Open BIM software

Open BIM Software for Collaboration

Open BIM collaboration without vendor lock-in. Manage IFC models, BCF issues, documents and project data in one open CDE built for BIM teams. Connect the tools your teams already use while keeping ownership of your project data.

Open standards (IFC, BCF, IDS)
No vendor lock-in
Data sovereignty

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Trusted by BIM teams

Construction teams across Europe run their projects on Catenda.

My favorite feature in Catenda Hub is the fact that anyone can use it. No matter what company the customers are from, they can click a button and show/see what their future building will look like.
Daan ArtsManager Innovation & Digitalisation, JAJO · Netherlands

Catenda Hub is the heart of the project. The request for information is way faster doing issue management here rather than using email correspondence. Most importantly: everyone knows everything at all times.
Ruben MyrengBIM Manager, Veidekke Agder · Norway

Being able to access our project information without restrictions, even ten years from now, was non-negotiable. Open data formats were the only choice — no proprietary lock-in.
Daniel SimonsHead of BIM Services, nesseler group · Germany

What Open BIM means in Catenda

Working in IFC, BCF and IDS so your models, issues and project data stay readable by any tool, today and in ten years.

Coordinate Design

Effortlessly share and review BIM models, collaborate on designs in real-time, and manage issues with integrated BCF tracking. Catenda Hub streamlines design coordination for better project outcomes.

Catenda Hub 3D model viewer with a settings panel for spaces, walk mode and point cloud alongside a 2D floor plan with location markers

Open CDE + AI = 10×

Catenda was built on openness from day one. Interoperability through open standards like IFC and BCF. Connectivity through open APIs and integrations. That's what we call the Open Way, your project data, structured and reachable, never locked away.

Now, with the emergence of AI and agentic work, that openness is what sets you apart. An open platform that speaks MCP lets the AI you trust read across all of your data and act on it, triaging clashes, drafting issues, checking every upload against your standard. That's how you genuinely work 10x smarter.

Never a black box, never locked in. Every surface in Catenda exposes the same open MCP server, so your IFC, BCF, documents and issues stay reachable from any agent you choose, with your permissions, not ours.

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Customer evidence

“Kajima strongly supports buildingSMART open standards. Catenda Hub's modern, flexible REST-based API gives easy access to IFC data alongside a powerful visualization engine.”

BIMLOGI team · Tokyo, Japan

The differentiator

MCP-native, by default.

Catenda exposes a Model Context Protocol server out of the box, so any agent, Claude, ChatGPT, an in-house tool, can query and act on your project data with your permissions. No bespoke connector, no exfiltration.

Open in, open out.

Catenda Hub is built on the open standards that let it connect with every tool in your stack, not just the ones we've approved. It takes the formats your teams already author and gives them back the same way, through standard formats and our Open API. Full API reference and the integration matrix live in the developer docs.