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BIM for retail chains, built for rollout at scale

You open and refit stores across many locations, and every one of them has to land on-concept, on time and on budget. The data behind that work is usually scattered across spreadsheets, drawings and planograms that do not agree with each other.

BIM puts the whole store in one place: design, fixtures and rollout data, so what you plan is what gets built and what you operate afterwards.

30 years in the Nordics, and the retail chains that already work this way include Plantasjen, Varner, and Rusta.

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What retail rollout teams are up against

Every chain rolling out stores at scale hits the same friction. Here is where the work gets harder than it should.

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Scattered data nobody trusts

Store layouts, fixture lists, planograms, and drawings live in different files in different tools. When no single version is the truth, every team works from a slightly different picture.

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Updates that break between concept and site

A concept changes, but the change does not reach every drawing and order list. The gap surfaces at fit-out, when it is slowest and most expensive to fix.

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Rework that breaks budgets and opening dates

Wrong fixtures, late changes, and remeasured floors all cost twice. Rework is what quietly pushes back an opening date and overruns the build budget.

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Keeping every store on-concept at rollout speed

The faster you roll out, the harder it is to keep each store true to the concept. Consistency across the estate is where speed and quality usually pull against each other.

Where BIM fits in a retail rollout

Good BIM for retail is not about the software. It is about one source of truth: a single model of the store that design, procurement, site teams, and operations all work from. Here is how that plays out, from the first concept to a store you are still updating two seasons later.

From one concept to every store

Design the store once, properly, then roll the same concept out across the estate without redrawing it for every location. Retail Solution, Nordic BIM Group's own product built on Archicad, is where that happens.

Build the store concept and its fixtures as real, data-rich objects, not flat symbols. Each fixture carries its dimensions, article numbers, and installation data, so the concept you sign off is the concept that can actually be ordered and built.

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Operate and update, season by season

A store is not finished when it opens. The same model used to design it carries the layouts, planograms and merchandising you change through the year, so operations runs on real data rather than a fresh spreadsheet every season.

Plan product placement against the real store, not a generic grid. Because the planogram sits on the model, a seasonal change is visible across every affected store at once, with the fixtures and space it actually needs.

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The tools behind a BIM-led rollout

A short, honest list of what a retail rollout actually runs on. Not the full catalogue, just the tools that earn their place.

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Retail Solution

Our own product for retail chains, built on Archicad. Store concepts, fixture libraries, planograms, and rollout data in one place.

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Archicad

The BIM platform Retail Solution is built on. The architect-built design tool, delivered to your local standard.

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BIMcloud

Real-time teamwork across planners, procurement, and site. No server, no IT overhead.

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BIMx

Take the full store model to meetings, suppliers, and site, on any device.

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Services that get your stores into BIM

Software gets you started. Where a chain wants to move faster, our team does the work with you, from integrating Retail Solution with your systems to modelling your existing store floors so your estate is in BIM from day one. Each service is scoped on its own page.

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Custom BIM Development

When you need Retail Solution connected to your ERP, procurement, or planogram systems, or a custom add-on built for the way your chain works.

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BIM Specialist

When you need ongoing expert capacity without hiring a full-time BIM lead.

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Competence Accelerator

When the in-house team needs a real step up on the tools. We measure a 20 to 25% increase in productivity across users after the engagement.

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Training

Training for the team that runs the rollout

A rollout only works if the people on it can use the tools. We train store planners on the design and fixture work, procurement on order lists, and operations on the day-to-day. Our instructors come from the building trades and teach in your language. Take a scheduled course, book training for your whole team, or learn at your own pace with eLearning.

  • Training for planners, procurement, and operations
  • Local-language instructors with a building background
  • Team training tailored to your rollout
  • eLearning you can take at your own pace
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See the software in action.

Inspiration

See how Nordic retailers build with BIM

Real chains designing, rolling out, and operating their stores on the platform.

Talk to a local expert who knows retail rollout

Tell us how your chain plans, rolls out, and operates its stores, and where it gets stuck. We will show you what is possible, with no cost or obligation.

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