Stuttgart, Germany, 16 November 2015. RIB Software AG, the world’s leading provider of 5D BIM Big Data technology for the construction industry, today announced the award of the 20th Phase II Deal in the current financial year 2015 (2014: 14 Phase II deals). The Contract was signed with the largest medium-sized construction company in the state of Hesse, Germany, Bickhardt Bau, which decided on iTWO 5D to focus on consistent and future-oriented processes.

Bickhardt Bau Aktiengesellschaft has been successfully involved in activities in the field of traffic route engineering for four decades and thus belongs to one of the top suppliers in this sector in Germany. Besides traffic route engineering Bickhardt Bau is also specializing on project development of industrial, commercial- and corporate buildings as well as public buildings. The company has successfully employed RIB solutions for many years and is now focusing on the aim to increase the value added of the planning- and project management processes by implementing model-based working methods.

Dr. Hans-Peter Sanio, executive board member of RIB Group comments: “We are really looking forward to be able to equip our longstanding business partner Bickhardt Bau with our iTWO 5D enterprise solution. We attached great importance to industrialize the construction industry with our technology and we will now cooperate closely with Bickhardt Bau to comply with this mission.”