Civil Design through disciplines and lifecycles

 

Made by users for users

In 1984 the engineers who established the Vianova Civil Engineering Network started integrating CAD and advanced mathematic engineering algorithms to make highway design more efficient and flexible. The algorithms and methods had been used widely in Norway since late 60’s, but this was the first time they where integrated with a graphical CAD engine, and this was the start of the first of the today’s more than 20 Civil Design modules in Novapoint.

The aim was to let the users have a complete, professional but at the same efficient and easy to use design software. We also wanted to give our users a flexible solution, and at the same time the ability to share data through all disciplines and lifecycles. This is still our philosophy. Thanks to more than 4000 enthusiastic users of 12 000 licenses in 20 countries, we continue to develop integrated, professional, easy to use Civil Engineering tools.

 

Novapoint has more partners than customers. This means we establish tight relations to the engineers using Novapoint. This results in higher level of feedback to the continuous improvement of existing modules and the development of new ones. Local and international reference groups, yearly user seminars, a user magazine, updated web-sites, developing project relations and distributed responsibility for the development projects in a wide international network is just some of the reasons why Novapoint is increasingly the chosen solution for Road Authorities, Rail Authorities, Civil Aviations, Harbour Authorities, major engineering groups, small engineering offices, municipalities, Universities and Landscape Architects in Europe, Asia and Africa.

 

Share data instead of translate and move data
Road Authorities and Rail Authorities are integrating the Civil Design functions in Novapoint within their National Transportation GIS and management systems. Novapoint is based on an advanced common data model called Quadri. This means that intelligent objects from design, information, Mapping and GIS is shared and reused through projects lifecycles. The development and evolution from these projects are accumulated back to all existing users through continuous updates and new releases.