BuildingSMART International

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Description

buildingSMART is a major standards organization for building information modelling. They are best known as the authors of Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), the standard for openBIM exchange of model geometry and data.

They are also the author of several other valuable standards for openBIM

• IFC - Industry Foundation Classes
• BCF - BIM Collaboration Format
• bSDD - buildingSMART Data Dictionary
• IDS - Information Delivery Specification

There is an overview of Methods to specify information requirements in digital construction projects

Resources

• openBIM

External Resources

• Website: https://www.buildingsmart.org/
• Forum: https://forums.buildingsmart.org/