction qui prévoyaient de présenter et de promouvoir leurs nouveaux produits lors de ces salons.
Les salons et les événements vont-ils revenir à la normale ? Les nouvelles récentes concernant le développement de nouveaux vaccins semblent éclairer un scénario qui s’annonçait plutôt sombre. De nombreux salons, comme la prochaine édition du BAU en 2021, transforment déjà leurs éditions en événements hybrides afin d’accueillir tous les participants, en personne ou virtuellement, tout en respectant les mesures de sécurité correspondantes.
Cependant, selon l’enquête menée par BIMobject, seuls 7% des professionnels du secteur AECO seraient prêts à participer à un événement du secteur aujourd’hui. Selon les données recueillies, 45 % des personnes interrogées participaient à ces événements principalement pour assister à des conférences et des ateliers. Seuls 25 % des professionnels du secteur ont assisté à ces événements pour découvrir de nouveaux produits, ce qu’ils font maintenant principalement par le biais des moteurs de recherche en ligne.
La numérisation fait son chemin dans le secteur de la construction, non seulement à cause de la COVID, mais aussi en raison de la nécessité de créer des processus plus efficaces et durables. Avec ces données, il appartient maintenant aux entreprises du secteur de décider comment réorienter leurs stratégies de marketing vers un environnement plus numérique et interactif.
A propos de BIMobject / www.bimobject.com/fr
BIMobject et Polantis (la plateforme Polantis a rejoint le groupe BIMobject en avril 2019) offrent deux plateformes publiant les produits numériques de plus de 1 900 fabricants de la construction, de l’aménagement et du design. Les portails comptent plus de 2 millions d’utilisateurs enregistrés et offre une gamme de solutions pour les fabricants, les propriétaires, les architectes, les concepteurs et les entreprises de construction.
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OnLevel is a specialist in innovative and design glass railings. OnLevel products allow quick and easy installation and provide added value. The products offer support not only along the steps and stairs, but also ensure the safety of balconies and galleries. OnLevel says that thanks to their products the user has a better view.
Before our interview, Niels Wildschut, Sales Manager France claimed that : « specifiers can customize their design and combine all elements to their liking: select components within a system or combine products from our different lines. Not only are our products completely flexible, but they are also strictly controlled by the main international supervisory authorities and have quality markings and certificates required in different countries, such as the CE marking of stainless steel, aluminum, made of die-cast zinc and glass products. In France, our products are tested and validated by the CSTB. »
Why have you started a BIM approach ?
Our BIM approach is very important to us, because it will allow us to communicate directly with the specifiers as soon as they download our files. In our opinion, BIM will grow more and more, because it enables to:
Why have you started this BIM approach with Polantis ?
In my opinion, Polantis is the platform most used by specifiers in France. Polantis offers many opportunities to inform users about each product: product details, data sheets, installation sheets, CCTP texts, images of achievements, commercial / installer contacts … and all this by using a common platform. Polantis meets the needs of specifiers in their research for the best products on the internet.
Why have you modeled those products or that product range?
Most of our railing systems that are under Technical Notice are now online. To complete our range on the Polantis platform, our design office deals with finishing BIM / CAD objects for 3 other models. At the beginning of 2020, we hope to add a new line » Skyforce ». It is a system of glass railing that arises in front of the windows (balcony). It is our goal to innovate as much as possible.
What are the particularities of the products that are online?
The products on the Polantis platform are glass railing systems. Since 2008, we are active in this business. As we only make glass railings, it is easy to say that we are true specialists! Presenting all our systems on the Polantis platform, allows us to assert our passion and so highlight our passion.
What kind of message are you willing to convey to the users of the platform who download your products?
Do not hesitate to contact OnLevel if you need help: you will be accompanied in your approach and your projects. It is quite possible that we have the solution (which would not necessarily appear on Polantis). Moreover, as we are designers we can create tailor-made solutions and support specific projects.
Check out OnLevel’s BIM objects on Polantis.com here.
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For more than 35 years, Kopal is market leader in Belgium for metallic fences. Besides garden fences, we also have a very wide range of swing gates and sliding gates. Each model is available in different versions with multiple options (manual, automated, filling,…). Kopal not only offers traditional gates but also modern swing and sliding gates that can be integrated perfectly into their environment.
Polantis has interviewed Johan Gheldof, Marketing Manager & IT Manager at Kopal:
Why have you started a BIM approach?
Our BIM approach is essential, it will allow us to directly reach each specifier who downloads our files.
Why having started this approach with Polantis? Polantis seems to me to be the most relevant platform. Polantis offers a multitude of information around each product: BIM and CAD files, technical sheets, CCTP text, installation sheets, photos, installer contacts, direct sales contacts, … and all without interface via an email that we do not control. Polantis meets the demand of ALL specifiers, BIM and CAD …
Why have you modeled those products or that product range? We’ve just started our BIM approach: our choices have been made according to the products, that are very present in our markets. Furthermore, we took into account what already existed or not on the platform, in order to innovate the available objects as much as possible.
What are the particularities of the products that are online? The products online are the bar fencing , which are a range of specific products at Kopal with many peculiarities especially in the jungle range – as in the picture below – they are unique designs in Europe.
What kind of message are you willing to convey to the users of the platform who download your products?
That they shouldn’t hesitate to contact Kopal to help and accompany them in their approaches and projects, we might have the solution without it being present on Polantis.
Check out Kopal’s BIM objects on Polantis.com here.
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We at Polantis are excited to inform you that we are now part of the BIMobject family. To read more about the acquisition of Polantis, please click here.
What does this mean for you?
You now have a great opportunity to access two fantastic platforms! To do so, you simply have to choose to extend your user account you will be able to access both Polantis.com and BIMobject.com from a single sign on point.
What is the benefit?
To start with, you will get immediate and direct access to a huge selection of BIM content: 1,550 brands, 74,000 products families, 385,100 parametric objects and much more.
How does it work?
Once you visit Polantis.com simply click YES and follow the steps to get additional access to the world’s leading BIM content platform: BIMobject.com.
Further information-Updated Privacy Policy
For more details about what this means for you as well as links to our updated Privacy Policy and Terms of Use please click here.
Questions?
If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at contact@polantis.com and we will respond to your query as soon as possible.
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Siegenia develops solutions that bring spaces to life. With an innovative and wide-ranging product portfolio for modern window systems, door systems and comfort systems.
The prospect of new room comfort is the theme of the future. We need the past to be able to design both sensibly and responsibly. Because tradition is the ideal basis for sustainable innovation. Even if we didn’t call it « room comfort » before, we have been working on this for over 100 years. For this reason, we also offer our solutions in the field of ventilation technology as BIM files here on Polantis.
Polantis has interviewed Stephan STOLL, Sales Manager AERO / e-commerce at Siegenia:
What were your motivations to start a BIM approach?
We want to make room comfort dimensions plannable and BIM allows us to identify and provide these functionalities very early in the planning phase. The factors influencing the functionality of elements are much more diverse than just filling the hole in the masonry.
Why having started this approach with Polantis?
We believe that with Polantis we have found a strong partner in our new target markets, namely France, Benelux and Austria. Of course the German and Swiss market with which we maintained a business relationship for years, are also of interest to us. Moreover, we are already a partner of BIMobject since the beginning.
Why have you modeled those products or that product range?
The topic of ventilation technology is not known to all prescribers / architects, but it is a product with strong growth. At a very early stage of construction planning, it is very difficult for responsible authorities to implement the concept of building use because they often do not know the wide range of possibilities. For this reason, we describe these options based on our room comfort dimensions using our BIM models and give our partners the opportunity to also use them for their BIM strategies. In addition, with these models, we want to give customers, prescribers and architects an easy introduction / presentation of our complex product range.
What are the particularities of the products that are online?
Our products are decentralized ventilation units that offer everything from simple and economical solutions based on the difference in pure pressure to the ventilation units with sensors and heat recovery. We have perhaps the widest spectrum in the decentralized field and a decade of experience in development and production.
What kind of message are you willing to convey to the users of the platform who download your products?
Siegenia is a very strong partner in the field of ventilation technology, which offers not only experience and expertise, but above all meets the needs of architects and specifiers. We support Polantis users not only with BIM models, but also with active support in planning and implementation. Now in France, Benelux and Austria (as well as in Germany and Switzerland for decades) also on the spot.
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Lahet is a french manufacturer of isothermal doors for cold rooms (negative and positive swing and slide doors, semi-insulated doors) on every type of assembly, coating and finishing (aluminium or stainless steel).
Door specialist since 1971, Lahet has built an image of quality, respect for its commitments and responsiveness. All its products have been designed and manufactured in the Lyon region.
Polantis has interviewed Paul-Henri BRANCAZ, Production Manager at Lahet.
What were your motivations to start a BIM approach?
We decided to implement a BIM approach for the wholeness of our products for many reasons:
– LAHET has always bet on the new technologies for the digital modeling of its products. This approach is necessary to support our customers, saving time and reliability at each stage of the project.
– The BIM approach also makes it possible to integrate our products from the initial conception of the project. Thus, the implementation of our products by the design offices enables to have a simulation of the building close to its final rendering.
– The BIM approach enables us to let us be known by another angle. We are accessible by a larger number of architects and design offices.
Why having started this approach with Polantis?
We started this process with Polantis because the team allowed us to progress on a new technology that we knew little. The trust of big brands placed in Polantis prompted us to work in collaboration with them. Their network of prospects is also a strength, each downloaded product can be a vector of business or provider of new contacts.
Why have you modeled those products or that product range?
We decided to put all our available products online for users to have each product they need at disposal.
What are the particularities of the products that are online?
The products online correspond to the entire Aluminium range and the Stainless Steel range. There will be a product suitable for any environment (insulation, aggression, color …)
What kind of message are you willing to convey to the users of the platform who download your products? If LAHET has invested in a BIM approach, it is to meet a strong expectation of our customers and prospects. BIM modeling of industrial buildings is more and more frequent, LAHET had to accompany this evolution as it has always done with each technological advance. Our products are now recognized on the French market, it is necessary to be in phase with the other major names of supplies for the building. Finally, despite a substantial range of thirty products, LAHET keeps flexibility in its manufacturing to meet any customer need.
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The BACACIER group, which currently has 500 employees, is one of the leaders in metal building cladding in France. It develops an offer of steel products in the industrial, tertiary, agricultural and residential markets. Present on 25 operational sites in France, the group processes more than 100,000 tons of steel per year, representing 20% of the French market.
What were your motivations to start a BIM approach?
BIM is still an unusual process in France but could be the new standard for collaborative work in the building industry in the future.
We have chosen to offer some of our products as a first step towards this future progress and to be part of the digital mockup approach.
Thus, we will be in the movement if this work process becomes the norm like this can be in the United Kingdom.
Why having started this approach with Polantis?
The Polantis BIM library is one of the most visited and Polantis stands out as a major player in this service. To propose our object to the prescription via this platform is necessary and optimizes the visibility of our products, in French as in English.
Why have you modeled those products or that product range?
Composite floors and the dry cladding and roofing that we propose are our most requested profiles: Bacaciers’s best-sellers. It seemed obvious to offer them first for the BIM.
The FACADISO and COVISO are the sandwich panels of our range, these profiles are more and more requested and will surely be classics of our range in a few years.
What are the particularities of the products that are online?
The composite floor (PCB 60) and the roof and cladding sandwich panels (respectively COVISO & FACADISO) all benefit from a DTA, testifying to their qualities.
The COVEO 3.45, compliant with the Unified Technical Document 40.35 and the FACADEO 6.25 are products that are easy to implement, and can be made to measure (up to 12m) in different aesthetics and coatings.
What kind of message are you willing to convey to the users of the platform who download your products?
We invite users of our products not to hesitate to contact us for any request via Polantis or from our website www.bacacier.com where they can find our entire range and related documentation, order samples of profiles or RAL and contact the sales representative of their department or the technical department.
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This space is open to all Polantis users: it allows them to sell or buy CAD and BIM objects.
The Polantis Marketplace, how does it work?
In the seller’s perspective, downloading one’s object on the platform and filling up useful information is necessary. The final step for the seller? Set his price considering what he would be willing to pay for this object, the amounts ranging from a few cents to several tens of euros.
The architects and engineers’ teams of Polantis do a systematic sorting of the objects put on sale by members of the community in order to guarantee the quality of the objects.
The evaluation criteria are the following: the aesthetic of the object, the good integration into a digital model, the practicality, the realism, the level of detail and, for the BIM objects, the « parameter ability ».
The seller gets 80% of the sum for each sold object, the remaining 20% belong to Polantis: they will be used to improve the service or modelling other objects for the Polantis Marketplace.
In the buyer’s perspective, the navigation is like on the classic website of Polantis (for the downloads of manufacturers’ objects which are completely free) but a price is given for the objects in the Marketplace.
Several objects that have been modelled for the needs of specific projects “sleep” in the software libraries of designers. Polantis thought of bringing them back to life likely to second-hand clothing websites such as videdressing.us or vented.co.uk.
Polantis therefore incites architecture agencies to sell their objects: that moulding modelled for the need of a renovation project could be used to save time to another agency for example…
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The right questions
Anis Naroura starts his presentation with two questions for the audience. Who of you was already involved in a BIM project? What questions did you think about before the start of the project?
The participants mention the following questions: What are the project’s objectives? What do we want to achieve? Do we want to achieve tools for virtualization? Extent? A tool for the operating phase? Which parts have to get modelled? What kind of contract has to be set? Who does what? How can we share the model? …
Anis Naroura confirmes that it is very important to ask oneself why one does BIM and for which objective. That’s the starting point of all BIM projects. He states several objectives:
If the teams start a BIM project without any objective, they will quickly be in drouble.
L’Îlot Pasteur, a Monacan project facing more than one challenge
Anis Naroura worked as BIM Manager on the project ‘l’Îlot Pasteur’.
It’s a very complex project situated on a closed down railway line for earthworks of 300 000 cubic meter.
The site covers 3000 m² of underground tunnels, is located 7m below sea level and is in earthquake zone 3.
The project consists of 11 programs (11 000 m² of offices, a college with 1 500 pupils, a swimming pool, a gym, a waste treatment center, …) for each of which the cooperation with another partner is necessary.
Moreover, Monaco has a digital model of the entire city. That’s why every new project has to be digitally modelized in order to integrate it into the model of the city.
The building will be delivered in 2021.
Anis asks the participants the following questions: If you were the project manager of this kind of project, what would your team look alike? What experience in BIM should the team members have?
Obviously, the participants would ask proven experience and a good knowledge of a BIM software.
Anis clarifies the situation for the Îlot Pasteur project: apart from the BIM coordinator all team members made there first BIM experience. Several were even trained by Anis in working with Revit.
The builder didn’t have a BIM manager.
The project management will remark the following benefits through working with BIM if it’s accompanied correctly and if it has clear objectives.
Anis tells about an exchange with an important design office – when Anis asked why they were not working with BIM, they told him that they actually started with BIM in 2010, when the test project crashed. Two weeks before deadline they decided to better stop trying with BIM and working with Autocad instead. Lesson to be learned? The next BIM test project should be better accompanied.
For the project Îlot Pasteur it was impossible to abandon the work with BIM. That’s why Anis had to involve all partners in the cooperation and the work on the digital model.
Anis decided to give the right information in the right moment and not all at once in order not to put to much pressure on the team or to frighten them with BIM. He let the teams proceed at their own pace.
From a geographical point of view the project management was spread all over – architects in Monaco, a design office for networks in Nice and a design office for structural planning in Marseille. Each of them could directly modify the digital model, that’s why the project was carried out on BIM level 3.
The teams collaborated via a platform with the possibility of exchanging and validating documents.
The project of a subway for Riyad
In Arabia they are about to build 6 subway lines: 26 billion dollars budget, 7 depots, 87 stations, 180 km of lines and 10 elevated railroad stations.
Together with Setec TPI Anis worked on the design of two depots, one elevated depot and one underground depot in the city center. The teams had to suggest the concept and to deliver the models to the constructors.
There were 5,700 deliverables to be provided and managed for both depots.
The complexity and the quantity of information to be provided were very important as the model should serve for construction. Anis estimates that without the help of BIM they would have needed more time and four times the number of teams.
Anis challenges the participants to find errors in the provided information – but that’s impossible as everything is handled automatically.
As for the project in Monaco, the question of the client’s anticipation was raised within the construction process. Anis was surprised to find too general information in the first version of the BIM execution plan.
It seemed impossible to him to engage in the project without specifying unavoidable elements: What should be found in the models? What level of modeling was expected? How should we name the objects? What information should be transmitted? Etc…
Without these elements, Setec would have had worked very long to satisfy the customer. The BIM execution plan was revised from 33 to 72 pages, proving that even the biggest must clearly define their needs, applied to each project, before starting with BIM.
Grande Arche de la Défense in Paris, final digital implementation file
The project concerned the redevelopment and renovation of the wing of the south wall of the Grande Arche and the opening of the roof to the public.
The Ministry for the Environment, which set up its offices at the Grande Arche, wanted to centralize the data, to be able to access it quickly, to visualize the information by the CMMS and to define its future management strategy. The company Eiffage Construction therefore asked Anis’ teams to create a digital model designed to interface with the CMMS on behalf of the ministry.
The result: a model which will be delivered in one package per 7 levels. The challenge: the model has to provide accurate and precise information. For instance, it has to identify the objects and to associate the right information to each of them.
This work had to be done for 2 000 categories, 55 000 fields of information parameters, link all documentation, technical sheets and installation instructions, …
Once again, the question of anticipation was at the heart of the project: in order to make a reliable model (native file Revit and IFC), Anis’ team members – who arrived along the way and therefore did not have the memory of the project – had to « redo the work » relying heavily on the company’s project manager.
« At what point of the project would it be necessary to make the decision to build the maintenance operation model?” asks Anis.
The answer is clear: as soon as possible. If the work would have been planned, the necessary fields could have been added to the model and the companies could have informed about them. It would have been way easier to capture all essential information sooner.
Here the information wasn’t captured in due time. That’s why the research has to be done again.
Anis concludes his presentation with the following words: “If one just does BIM to do so, there is no guaranteed profit. It’s necessary to have a clear vision of the team’s direction – the key to success is always the anticipation.”
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Polantis announces to post the BIM catalogue of Resopal online
The most renowned laminate manufacturer in Europe makes its BIM catalogue available to specifiers. The 272 references are available on Polantis’ platform from now on.
Resopal’s BIM textures (latest collection) enable to realize projects for the exterior and the interior (sanitary included).
RESOPAL® – the brand, the company and the surface, traditional and contemporary.
Resopal GmbH with approx. 600 employees in Groß-Umstadt produces functional and decorative high pressure laminates (HPL). The products are used in trains, in cruise ships, in interior fittings and on external facades, in swimming pools, hospitals and sports facilities as well as on furniture. End users associate the name with 1950s design: kidney-shaped tables, kitchens and small breakfast worksurfaces.
The brand goes back to the patent registered in 1930 by August-Hermann Römmler. As a result of its high level of brand awareness, the company, founded in 1867, was renamed in 1971. The present-day Resopal GmbH company considers itself the pioneer of laminate surfaces and continues to supply one of the hardest material surfaces for trendsetting solutions in contemporary interior design.
The company belongs to Wilsonart International Holdings LLC. It is FSC® and PEFC™-certified and is certificated for environmental and energy management systems in accordance with ISO 9001, 14001 and 50001. Since 2000 Resopal has continuously attracted attention with its sustainable corporate strategy.
The following references are provided on Polantis.com:
All references are available in the following formats on Polantis.com: Revit, Archicad, Sketchup and TEX (a texture to download to place the product in any design or rendering software): click here.
Visit Resopal’s web site to find out more about the company.
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