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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…

Many architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms see building information modeling (BIM) as important to enabling better decision-making and team collaboration at all stages of a project, new research shows.…

Overview 2021 has been another colossal year for buildingSMART. I’d like to start with a massive declaration of thanks to the greater buildingSMART team. From rooms, project and chapters to…