Collaboration tools

Curated directory of Collaboration software for AEC teams. 76 published tools.

Overview

Collaboration tools keep teams aligned when models, sheets, and comments change daily. They combine permissions, versioning, and notifications so people trust which file is current. Strong platforms reduce email attachments and give clash and review threads a durable home. Evaluate products against your delivery method. Design bid build teams may prioritize transmittals and redlines. Design build and IPD teams may need co authoring guardrails and early issue analytics. Always test large model performance, mobile access for site walks, and how guests from partner firms are onboarded. This category is a starting point for comparing hubs, review tools, and lightweight sharing layers. Pair what you find here with your IT security checklist before you invite every consultant into a shared space.

Explore 76 tools

All 76 Collaboration tools

  • 3D Repo

    3D Repo is a browser-based BIM coordination platform from Asite 3D Repo that federates models in the cloud, tracks pinned issues and BCF

  • AKULAR

    AKULAR is field and visualization software that brings federated BIM into augmented reality on phones, tablets, and headsets, anchored in

  • Allplan

    Allplan is a desktop-first BIM platform from ALLPLAN Deutschland GmbH (Nemetschek Group) that targets architecture and engineering workflows

  • Arcol

    Arcol is a web-based building design platform that keeps parametric models, live metrics, and presentation boards in one workspace for

  • ARES Commander

    ARES Commander is native DWG CAD software for Windows, macOS, and Linux from Graebert that ties Revit and IFC models to 2D DWG output, with

  • Arkio

    Arkio is a cross-platform XR and desktop collaboration app for AEC that imports models from Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, Archicad, and Navisworks

  • Asite

    Asite is a cloud common data environment and collaboration platform for capital projects that centralizes documents, models, and workflows

  • AVAIL for Revit

    AVAIL for Revit is a Revit-integrated content library system that helps AEC teams search, preview, and place approved BIM content with

  • Avoice

    Avoice is a web-based AI workspace for architecture practices that ties together drawing and document interpretation, coordination-style QA

  • Bid Management by Procore

    Bid Management by Procore is a preconstruction bidding suite that centralizes invitations, leveling, trade partner qualification, and

  • BIM by Procore

    BIM by Procore is a construction BIM suite inside the Procore platform that puts model viewing, coordination issues, and field-ready

  • BIM&CO

    BIM&CO is a collaborative web platform and manufacturer ecosystem for publishing, searching, and downloading BIM-ready product content,

  • BIMcollab

    BIMcollab is a cloud and desktop coordination platform for AEC that centralizes BCF-style issues, hosts IFC in a web viewer, and pairs with

  • Bimeye

    Bimeye is Tribia's cloud BIM data service that keeps model-derived information in a shared hub so teams can sync, enrich, and report on

  • BIMserver.center

    BIMserver.center is a cloud collaboration hub for AEC that hosts Open BIM projects, federates IFC-based models, and ties into a large

  • BIM Track

    BIM Track is a web-first BIM coordination and issue-tracking module inside the Newforma Konekt platform, with desktop add-ins so teams can

  • BIMWorkplace

    BIMWorkplace is a cloud BIM coordination platform that federates Revit, Navisworks, and IFC models, groups clashes, and adds dashboards plus

  • Bluebeam

    Bluebeam is a PDF-centric construction collaboration suite built around Bluebeam Revu on Windows plus matching web and mobile viewers,

  • Buildfactory

    Buildfactory is a construction technology platform that connects builders with vetted fabrication partners and adds Pulse, a workspace that

  • BuildingConnected by Autodesk

    BuildingConnected by Autodesk is preconstruction software that connects owners, general contractors, and subcontractors for bid invitations,

  • Bulk Exchange

    Bulk Exchange is a web marketplace for heavy civil construction that helps estimators and contractors find bulk materials and disposal

  • Catenda Hub

    Catenda Hub is a browser-based open BIM common data environment from Catenda that hosts IFC models, BCF issues, and project documents with

  • Clearstory

    Clearstory is a construction change-order platform that gives general contractors, specialty contractors, and owners one live log for CORs

  • Constructable

    Constructable is browser and device construction management software that combines drawing-based RFIs and submittals, field logs, takeoff,

  • Cupix

    Cupix is a 4D digital twin platform that turns 360?? job site video into measurable 3D spaces, progress analytics, and federated BIM and

  • Dalux Box

    Dalux Box is a cloud common data environment (CDE) that keeps BIM models, drawings, and documents in one Dalux-integrated workspace with ISO

  • Dalux FM

    Dalux FM is a cloud facility management and CMMS platform built around 2D and 3D BIM so operations teams run maintenance, assets, work

  • Drawboard

    Drawboard is a PDF markup and design review platform that keeps live annotations, measurements, and tracked issues on AEC drawings across

  • Fieldwire by Hilti

    Fieldwire by Hilti is cloud and mobile construction field management software for plan viewing, tasks, punch lists, photos, and reporting,

  • Finalcad by Orisha

    Finalcad by Orisha is a construction site management and field collaboration platform that unifies quality, safety, progress, and document

  • Flyability

    Flyability builds collision-tolerant Elios indoor drones and Flyability Cloud for remote visual inspection, 3D mapping, and confined-space

  • Hardline

    Hardline is a voice-first field documentation app for construction that turns jobsite phone calls into timestamped, shareable job updates so

  • Howie

    Howie is a cloud knowledge platform for construction and real estate that indexes project correspondence and files so teams can query firm

  • Ingenious Build

    Ingenious Build is a web-based construction management suite from IngeniousIO that unifies project financials, schedules, documents, and

  • Join

    Join is preconstruction and design-phase software that gives owners, designers, and contractors one shared workspace to align scope, cost,

  • Kahua

    Kahua is a cloud construction project management platform built around asset-centric data for owners, program managers, general contractors,

  • Konstru

    Konstru is a web-based common data environment for structural and BIM workflows that syncs, views, edits, and compares models between Revit,

  • Kraaft

    Kraaft is a field-first construction communication and site-operations app that combines per-jobsite chat, geotagged photos and maps,

  • LightTable

    LightTable is a web-based drawing review service that applies machine-learning checks plus optional architect and engineer sign-off to

  • LINEAR Solutions

    LINEAR Solutions is a modular MEP and building-services engineering suite for Windows that embeds natively in Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, and

  • Matterport

    Matterport is a digital twin platform for the built environment that turns captured spatial data into immersive 3D tours, floor plans, and

  • Motif

    Motif is a browser-based architecture and building design workspace that streams live models from Revit and Rhino, supports sheet review and

  • Naeva

    Naeva is a connected field operations platform for construction sites that unifies power and climate control, access, workforce visibility,

  • NavVis

    NavVis is a mobile mapping and digital twin platform that combines SLAM-based wearable and handheld laser scanners with the NavVis IVION web

  • Newforma Konekt

    Newforma Konekt is cloud-based project information management software for architecture, engineering, and construction teams that

  • NEXT-BIM

    NEXT-BIM is mixed-reality field software for iPad and Microsoft HoloLens that registers IFC-based BIM models on site with automatic

  • Nira

    Nira is a browser-based 3D collaboration platform that streams massive mesh, point cloud, Gaussian splat, and photogrammetry assets for

  • Novorender

    Novorender is a browser-based BIM visualization platform that federates large 3D models and point clouds with clash detection, measurement,

  • Oracle Aconex

    Oracle Aconex is a construction common data environment and project collaboration platform that manages documents, correspondence, models,

  • Pirros

    Pirros is a cloud detail library platform for AEC teams that indexes Revit details and families with search, metadata, and a Revit add-in so

  • PlanGrid by Autodesk

    PlanGrid by Autodesk is field-oriented construction software for sheet-centric workflows, giving teams shared access to plans, issues,

  • PlanRadar

    PlanRadar is cloud and mobile construction and property operations software that ties tickets, inspections, plans, BIM models, and reporting

  • Procore

    Procore is cloud-based construction management software that ties together field and office teams with unlimited users per account,

  • Project Execution by Procore

    Project Execution by Procore is a cloud construction management suite that connects office and field teams so schedule, cost, and

  • Provizual

    Provizual is a construction inspection coordination application that ingests municipal inspection feeds, Procore inspections, field reports,

  • Pulley

    Pulley is a web-based construction permitting platform from Pulley Studios that centralizes requirement research, application submission,

  • Qonic

    Qonic is a cloud-native BIM modeling and coordination platform that uses an IFC-centric model in the browser with optional desktop and

  • Rayon

    Rayon is a browser-based CAD environment for interior designers and architects that pairs drafting, BIM-style tools, real-time

  • Revizto

    Revizto is a cloud-based BIM coordination platform that brings 2D sheets and 3D models into one workspace for issue tracking, clash

  • RIB Connex

    RIB Connex is a cloud-based field and collaboration platform for construction that unifies 2D plans, 3D and BIM in one viewer, BCF issue

  • Shapespark

    Shapespark is a desktop-and-cloud authoring tool plus WebGL hosting service that turns architectural models from Revit, SketchUp, 3ds Max,

  • Smino

    Smino is a browser-first construction collaboration platform that combines a CDE-style workspace with automated BIM checks powered by a

  • Solibri CheckPoint

    Solibri CheckPoint is a browser-based BIM quality assurance service that runs clash, data validation, and free-space checks on combined

  • Sparkel

    Sparkel is a browser-based quantity takeoff and estimating workspace that reads IFC and Revit models plus PDF drawings, keeps quantities

  • Speckle

    Speckle is an open-source interoperability platform for AEC that moves BIM and design data through versioned cloud streams and desktop

  • StreamBIM

    StreamBIM is cloud and mobile BIM collaboration software that streams 2D and 3D project information to office and field teams for model

  • StructionSite by DroneDeploy

    StructionSite by DroneDeploy is interior ground reality-capture software for construction that maps 360?? photos, video walks, and

  • Syncker

    Syncker is field-and-office construction software from Brazil that links the jobsite and back office in real time with Workspace for

  • Tekla Model Sharing

    Tekla Model Sharing is a Trimble Tekla cloud collaboration service for Tekla Structures that keeps each user on a local model copy while it

  • Trimble Connect

    Trimble Connect is a cloud common data environment and collaboration hub that federates construction and geospatial files, with in-browser

  • Trimble Unity Construct

    Trimble Unity Construct is a cloud owner platform for capital program and construction project delivery that centralizes planning,

  • UNIFI for Revit

    UNIFI for Revit is a cloud BIM content management platform that combines metadata-driven libraries with desktop add-ins so teams can search,

  • VIKTOR

    VIKTOR is a browser-based Python application platform for engineers that ships AI-assisted app authoring, integrations with CAD and analysis

  • Vrex

    Vrex is multi-user virtual reality collaboration software for AEC teams that turns federated BIM, CAD, and E57 point clouds into shared

  • WorkLink by Scope AR

    WorkLink by Scope AR is an enterprise augmented reality platform that lets teams author, publish, and follow spatial work instructions and

  • xeokit

    xeokit is a JavaScript BIM viewer SDK, maintained by xeolabs with Creoox AG support, that loads large AEC models in the browser using WebGL,

Frequently asked questions

What should a collaboration pilot include?

Pick one discipline heavy package with realistic file sizes, define publish rules, and run a weekly design meeting fully inside the tool. Measure publish errors, duplicate file incidents, and time to find the latest sheet. Capture feedback from remote engineers who rely on home connections.

How do we handle multinational data residency?

Ask where blobs and databases live, whether projects can be pinned to regions, and how backups replicate. Map owner contracts to specific clauses before you store PII or financial attachments. Some vendors offer dedicated instances for regulated clients.

What is the biggest failure mode for CDE rollouts?

Shadow workflows. If publishing is too heavy, teams email anyway. Reduce friction with templates, bulk uploads, and training at the discipline lead level. Celebrate early wins when clash comments stay linked to model versions.

How do collaboration tools relate to clash detection?

Some hubs embed clash and issue tracking, others integrate with dedicated coordination products. Decide whether you want one inbox for all issues or separate systems for trade coordination versus design review.

What contract language should reference the CDE?

Name the system of record, required metadata for uploads, response times for RFIs routed through the hub, and consequences for out of band revisions. Align insurance and digital delivery exhibits where applicable.

Why use BIM Tools Hub alongside vendor sites?

Vendor pages emphasize roadmap marketing. The hub aggregates many products so you can compare categories, pricing hints, and excerpts in one place before you schedule sales calls.