about xbim

Collectively our founding partners have more than 50 years of experience in BIM. Expertise lie in technology development and a deep understanding of BIM Standards, which have led to the creation of our OpenBIM solutions.

the future of bim

our vision

Drawing upon our collective experience of delivering BIM and information solutions to the construction sector we increasingly find partners and their clients disenchanted with the lack of cohesion and collaboration across the project lifecycle when it comes to BIM. We aim to liberate building data so it can be useful and commercially beneficial to all.

We are the creators of flex, the only cloud-based, OpenBIM platform on the market. With flex we aim to revolutionise how both 3D and ‘semantic’ (i.e. data) building information can be managed and exchanged by you.

understanding bim

our expertise

The founding members of xbim have a wealth of experience in the AEC (Architecture Engineering Construction) industry, predominately working with BIM, both commercially and academically on the advancement of the technology and in the development of the standards that relate to its use.

Most recently, with the development of our flex platform, we’ve been working with our partner companies across the globe to assist them in overcoming their BIM challenges. Our cases studies explain more about our relationships with our flex partners and the work we’ve carried out to date.

experts in bim

our co-founders

Steve Lockley

Chief Research Officer

Prior to co-founding xbim Steve was Research Director of the National Building Specification; founder of the open-source xbim Toolkit; Professor of Building Modeling and Northumbria University; founder of BIM Academy.

Andy Ward

Chief Executive Officer

A software engineer who has spent decades developing SaaS software for the construction industry: he co-founded the BIM collaboration service ‘4Projects’ where he was CTO, which was acquired by Viewpoint, Bain Capital and recently Trimble.

Martin Cerny

Chief Technology Officer

Software engineer and major author of xbim open source. Martin has worked in academia as a Senior Researcher at Northumbria University, exploring the integration of BIM and GIS / geospatial data. Martin is an expert member of CEN TC442 WG2 and the Czech BIM Standards Agency.

join us

our vacancies

We are world leaders in the development of Building Information Modelling (BIM) software services and platforms. We’re an innovative and open organisation striving to make a positive difference to the world, with the ambition to democratise the use of building information through open standards.

Headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), our staff and clients are set up around the world, and we’re the trusted platform for thousands of partners and projects globally. We maintain the open source xbim toolkit.

If you would like to work with us apply for one of our vacancies below or get in touch at careers@xbim.net.

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When we met with Andy and the team the depth of capability was clear. Whilst the tech looks simple on the surface, it's sophisticated underneath. Working with a team that understands that complexity and can navigate that with you is important as it would be easy to fall into costly traps"

“Being involved with Andy and the team at this point is exciting, they're on a very strong path with the platform and we're thrilled to be partnered with them. The possibilities with flex and its integration with our platform are so varied from sustainability workflows to simplify client processes, embodied carbon calculations and so much more.”

bim projects

our partners

We work with commercial clients around the globe to assist them in the development of BIM functionality in both new and existing software and platform solutions. Take a look at our partner case studies or testimonials to find out more.