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.

Top standards

Standard
ISO 19650-2:2018
Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling (BIM)
Information management using building information modelling

Part 2: Delivery phase of the assets

Published
Standard
ISO 19650-3:2020
Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling (BIM)
Information management using building information modelling

Part 3: Operational phase of the assets

Published
Standard
ISO 7817-1:2024
Building information modelling
Level of information need

Part 1: Concepts and principles

Published
Standard
ISO 16739-1:2024
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) for data sharing in the construction and facility management industries
Part 1: Data schema
Published
Standard
ISO 19650-4:2022
Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling (BIM)
Information management using building information modelling

Part 4: Information exchange

Published
Standard
ISO 19650-5:2020
Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling (BIM)
Information management using building information modelling

Part 5: Security-minded approach to information management

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  3. Building & construction
  4. Building information modelling …