Testimonials

A designer specializing in research and code specifications with WDG Architecture, Deborah MacPherson, Assoc. AIA, came to the BIMStorm to look for ways to standardize codes across various levels of state and municipal government. She praised Onuma System for allowing non-designers to have more robust input into the building process.

Evelyn Nash, of the sustainability consultant Cadmus Group, says the multidisciplinary aspects of Onuma-enabled building modeling provide particular bonuses to the process of designing eco-friendly buildings. To get any kind of sustainability or environmental efforts addressed, usually it takes months and months, she says. With this, it gets the ball rolling so you can work out the little nuances in the beginning.

Thank you to you and your team for all that you have done for our city in preparation for and during the BIMStorm event. As stated in your presence I need to repeat that you have build up a wonderful system that you need to be congratulated on. Bernard Hanekom, City of Tshwane, South Africa

Thank you for coming to Columbus last week to address our members. I think they were sufficiently "blown away"! It's amazing the work you are doing and we feel privileged you were able to find time in your busy schedule to be here. Gwen Berlekamp, Executive Director, American Institute of Architects/Columbus Ohio

The OGC CAD-GIS-BIM testbed team was faced with the challenge to develop an open web service architecture for exchanging BIM data - something that had never been done before. It was surprising to our sponsors and colleagues in the OGC that within a six-month time frame we were able to develop this new service specification and to demonstrate interoperability of Onuma's implementation of a web feature service to exchange BIM features with a CAD client and a GIS client using two different industry standard exchange formats. This success was a collaborative effort among commercial and academic developers, yet the successful and rapid development of the new WFS for BIM server, which was central to the testbed, is a reflection of the versatility of the ONUMA platform and the cleverness and effectiveness of the Onuma development team. Paul Cote, Thread Architect
OWS-4 CGB, OGC Test Bed Project

The ONUMA System shifted the reality of true scenario based planning to an enterprise level, enabling us to link shore facilities and infrastructure to mission execution and strategic Coast Guard wide outcomes. This better enabled us to allocate infrastructure resources to the most important mission execution and outcomes. The integration of BIM, geospatial data, real property data and mission requirements supports the need of a common operational picture for the USCG. This common operational picture can be real time tactical information as well as longer term strategic information, which is enabled by the ONUMA System.
David Hammond, Chief, SFCAM Division
Commandant, (CG-434)
United States Coast Guard

What we found path-breaking and remarkable in the Open Geospatial Consortium's OWS-4 test bed was not only how the efforts of GSA's 3D/4D BIM Guide was so readily able to be adapted and implemented for real world (and emergency) situations, but also on a broader note, the powerful implications of Building Information Models (BIM) being web-services enabled. Breaking free not only from the 2D world toward a data-rich 3D BIM world, but also moving beyond typical file-based or even file/server-based information exchanges, to web services has profound implications for portability, accessibility, and interoperability of critical model information.
Stephen R. Hagan FAIA
Project Knowledge Center
Property Development Division
Public Buildings Service
U.S. General Services Administration
National Capital Region

Our JIA chairman Mr.Senda and others all attended your presentation at the the 2007 AIA National Convention in San Antonio. We found your presentation regarding the Onuma System and case studies of the US Coast Guard as one of the most advanced applications of integrated practice. The process you demonstrated of integrating data and project knowledge for scenario based planning was inspirational. Our chairman stated in his weekly reports that we should introduce this Onuma system to Japan at our 2007 JIA convention. I kindly request permission to present your rapid pre-design decision making process to Japanese architects at the JIA Conference in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2007. We believe your message could have a great impact on architects in Japan.
Masaru Fujinuma, Registered Architect
Japan Institute of Architects
JIA Integrated Practice Working Group, Tokyo, Japan

Onuma is a new class of tool.
Lars C. Christensen
Senior Vice President Technology Outlook and Competence
Selvaag Gruppen | Oslo, Norway

Onuma System is, as far I know, one of the few software products which are utilizing the true potential of BIM and going beyond the traditional drafting and CAD not only in the underlying technology but in the management of design information and innovative user interface.
Arto Kiviniemi, Ph.D., M.S.Arch.
Research Professor | Research Centre of Finland

Onuma's technologies allow us to quickly identify shelter sites that will provide services and access critical information about those sites. This enhanced computerized information management tool strengthens and increases the capacity of San Francisco and its regional partners to meet the needs of its citizens in times of disaster.
Rob Stengel, Planner
San Francisco Division of Department of Emergency Management

To best define our facility requirements, Onuma, Inc. helped create a BIM tool that greatly assists with the design and construction processes of Sector Command Centers. This tool allows consistent programming and rapid decision making for development of budgets and staffing levels. The success of this BIM tool paved the way for its expansion into whole building programming site planning and design.
J.M. Brockus, Lieutenant Commander Chief
North Team US Coast Guard

The Sector Command Center Planning Tool was the genesis of the web-enabled, rapid planning, 3-D system. Planners all over the Coast Guard used this tool to generate 35 detailed reports in a matter of six months with little to no training on the intuitive SCC Tool. We have found that this has categorically improved communication in the early planning stages between our engineers/architects and our customers.
VK Holtzman-Bell, Captain
US Coast Guard

Your team's implementation of Building Information Model (BIM) practices for the United States Coast Guard are greatly appreciated and integral to effecting agency-wide change of our design and construction processes.
Jay Manik, Captain
US Coast Guard

Kimon Onuma is one of the few architects bridging the gap between traditional design services and next generation services and the role of the architect to support business missions and operations. Kimon's knowledge of traditional design practice and his evolving expertise with information technologies in the area of CAD, building information, and more importantly enterprise information technologies enables him to provide his owner clients with unique and highly valued services. The innovative approach to utilizing various technologies to support design, rapid prototyping, and facility assessment and visualization will be common place in the future and Kimon's work is leading the way.
Kathleen Liston
President, Liston Consulting, Inc.

As a result of his ideological and practical leadership in developing, applying and advocating collaborative information-based architectural practice, it is difficult to imagine anyone who has done more than Kimon Onuma to protect and advance the relevance of Architects and the Profession of Architecture. The National Building Information Modeling Standards Committee, of which the American Institute of Architects is a Charter Member and essential partner, has relied on Onuma's many years of groundwork and continues to rely on his leadership, technology development and demonstrations of practical applications to lead the way in transforming the building industry into a more efficient provider of architecturally outstanding facilities.
Alan Edgar
Workgroup Program Manager, Open Standards
Consortium for Real Estate, Chair
National Building Information Modeling Standards Executive Committee