A building is a thirty-year asset. The information about it should outlive every contractor, consultant and software vendor who touched it. Catenda is the digital handover for building owners, the data spine that survives the build.
You commission the building, you carry it on the balance sheet, and you live with it for decades. The data the contractors and designers built often leaves with them, in formats you cannot open, on platforms you do not control.
What lands on your desk at handover is usually a hard drive of PDFs and a box of manuals. Years later, when a system fails or a refurbishment starts, that information is either missing, stale, or locked inside a tool nobody renews.
The asset is only as good as the record of it. Catenda keeps that record open, owned by you, and tied to the model, so the building you operate is the same one you were handed.
no vendor holding your data hostage.We want to invest as little effort as possible in BIM, but as much as necessary.
For an owner, every job is really one job: keep the building's information open, owned and accurate from brief to operation. Here is where that starts.
An ISO 19650 CDE where every document, transmittal and approval is yours, in open formats, with the audit trail to prove provenance. Set the requirement once; receive a handover you can actually open in ten years.
Document Management
Site checks, snags and as-built records captured against the model during construction, so what you accept at handover is structured, verifiable, and linked to the asset, not a drive nobody can navigate.
Site Management
A federated, openBIM model that stays the reference through every renovation, consultant change and decade. Coordinate design, link assets and O&M data, and reuse it across the portfolio instead of rebuilding it each time.
BIM & Data Management10×.
For an owner, AI only matters if it can read the asset honestly. Catenda AI can, because the data underneath it is open and structured: every asset, document and change is a record it can answer from, not a guess.
Ask which assets are out of warranty, where the latest fire strategy lives, or what changed in the last refurbishment, and get an answer grounded in the model, with the provenance attached. The knowledge stays with the building, not with the person who left.
Because it is MCP-native, your own systems, an FM platform, a portfolio dashboard, your own agents, can query the same data under your own permissions. Open data is what makes that possible. See how Catenda AI works
4 units, all on Block C, warranty lapsing Q3. Linked to their IFC elements, manuals and original handover record. Answered from the live model, not a spreadsheet.
3 revisions across 8 years, each time-stamped with who approved it. The audit trail the regulator asks for is already there, exportable, not reconstructed.
for new users across 22 building authorities to get started
“Catenda Hub is currently the most pleasant and best CDE program on the market.”
Read the Bavaria story
Developer · NL / DEfourth-generation family business building across Europe
“We want to work with clear data, so that each company involved always receives the information about the model that is readable and relevant for the respective party.”
Read the Ten Brinke story
Developer · Germany1920s building refurbished, targeting DGNB Gold
“We want to invest as little effort as possible in BIM, but as much as necessary.”
Read the Art-Invest storyIt means the information you accept at handover is structured, open and tied to the model, not a drive of disconnected PDFs. Documents, as-built records, asset data and O&M information arrive in a CDE you own, linked to IFC elements, with the provenance and audit trail intact. You can open it, query it and operate from it for the life of the asset.
Yes, and many owners do exactly that. You set Catenda and an open exchange standard as the information requirement, the contractor and consultants deliver into it, and the asset record lands with you. Because pricing is by project with unlimited users, your whole supply chain can take part without per-seat cost.
Catenda is openBIM, built on IFC and BCF, compliant with ISO 19650. Your data is held in open standards and is exportable at any time, drawings, models, documents, the audit trail. The point of openness is that the asset record is yours, and it survives any decision you later make about software, including us.
Yes. The model and asset records stay live: as-built can be kept current as as-operated, assets stay linked to manuals, warranties and maintenance data, and every change is time-stamped. With Catenda Duo the asset and facility data carries through into operation, so the building you run is the one you were handed.
Yes. Each asset can be its own project while sharing standards, structure and reusable model data across the portfolio. That makes information requirements consistent, supports reuse on the next development, and gives you a comparable record across the buildings you own.
You'll own it for decades. Own its data too.
Bring an asset. That's it.
