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From IFC to
production-ready orders.

How Dura Vermeer and door manufacturer Svedex use DAQS Elements to eliminate manual data transfer between contractor and factory — validated, structured, and ready for production.

contractor
Dura Vermeer
One of the Netherlands' largest construction companies. Responsible for pre-purchase preparation, ordering, and site coordination.
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Manufacturer
Svedex
Dutch manufacturer of interior doors. Receives order data from contractors and translates it directly into production planning.
Platform
DAQS Elements
The data intelligence layer that validates IFC model data and generates directly usable order files in the exact format the manufacturer needs.
The situation

The same problem on
both sides of the chain.

Ordering building products from a BIM model sounds straightforward. In practice, it isn't. The data that lives in a Revit model — specifications, dimensions, classifications, material codes — rarely arrives at a manufacturer in a form they can act on directly.

For Dura Vermeer, pre-purchase coordinators spend significant time manually checking IFC files, correcting missing or inconsistent data, and converting it into order formats their suppliers can work with. The model exists. The data exists. But getting it into the right shape for a specific manufacturer is manual, slow, and error-prone.

For Svedex, the challenge is the reverse. Orders arrive from contractors in different formats — drawings, Excel files, Revit models, IFC files, emails. Each format requires interpretation. Each interpretation introduces the risk of error. Production planning cannot start until the data is verified.

Neither party has a data problem in isolation. The problem is the gap between them — and the manual work that fills it on both sides.

Where it breaks down
Contractor
Manual checking and correction of IFC data before it can be sent to suppliers. Hours of preparation per order.
Manufacturer
Orders arrive in multiple formats — drawings, Excel, IFC, email. Each requires manual interpretation before production can start.
Both parties
No standardised, automated process between contractor and manufacturer. Every project restarts the same manual cycle.
Result
Delays, correction rounds, risk of errors reaching production — and cost on both sides that scales with every project.
How Elements works

IFC in. Order file out.
No manual steps in between.

Step 01
IFC upload
Dura Vermeer selects IFC model from CDE, what to order and Manufacturer
Step 02
Rule validation
Elements check the model data against Manufacturers’ specific data requirements — classifications, dimensions, specifications.
Step 03
Issue feedback
Where data is missing or incorrect, Elements generates actionable BCF feedback so issues can be resolved before the order is placed.
Step 04
Order file generated
Validated data is automatically structured into the exact Excel format that fits directly into Svedex's production system.
Step 05
Ready for production
Manufacturer receives a complete, validated order file. No interpretation required. Production planning can start immediately.
The outcome

Measurable impact
from the first project.

€53
saving per housing unit
By automating data validation and order file generation, Dura Vermeer reduces pre-purchase preparation time per project — directly measurable per housing unit.
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manual format conversions
The order file goes from IFC model to Svedex production format without manual conversion, retyping, or format translation by either party.
Live
internally launched by Dura Vermeer
Elements has moved beyond pilot phase. Dura Vermeer has officially launched Elements as part of their internal workflow for door ordering.
Note on scope:The €53 saving per housing unit is based on Dura Vermeer data and covers the door ordering process only. Manufacturer-side savings at Svedex have not yet been independently quantified — these are expected to be significant given the elimination of manual order interpretation, but are not claimed here until confirmed.

Elements is the second
application of the
DAQS platform.

What Dura Vermeer and Svedex are doing with doors is the same pattern DAQS enables across the entire supply chain — and across any downstream operational system. The Validate → Transform → Connect pipeline is not specific to ordering. It applies wherever BIM data needs to become operational data.

Layer 01
Validate
IFC checked against Svedex rules
Model data validated against the specific requirements of the downstream system before anything moves.
Layer 02
Transform
Data structured for production
Validated data converted into the exact format Svedex's system expects — no manual mapping.
Layer 03
Connect
Order file delivered
Output flows directly to Svedex's production process. The same pattern scales to any operational system.
What's next

Doors were the first.
The network effect is the point.

The value of Elements grows with every manufacturer that connects their data requirements to the platform. Dura Vermeer's pre-purchase coordinators save time on every product category where a manufacturer has defined their rules.

Each new manufacturer added multiplies the benefit across all projects. Where the current saving is €53 per housing unit for doors, the same principle applied to windows, staircases, prefab concrete, and sanitary products extends that saving significantly — without additional development per product type.

This is the network effect that makes Elements more valuable over time — not just for Dura Vermeer, but for every contractor on the platform.

Svedex
Interior doors — live in production
Next
Staircases
In discussion
Pipeline
Window frames
In discussion
Pipeline
Further categories
Prefab concrete, sanitary, and more
Pipeline

See how Elements works
for your supply chain.

Whether you're a contractor looking to eliminate manual ordering work, or a manufacturer wanting to receive clean data directly from IFC — Elements is built for that connection.

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