History

IB&T's innovative software solution card_1 has been used for over 35 years: in planning offices, by engineers, in town planning departments, municipalities and at universities. If you have always wanted to know what the abbreviation IB&T stands for, when sewer planning became possible with card_1 or which partners were added along the way, you have come to the right place. With our timeline you can take a journey through the history of IB&T. Have fun marvelling and discovering.

1985

Introduced card_1 at the 69th German Day of Geodesy
in Düsseldorf

Surveying,
Road Design

1988

Harry Basedow B.Eng and Thomas Tornow B.Bus founded
the limited company Ingenieurbüro Basedow & Tornow

1990

Partnership with Interaktive Grafik Milde GmbH,
Base Map, Land Acquisition

1991

Rail Design, Rail Surveying

1992

Presented the solution at the
CeBIT trade fair in Hannover

1994

Partnership with Pecher Software GmbH,
Calculation core components sewer

Sewer Design

1995

Relocated to the newly-built head office
in Norderstedt

2000

The German Federal Railways certified
the card_1 network adjustment

Takeover of GEO DIGITAL GmbH

Partnership with A+S Consult GmbH,
3D Visualisation

2002

OKSTRA-compliant
data exchange

2005

Takeover of
RZI Software GmbH

2009

Partnership with tandler.com GmbH,
Drainage

2013

Partnership with aRES Datensysteme,
Water Management

2015

IB&T celebrates the 30th anniversary of the
software solution card_1.

2016

New RZI application cost calculation AKVS/elKe
for cost planning and calculation

Entered field of Building
Information Modeling

2017

Partnerships for AVA and BIM: G&W Software AG,
BECHMANN GmbH and ceapoint aec technologies GmbH

Uwe Hüttner B.Arch appointed new General Manager
of IB&T Ingenieurbüro Basedow & Tornow GmbH

Responsible for the company's fortunes - on the right, owner and managing director Harry Basedow and managing director Uwe Hüttner.

2018

IB&T is a founding member of the buildingSMART Deutschland e.V. specialist group BIM Traffic
Routes. Managing Director Uwe Hüttner becomes spokesman for the specialist group.

Renamed company to be IB&T Software GmbH
from 9 July 2018

2019

Introduced smart infra-modeling technology
at the infraTagen and events

Cooperation agreements with STRABAG SE, Bickhardt Bau AG,
EIBS GmbH, VIC GmbH and KREBS+Kiefer Ingenieure GmbH.
The aim is to continue developing card_1 in line with BIM.

2020

Partnership with thinkproject,
reseller for DESITE BIM

First publication of the buildingSMART Deutschland e.V.
specialist group BIM Traffic Routes. The volume entitled
"BIM - Classes of Traffic Routes" contains a catalogue of
all the necessary object classes and groups for BIM modelling
in the field of traffic routes.

2021

card_1 receives the BIMSWARM certificate as the first certified product in the category "CAD-BIM Modelling Traffic Routes".

Cooperation agreement with Mailänder Consult GmbH. The aim of the cooperation is to strengthen rail infrastructure design in card_1.

New partnership with Bluebeam GmbH.

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