Trimble Acquires Building Performance–Analysis Software Provider Sefaira

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该协议扩展了该技术公司的设计建造操作解决方案。

The agreement expands the technology company’s portfolio of design-build-operate solutions.



加利福尼亚桑尼维尔公司–以技术公司定位，存在于AEC，昨天宣布收购Sefaira-----云计算的开发商，建筑性能分析软件系统架构。该协议的财务条款尚未在特林布尔的新闻稿中透露。

根据Sefaira首席执行官延森宣布，40个国家的500多个建筑工程公司都使用Sefaira工具，作为直观的用户界面，实时性能，包括项目的能源消耗，水的使用，可再生能源的潜力，和采光模拟运行。他介绍了Trimble SketchUp 2013和Autodesk Revit 2014允许用户在本地运行的程序性能分析插件，无需重建或上传3D模型到单独空间。

创办Sefaira 2009的延森宣布， “我们与特林布尔的合作是继从谷歌收购SketchUp 2012之后的，这是很自然的事情。“SketchUp，如Sefaira，是比较人性化，方便的用户界面。他继续说道，“期待看到SketchUp更紧密融合，正如我们所承诺的，将继续支持Revit。”

特林布尔导航产品管理总监约翰巴克斯在一封邮件中应允了延森的承诺，将保持不变用户体验。“可靠的互操作性和开放性的AEC行业与SketchUp的使用就是一个很好的例子。Sefaira解决方案将继续运行，通过加入开发程序，在Revit以同样的标准和水平使用。”

SketchUp和Sefaira用户也不应该在短期内期待任何成本的变化。“随着时间的推移，SketchUp，Sefaira，和特林布尔 MEP仍然是单独的产品，”巴克斯说。“没有跨越其他产品的权利，但我们正在努力为我们的客户实现最大的利益。更重要的是，客户期望得到与Sefaira同样强大的服务水平，他们已经习惯于了独立的Sefaira。”

从长远来看，特林布尔公司计划增加“Sefaira的产品线范围和容量，使性能驱动的设计更满足用户的需求。建筑师与工程师合作，其他人在设计、建造、操作性能出力，建造出一个完美之作。”

Sefaira加入设计档案的建立工作--特林布尔建筑解决方案的工程和施工段的一部分。其他的工具，除了SketchUp，包括项目管理平台特林布尔连接，原名为Gteam和盖里的技术开发，并在2014年9月进行收购。去年，公司宣布了一项战略，与德国开发商Nemetschek联盟改良软件之间的互操作性。

Wanda Lau，LEED AP，设计到建筑师和建筑照明技术。她在推特上写道，写作一开始是可怕的，但随后又会变得简单。

Sunnyvale, Calif.–based positioning-technology company Trimble grew its presence in the AEC space yesterday when it announced the acquisition of Sefaira, the developer of the cloud-based, building-performance analysis software Sefaira Architecture and Sefaira Systems. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed in Trimble’s press release.
According to Sefaira’s announcement by its CEO Mads Jensen, more than 500 architecture and engineering firms in 40 countries use Sefaira’s tools, which are popular for their intuitive and visual user interface, real-time performance, and capabilities that include estimating a project’s energy consumption, water usage, and renewable energy potential, and running daylighting simulations. Plugins introduced for Trimble SketchUp in 2013 and for Autodesk Revit in 2014 allowed users to run performance analyses within their native programs, without having to rebuild or upload their 3D model into a separate modeling space.
In his announcement, Jensen, who co-founded Sefaira in 2009, also writes that “it was natural for us to develop a partnership with Trimble following their acquisition of SketchUp from Google in 2012.” SketchUp, like Sefaira, is known its relatively user-friendly, accessible interface. Users, he continues, can “expect to see even closer integration with SketchUp, alongside our commitment to continued support of Revit.”
In an email to ARCHITECT, Trimble Navigation product management director John Bacus echoes Jensen’s promise that the user experience will remain unchanged. “Trimble has a dependable track record of interoperability and openness across the AEC industry—with SketchUp being a great example. … Sefaira solutions will continue to support, through its Add-In development program, usage within Autodesk’s Revit to the same standard/level that it exists today.”
SketchUp and Sefaira users also shouldn’t expect any changes to cost or licensing in the near term. “For the time being, SketchUp, Sefaira, and Trimble MEP are still separate products,” Bacus says. “There are no cross-product entitlements, but we are evaluating ways to deliver the greatest benefit for our customers in the future. More importantly, Sefaira customers should expect to receive the same great level of service they have become accustomed to from an independent Sefaira.”
In the long term, Bacus adds, Trimble plans to increase “the reach and capability of Sefaira’s product line, bringing the performance-driven design ethos they champion into the hands of architects, engineers, and others across the design, build, and operate spectrum.”
Sefaira joins the growing portfolio of design-build-operate solutions that Trimble Buildings, a part of Trimble’s Engineering and Construction segment, has acquired in recent years. Other tools, in addition to SketchUp, include project management platform Trimble Connect, formerly known as GTeam and developed by Gehry Technologies, which Trimble acquired in September 2014. Last year, Trimble announced a strategic alliancewith German developer Nemetschek Group to improve interoperability between their software packages.
Wanda Lau, LEED AP, covers technology for ARCHITECT and Architectural Lighting. She likens writing to running—both feel terrible starting out, but become easier along the way. Follow her on Twitter.

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