Understand faster. Reduce coordination risk. Act with confidence.
VDC Collaboration turns BIM models into a shared coordination environment where teams can review current project information, identify issues earlier, and maintain a clear record of decisions across the asset lifecycle.
Make BIM data easier to access
Give non-expert users a simpler way to explore model information, inspect properties, and find relevant elements without BIM authoring tools. VDC Collaboration is designed to make BIM Software more accessible across project roles.
Detect coordination problems earlier
Enable architects and engineers to run simplified clash checks directly in the shared model environment and get immediate feedback during coordination, without waiting for a BIM manager-led expert workflow. This supports earlier issue discovery and faster design iteration, while keeping advanced clash analysis in VDC Manager.
Coordinate in one shared model context
Keep models, viewpoints, and issues connected so that stakeholders work from the same up-to-date information.
Resolve issues with less ambiguity
Use BCF-based issues and precise viewpoints to link discussions directly to 3D context.
Keep decisions traceable
Maintain visibility of issue history, comments, ownership, and status across the workflow.
AI-assisted access to BIM data
VDC Collaboration includes AI-assisted interaction with BIM data to help users access model information more easily and reduce complexity when navigating IFC metadata.
Built for owners, operators, and delivery teams
VDC Collaboration gives stakeholders access to the right model context in the browser, without requiring BIM authoring tools. It supports coordination during delivery and improves continuity into handover and operations.
For Asset owners and operators
Access current project models in a governed environment
Improve continuity from delivery to handover and operations
Maintain traceability of issues, viewpoints, and decisions
For General contractors and delivery teams
Models exist. But teams still work without shared context.
In complex projects, BIM models are often available but not equally accessible across the wider team. Stakeholders work in different tools, issues are tracked outside the model, and decisions lose their context. The result is slower coordination, version confusion, delayed issue resolution, and avoidable rework.
One shared environment for model-based coordination.
VDC Collaboration brings federated models, issues, viewpoints, and coordination workflows together in one browser-based environment.
Connect models from the CDE
Open federated, project models directly from supported Thinkproject CDE environments using approved revisions.
Review in 3D context
Navigate models, inspect properties, filter relevant elements, and use measurements and section cuts to understand what matters quickly.
Check model coordination earlier
Run simplified clash checks in the browser to identify obvious discipline conflicts earlier in the review cycle. This gives architects and engineers faster feedback inside the shared coordination environment.
Manage issues with viewpoints
Create, assign, and track BCF issues linked to precise 3D viewpoints so communication stays grounded in context.
Connect expert and team workflows
Use VDC Manager for advanced clash detection, model checks, and expert BIM validation, then synchronize issues into VDC Collaboration for wider team review and resolution.
VDC Collaboration (Team Layer)
Model-based coordination hub in the browser
- Ensures teams align, review, and resolve issues in context
VDC Manager
(Expert Layer)
BIM expert platform
- Ensures models are accurate, compliant, and ready
Model-based workflows for project coordination
Use the model as shared project context across review, coordination, issue resolution, and early conflict detection.
Model visualization for all stakeholders
- Provide browser-based access to federated BIM models so all stakeholders can understand complex project information without authoring tools.
- Outcome: Faster shared understanding across teams.
Design coordination and review
- Enable multidisciplinary teams to review models together, align decisions, and identify issues earlier.
- Outcome: Fewer coordination errors and reduced rework
Simplified clash review for faster feedback
- Allow architects and engineers to check their models against other disciplines directly in the shared environment and get immediate feedback on obvious clashes, without waiting for a BIM manager-led cycle.
- Outcome: Earlier issue detection and faster coordination turnaround.
Issue management in 3D context
- Create, assign, discuss, and track BCF issues linked to model viewpoints and full history.
- Outcome: Faster resolution and better accountability.
Asset visualization and handover support
- Connect models with asset structures and related asset information to support continuity into handover and operations.
- Outcome: Better lifecycle continuity and easier access to asset context.
One platform for model-based collaboration
Core capabilities for reviewing models, coordinating issues, identifying conflicts earlier, and keeping decisions in context.
Catch obvious clashes before formal expert review
VDC Collaboration brings clash checking closer to day-to-day coordination by enabling architects and engineers to identify clear conflicts directly in the shared model environment. This helps teams act earlier, reduce waiting time, and improve coordination speed.
This capability is best positioned as a simplified clash detection workflow for immediate coordination feedback. It helps project teams review model conflicts sooner in the browser, while VDC Manager remains the advanced expert tool for detailed clash analysis, repeatable run configurations, broader QA workflows, and deeper BIM validation.
That complementarity is important and consistent with the current product split:
VDC Collaboration
shared coordination and self-service review layer
VDC Manager
expert validation and advanced checking layer
One platform. Connected model workflows.
VDC Collaboration connects model-based coordination with the wider Thinkproject ecosystem.
CDE NextGen
VDC Manager
Asset Manager
Work Manager
Built for complex and multi-party environments.
Control, traceability, and governance are built into every workflow.
- Role-based access
Ensure secure collaboration with controlled permissions across stakeholders. - Full issue traceability
Track every issue, comment, and decision with a complete history. - Open BIM standards
Work with industry standards like IFC and BCF for interoperability. - Governed collaboration
Maintain structured, auditable processes across organisations and projects.
Start with coordination. Scale across your portfolio.
Adopt quickly and expand model-based workflows across projects and lifecycle phases.
- Start with model review
Deploy quickly for model access and basic coordination workflows. - Standardise workflows
Align teams on consistent issue management and coordination processes. - Extend to lifecycle workflows
Connect models with asset data and downstream use cases. - Scale across projects
Roll out across programmes and portfolios with shared governance and structure.
Frequently asked questions
VDC Collaboration is a browser-based platform that enables teams to review, coordinate, and manage BIM models in a shared environment, connecting models, issues, and decisions in context. It is designed as BIM collaboration software for complex project delivery and coordination workflows.
VDC Collaboration goes beyond visualization by enabling model-based issue management, coordination workflows, and traceable decision-making across stakeholders using BCF standards.
It is designed for all project stakeholders, including asset owners, contractors, engineers, and BIM coordinators, who need to access and coordinate models without requiring specialist BIM software or BIM authoring tools.
It supports model visualization, design coordination, collaborative review, issue management, and, where enabled, simplified clash review directly in a shared 3D context.
VDC Collaboration synchronizes issues with VDC Manager, allowing BIM experts to perform model checks and clash detection in VDC Manager and share results with the wider team for resolution. Advanced clash detection remains part of the VDC Manager expert workflow.
AI-assisted capabilities help users access and navigate model data more efficiently, making complex BIM information easier to understand.
See how VDC Collaboration works on your projects
Use VDC Collaboration to make BIM data accessible to all stakeholders, improve coordination quality, identify issues earlier, and keep decisions traceable across delivery and handover.