Neuilly-sur-Seine, France—Bureau Veritas, headquartered here, hascreated a digital platform intended to enable stakeholders in the real estate business to stock, exchange and structure data and documents related to the life of a building. Known as Building In One, it is due to be marketed in March 2015 and deployed throughout Europe and the US.

A prototype of the platform has been created in partnership with BNP Paribas Real Estate Property Management, Nexity Property Management, GE Capital Real Estate and AEW Europe. Philippe Lanternier, EVP for corporate development with Bureau Veritas, says the platform is “a result of a new approach we are adopting to co-create services jointly with our customers.” He adds that it will “help our customers save time, reduce costs, improve cash flow and, most importantly, carry out their business confident that the data being transmitted is up to date and exact.”

The new platform is intended to enable all building information to be classified with a single entry for professionals to access up to date information. Other benefits claimed for Building In One include safe long-term document storage, multi-user access and geolocalization of the data. Bureau Veritas has worked closely with gPartner/Devoteam, one of Google's partners for the development of applications using Google for Work tools, to develop this new platform.

Founded in 1828, Bureau Veritas provides laboratory testing, inspection and certification services. It has more than 65,000 employees in some 1,330 offices and laboratories located in 140 countries.