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AEC & Infrastructure
Infrastructure projects - such as buildings, roads, and bridges - take a relatively long time to carry out and their resulting products have a long life.

The fragmentation of the industry - taken together with the facts that there are a large number of participants in each project and many of these participants are co-operating together for the first time - necessitates the use of standardised information exchange. Life cycle management, from inception through design and construction to operation, is crucial and fundamental to an efficient process. 

 

Today there are standards emerging in several fields: Building Product Models, Road and Net-work Models, GIS Models, Documents etc., and Eurostep is participating in that work - sometimes also leading it, in close cooperation with industry.

The goal and mission of Eurostep is to help industry to implement and use standards in their business critical processes.

Storing and sharing information structured according to standards, will prolong the life of that information and make it a valuable asset for the whole organisation.

Eurostep has world class expertise in information modelling and considerable industrial experience. This, together with our practice of encouraging client participation during prototype development, leads to excellent results for our customers.

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Eurostep projects

GIS
• ISO TC211 – Spatial model etc.
• Technical Distribution systems for STANLI 

Roads
• Road Product Model for SNRA
• Port based Road Network Model for SNRA 

Construction
• ISO STEP AP230 Structural Steel – Modelling
• ISO POSC/CAESAR
• IAI Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) 

Document management
• XML based solutions – documents related to product models

   

Process modelling
Evaluating customers’ business processes and information requirements for further model development. Documentation is provided in IDEF0 or similar notation.

Product modelling
Assessing customers’ information requirements, identifying relevant standards and helping our customers to use those standards to best effect. Product models are documented in EXPRESS or UML.

Software prototypes
Developing Prototypes as Proof of concept to illustrate and support client requirements. This is a crucial part of the development cycle.

Technology assessment
Testing and reviewing new technology before that technology is integrated into an existing environment.

Mapping
Mapping specifications & implementing information migration - from (for example) a legacy system to an existing or planned system.

Operational systems
Providing support for the implementation of operational systems (e.g. product model server).

Developer tools
Providing tool kits for both commercial and in-house software developers. Click for more information about the Eurostep's IFC Toolbox.

 

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Eurostep customers in the AEC & Infrastructure domain include
• Skanska
• Swedish National Road Administration (SNRA)
• Standardisation in Landscape Information (STANLI)
• Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)

 

 AEC-links
aecXML
Finnish Vera programme
IAI
KTH, Construction Management
Nordic IAI Chapter
Svensk Byggtjänst
Swedish ITBoF 2002 programme

Contact us:
Finland: Kari Karstila
France: Patrick Houbaux
Sweden: Väino Tarandi
United Kingdom: Mike Ward
USA: Väino Tarandi

 Products
IFC Toolbox