Nemetschek announces Stanford CIFE partnership as Bluebeam outlines AI roadmap

Washington, D.C., October 11, 2025

News Summary

At the Bluebeam Unbound conference in Washington, D.C., Nemetschek founder announced a partnership between the Nemetschek Group and Stanford University’s Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE). Bluebeam, a Nemetschek brand, unveiled an AI roadmap that includes the recent Firmus AI acquisition and plans to integrate AI-REVIEW and AI-MATCH capabilities into its products. Bluebeam previewed Revu Max with features such as Stitch for merging multiple sheets into a single overhead view and expanded Magic Wand geometry tools, plus a Model Context Protocol and new Procore and DocuSign integrations to streamline construction document workflows.

Bluebeam Unbound in Washington, D.C.: major partnership, an AI acquisition and a roadmap for document AI

Georg Nemetschek is 91 years old. At the Bluebeam Unbound conference in Washington, D.C., he announced a partnership between his company and an academic research center to push artificial intelligence into construction workflows.

Top line

Georg Nemetschek is the founder of the Nemetschek Group. He announced a partnership between the Nemetschek Group (or its brand Bluebeam) and Stanford University’s Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE). The Stanford CIFE partnership was announced at the Bluebeam Unbound conference in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 1. The move accompanies an acquisition and a product roadmap that centers on adding AI to PDF‑based construction workflows.

What happened at the event

Bluebeam Unbound is a global event for AEC professionals held in Washington, D.C. The conference ran with sessions across Sept. 30 – Oct. 2. Bluebeam (a Nemetschek Group brand) presented product and integration details at Bluebeam Unbound in Washington, D.C., and gave previews of AI features coming to its software.

Acquisition that shapes the AI roadmap

Bluebeam (the Nemetschek Group construction document management platform) acquired Firmus AI on Sept. 4. The acquisition of Firmus AI signaled Nemetschek Group’s plans to add artificial intelligence into construction document‑based workflows. Bluebeam announced it would begin bringing Firmus capabilities into its products in early 2026 and planned a product preview of Firmus AI technology at Bluebeam Unbound.

Products and timeline

Bluebeam said the latest version of Bluebeam Revu Max software is set to be released in the first quarter of 2026. Bluebeam said Revu Max will integrate AI into submittals, RFIs, and other processes for construction users of the PDF‑based tool. Bluebeam said a stitching (or Stitch) function will be included that binds together several sheets for large civil projects into one 2D overhead view. The Stitch feature will use Firmus technology to connect several sections of large projects made up of potentially hundreds of sheets into one 2D, overhead view.

Bluebeam shared details of its Model Context Protocol at the event. The Model Context Protocol is a file‑exchange protocol that enables interoperability between AI applications and data formats of widely used business tools. Bluebeam said Revu being AI ready is the purpose behind the Model Context Protocol integration and that the integration supports core interoperability and is gaining traction.

Tools, plugins and new capabilities

The company described a set of capabilities that combine document management with AI and some 3D-aware tools. Bluebeam’s Magic Wand is a tool that can convert flat 2D geometry into volumes or quantities, duplicate geometry, and offset geometry; it provides some 3D design functionality within a PDF platform. Magic Wand geometry capabilities will be included with Bluebeam Revu MAX and will allow users to turn any markup with geometry into polygons, convert areas in a drawing to measurements of quantity or volume, and duplicate areas.

Bluebeam also created a new Revit plugin that allows users to create spaces across a Bluebeam PDF floorplan and match them with a Revit model in 3D. Company product leads said adding AI to Revu Max will follow a similar path to existing Magic Wand capabilities. For civil and horizontal use cases, AI will help automate manual translations and conversions and surface overall project views so more project data can be visualized over time.

Integrations and workflows

Bluebeam announced a new Procore integration that requires no separate logins. The Procore integration will require only a Bluebeam Revu Max login and will work similarly to Bluebeam Revu’s integration with Microsoft SharePoint. The Procore integration will be available in all Bluebeam subscription tiers at no extra cost.

Bluebeam’s expanded partnership with Procore includes two new integrations named Procore Documents + Bluebeam and Procore Submittals + Bluebeam. Procore Documents + Bluebeam enables users to add markups directly to files stored in Procore Documents with changes automatically saved back to Procore, and files from Procore Documents can be imported into Bluebeam Studio Sessions for multi‑user review and markup. Procore Submittals + Bluebeam connects the Procore Submittals workflow with Bluebeam’s markup tools, lets teams launch Bluebeam Studio Sessions directly from Procore, review PDFs collaboratively, and return marked‑up documents automatically to Procore.

Bluebeam also announced a DocuSign integration that reduces the number of clicks required to sign and approve documents. Bluebeam announced its Integrations Directory as part of its integration and partner strategy and said it will continue expanding integrations with other leading AEC/O industry tools, both inside and outside the Nemetschek Group.

Firmus AI capabilities and use cases

Firmus AI makes AI‑powered intelligent drawing review software and offers two main products called AI‑REVIEW and AI‑MATCH. Firmus AI‑MATCH can overlay and match drawings across disciplines, phases, and scales with high accuracy. AI‑REVIEW surfaces issues, quantifies and organizes them into dashboards, and provides workflows for resolving scope gaps, missing information, conflicts, and other issues. Firmus’ technologies can detect design‑related risk, cross‑discipline coordination issues, scope gaps, phase‑to‑phase drawing set comparisons, and produce priority‑based issue reporting by analyzing construction documents and drawings to identify missing information, cross‑discipline discrepancies, and scope gaps. Firmus AI uses computer vision AI technologies to analyze construction documents uploaded to a cloud application.

The combination of Bluebeam and Firmus aims to place Firmus’ drawing‑first intelligence where millions of AEC professionals already work and to support preconstruction phases such as estimation, bidding, preconstruction, quality, early procurement, and operations handoff.

People and corporate context

Don Jacob is Bluebeam’s chief innovation officer. Luke Prescott is Head of Product at Bluebeam. Usman Shuja is CEO of Bluebeam. Shir Abecasis is CEO of Firmus. Yves Padrines is CEO of the Nemetschek Group. Geoff Lewis is SVP of Product Management at Procore.

Bluebeam is described as a global leader in solutions and services for architecture, engineering, and construction. Bluebeam produces desktop, mobile, and cloud‑based solutions for paperless workflows since 2002 and is trusted by over 3 million users in more than 160 countries. Bluebeam is headquartered in Pasadena, California and is part of the Nemetschek Group.

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• ENR: Bluebeam to release Revu Max with AI assistants, geometry capabilities
• Wikipedia: Bluebeam
• Architosh: Bluebeam expands Procore partnership with new integrations
• Google Search: Bluebeam Procore integration
• Architosh: Bluebeam acquires Firmus AI, accelerating drawing reviews
• Google Scholar: Firmus AI Bluebeam
• Engineering.com: Bluebeam acquires Firmus AI to enhance preconstruction design review
• Encyclopedia Britannica: Artificial intelligence in construction
• Nemetschek: Bluebeam expands Procore partnership — construction collaboration
• Google News: Bluebeam Unbound 2025

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