ALLPLAN, SCIA, and FRILO Join Forces to Strengthen BIM Solutions for AEC Industry
AllPLAN, a leading provider of BIM solutions for the AEC industry, has joined forces with SCIA from Belgium and FRILO from Germany to enhance their delivery capabilities, drive innovation, and offer powerful end-to-end design to build workflows, with a strong emphasis on structural engineering.
This strategic alliance aims to accelerate the path to data-driven multi-material design and prefabrication, providing significant productivity benefits for customers. All three companies are part of the Nemetschek Group, reinforcing their commitment to delivering high-quality solutions to the market.
The merger significantly extends ALLPLAN’s solution offering within the engineering sector to include structural analysis and design, thus strengthening its market position in Europe.
The combined expertise of ALLPLAN, SCIA, and FRILO provides a unique solution for architects and engineers. AllPLAN offers a single BIM platform for the AEC industry, while SCIA and FRILO deliver extensive software for structural analysis and design, including both the analysis and design of 3D multi-material structures and component-oriented calculation approach.
Dr. Detlef Schneider, CEO of ALLPLAN, stated, “Combining modeling and structural engineering competence will create a unique solution technology stack in the market from conceptual design through structural analysis and design to structural detailing and prefabrication that supports the growing demand for lean delivery processes.”
He emphasized the significance of this merger in fostering digitalization in the AEC industry and empowering engineering professionals with end-to-end workflows that increase productivity, quality, and sustainability.
OPEN BIM and Cloud-Based Workflows
At the core of all Nemetschek companies is a customer-focused, OPEN BIM-based approach for seamless collaboration across different disciplines and project phases. The combined solutions from ALLPLAN, SCIA, and FRILO ensure maximum OPEN BIM flexibility and efficiency between engineering and detailing disciplines.
Markus Gallenberger, Chief Marketing and Sales Enablement Officer, commented, “This is a significant milestone for ALLPLAN, SCIA, and FRILO, unifying companies that have a long history. They have worked together closely and will now combine to extend and further innovate the entire design to build workflow.”
He highlighted the joint mission to help customers fulfill their projects with a significant productivity gain through ongoing innovation.