Free access
Academic access to Catenda for accredited courses and student projects, so the cost of the tool is never the reason a class can't run real openBIM.
Empowering the next generation
of BIM professionals.
Prepare your students for the future of construction with Catenda Hub, an open platform educators use to teach real-world BIM coordination workflows and enhance their curriculum.
Real tools, free for academia.
Everything a course needs to teach openBIM properly, on the platform the industry uses, not a watered-down version of it.
Teaching materials
Guides and course-ready resources built around IFC, BCF and ISO 19650 workflows, so educators don't start from a blank page.
Support
A real channel to our team for academic users. Setup help when a semester starts and answers when a class gets stuck.
Open standards deserve an open education.
A student who only ever learns one vendor's closed format learns a product, not a profession. Open standards outlive tools. IFC, BCF and ISO 19650 will still be here long after any single application, and they are what the industry coordinates on.
So we give academia the real platform. Students graduate already fluent in open workflows, ready for projects where data has to move between firms without being trapped in anyone's software. That is the same conviction the whole company is built on.
open beats closed, in the classroom too.Why Partner with Catenda?
A platform built to teach real-world BIM coordination on the open standards the industry runs on.
Intuitive and engaging
Modern and user-friendly interface, making it easy for students to learn and explore BIM coordination in a hands-on environment.
Open standards
Built natively for IFC and BCF, equipping your students with useful and transferable industry skills, anchored in the Open BIM movement.
Collaborative environment
Foster teamwork and knowledge sharing with Catenda's collaborative features and connect with a global community of BIM educators.
Educators already teaching openBIM on it.
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Cost shouldn't be why a class can't run real openBIM.
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