BIM standards streamline the organization, digitization, and exchange of critical project data across the entire lifecycle of buildings and infrastructure. These standards foster collaboration, enhance efficiency, and ensure consistency from design and construction to operation and beyond. By providing clear frameworks for information management and security, BIM standards help professionals deliver projects that meet modern demands for innovation, sustainability, and interoperability.

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Better building with new International Standards for BIM

The global construction industry is booming, bringing with it global construction projects and the need for efficient tools such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) for managing information. A new set of International Standards has just been published to enable BIM to flourish across projects and borders, benefitting the industry as a whole.

Sample standards

Industrial automation systems and integration — Product data representation and exchange
Part 4439: Application domain model: Product life cycle support

Industrial automation systems and integration — Product data representation and exchange
Part 4443: Domain model: For modelling and simulation information in a collaborative systems engineering context (MoSSEC)

Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture technology — AIDC application in industrial construction

Extended master connection file (χMCF) — Description of mechanical connections and joints in structural systems

Data quality
Part 114: Master data: Application of ISO/IEC 21778 and ISO 8000-115 to portable data

Industrial automation systems and integration — Product data representation and exchange
Part 1: Overview and fundamental principles