2003
The founder starts with Revit in Spain
When BIM was still pioneering ground in the country, he starts working with Revit and specialising in information modelling.
A3D Consulting Integrated BIM Solutions, S.L. · CIF B-66466715 · Own office in Barcelona · In-house production
Working in here:
the people who will measure your plant
A3D is the home of BIM for what is already built: we scan operating facilities and rebuild their as-built model, true to the plant as it is today. The work is done by more than twenty in-house specialists, from our Barcelona office, from the first visit to the final delivery.
Revit pioneers in Spain: the firm has worked with Revit since 2003 and A3D dates its first real BIM implementation to 2007, at the San Mamés stadium (Bilbao), with Idom. The company was incorporated in 2015 and the current office opened in 2023.
Photograph of the A3D office, its own premises in Barcelona.
2003Working with Revit in Spain, when BIM was pioneering ground
+20People on our own staff, each with a name and face on this page
+80Industrial sites scanned
+2,000,000Square metres modelled in BIM
Who leads
Who leads A3D
Four people run the company: the three partners, who have led it since 2009 and incorporated it in 2015, and the Operations Director, who organises production and the project schedule. Management, scanning and modelling share the same office in Montcada i Reixac.
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Razvan Gheorghiu Holban
Managing Director
Runs the company and sets A3D’s quality standard: order, clarity and systematisation in every model and every delivery.
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Josep Albín Ruíz
Sales and Marketing Director
Business development, brand image and client support throughout the project. Partner since 2009.
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Mihai A. Brencea Caraghiosu
Finance and Administration Director
Administration, finance and internal management of the company. Partner since 2009.
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Ferran Gordi Campos
Operations Director
Assigns each plant to its Project Manager, sets the scanning window and is accountable for delivering the model on schedule.
Who does the work
The people who will be at your plant
In-house production: more than twenty in-house specialists on staff, most of them trained as architects, specialising in civil works, building services (MEP) and industrial processes. Field scanning, point cloud registration and as-built modelling all come from the same team, with a Project Manager assigned to each plant. The person who looks after you is part of the team that does the work.
Project management
They capture on site, coordinate the modelling of each plant and are accountable for the delivered model 3 people-
Sonia Reyes Salado
Project Manager
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Ferran Hurtado Vallejo
Project Manager
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Guy Silva Silva
Project Manager
BIM and scanning specialists
The production area: scanner, point cloud and as-built modelling
Alba Molas Roca
BIM Specialist
Arnau Bordoy Fábregas
BIM and Scanner Specialist
Byron Chuquín Enríquez
BIM Specialist
Cristóbal Hormaechea Zambelli
BIM Specialist
Gemma Olivera Palos
BIM Specialist
Jaqueline Diana Cárdenas Vargas
BIM Specialist
Jessie Muñoz Apolinario
BIM Specialist
John Nina Zarate
BIM Specialist
Jonatan Ricardo Ortiz Reinoso
BIM Specialist
Liseth García Moreno
BIM Specialist
Lucía Chávez Vásquez
BIM Specialist
Maximilian Ilija Ojeda
BIM Specialist
Mercedes Doz Nadal
BIM Specialist
Mohammed Taha M’Barek Dghoughi
BIM Specialist
Nil Santiago Esquerda
BIM Specialist
Sergio Isaac Vasquez Bravo
BIM Specialist
Sales and administration
They support each job from the first enquiry and handle its sales and administration 3 people
Enrique Collin Hernández
Industrial Sales Manager
Yanni Portero-palma Trillo
Administration Manager
Xavier Bahamonde Canadell
Administrative Assistant
Our premises
Our office: where the team that models your plant works
The whole team works here, on a single floor: whoever scans, whoever models and whoever manages your job, and the questions on your project are settled from one desk to the next. This office is also an as-built of our own: designed, built and documented entirely in BIM, with its own model of its real condition. The office was built with the same method we apply to our clients’ plants.
The chair in the meeting room is free. Bring whatever drawings you have — even twenty-year-old ones will do — and the model opens on the big screen: a digital twin makes sense when you navigate it with the specialist who built it, with your plant in front of you. We are in Barcelona, a quarter of an hour from the centre.
- ~340 m²Own premises on the ground floor, where the whole team works
- 2023Year of the move to the current office, designed and built entirely in BIM
- One floorProduction, management and meeting room on the same level: a query is a short walk across the office
- Our own as-builtThe office is documented with the same method we apply in an industrial plant
Bringing a project to the table works better than a presentation. Choose the day and we’ll prepare it with your drawings in front of us.
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Our history
From Revit pioneers in Spain to a company with its own production
The whole timeline, year by year. It starts in 2003, twelve years before the company existed, and we date it accordingly.
See the full timeline
2006
Revit reaches the Spanish market
The tool enters the Spanish market widely, and with it BIM begins to spread among engineering firms and studios.
2007
First real BIM implementation: the San Mamés stadium
A3D dates its first real BIM implementation to 2007, on the San Mamés stadium project (Bilbao), with Idom. Knowledge turns into fieldwork on a large-scale project.
2008
The Revit community is born in Spain
The founder runs one of the most active Revit user forums in the country and facilitates Autodesk’s “Gunslinger” sessions, in which the brand puts its software to the test with advanced users.
2009
The other two partners join
Josep Albín and Mihai Brencea join, and A3D takes shape as a team, with a three-person management team.
2015
Incorporation of the company
A3D Consulting Integrated BIM Solutions, S.L. (CIF B-66466715) is incorporated, based in Barcelona, and the first physical office opens: premises that would come to house eight people.
2016
Momentum in the pharmaceutical sector
A3D develops a pharmaceutical plant for the American market entirely in BIM and finds pharma to be fertile ground for growth.
2018
Established as a BIM consultancy
A3D establishes itself as a BIM consultancy in the construction sector, with particular emphasis on building services, and moves to larger offices.
2019
Talk at the European BIM Summit Day (COEIC)
Razvan Gheorghiu speaks on a BIM MEP implementation case in a pharmaceutical plant, at the event organised by the Catalan Association of Industrial Engineers (COEIC). See the programme ↗
2020
Permanent BIM reference for its clients
Several companies entrust part of their BIM production to A3D, which comes to operate as a stable extension of their teams: updating the model of a cultural facility in Barcelona connected to its CMMS, BIM coordination of the building services of an office building with a distinctive floor plan in Madrid, the work of a Madrid architecture studio, and site supervision of an industrialised residential project by Lacaton & Vassal (Pritzker 2021) in Chalon-sur-Saône.
2021
Continuous improvement
A3D adopts new internal processes: integrated management of BIM projects and expansion of the BIM content and library department.
2022
Four business areas
The service portfolio is organised into four areas — Pharma, Industrial, Heritage and BIM Support — while preparing a further move to larger offices.
2023
The current office: Av. Europa 10-14
Purchase, design and move to the current premises (around 340 m², estimated), designed and built entirely in BIM, with its own digital as-built.
2025
Industrial digitisation
A3D concentrates its work on laser scanning and the as-built digital twin as the basis for designing the next intervention, carrying it out, operating the plant and keeping it up to date.
How to read this timeline. Milestones before 2015 belong to the track record of the founder and the team, prior to the incorporation of the company. The 2015 corporate data can be verified by CIF B-66466715 in the Companies Register; the rest is A3D’s own account.
What we have measured
The company in figures
On the left, what A3D has done, accumulated over its whole track record. On the right, the improvement that digitisation brings to a plant, given as a sector estimate.
What we have done A3D’s own figures, measured in its projects
+80industrial sites scanned
+2,000,000square metres modelled in BIM
hundredsof kilometres of pipework documented
+5,000BIM objects in our own library
+50BIM implementations completed
Food, chemicals and petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, beverages and water treatment.
What changes in the plant Sector improvement estimates
×2.5–3.5return on digitisation investment (estimated)
−90%unforeseen issues on site with an as-built model (estimated)
−20%project timescales (estimated)
~30%of a technician’s working day goes on looking for information (IDC)
Sector improvement estimates. The working-day figure comes from IDC.
Who has already opened their doors to us
Plants, engineering firms and contractors that work on the model
Regardless of size. Most return for the next phase, and that continuity says more about the work than anything else. What follows is in their words.
“Before moving a crane, and with production running, we confirmed that the new silo fitted the concrete base we already had.”
“Every room change reaches the site with an as-built that Quality can sign off, and at audit the drawing and the room match.”
“Every job used to leave the drawings one step further behind. Today the model is updated with each job, and the next one starts where the last one left off.”
“The new technician finds the drawing first time: the documentation is where the system says it is.”
Industrial plants and groups
Engineering firms, contractors and studios
Brands A3D has worked with on BIM projects. Testimonials are collected by role and sector.
Presence in the sector
You may have seen us at sector events
We have taken industrial BIM digitisation to the events where our sector meets — pharma, industry 4.0 and building — with the year of each edition.
Pharmaceutical industry forum · IFEMA, Madrid
20222023202420252026
Advanced Factories
Industry 4.0 and automation · Barcelona
202320252026
Construction and building innovation · IFEMA, Madrid
2023
International pharmaceutical industry · Frankfurt
2017
For supplier approval
Six questions before letting anyone into your plant
A supplier working inside an operating facility is approved on the basis of data. Here are ours, in the order they are asked, with the company profile alongside.
01Who does the work?
More than twenty in-house specialists on staff, most of them trained as architects, specialising in civil works, building services (MEP) and industrial processes. Field scanning, point cloud registration and as-built BIM modelling all come from the same team, in our Barcelona office. The people who scan know the model, and the people who model have been to the plant.
02Who is responsible if something goes wrong?
A3D’s management: Razvan Gheorghiu (Managing Director), Josep Albín (Sales and Marketing Director), Mihai A. Brencea (Finance and Administration Director) and Ferran Gordi (Operations Director). They share the office with the production team and take calls on 935 752 977. The three partners own the company: the person who answers you is the one who decides.
03How long have you been doing this?
The firm has worked with Revit since 2003 and A3D dates its first real BIM implementation to 2007, at the San Mamés stadium (Bilbao), with Idom. The company was incorporated in 2015 (CIF B-66466715). The earlier milestones belong to the track record of the founder and the team, and are dated as such in the timeline.
04Who has already opened their doors to you?
Industrial plants and groups, engineering firms, contractors and studios, regardless of size. The brands are listed above, one by one. Most return for the next phase, and that continuity says more about the work than anything else.
05What have you measured so far?
+80 industrial sites scanned and +2,000,000 square metres modelled in BIM, hundreds of kilometres of pipework documented, +5,000 BIM objects in our own library and +50 BIM implementations completed. These are our own figures, accumulated over the whole track record, in food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, beverages and water treatment.
06Where can I check this for myself?
CIF B-66466715 can be verified in the Companies Register. The Managing Director’s talk at the European BIM Summit Day 2019 appears in the organiser’s public programme ↗, the Catalan Association of Industrial Engineers (COEIC). The office is at Av. Europa 10-14, Montcada i Reixac ↗ and the trade fairs we have attended are listed above with their years.
Work with us
We are looking for BIM modellers to document what already exists
We are expanding the production team in our Barcelona office with two hires — one junior and one senior position — to model the as-built of real industrial plants, alongside the specialists you have just seen.
See the vacancy and apply- BIM modeller — junior and senior positions
- Barcelona · the Av. Europa office
- Office-based, with one day of remote working a week
- Revit, essential
- Navisworks and AutoCAD Plant 3D, a plus
- Experience with point clouds, highly valued
