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Trimble and Nemetschek Group Partner

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Trimble and Nemetschek Group Partner

04.05.2015 / 12:32

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Trimble and Nemetschek Group Partner to Expand Adoption of Building
Information Modeling Across Building Design, Construction and Operation

Companies Collaborate to Promote Openness and Interoperability Across their
Solution Portfolios

SUNNYVALE, Calif., and MUNICH, May 4, 2015-Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and the
Nemetschek Group (XETRA: NEM), leaders in digital solutions for the
Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) markets, announced today
that they have formed a strategic alliance to expand the deployment of
Building Information Modeling (BIM) across the entire Design-Build-Operate
(DBO) lifecycle of buildings. The alliance will emphasize collaborative
approaches to design modeling and 5D construction management through data
integration between a variety of the companies' products.

The announcement was made today at the Lake Constance 5D-Conference 2015
held this week in Constance, Germany.

Trimble and Nemetschek will share their extensive global market and
technology expertise and collaborate on initiatives to drive a paradigm
change in the development and adoption of technologies for the AEC industry
and building owners.

The companies intend to:

- Transparently share data formats to support new solutions and promote
workflow interoperability between selected products across the DBO
lifecycle;

- Tighten the connection of Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) solutions
to real data from the field and real objects in the physical world;

- Support interoperability and the longevity of project data for the
entire project lifecycle;

- Maintain their respective deep commitments to open standards and
workflows for the benefit of the entire industry-rather than for any
individual vendor.

Open, Connected and Interoperable via Trimble Connect

Trimble and Nemetschek plan to leverage the Trimble(R) Connect
collaboration platform to integrate workflows and create close
interoperability between selected Trimble solutions-including SketchUp,
Tekla Structures, Vico Office, Trimble Prolog(R), Trimble Field Link and
MEPdesigner for SketchUp-and solutions in the Nemetschek portfolio, such as
Allplan, ArchiCAD, DDS, SCIA Engineering, Vectorworks and Nevaris.

Both companies are committed to open standards and workflows-a rapidly