Award-Winning Innovation: sbp sonne’s Solar Parking System Wins Tekla BIM Award 2025

sbp sonne, together with project partners bim.GROUP Kft., KÉSZ Metaltech Kft., and KÉSZ Ipari Gyártó Kft., has been awarded the Tekla BIM Award 2025 in the Small Projects category. The honored project, “Parking photovoltaic KESZ”, sets new standards for combining sustainability and digital planning in infrastructure design.

The innovative system enables the cost-effective roofing of parking areas, which simultaneously serve as high-performance solar power plants — supplying energy for charging stations, nearby buildings, or feeding electricity into the grid.

It combines a lightweight structural design with high-efficiency photovoltaic technology.

What particularly impressed the jury was the fully parametric, algorithm-driven planning process — spanning from geometry generation and structural analysis to the fully automated creation of the BIM model. This was made possible by a custom-developed workflow based on Rhino/Grasshopper, SOFiSTiK, and Tekla Structures, completely eliminating the need for manual modeling.

We congratulate the entire team on this important milestone toward smarter and more sustainable urban development.