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Schematic Design and BIM Automation
Skema converts schematic designs into BIM models in minutes
Skema is a generative design platform for the AEC industry. It creates a continuous workflow from early design through BIM delivery. Skema preserves design intent across every phase, improving speed, consistency, and decision-making
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Leverage design intelligence with reusable logic, APIs, and continuity across phases
Fast-Forward your design process without limiting your creativity
Achieve better outcomes—from first sketch to final model
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“You can do in a day what would have taken weeks
with previous methods”
— Michael Hodge, TVS
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The Unitized Design Solution for Many Typologies
Supported Building Types
Healthcare - Education - Hospitality - Residential - Retail - Data Center - Mixed Use
Whether new build, modular, or adaptive reuse, fast forward past the mundane and get to crafting one-of-a-kind designs
Skema for HEALTHCARE
Skema accelerates healthcare facility design from MOBs to research labs
Skema captures the design knowledge and best design work from your previous projects, harnessing your proven solutions for surgery suites, nursing stations, exam rooms and more. Skema maintains your design standards across projects and project teams. With Skema, deliver schematics and BIM deliverables earlier, giving you more time to focus on the high value design work that differentiates your firm.
Watch the how it works video.
Skema for EDUCATION
Skema helps designers plan and deliver modern educational facilities
Designers are challenged to support cost efficient industrialized construction methods, while delivering superior learning spaces. With Skema, you can leverage Design Catalogs of units that are already proven in previous projects allowing you to quickly iterate design options as you plan and execute flexible, multi-use educational spaces. Then, Skema’s BIM in Minutes capabilities helps you ensure the higher quality construction documents are on time and on budget. Watch the video.
Skema for HOSPITALITY
Skema automates guest room and administration layout design
Skema enables you to maximize the square footage opportunities and minimize the time you spend on creating BIM models. Skema gives designers the freedom to focus their creative efforts on the experiential spaces that differentiate the guests’ stay. Whether modular construction or custom resort, Skema enables you to maximize the square footage opportunities and minimize the time you spend on creating BIM models. Watch the video.
Skema for RESIDENTIAL
Skema optimizes residential design options with real-time metrics
Skema lets you easily create layouts for high-end developments, senior housing, mixed use and even office-to-residential adaptive reuse. Quickly assess feasibility using Skema’s integrated metrics that display unit mix, floor area ratio, and other key figures. Generate multiple design options with real-time metrics updated, ensuring you can present your proposals with greater confidence and accuracy. See the demo.
Skema for DATA CENTERS
Skema helps validate the complexities of data center design
Use Skema to create repeatable prototypes and easily validate the number of servers and data halls. With Skema it’s easy to update designs as data from other disciplines changes. As a web app on an independent tech stack, Skema easily integrates with MEP and HVAC tools. With Skema you get BIM models you can trust that enable you to easily move towards industrialized construction methods. Explore the case study.
Skema for YOUR PROJECTS
Skema enables high quality proposals for retail, multi-use, industrial, and more
Whether you're designing a multi-use campus, industrial facilities, or retail spaces, Skema is designed to save architects, owners, developers, and builders up to 8 weeks in their schematic-to-BIM design workflow. Deliver better and higher quality BIM deliverables more easily and faster. Get to a higher level of design detail earlier to support industrial construction processes. With Skema, you can confidently deliver high quality proposals and projects.
How Skema Works
Skema captures your design intent as intelligent, reusable assemblies — ready to roll straight into BIM. Your design intent stays intact, from massing to modeling to documentation.
A New Approach to Design that Seamlessly Integrates with Existing Workflows
Design Catalogs
Skema’s easy-to-use Design Catalogs give you full control over your feasibility studies, proposals, detail designs, and BIM deliverables - in an easy-to-use web app.
Puzzle Pieces
Rapidly iterating multiple design schemes is a breeze. Arrange your firm’s design elements like puzzle pieces to fit new concepts, creating variants and options to explore.
Morph
Resolve tricky layouts. When a layout doesn’t quite fit the space available in your parti, Skema’s unique Morphing Tools let you easily squeeze or stretch your puzzle pieces, even around corners. Or create entirely new schemes just by morphing the layout into new shapes.
Integrated Metrics
No more guessing. As you design, Skema tracks your key figures with precision. Because the BIM data backs up your design, you can be confident that everything will fit in your resolved scheme.
Effortless BIM
When you’re ready to move forward from schematic design, Skema does the heavy lifting to generate your construction-document-ready BIM project in a few clicks.
Our AI Respects Your IP
Your successful BIM designs are your intellectual property – your IP. We get it. And we respect it. We don’t train our AI on your data. Your Design Catalogs of your ‘greatest hits’ designs are for your firm, and only your firm, to apply to new projects.
Read more about our stance in AEC Magazine.
What People Are Saying
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Skema AI’s knowledge agent is designed to enable the senior designer to efficiently pursue work for the firm.
— AEC Magazine | November 2023
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Designers can learn how to use Skema in a few hours and then deploy it to create designs using the tool. One early customer, architecture firm TVS, held a charette using Skema and produced designs for a mixed-use multifamily project in one day.
— Architosh | October 2023
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Skema is the only generative solution that natively connects and works with BIM tools. The promise of saving time on repetitive tasks is a reality. By using Skema, you can delight your clients with exceptional quality, speed, level of detail, and data in the conceptual design phase while raising your profit margin at the same time.
— Jim Balding | Founder, The ANT Group
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Skema addresses a very particular and pressing industry-wide problem that hasn’t been tackled head-on before, eliminating a ton of pain-points for Architects
— aec+tech | August 2024
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Fast-evolving Skema has a lot to offer architects looking to leverage AI and machine learning in practical ways to win work faster and increase economic performance for both firm and client.
— Architosh | May 2024
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Adoption of software like Skema presents a win for both firms and clients, allowing for more rapid prototyping of different layouts and configurations, and faster iterations in a project’s early stages.
— TVSdesign.com | Perspective August 2023
The future of design is here,
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