Tekla BIMsight Wins in Most Innovative Products Contest

(Feb. 28, 2012) – Tekla BIMsight, the BIM software application for model-based construction project cooperation, was awarded was awarded Expert’s Choice in the Most Innovative Product Contest at the World of Concrete exhibition in Las Vegas, NV.

The contest was held at World of Concrete, a leading international event dedicated to the commercial concrete and masonry with over 1,200 exhibitors and more than 50,000 visitors. A panel of industry experts chose Tekla BIMsight as the winner of the Experts’ Choice in the Business Tools and Software category.

What made Tekla BIMsight a winner?

“We are delighted to receive this award“, says Risto Räty, the Executive Vice President of Tekla Corporation.  “Tekla BIMsight has now received two international awards within six months. As in last November the software won the Gold Batimat innovation award.” Mr. Räty continues: “Even though Tekla BIMsight was awarded as the Experts’ Choice, it is an easy-to-use tool for anyone in the trade. The experts value it and all project owners, contractors, architects, engineers, detailers, and construction site workers can benefit from it. ”

Tekla BIMsight presents the complete construction project from design to erection and site management, including all necessary building information from different construction disciplines.  It makes it easy to compare data from any project participant and spot possible errors already in the design phase. The software now has a user interface optimized for tablet computers, so it is easy to take BIM to site.

Since 2011, Tekla has been a part of the Trimble Group. At the same Most Innovative Products contest, Trimble’s Field Link was chosen as the Editor’s choice in the Concrete Construction Equipment category.

Tekla BIMsight is available free of charge for anyone to install and start using from the Internet at www.teklabimsight.com

Watch a video interview featuring Tekla BIMsight by ForConstructionPros.com: Tekla BIMsight allows contractors to share models for construction projects 

Tekla
With its software, Tekla drives the evolution of digital information models and thus provides more and more competitive advantage to the construction, infrastructure and energy industries. The company was established already in 1966, and today it has customers in 100 countries, offices in 15 countries, and a global partner network. Tekla became part of Trimble Group in 2011.

Tekla BIMsight
Tekla BIMsight is a professional tool for construction project collaboration. All disciplines of the construction workflow can combine their models, check for clashes, markup and share information using the same easy-to-use 3D environment. Tool enables project participants to identify and solve issues already in the design phase before the actual construction.Tekla BIMsight is free to download and distribute through the internet. Tens of thousands of people in the construction industry have already taken Tekla BIMsight in use in nearly 150 countries.

Trimble
Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in businesses and government significantly more productive. Solutions are focused on applications requiring position or location – including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and asset management, public safety and mapping. In addition to utilizing positioning technologies, such as GPS, lasers and optics, Trimble solutions may include software content specific to the needs of the user. Wireless technologies are utilized to deliver the solution to the user and to ensure a tight coupling of the field and the back office. Founded in 1978, Trimble is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.