Cobuilder APIs

Endless integration possibilities

Automate the flow of reliable, structured construction data across your systems — from product management to digital projects and lifecycle operations.

Why Cobuilder APIs?

The APIs let you integrate structured product and project data directly into your own systems. The result is less manual work, fewer duplicate entries and better consistency across your digital infrastructure.

  • Register the information once
  • Pull out what you need
  • Keep your systems automatically in sync

The APIs are built on standardised digital principles and aligned with the industry’s data sources, such as Define and bSDD.

Which API do you need?

Four APIs, split by the role you have in the value chain.

Products API

Supply API

Project Creation API

Collaborate API

Our APIs support different players in the value chain — but together they create one connected digital flow.

For manufacturers

Centralise product data in your own systems, and keep external databases automatically up to date with Products API

Products API lets manufacturers create, search, retrieve and update product data directly from their own PIM or ERP systems. Instead of managing product information across several platforms, you maintain the data in one place and let the integration handle the rest.

Why does this matter?

  • Avoid duplicate data entry
  • Work only in your own system
  • Keep full control of your product data
  • Keep external databases automatically up to date (Cobuilder Supply, NOB, EFO)

For wholesalers and distributors

Access structured product data from multiple manufacturers — in one place with Supply API

Supply API gives you access to structured product data from multiple manufacturers through a single integration, instead of one connection per supplier. You get reliable, standardised product data even if you do not store full product master data internally.

Why does this matter?

  • Get a full overview of the products you sell
  • Access reliable, structured information
  • Support documentation and compliance processes
  • Reduce manual information work

For contractors

Create projects in Collaborate straight from the system you manage work in, with Project Creation API

The project is created in Cobuilder Collaborate at the same time it is registered with you, with name, ID and classification carried over automatically. The structure is in place the moment the project is won.

Why does this matter?

  • The same setup across every project
  • Documentation work starts correctly from day one
  • No setting up the same project twice

For contractors and FM systems

Export structured project and as-built data to external systems with Collaborate API

Collaborate API lets contractors and system vendors export structured project and as-built data from Cobuilder Collaborate to third-party systems, in particular facility management solutions — including the products used in the project and their documentation.

Why does this matter?

  • Ensure a smooth transition from construction to operations
  • Deliver structured as-built documentation
  • Maintain continuity of data through the building’s lifecycle
  • Automate compliance reporting

Ready-made integrations

If you already use one of these systems, the connection exists.

PIM SOLUTIONS

Automate the flow of standardized product data from your PIM system out into the industry

BIM AND FM SOLUTIONS

Connect product data and documentation directly to objects in the BIM model

How to get started

1

Explore the docs

Code examples and an interactive console in the developer portal.

2

Get access

Get in touch and we will set up the access you need.

3

Build and test

Use the implementation guides, and test as you go.

4

Get support

Our helpdesk is reachable from the developer portal.

FAQ

It follows the role you have in the value chain. Manufacturers use Products API, wholesalers and distributors Supply API, contractors Project Creation API, and contractors or FM vendors Collaborate API. If you are more than one of these, it is common to use more than one.

No. The APIs connect to the systems you already have — PIM, ERP or FM solution. The point is that the data should flow between them, not that you should change tools.

Yes. The developer portal has an interactive console where you can run calls and see the response before writing a line of integration code. It also holds code examples in several languages.

The data follows the industry’s data dictionaries, including Define and bSDD, and uses standardised classifications and identifiers. That means the information means the same thing to everyone who receives it.

Yes. Cobuilder has ready-made integrations with, among others, Bluestone PIM for product data and BIM2Share for BIM and FM connections. If you use one of these systems, the connection already exists.

Bluestone PIM →   BIM2Share →

 

Get in touch and we will set up access to the right API. Your developers will find documentation, code examples and a test environment in the developer portal at developer.cobuilder.com.

It depends on which API you need and how you use Cobuilder today. Get in touch and we will go through what applies to you.

Our helpdesk follows you from the first call to production. You reach it from the developer portal, together with the implementation guides.

Not sure which API fits your case?

Tell us what you are building and what systems it has to talk to, and we will tell you which API covers it.