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IFC 4.3 Progress Report and Next Steps
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…
Read MorePublishing of the bSI Technical Report on BIM & Building Energy Modelling (BEM) Workflows and Data Interoperability
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,…
Read MoreWhat is Information Delivery Specification (IDS)
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…
Read MoreA New Year Message from the Chief Executive of buildingSMART International
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…
Read MoreBuilding-as-a-service – what does it mean and how
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…
Read MoreA critical factor for success: BIM in electrical engineering
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…
Read MoreMethods to specify information requirements in digital construction projects
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…
Read MoreNew knowledge base site launched to support global openBIM® uptake
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…
Read MoreThe status of IFC 4.3 and the benefit of further extensions as IFC 4.4
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…
Read MoreIFC 4.3 – A Major Milestone Introduction and Overview of the Current Status
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…
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