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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Quality management: The path to continuous improvement

There are many misconceptions about what a quality management system (QMS) does. Let’s delve into what a QMS is, what it should look like and why your company absolutely needs one.

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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

Information technology — Home electronic systems (HES) architecture
Part 5-104: Intelligent grouping and resource sharing for HES Class 2 and Class 3 – RA server-based smart lock application

Data quality
Part 115: Master data: Exchange of quality identifiers: Syntactic, semantic and resolution requirements

Building information models — Information delivery manual
Part 2: Interaction framework

Building information models — Information delivery manual
Part 1: Methodology and format

Industrial automation systems and integration — COLLADATM digital asset schema specification for 3D visualization of industrial data — Amendment 1: Elements name and explanations

Visualization elements of digital twin — Visualization fidelity