On Friday, December 13th, we wrapped up the year together during our team day. A moment to reflect on the past and set our sights on the future.

The day revolved around sharing our company strategy and roadmap for the next three years. We’re proud to have laid this out clearly, with a strong vision and mission. After all, it’s important that everyone in our team understands:

👉 The challenges organizations face,
👉 What they need to succeed,
👉 How our solutions align with their missions and visions,
👉 Our strategic goals for the next three years,
👉 And where our focus for services and products will be in 2025.

In addition to sharing our strategy and roadmap, we also had a fun activity, a quiz, and wrapped it all up with a shared meal.

Curious to learn more about our company strategy and vision? Or are you looking for solutions to improve data management and data exchange for your organization? Feel free to get in touch with Jakko Heinen (jakko.heinen@bim-connected.com – +31 6 533 393 82).

Follow our Wistor page to stay updated on the Wistor app developments and releases in 2025!

Enjoy your holidays and see you next year! 🎅

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BIM-Connected is helping BAM Energie & Water take big steps toward data-centric working! This approach allows the organization to standardize more and more processes, creating a more efficient way of working that saves both time and money.

One of the projects we’re supporting BAM with is the data handover process to TenneT. BAM Energie & Water is one of six parties carrying out civil works for cable connections on behalf of TenneT’s EU-302 program over the coming years. A key requirement for this project is information exchange based on open standards like linked data. BAM asked BIM-Connected to assist during the tender process and, after securing the project, to help make it happen.

To enable information exchange in linked data, we’re consolidating all the organization’s systems into a single shared data model, which serves as the foundation for delivering information. On the flip side, we ensure BAM can receive and merge data into its systems for seamless processing.

For BAM, this project is one piece of a bigger puzzle. The ultimate goal? To make data exchange smarter, easier and of high quality for information exchange processes across all projects, driving further standardization. By taking steps forward in every project, they’re getting closer to that vision — and we’re proud to play a role in this journey!

BIM-Connected is on a roll! On November 1st, we celebrated our 7th anniversary. But don’t worry, there’s no hint of a “7-year itch” here. In fact, we’ve just moved into a brand new office at Strijp-S, with plenty of room to keep growing.

Bob van Thiel: “Over the past 7 years, our mission has stayed rock solid: we want to make data truly valuable for organizations by using open (data) standards and separating data from applications. We’re incredibly proud of everything we’ve achieved so far. More and more organizations are recognizing the importance of centralizing data. BIM-Connected has grown into a reliable and expert partner for many. Plus, we’ve built an amazing internal culture that’s only amplified in our new office.”

Our now 25-person team has moved from Strijp-CS co-working Eindhoven to our very own office on the twelfth floor of the iconic Veem building at Strijp-S.

💙A place that fits us perfectly: capturing both Eindhoven’s technical and innovative spirit and the unique vibe of Strijp-S.
💡A place with a story: back in the Philips days, this floor was used to showcase groundbreaking products to prominent guests from around the world.
📷A place with an incredible view over Eindhoven.
😊A fun spot to meet up, collaborate, and to laugh, but also a space where you can really focus.
🍻Just like our previous office, it features a big bar and kitchen.

In short: a true BIM-Connected haven where you’ll actually want to spend your time and where we can continue building our organization and mission in the years to come.

Curious about our new digs or just to challenge us to a game of table football? You’re more than welcome to drop by!

Recently a few colleagues provided a training at the municipality of Utrecht on information modeling related to the built environment. Aim was to get value from your data by making an information model. The practical training was divided in 4 steps:

1️⃣ Information needs | Your foundation

2️⃣ Terms and concepts | How do we call things?

3️⃣ Information model | Classification, information and relations

4️⃣ Knowledge | Getting value from your data

A next training is planned to discuss the role and value of linked data.

#informationmodeling #training #datadriven #BIM

Last Friday, a number of colleagues followed a Scrum Training. This training was given by our Agile/Scrum coach Lars Liebrand!

Within BIM-Connected it is important that all colleagues can work according to the Scrum method. This helps:

👉🏽 our software development | Wistor and BIM-Bridge

👉🏽 to have control over our projects

👉🏽 to achieve faster, workable and structured results with clients

If you are also interested in Scrum training, please feel free to contact us. Our colleague Lars is happy to help and/or provide a training.

📧 info@bim-connected.com

#Scrum #incontrol #projectmanagement

Our colleague Lucas Verhelst has joined the board of Stumico. Stumico is the association for digitalization in construction, from housing and infrastructure to utility construction and installations. Every year Stumico organizes various inspiring events about trends, developments and innovations in our dynamic field. The association connects more than 200 members from all over the Netherlands.

Have a look on the website of Stumico: https://www.stumico.nl/

We are happy to have extended the collaboration with the Municipality of Amsterdam for the further development and use of the OTL (Object Type Library). 🌟

The municipality has once again given us the confidence to take the use of the OTL to a higher level. Both within the project and maintenance phase.💡

Congratulations to our fantastic team for their efforts and dedication! Let’s continue to deliver excellent results together. 👏

In the past year, BIM-Connected won the tender for the construction of an asset information facility for the Municipality of Utrecht; The way in which information about objects (assets) in the Public Space is provided.

As BIM-Connected, we are extremely proud that the municipality of Utrecht has chosen the vision to work with open data standards that disconnect data from applications. With this innovative solution, more efficient and sustainable information management is not far away. Together with Visma | iASSET, who are responsible for the Basic Public Space Management System, is taking the right steps with the municipality in the digital transition and data-driven working.

The strength of the Wistor platform for this assignment is:

👉 The platform is configured around the data (sets).

👉 Hosting data based on Linked Data

👉 Easy to use and apply open standards (NEN3610, NEN2660, IMBOR)

👉 Connect to the Common Ground principles of municipalities

👉 Automatically integrates and validates the data

👉 Viewer functionality

In the near future, several applications will be connected to the CDE, making more information available centrally and in a harmonized manner.

#Wistor #CDE #MakingDataValuable

Based on our submitted plan, we as international consortium (Dutch participants: Stam + De Koning, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), BuildingSmart Benelux and BIM-Connected) have been awarded the subsidy process by ITEA4 for the FireBIM project.

FireBIM aims to harmonize and implement the fire safety codes of participating countries into an open-source, web-based BIM platform for fire safety assessment that facilitates (inter)national fire safety documentation and compliance from the early design stages.

Our expertise: recording fire resistance requirements in an ontology, and then automatically checking 3D models (in IFC) based on the ontology. Our Wistor platform is used to make multiple use cases, user-friendly, possible in the coming years.

Project description over here.

This initiative contributes to the United Nations (UN) sustainability goals.