Global Leader in Workshare to Expand BIM Services to Architects, Engineers, Owners, Governments, and Contractors with Innovative 5D Digital City/Building Environment

Chicago, Illinois, April 23, 2008 – Satellier Inc, the global leader in workshare solutions and pioneer in Building Information Modeling services (BIM) for the architecture, engineering, construction and building owner (AECO) industry, announced the acquisition of Screampoint, the inventor of and leader in 5D Digital City and Digital Building systems.

CEO Michael Jansen, comments, “The investment by Sequoia Capital enabled us to successfully globalize our workshare practice – in addition to our resourcing headquarters in New Delhi, we now have offices in New York City, San Francisco, London, and, very soon, Dubai. Next, we plan to acquire service-enabling technologies to rapidly expand our offerings to the global real estate industry.”

“With this acquisition of Screampoint and its innovative 5D environment, we’re equipped to offer increasingly advanced BIM services to architects and engineers, and we’re creating a new category of digital asset management services for additional clients in the real estate industry – including building owners, governments, and contractors.”
Screampoint 5D allows clients to envision, communicate, design, construct, manage, and service their properties more effectively. Clients can visualize and analyze a 3D model of a property, a large real estate portfolio, or an entire city; they can travel though time (hence 4D) for the entire model; and they can embed and retrieve design or business information into the model and all of its assets (hence 5D).

Digital City models are well underway for the governments of Wuhan, the capital city of China’s Hubei province; Shanghai, China’s largest city; and Guangzhou, the capital city of China’s Guangdong Province. Similar models are underway for New York City, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Hong Kong.

HsiaoLai Sean Mei, CEO of Screampoint, adds, “Many people term our solution ‘Google Earth Professional’ – it allows clients to navigate an interactive model of their real estate at any level of scope and detail, with key information available at the click of mouse, and with real-time visual performance. However you term it, Screampoint 5D provides unparalleled power and great value to governments, owners, developers, designers, contractors, managers, and service providers.”

“Screampoint 5D is a natural complement to Satellier’s workshare business and BIM pioneering. Whereas Satellier leads the industry in advanced BIM model development, Screampoint 5D provides a BIM integration and analysis platform for all real estate constituencies. On behalf of my colleagues in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and San Francisco, let me say that we are thrilled to become part of the Satellier group of companies and fully subscribe to a total service solution to the real estate industry.”

Mei and Jansen are also developing their plans to extend this offering with additional technologies and services for construction.