Primafrance

Primafrance

Primafrance is supporting its clients in organizing and implementing systems of steering and projects management.
The company consists of 5 divisions : Aerospace / Defense, Architecture / Engineering / Building, Oil & Gas, Power  and Telecom.

Need

The « Architecture / Engineering / Building » division wanted to offer its clients a cloud based platform of collaborative engineering, running in real time using Building Information Modeling (BIM) for their construction sites.
The building and construction industry is in fact moving more and more to collaborative or simultaneous engineering methods, to complete their projects successfully. Studies are showing that sequential engineering methods are by far less efficient, due to their overly predictive nature and lack of adaptability.
This major evolution in methodology is translated in concrete terms by the necessity to have solutions that enable sharing datas from a work project between all trades.
This sharing is made through common data model (or BIM) that centralizes all information and redistributes them according to a multipoint of view approach. In this way, collaboration is achieved with maximum fluidity with no digital break, eliminating retyping errors and information loss.

The goal of the project was to create a cloud platform to  allow multiple users – from various trades, each of them connected to their own devices (PC, Mobile, Tablet)  – to :

  • work in a distributed way in highly heterogeneous environments,
  • collaborate in a cooperative way during all the lifecycle of the works (from specification to implementation) using those digital datas,
  • visualize and manipulate simultaneous digital model of work (3D plans or BIM).

Solution

A solution of construction sites and works based on DocDokuPLM plateform
After a short adaptation period done in agile mode, we have built a cloud platform that answered the requirement of the sector i.e. the digitalization of construction sites trade process, centered on BIM datas.

IFC format care
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) is a standardized and object oriented file format (ISO 16739 norm), used by the construction industry to exchange and share informations between softwares. It is the standard exchange format used commonly by softwares that enable working in BIM.
Our main task was to produce a plugin that can convert or import files under IFC standard to manage building or construction site effectivities as well as geometry.

Akerys

Akerys

Akerys is one of the most important real estate developer in the south of France. Covering all the value chain from building to real estate sales.
Akerys was searching to improve this last step as it is crucial for the company to seal the deals  in a minimum of time.

Need

Akerys needed a centralized  but also innovative tool to improve their sales. For this purpose, we were asked to develop an app dedicated to sales representatives to show real estate features to their leads on an iPad.

Solution

We created an app that reached the 2 goals of Akerys in this project :

  • A full-web back-office for their catalogues creation (pictures, videos, links, geolocation).
  • An iPad app to show real estate property, including a CRM, to save lead informations.

The iPad app is running offline : data exchanges – from product catalogue to CRM informations – are transmitted by a synchronized process.

 

Wapp6 (Conject Group)

Wapp6

Wapp6, a Conject Group company, is a software editor providing solutions for the Infrastructure Lifecycle Management. The company offers a wide range of cloud based solutions, ressources and skills, adapted to all construction projects.

Need

Being able to capture, organise, distribute and track all project defects among participants throughout the project lifecycle is key in the construction industry. Eliminating defects lead to ensure on-time and quality-assured project delivery as well as cost control.

So getting a collaborative defects and inspections management tool for construction and facilities management was mandatory. Thanks to touch-screen tablets, it is possible to digitize those tasks and increase productivity.

Solution

We have developed a mobile application dedicated to look after the processing steps to complete an inspection.

The application was implemented by leveraging the Titanium framework, using its ability to target the two main mobile operating systems, iOS and Android with the same codebase. Moreover, both versions provide high performance native rendering. The application is designed upon a disconnected paradigm where the user downloads all the necessary information (plans, existing defects, punchlists…) for his inspection and then works onsite without being dependent on the network. After the visit, a report can be generated and sent instantly.

Pierre & Vacances

Pierre & Vacances

“Pierre & Vacances-Center Parcs” Group is the European leader of the tourist residence sector. The synergy between Real Estate and Tourism is the economic model that built the Group growth. With more than 50 000 apartments and houses – more than 231 000 beds – the Group is offering stays in one of its 300 European and Mediterranean resorts to its 7,5 million customers.

Need

In recent years, “Les Senioriales” Group has grown significantly thanks to a major key factor, its Sales department. Agencies openings, integration to Pierre & Vacances Group and the growing part of nomad sales employees changed the Information System needs. The existing processes and commercial data tools were not relevant anymore.

Solution

After analyzing existing tools, processes and needs, it became clear that a bridge between the Senoriales’ headquarters  and its ressources in the field has to be built in the form of an Extranet. The goal of the developed and settled solution is to provide to all Senioriales’ sales representatives a follow-up and communication tool that meets their activity. In the context of this commercial extranet developed for Pierre & Vacances, we built a SOA architecture and choosed the open source portal Liferay coupled with a web user interface in GWT.