Case Study: Hospitals of Strasbourg achieves centralized asbestos management and improved safety with Bricsys (BricsCAD)

How the Hospitals of Strasbourg (HUS) use BricsCAD® for asbestos data management

The Hospitals of Strasbourg, a group of five hospitals managing over 630,000 m² of often centuries-old facilities and employing more than 12,000 people, faced a critical asbestos-documentation challenge: roughly 70% of their estate required asbestos data management, but documents were decentralized, hard to access, and at risk of loss. Their solution combined a centralized in‑house asbestos database with Tessellat, a BricsCAD‑powered app developed by Liris, leveraging Bricsys' BricsCAD BIM capabilities to make asbestos information easier to find and use.

By connecting the centralized database to Tessellat’s BricsCAD graphical interface, users can import native .dwg plans, view and tag 3D building sections, and attach or extract complete asbestos documentation folders for any area—streamlining third‑party interventions and ensuring a single source of truth. The Bricsys‑based solution was economical and fast to deploy (live in 12 months) at a total acquisition cost of 10–20% of dedicated FM alternatives, eliminated prior document‑management bottlenecks, and made up‑to‑date asbestos records readily available across HUS’s 630,000 m² of facilities.