A national award for applied BIM innovation

The BIM Marketplace that Horizun Group built together with Prodesa was named winner of the 2026 BIM Excellence Awards Colombia, presented by the Colombian Chamber of Construction (Camacol) in its seventh edition during BIM Forum Colombia in Cartagena. The project won in the BIM Developments category, which evaluates the creation of technology tools and ecosystems for the sector.

Prodesa, one of the largest homebuilders in Colombia, trusted Horizun Group as its technology partner to design and build the infrastructure that powers the BIM Marketplace. This recognition confirms a thesis that guides our work: real BIM innovation runs on connected systems, not on isolated family libraries.

What Prodesa's BIM Marketplace is

The BIM Marketplace is a corporate BIM ecosystem that integrates design, specification, procurement, and supply on a single validated source of information. Instead of every team, designer, or consultant starting from their own libraries and criteria, the Marketplace organizes technical resources from the source and puts them one click away.

The BIM model stops being just geometry and becomes a useful data source for the whole cycle: from the corporate catalog to the model, from the model to the purchase order, and from procurement to the field.

  • Corporate Revit family library with LOD 300 standard and more than 30 technical parameters
  • PRODESA CLASS code linking every modeled element to the master item list
  • Supporting BIM documents: templates, title blocks, protocols, and scripts by discipline
  • Power BI query dashboard for families, documents, and strategic partners

The technical architecture behind the win

Behind a simple interface sits a custom data and automation architecture built by the Horizun Group team. That engineering — not just the catalog — is what separates a connected ecosystem from a static library.

  • A 15-tool automation suite in pyRevit (Python) that cut per-family processing time by 83%
  • An interactive Power BI dashboard connected in real time via Autodesk Data Exchange
  • A QA/QC add-in developed on the Revit API (C# .NET) that audits the standard before every delivery
  • A full traceability architecture: BIM model → PRODESA CLASS → procurement catalog
  • More than 500 Revit families created and managed inside the system

Results that back the recognition

The impact of the BIM Marketplace is not a promise — it is a set of measurable indicators that explain why the jury chose it as a benchmark for BIM development in Colombia.

  • 83% reduction in processing time per family
  • 633 hours saved per 1,000 families processed
  • 3,000 BIM elements cataloged and standardized
  • 24 strategic partners linked to the design and procurement flow
  • 13 disciplines covered with an LOD 300 geometric standard across the catalog

Why this award matters for the industry

Construction doesn't win with more files — it wins with better decisions. An ecosystem like the BIM Marketplace shows that BIM value appears when the model, procurement, suppliers, and the field share a single source of truth, with automation that removes rework and quality control that guarantees the standard before every delivery.

Thanks to Prodesa for the trust to build this solution together, and to the Horizun Group team for their dedication — especially Manuelita Rivera González, Jenny Alejandra Romero, and José René Rada Varón. If your construction company wants to turn its models and data into a connected ecosystem like this, let's talk.