Graphisoft strengthens Open BIM collaboration and AI-assisted design

This cloud-native platform connects upstream decision-making, open collaboration between project stakeholders, and Graphisoft's "best design experience" across its entire ecosystem of solutions.

For Márton Kiss, Chief Product Officer, Design Division & Graphisoft: “Following on from the Design Intelligence strategy presented last year, Graphisoft is bringing together key components within a single cloud-native platform, covering feasibility studies, detailed BIM, and collaboration across the entire project lifecycle. This new step reinforces our mission: to offer an intuitive, data-driven design experience, helping architects and engineers focus on how buildings should be designed, not just how they can be built.”

Advancing Open BIM collaboration in the AEC ecosystem

Studies show that more than 92% of construction projects experience significant delays and major budget adjustments, resulting in $2.100 trillion (€1.800 trillion) in losses worldwide each year.

To help reduce the bottlenecks, disruptions, and additional costs associated with misalignments and communication problems in AEC projects, Graphisoft is announcing a Nemetschek Group-wide initiative designed as the foundation for Open BIM collaboration at the heart of the group's design ecosystem. Its objective is to synchronize models, documents, observations (subjects), and decisions between Graphisoft products and all Nemetschek Group solutions, while supporting open standards such as IFC, BCF, PDF, DWG, and RVT. This solution will offer a multidisciplinary, browser-based collaboration environment, bringing together architects, engineers, contractors, project owners, and operators around a single source of reliable information, with an early access program planned for 2026.

For Sylwester Pawluk, VP, Product Management – ​​Collaboration, Graphisoft and Nemetschek Group: “Our goal is simple. To offer the AEC sector a truly open, reliable, and accessible alternative for everyone. It’s the Open BIM collaboration layer that our industry was still missing.”

Overview of AI-assisted design capabilities

Graphisoft is also developing a next-generation web platform dedicated to AI-driven design, which combines artificial intelligence and integrated simulations to help teams make better decisions earlier in the building lifecycle. Users will be able to explore hundreds of volume, layout, and performance scenarios in seconds, while keeping all stakeholders aligned in a shared workspace accessible via a browser, without requiring BIM expertise. Developed by Graphisoft and deployed across the Nemetschek Group, this AI-assisted design solution is scheduled for early access starting in October.

For Márton Kiss: “From the outset, the ambition of the Design Intelligence strategy was to help design teams make faster and more confident decisions. With these new developments and our other AI tools, users will spend less time on manual tasks and more time designing better buildings for their clients.”

For more information on Graphisoft's Design Intelligence strategy, click here.