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Tekla Structures Includes Hilti Products

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LEEDS, UK – Tekla and Hilti now offer standardized Hilti Anchors and Anchor Channels as custom components in Tekla Structures. This cooperation builds upon the joint venture Intelligent Construction Tools, formed by Trimble and Hilti in 2010.
Tekla, a Trimble company, provides a BIM (Building Information Modeling) software environment that can be shared by contractors, structural engineers, and detailers and fabricators of all materials. Now Tekla brings BIM know-how together with Hilti’s experience in fastening solutions to improve their joint customer’s productivity, quality and reliability.  

“3D design is certainly the long-term tool to improve efficiency and minimize errors in the building process, ‘3D viewing is believing’. By providing 3D objects of our industry leading fastening products within Tekla Structures, we continue our commitment to be our customer’s best partner also in the virtual world of BIM”, comments Oliver Glockner, head of application software and BIM solutions at Hilti.

“We like the fact that a company like Hilti is introducing BIM to its processes, ” says Risto Räty, executive vice president of Tekla Corporation. “Joint customers and actions with best-in-class companies such as Hilti give us an even more solid stand in the BIM process and offer increased value for our customers. We look forward to improving productivity in the industry together.”

After forming the US-based joint venture Intelligent Construction Tools in 2010, LLC (ICT), Trimble and Hilti have been cooperating for the purpose of bringing BIM to field. The both companies share the opinion that bringing the information in Tekla’s building information models to the field in an efficient and reliable way is one of the biggest productivity drivers to be achieved using software and latest technology.

Download Hilti objects from here or via www.hilti.com/bim.

About Tekla

With its software, Tekla drives the evolution of digital information models and thus provides more and more competitive advantage to the construction, infrastructure and energy industries. The company was established already in 1966, and today it has customers in 100 countries, offices in 15 countries, and a global partner network. Tekla became part of Trimble Group in 2011.

For more information, visit www.tekla.com.

About Hilti

The Hilti Group supplies the worldwide construction industry with technologically leading products, systems and services that provide construction professionals with innovative solutions and superior added value. The Group employs some 22,000 persons in over 120 countries who passionately create enthusiastic customers and build a better future. Hilti generated annual sales of CHF 4 billion in 2011. Hilti’s corporate culture is based on integrity, teamwork, commitment and the courage to embrace change. The headquarters of the Hilti Group are located in Schaan, Principality of Liechtenstein.

For more information, visit www.hilti.com.