openBIM and interoperability

Open, vendor-neutral standards for exchanging building information.

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Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
An open, vendor-neutral data schema for describing buildings and infrastructure — their elements, properties and relationships — published by buildingSMART and standardised as ISO 16739-1.

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BIM Collaboration Format (BCF)
An open buildingSMART standard for exchanging model-based issues — comments, viewpoints and the affected elements — between BIM tools without exchanging the models themselves.
buildingSMART Data Dictionary (bSDD)
A free online service from buildingSMART that hosts linked data dictionaries — classifications, object types and properties published by independent organisations — for use in BIM software.
Information delivery manual (IDM)
A method, standardised in ISO 29481-1, for documenting which information must be exchanged between which parties at which point in an asset's life cycle, starting from a defined use case.
Information Delivery Specification (IDS)
A buildingSMART standard for writing information requirements in a form that both people and software can read, so delivered IFC models can be checked automatically.