With strong support of FGK (Düsseldorf) SCIA worked out is corporate and product branding. Nemetschek Scia is strengthening the engineering spirit of the Nemetschek Group. Our identity is the focus on international and multicultural expansion, through strategic forward thinking & acting. Our clients also extend the boundaries of their projects: more international, more important. Our claim is “Inspiring people to move limits”; it is valid for our clients to whom we want to give more power for engineering design, and valid for our own organisation through continuous learning.
Scia Engineer is the name of our core product in CAE; it is the future software for structural B.I.M.. Modelling, design and detailing go hand in hand. In B.I.M. interoperability is the cornerstone, and there we want to be leading. Scia just received its IFC 2×3 certification, the first CAE supplier worldwide. Being well aware of the obstacles engineers are confronted with, if data are to be exchanged with other design partners (architects, engineers, fabricators), Scia is further working on its BIM workbench. Let us know your main issues when you apply digital exchanges of project data. We want to learn from you.
The Belgian prince Filip has presented the « Princess Elisabeth » polar station in Brussels. It is the first scientific structure with "zero emission". The goal of this polar base, which will be moved to the South Pole, is to study the effects of the climate change.
It is a unique enterprise… The polar base, Princess Elisabeth, which has been on exhibition and accessible to the general public in the port station ‘Tour & Taxis’ in Brussels, is a unique construction with regard to durable development.
Indeed, it will be the first station located on the South Pole that works only by renewable energy. The base will be equipped with 8 windmills and solar panels that cover the roof and the exterior walls of the structure; also a water recycling installation is provided. The station will be warmed using a system that combines passive solar heating and cogeneration that is recycling the heat rays that have been emitted by the energetic core, computers, light and even the human presence of the base. Concerning the isolation of the walls, the base avoids any heat loss and maintains the ambient temperature between 18 and 20°C. Moreover, the energetic efficiency of the concept, the energetic control system and the use of energy-saving equipment turns the station into a real "bio"construction prototype.
Next October, the German car manufacturer BMW will inaugurate its new, original and futuristic centre ‘BMW Welt (BMW World) in Munich. Entirely realized out of steel and glass, the building will contain a business space, shops and restaurants as well as rooms for business meetings.This impressive project was carried out using the software think project!¹, distributed to the Benelux countries by the company Online Projects (member of the SCIA Group).
The building, with a very futuristic architecture, arises as a spiral of glass and steel. It is a very avant-garde construction, composed of two cones, with a height of 28 meters and a diameter of 45 meter, which are placed ‘point against point’. The slope has the shape of a volute. The roof is also curved and supported by a cone.”A landscape of clouds” The architects’ firm Coop Himmelblau imagined the building; it offers a vision of “a landscape of clouds”. It will accommodate a commercial section, an interactive campus around the topic of mobility for children, shops and restaurants, a delivery point of cars and a centre for car accessories. “The idea is to create a BMW centre so as to make it possible for the customer to discover a real BMW world”.
With strong support of FGK (Düsseldorf) SCIA worked out is corporate and product branding. Nemetschek Scia is strengthening the engineering spirit of the Nemetschek Group. Our identity is the focus on international and multicultural expansion, through strategic forward thinking & acting. Our clients also extend the boundaries of their projects: more international, more important. Our claim is “Inspiring people to move limits”; it is valid for our clients to whom we want to give more power for engineering design, and valid for our own organisation through continuous learning.
Scia Engineer is the name of our core product in CAE; it is the future software for structural B.I.M.. Modelling, design and detailing go hand in hand. In B.I.M. interoperability is the cornerstone, and there we want to be leading. Scia just received its IFC 2×3 certification, the first CAE supplier worldwide. Being well aware of the obstacles engineers are confronted with, if data are to be exchanged with other design partners (architects, engineers, fabricators), Scia is further working on its BIM workbench. Let us know your main issues when you apply digital exchanges of project data. We want to learn from you. 
