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  By Clive Billiald IFC 4.3 formally entered the next stage of the ISO process – the DIS (Draft International Standard) voting phase – on 20th February 2023. This was…

Almost 40 percent of total global CO₂ emissions are caused by various contributors in the built asset industry, a majority of which (80%) comes from existing buildings with poorly designed,…

The Information Delivery Specification (IDS) is a standard in development from buildingSMART for defining information requirements in a way that is easily read by humans and interpreted by computers. This…

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as the new Chief Executive of buildingSMART International. The fact that you’re reading this means you already understand the value…

What is building-as-a-service? Building-as-a-service (BaaS) is a concept that is gaining a lot of traction in the built asset industry. BaaS involves a shift in the concept of how we…

Andreas Matthé, CEO Electrical Products, Smart Infrastructure, Siemens AG, explains why electrical engineering has to master Building Information Modeling (BIM) to remain successful. To BIM or not to BIM? That…

With the ever-growing digitalisation of the built environment, specifying information requirements (IR) is crucial to control the Building Information Modelling (BIM) data. However, encoding these requirements is subject to a…

User guides, process maps, tutorials, videos, and more are all available on the buildingSMART’s new Knowledge Base. The new buildingSMART knowledge base is a site to provide information and share…

By Richard Kelly After a robust development process, bSI has published IFC 4.3 as a bSI Production Standard. This means it is ready for users to use, for vendors to…

By Richard Petrie, written in March 2022. Earlier this year buildingSMART International sent the full IFC 4.3 final Production Standard to ISO to initiate the process of elevating the standard…