1ST Pricing Announces Cooperation With Graphisoft -- Will Preview at AIA 2005.SIGNAL HILL, Calif. -- 1ST Pricing(TM), a Southern California-based technology company providing practical solutions to the building industry, has announced that Graphisoft North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. will adopt the 1ST Pricing technology to provide real-time pricing for specified building materials Building materials used in the construction industry to create . These categories of materials and products are used by and construction project managers to specify the materials and methods used for . in a design. The 1ST Pricing-Graphisoft add-on technology will be previewed at AIA AIA - Application Integration Architecture 2005 this week in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- a national trade show for members of the American Institute for Architects. Graphisoft, based in Newton, Mass., is the creator of ArchiCAD(R) and the Virtual Building(TM) approach to great building design. The pricing engine from 1ST Pricing will provide real-time, comparative pricing from many real manufacturers combined with an online fulfillment ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. capability to support it. Selected for commercial, retail, home and educational projects of all sizes, ArchiCAD is one of the most widely used architectural computer aided design (application) Computer Aided Design - (CAD) The part of CAE concerning the drawing or physical layout steps of engineering design. Often found in the phrase "CAD/CAM" for ".. manufacturing". programs (CAD) in the home building industry. "We've been reading plans for years, but no technology has ever been able to take full advantage of the information contained in the architect's computer," said Douglas Lopez, President and founder of 1ST Pricing, Inc. "Now this $3.9 trillion One thousand times one billion, which is 1, followed by 12 zeros, or 10 to the 12th power. See space/time. (mathematics) trillion - In Britain, France, and Germany, 10^18 or a million cubed. In the USA and Canada, 10^12. industry has a search engine that takes a set of plans, hits a retailer database, and returns multiple brands and real prices in one simple mouse click." "We are excited to incorporate the 1ST Pricing technology into ArchiCAD," said Donald Henrich, General Manager and Vice President of Graphisoft North America. "1ST Pricing addresses an important part of building information modeling and is the only company that provides real-time comparative pricing for building materials specified in a CAD design. With a click of a mouse, its pricing engine pulls deliver-to-the-jobsite pricing in only a few seconds." Building information modeling (BIM BIM Building Information Modeling BIM Building Information Model BIM Bord Iascaigh Mhara (Irish Sea Fisheries Board) BIM Brussels Instituut voor Milieubeheer (Belgium) BIM Bharathidasan Institute of Management ) is a revolutionary tool in the architectural CAD industry but, until now, hasn't been taken to its logical conclusion -- pricing and fulfillment. When an architect designs a set of plans, traditional BIM-enabled CAD software captures the details of various objects in the plans such as a windows and doors. 1ST Pricing's software not only contains the information, but also provides real-time, comparative, zip-code-based pricing for each item and, ultimately, creates an electronic bill of materials The list of components that make up a system. For example, a bill of materials for a house would include the cement block, lumber, shingles, doors, windows, plumbing, electric, heating and so on. that saves time and money while greatly reducing error. In addition to assisting architects and other plan designers build and price a bill of materials, the detailed materials are reviewable online for everyone involved in the building process. The contractor or homeowner can actually select and order the product online and have it delivered directly to the jobsite. "Our goal is to simplify the process of building a home," says Lopez. "The combination of Graphisoft's leadership in the BIM environment and 1ST Pricing's technology brings order and precision to a chaotic process and is an incredible time-saver for architects, contractors and homeowners. A process that used to involve multiple parties and take several weeks with dozens of wasted man-hours can now be completed with a couple clicks of a mouse." About Graphisoft: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it!" Alan Kay (person) Alan Kay - The leader of the Software Concepts Group at Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre which developed Smalltalk, the pioneering object-oriented programming system, in 1972. .(1) Graphisoft is the pioneer and leader in developing Virtual Building(TM) solutions. It is widely acknowledged as the world's #1 supplier of model-based software and services for the building industry. Its clients are at the forefront of the industry -- delivering projects that are better designed, more predictable to construct and less expensive to operate. Graphisoft and ArchiCAD are registered trademarks of Graphisoft. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. (1) Alan Kay. Inventor INVENTOR. One who invents or finds out something. 2. The patent laws of the United States authorize a patent to be issued to the original inventor; if the invention is suggested by another, he is not the inventor within the meaning of those laws; but in that of Smalltalk -- the inspiration behind windowing-based computer systems. About 1ST Pricing: Real Time Pricing for CAD 1ST Pricing is dedicated to providing practical solutions to the building industry. Through their patent-pending technology, they have created a demand driven supply network that is referred to as a search engine for CAD. |
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