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What’s the BIM idea?
3D World explores how IttenBrechbühl AG used BIM processes and Vectorworks’ design software to achieve architectural greatness
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rchitectural office and general contractor IttenBrechbühl AG comprises of approximately 320 employees, all helping to take large and complex buildings from basic design to commission. With more than 300 hospitals under its belt, IttenBrechbühl has firmly established itself as a specialist for the health sector but has also lent its expertise to education, research, transport and industrial services. This work is done across 11 locations in Switzerland, Germany, and Luxembourg.
In 2017 IttenBrechbühl began work on the headquarters of Scott Sports, a sporting goods manufacturer that has been based in Fribourg, Switzerland since 1978. After winning the Arc Award BIM in Gold for the construction of SwissFEL, a largescale research facility in Switzerland’s Paul Scherrer Institute a year earlier, IttenBrechbühl opted to again employ an innovative Building Information Modelling (BIM) process on the Scott Headquarters.