CEO, GRAITEC Group
Manuel Liedot GRAITEC CEO
Discover Graitec's vision and ambitions for the construction software industry.
About Manuel Liedot
Manuel Liedot, CEO of Graitec, has described the company as a global player in construction software with approximately 700 employees across 14 countries and around 300 million euros in revenue. He stated that following the 2022 acquisition of Applied Software in the U.S., about 50% of the company’s business is in North America and 50% in Europe, with less than 10% of revenue coming from France. Liedot said Graitec is an Autodesk Platinum partner and that its mission is to help construction professionals digitize and industrialize processes to build with less environmental impact. He noted that the company is investing in the steel industry and plans to release a new version of PowerPack for Advanced Steel in 2024. Liedot has also spoken about his personal history with the company, saying he joined Graitec shortly after co-developing the structural analysis software Arche in the early 1990s. He described himself as a defender of the "right to fail" as long as there is commitment and effort, and compared Graitec’s trajectory to a relay race and a second half of a match where the team is "boosted" and aims to achieve multiples of past performance. He cited the 1998 FIFA World Cup victory as a memorable sporting moment and named Yannick Noah as a coaching inspiration for his ability to instill engagement and a will to succeed.
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Hello everyone. As the CEO of GRAITEC, I am so happy to welcome you to the 2023 edition of our International BIMup Conference. This year, we focus on education. We want to empower you with the necessary information to transform the way you use technology and BIM to build sustainably and let your imagination run wild. How do we do this? By learning the ins and outs of Autodesk products and designing our own original software solutions to design smarter and faster. Together, we can innovate and collaborate to sustainably build a better future.
Before we begin, let me reintroduce you to GRAITEC. We are a software company providing innovative solutions for the construction industry. Our strategy is to offer comprehensive software that enables customers to streamline their workflows, optimize their design, industrialize their processes, increase efficiency, etc. Thanks to the acquisition of Applied Software in the US in 2022, the GRAITEC Group has become a global player in construction software, and we are now present in more than 14 countries. At GRAITEC, we put our customer first wherever they are located, and our annual BIMup Conference is part of this commitment to fostering strong relationships.
GRAITEC is an Autodesk Platinum Partner, meaning that GRAITEC has achieved the highest certification level within the Autodesk Partner Program in all our active regions. We are committed to working closely with Autodesk to provide our customers with a comprehensive range of software solutions that complement Autodesk's suite of products. During this BIMup Digital Conference, you will get to experience classes that optimize the use of Autodesk Construction Cloud for connected workflows, highlight common mistakes to avoid when using Revit, and how technology like InnoVyze can help improve our environments. This includes also GRAITEC's own suite of software solutions which are designed to integrate seamlessly with Autodesk products and enhance performance. Whether you are a BIM expert or just starting the journey, we want to be your partner along the way. Together, we can take your professional performance to the next level.
The mutually beneficial partnership between GRAITEC and Autodesk is exciting. It allows both companies to leverage each other's expertise and technology to provide you, our customers, with the best possible outcome. For example, GRAITEC software solutions can enhance the capabilities of Autodesk products by providing specialized functionality for structural analysis and design, detailing and fabrication, project management, and collaboration. We are particularly proud of GRAITEC PowerPack, an innovative set of productivity tools designed to help you maximize the potential of Revit, Advance Steel, Inventor, and Vault. And by the way, I am taking this opportunity to announce that we are further investing in the steel industry, continuing to support and empower Advance Steel. In 2024, we will release a new version of PowerPack for Advance Steel that will continue to improve and augment the phenomenal software that is Advance Steel.
One key aspect of GRAITEC's strategy focuses on providing software that addresses your specific needs. Our motto is: create data-rich models enabling the best possible design decisions to be made, simulate their behavior to make them perform better, and fabricate as automatically as possible, driving down the costs of time and resources. By doing so, we design programs that are made to the needs of our customers that emphasize collaboration and project management. This includes software for structural analysis and design like Advanced Design, Revit design and detailing with a new version of PowerPack for Revit, and fabrication with Advanced Workshop. By the way, in this BIMup Conference, we have classes that will showcase how engineers can effectively streamline structural analysis workflows with Revit, how the PowerPack for Revit facilitates shared libraries to integrate project standards and makes light work of legends, and why we launched the PowerPack for Plant 3D to dramatically improve plant workflows. GRAITEC places a strong emphasis on innovation. We are continually investing in research and development to stay ahead of the curve in terms of technology and functionality so we can create the best possible products to address your needs and make you successful.
Education is a driver of industry change. Providing resources to keep learning, we help our clients fully leverage the power of BIM. GRAITEC offers dedicated consultancy services aimed at educating all audiences in how to identify new opportunities created by technology. Our consultants can show you how to best facilitate BIM adoption across all teams, foster collaboration amongst organizations of all sizes, and ensure top quality services and the satisfaction of your clients. Our classes are delivered by experienced product and industry experts in first-class facilities. We deliver around 12,000 training days a year, including e-training and on-site in our 29 global branches, and we hope that the BIMup Conference will inspire you to join us again.
Last but not least, as a software company providing solutions for the construction industry, we never forget that we only have one planet. Conscious of the industry's impact on the environment, we are committed to promoting sustainability both in how we operate and how we design our products. GRAITEC is focused on developing software solutions that enable our customers to design and construct more sustainable buildings and infrastructure. This includes software like EcoCalculator in France to optimize energy consumption and carbon impacts, and Advanced Design, which is a structural simulation and optimization software that helps design lighter and stronger structures with less material and now optimized embodied carbon as well. As a company, we are also working to reduce our own environmental footprint by implementing sustainable practices in all our operations. GRAITEC is also one of the official sponsors of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, an annual award that recognizes architects and designers who have made significant contributions to sustainable architecture and urbanism. We are constantly inspired by the visionary strides the industry is making within sustainable architecture and proud to support further innovation.
In addition to these efforts, GRAITEC is working to promote sustainability in the wider construction industry by partnering with organizations and initiatives that promote sustainable building practices. Our membership with the UN Global Compact and UN Women, a voluntary initiative that encourages companies to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies and practices, allows us to continue promoting and engaging with sustainability best practices globally. Finally, we are also proud to support Habitat for Humanity by contributing to the financing and technical assistance of the renovation of the Velasca Social Center in Slovakia.
We are so pleased to welcome you to the 2023 BIMup Conference to delve deeper into the issues and best practices that are at the heart of the construction industry. At GRAITEC, we have solutions and counseling to work with you every step of the way so that you can not only build faster, but also build cheaper, and more importantly, build better. We are committed to a vision of the world that centers sustainability and innovation, and we are so pleased to invite you to join us this week. With more than 300 classes in 18 languages, we hope this new edition of GRAITEC's BIMup Conference will serve you in the best possible way, delivering and co-building expertise, high-level technical content, and thought leadership, so that tomorrow is built by the best with the help of the best. I can't wait to see what we can accomplish together.