“Bond Bryan Architects have used ArchiCAD as our BIM authoring platform since 1994 and have used it to exchange Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) files since 2005. Today all of our projects use BIM to a greater or lesser degree and we continue to evolve our processes and approaches as BIM maturity develops.

BIM for us is an opportunity to help address our core-purpose: the creation of a sustainable architecture that enriches human experience and strengthens communities, responding to the needs of each client with imagination and insight. In order to help address this purpose we must work as a team with others and therefore must be able to exchange data in an efficient manner. Given the number of others involved in the process and the variety of software available the only answer is to have a common format for exchange of data for the common good of our fragmented industry. For us an Open BIM solution is key and with that the IFC format.

Bond Bryan Architects are regular contributors to talking about Open BIM and ArchiCAD and have presented at events such as The Open BIM Conference 2012 (Coventry, UK), The Open BIM Learning Xchange (Salford University, UK), thinkBIM (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) and BIM Show Live 2012.”