Data architecture and standards
Dictionaries, schemas, and classification systems that give data its context. We author them, map them to the standards your industry already uses, and version them so they stay authoritative.
Data · Systems engineering · Standards · Software
Engineering the systems behind the data.
Data is money. Every decision, every product, and every AI model runs on it, but on its own data is bits and bytes; it earns its value only with the right context, structure, and systems integration. S3 BIM Tech is a data company specializing in systems engineering: we design the architectures, standards, pipelines, and software that make data usable, governable, and ready for the systems, and the AI, that depend on it.
What we do
Four disciplines, one data model.
Every engagement ends in something the next system can read.
Systems integration
Data earns its value when systems agree on it. We connect models, databases, sensors, and records into one governed flow, so every system reads the same truth.
AI-ready data pipelines
AI is only as good as the structure beneath it. We build the pipelines that validate, enrich, and deliver data with its context intact, so models and agents work from governed inputs, not guesses.
Custom software
Sharp, small tools where the market has none. Web applications, importers, exporters, and validators built around your data, not ours.
Industries we serve
Roots in the built environment. A method that travels.
The name says BIM. The approach is domain-agnostic: structure the data, govern it, integrate the systems around it.
Built environment
Where we started. BIM strategy and information requirements, digital twins that answer operational questions, and IFC and bSDD as the exchange layer between them.
Software
Data governance and structured-data authoring for product and platform teams: dictionaries, schemas, and taxonomies that ship as versioned, validated definitions.
Education and research
Systematic reviews and research data with provenance intact: capture, screen, code, and analyse in one governed workflow.
Software
Tools we build and run.
Products that came out of our own work, kept because the market had nothing better.
SchemaEnterprise
LiveGovernance authoring for structured-data definitions.
Create, version, standardize, and publish data dictionaries, taxonomies, and schemas in shareable workspaces. bSDD import and export in both directions, offline validation against the bSDD spec, and the IFC 4.3 standard built in.
LitReview
LiveSystematic literature reviews, in one place.
A collaborative platform for teams conducting systematic literature reviews. Capture references from DOIs, URLs, or bulk imports; screen them against your inclusion criteria; code them against a classification scheme your team defines; and generate analyses that drop straight into your write-up. AI assistance accelerates reading and coding while every suggestion stays under human review.
Why S3
How we work.
Standards-native
We work inside IFC, bSDD, and the classification systems your projects already require. Deliverables line up with them from the first draft.
Builder-led
The people who scope the work write the software. There is no hand-off between the proposal and the delivery.
Data that outlives the project
Everything we produce is designed to be exported, versioned, and read by the next tool. Nothing is locked inside ours.