OpenBuildings Designer is a versatile building design tool that utilizes BIM workflows to create detailed models for building design, analysis, and simulation, along with generating necessary documentation. It integrates computational design and energy assessment features for evaluating building performance. With OpenBuildings Designer, you can work in a 3D modeling environment and incorporate real-world context through reference to reality models. The application facilitates collaboration by sharing a catalog of design components among project teams and includes clash detection to coordinate building systems effectively. Its federated data approach allows for simultaneous work on models of any scale across different locations, enhancing productivity and ensuring timely project completion.

OpenBuildings Designer serves as a comprehensive tool for handling complex design tasks across architectural, structural, mechanical, and electrical disciplines within a single application. It offers companion features like OpenBuildings GenerativeComponents®, OpenBuildings Station Designer, Descartes™, and LumenRT™, providing diverse functionalities suitable for all project types. These features contribute to cost reduction in application deployment, learning, and administration, ultimately enhancing return on investment. The application fosters efficient collaboration within project environments by distributing a shared library of building components and production standards through a dataset. Bentley’s federated data approach enables seamless work-sharing and collaboration among geographically dispersed teams while maintaining discipline and accountability. Leveraging a connected data environment based on ProjectWise®, users can achieve multidiscipline design coordination, produce deliverables across various disciplines, and efficiently reuse information throughout the asset lifecycle across different applications.

OpenBuildings Designer can be tailored to fit seamlessly into your existing project delivery workflows, ensuring compliance with client contract requirements and ultimately enhancing client satisfaction. Its integration with ProjectWise facilitates project delivery based on ISO 19650 standards, fostering improved collaboration and information management throughout the entire asset lifecycle. The application offers adaptable workflows, toolsets, and flexibility to tackle real-world design challenges across a wide range of building and infrastructure projects.

With OpenBuildings Designer, exploring design alternatives becomes more efficient through the embedding of design intent with expressions and constraint-driven geometry. This approach minimizes redundant modeling efforts and enhances design quality, empowering engineers and architects to evaluate various design options effectively. The energy analysis module aids in sustainability decision-making by simulating building asset performance over time. Additionally, built-in visualization capabilities enable solar exposure studies and shadow analysis.

The software also enables the creation of photorealistic rendering outputs, including images and movies, by applying advanced materials and textures to design elements, facilitating effective communication with project stakeholders. Integration with LumenRT offers users a real-time, immersive digital visualization experience, complete with atmosphere, seasonal variations, landscape, surroundings, people, and vehicles, enhancing project visualization throughout different project stages.