The buildingSMART openBIM Awards 2025 – Finalists Announced

London, U.K. – August 07, 2025 — buildingSMART International is delighted to share the complete list of finalists for the buildingSMART openBIM Awards 2025. Finalists will be invited to present their projects to an international jury for consideration as part of the final round of the program. The finalist presentations will take place on Tuesday 23rd September in Berlin, during the buildingSMART International Summit - Berlin 2025. The winners will be announced the following day.

Registration for the event is open at: https://events.ringcentral.com/events/bssberlin25

 

The complete list of finalists is as follows:

Category of CONSTRUCTION FOR BUILDINGS:

  • “Intelligent Construction Based on openBIM for Terminal 3 of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport” – Guangdong Airport Authority, China.
  • “Kai Tak Sports Park: Successful essences in building world-class sports facility interoperably” – Hip Hing Engineering Company Limited, Hong Kong, China.
  • “Katajanokka Pier: A Flagship for openBIM-Driven Sustainable Urban Timber Development” – Haahtela, Finland.

Category of CONSTRUCTION FOR INFRASTRUCTURE:

  • “A Light Rail case study in digital construction delivery, an openBIM journey” – John Holland Group, Australia.
  • “Application of Management for Super Large Railway Project Clusters Based on openBIM” – CHINA ACADEMY OF RAILWAY SCIENCES CORPORATION LIMITED, China.

Category of DESIGN FOR BUILDINGS:

  • “BIM is Magical: Data-Driven Highrise Design through Interoperability, Collaboration and Innovation” – ARGE TVG / AllesWirdGut - Hertl.Architekten – FCP, Austria
  • “Lee Garden Eight: A Landmark of Sustainability and Digital Collaboration with openBIM” – Hip Hing Construction Company Limited, Hong Kong, China.

Category of DESIGN FOR INFRASTRUCTURE:

  • “Design Review for Electrical Station” – Terna Rete Italia S.p.A., Italy.
  • “Development of automatic data linkage system from design to quantity takeoff using openBIM” – Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan.

Category of OPERATIONS:

  • “Department of Transport and Main Roads openBIM Information Delivery System” – Department of Transport and Main Roads, Queensland, Australia, Australia.
  • “Leveraging openBIM and AI-Driven Integration for Sustainable O&M of Smart Water Supply Systems” – Water Supplies Department, Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, China.
  • “The Henderson - openBIM for Building Lifecycle” – Hip Hing Construction Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, China.
  • “usBIM.geotwin Geospatial Digital Twin” – ACCA software, Italy.

Category of PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH:

  • “AI & openBIM for LCA: Leveraging LLM for Material Data Inference” – Strategic Building Innovation, Strategic Green Innovation, USA.
  • “An Integrated Open-Source Digital Twin Platform for Federal Built Assets in Canada” – Carleton Immersive Media Studio, Carleton University, Canada.
  • “Application of U.S. BIM for Bridges and Structures National openBIM Standards” – HDR, USA.

Category of STUDENT RESEARCH:

  • “BIMNet: An openBIM-based dataset and benchmark for scan-to-BIM” – School of software, Tsinghua University, China.
  • “CarbonSmart: An Embodied Carbon Calculator with AI Material Filler” – LeapThought Asia Pte Ltd in partnership with Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.
  • “openBIM-FM Artifact: Bidirectional Solution for Efficient Asset Management” – Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil.

Category of TECHNOLOGY:

  • “arcpath: agent on the path to openBIM, automating IDS for easier adoption” – Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China.
  • “Qonic Intelligence (QI): Applying openBIM Classification through Advanced AI” – Qonic NV, Belgium.
  • “usBIM.sustainability  Environmental and economic sustainability through openBIM® standards” – ACCA software S.p.A., Italy.

 

About buildingSMART International
buildingSMART International is a vendor-neutral and not for profit body that leads the development of open standards that support digital information flows across the built asset industry. Its mission is to proactively engage industry participants who want to develop open standards for planning, design, procurement, assembly and operation of buildings and infrastructure worldwide. It provides the international network plus the necessary technical and process support to develop consensus based open standards. Its members, who range from across the entire built environment spectrum, collaborate under the buildingSMART organization and management. buildingSMART also partners with other international standards bodies such as ISO, the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Its core Industry Foundation Class (IFC) standard achieved ISO approval in 2012.

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