BLIS Awarded Editors' Choice Award by CADENCE Magazine Editorial Staff

The Recognition Follows Recent Honors for Best of Show and Show Stopper Awards At A/E/C Systems 2002 in Anaheim, Calif.

BEAVERTON, Ore. - August 26, 2002 - /PRNewswire/ -- The BLIS project (Building Lifecycle Interoperable Software) was among 16 software and hardware products announced as winners of the prestigious CADENCE Editors' Choice Awards, as announced in the magazine's July 2002 issue. The recognition is a repeat performance for BLIS, which received its first Editor's Choice Award in July 2001.

Presented twice yearly, in July and December, the awards recognize exemplary innovation, creativity, and ease-of-use found in the Computer Aided Design (CAD) industry. "The companies that develop and market these products and services are continually pushing the CAD technology to new heights, allowing the user community to work better, faster, smarter and more economically," said the CADENCE editors in announcing the awards.

CADENCE staff editors, contributing editors, and editorial board selected the winners from among CAD-related products and services that have made significant achievements in the previous six months.

BLIS also took top honors at the recent A/E/C Systems 2002 exhibit and conference in Anaheim, California, where it was awarded both CADENCE magazine's Show Stopper award and Cadalyst magazine's Best of Show award. BLIS members accepting the awards at A/E/C Systems included Microsoft Visio, Graphisoft US, Solibri (Finland), Timberline, YIT Construction (Finland), and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, or CSIRO (Australia).

In a unique effort, several firms initiated BLIS in 1999 to cooperate in the implementation of the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) standard and thus make it available to AEC industry professionals in a variety of software products. In doing so, the BLIS project has dramatically accelerated industry support and adoption of the IFC standard. Dozens of these products are available through the BLIS web site listed below.

Published by the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI), the IFC standard identifies common building objects in a data model. Using this model, a software program can create an IFC model (a collection of related objects) in a CAD drawing for instance. Other programs can use that same IFC model to create takeoffs and estimates, check code compliance, perform a thermal analysis, and more.

Currently, BLIS has 80 member companies and organizations worldwide who have some 58 products in various stages of development and which support the BLIS defined views of the IFC standard.

With some 600 members worldwide, the IAI is a global standards-setting organization representing widely diverse constituencies that include architects, engineers, research scientists, commercial building owners and contractors, government officials and academia, and building product manufacturers. Both BLIS and IAI members are committed to promoting effective means of exchanging information among all software platforms and applications serving the AEC+FM community.

More information on BLIS and IAI can be found respectively at http://www.blis-project.org  and http://www.iai-na.org.

 

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