LVS has provided a single destination for information on locally relevant BIM standards, demonstrating Latvia’s alignment with international best practices, which have been adapted and interpreted for local conditions.
The website provides a summary of locally adopted standards along with a brief narrative summary. It includes ISO standards such as ISO 19650-1/2 and ISO 16739 in addition to local Latvian standard LVS 1052, which contains terms and definitions relating to the construction and real estate sector, contracts, education, legislation, etc.
This page of the BIM4Infra website contains multiple guidance documents that have been published to foster BIM adoption for infrastructure projects in Germany.
The documentation is split into 10 parts and has an appendix:
- Part 1: Basics and BIM overall process – tools for the further guidelines and handouts, and explanation of the terms “Client Information Requirements” (Auftraggeber-Informationsanforderungen, AIA) and “BIM Resolution Plan” (BIM-Abwicklungsplan, BAP) and shows you an exemplary process of a project carried out with BIM.
- Part 2: Guidelines and templates for client information requirements – how to put together your “Client Information Requirements” (Auftraggeber-Informationsanforderungen, AIA) on a project-specific basis and what you need to consider. For selected project phases, it offers specific AIA templates.
- Part 3: Guidance and templates for the BIM resolution plan:
- how to put together your “BIM Resolution Plan” (BIM-Abwicklungsplan, BAP) on a project-specific basis and what you need to consider. Includes a specific BAP template.
- Part 4: Performance Description Guide: how to integrate BIM services into a service description. It offers a template for a BIM performance profile of (object) planning.
- Part 5: Model Special Contractual Conditions BIM: formulated model clauses for contracts for freelance BIM services.
- Part 6: Profiles of the most important BIM user cases: overview and explanations of BIM user cases.
- Part 7: Handout of BIM models and degree of elaboration:
- introduction to BIM models and definition of the degrees of elaboration (Ausarbeitungsgrade, LOD) in geometric (Geometrischer, LOG) and alphanumeric (Alphanumerischer, LOI) view.
- Part 8: Neutral data exchange at a glance: explaining what “Open BIM” is, what significance it has – especially for the public sector – and showing current and future possibilities for its use.
- Part 9: Data Exchange with Industry Foundation Classes: how the data exchange format “Industry Foundation Classes” (IFC) is structured and what possibilities it offers. It also explains how to configure export and import for exemplary software programmes.
- Part 10: Technologies in the BIM environment:
- what to consider when procuring BIM software programmes and which types play a role in the BIM environment.
- Appendix: Glossary: an explanation of the most important terms in connection with BIM.
Digital planning and construction are to become the standards for federal infrastructure projects in Germany by 2020. The central element is the use of BIM as the basis of digital building models. BIM will help projects to deliver all data required for the lifecycle of a building, from planning, construction to operation, which can be recorded, exchanged and further processed between all parties involved in the project.
In October 2016, the BIM4INFRA2020 working group was commissioned by the former Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure to create important prerequisites for the implementation of the BIM step-by-step plan over a period of two years. These include:
- The development of an achievable level of performance for the introduction of BIM.
- The monitoring of the pilot projects and expansion of the pilot’s phase.
- Investigation of legal issues and development of recommendations for future contract design.
- Provision of appropriate guidelines and templates for the awarding and processing of BIM services, in particular BIM user cases.
- Identification of requirements for uniform data structures for the infrastructure sector – Development of a uniform database concept and a BIM library.
- Information and public relations.
The BIM Innovation Capability Programme (BICP) was set up by the Construction IT Alliance (CitA) and Enterprise Ireland to support BIM adoption in Ireland. The BICP seeks to capture the capability of the Irish Construction Industry and the Higher Education Institutes to respond to the increased requirement for BIM in Irish construction and engineering projects. The outputs of BICP will seek to influence the strategic use of BIM by key clients and procurement policy makers in Ireland.
BICP’s website presents the current work of the programme, as well as hosting many resources and links related to the adoption of BIM in Ireland. It also contains details of the BICP programme including the four work packages: Information Gathering, Consultation, In-depth Analysis and Disseminate Findings.
Austrian Standards is Austria’s organisation for standardisation and innovation . They are an independent and neutral group tasked with supporting standards which are delivered as practicable, sustainable solutions for economic and social challenges. These standards are designed to make life easier, safer and better, whilst strengthening the competitiveness of the Austrian and European economy.
The Austrian Standards organisation works to:
- Promote the dialogue between various stakeholders on a national and international level.
- Act as the gateway to a global standardization network and numerous partner organizations.
- Share the methodical know-how to start and manage cooperative processes.
- Make standards, documents and information accessible with innovative tools.
- Prepare specialist knowledge using multimedia, promote professional development and offer different certification models.
BIM is the new common language of the construction industry in Austria. Through the work of the Austrian Standards organisation the ÖNORMs series A 6241 of standards have been in effect since July 1st, 2015. In these standards, all aspects of BIM technology are taken into account and provided dynamically to the project participants for the software products they use with innovative digital construction components. The Austrian approach is on the one hand a fundamental and on the other hand a more advanced approach, due to a known sets of rules. An essential component is a dynamic, freely expandable database of characteristics based on open standards, international compatibility and multilingualism in terms of user guidance and content. This website contains the background to the Austrian standards as well as document links and details of the ongoing work as well as previous successes.
The Sustainable Built Environment National Research Centre (SBEnrc) is committed to leading the Australian property, design, construction and asset management industry in collaborative research and innovation. It is dedicated to disseminating practical research outcomes to industry, to improve business practice and enhance competitiveness. The purpose of these BIM Guidelines is to promote the application of BIM in infrastructure projects and to ensure data fidelity and continuity across the lifecycle of a project, thereby improving quality and productivity. Infrastructure in this guideline refers to main roads, highways, bridges and tunnels, which have their own construction methods and characteristics.
These guidelines identify and redefine 41 BIM uses in infrastructure, which include 18 BIM uses in the design stage, 11 in the construction stage and 12 in the operational stage. Two types of collaboration workflows have been developed, for individual discipline modelling and cross”disciplinary model design respectively. In addition, BIM relevant issues are discussed such as ownership, contractual implications and risk profile.
An archive version of this information article has been created if the original is no longer accessible (Archive information from January 2024)
The NATSPEC National BIM Guide is a suite of documents that can be used to implement BIM on a project. To work effectively, the documents should be compiled in a coordinated way and read in conjunction with each other.
The intent of the Guide’s structure is to allow each edition to function as a core reference document and to confine all editing to the Project BIM Brief. This allows the National BIM Guide to be tailored to individual projects while allowing it to be progressively upgraded in response to users’ needs from edition to edition within a consistent, recognisable framework.
The documents in the suite are: NATSPEC National BIM Guide and Project BIM Brief Template, NATSPEC BIM Reference Schedule and the NATSPEC BIM Object/Element Matrix.
An archive version of this information article has been created if the original is no longer accessible (Archive information from January 2024)
This document forms the basis of how BIM will be implemented in Queensland. Queensland’s Government recognised the opportunities and benefits that BIM could provide when it launched the State Infrastructure Plan in March 2016. To maximise the benefits from applying BIM to all major infrastructure projects, these principles will support the effective use of BIM across Queensland Government’s infrastructure delivery agencies.
The principles apply to those who are involved in any part of the lifecycle of new major construction assets, including their planning, procurement, design, contract management, construction, operation and maintenance.
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The Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) is Sweden’s largest developer. Every year it carries out several major construction projects. By introducing BIM, they expect to make large savings and they see it as the future way of working in the entire industry.
As a dominant player in the construction industry, the Transport Administration can also actively contribute to the introduction of BIM in the entire Swedish construction industry. The first step has been to set requirements for BIM in all procurements within new investments as of 2015. The next step is to introduce BIM in planning and management. The goal is to use BIM throughout the infrastructure’s lifecycle from planning to maintenance and management.
This website, hosted by the Swedish Transport Administration, is a placeholder for information related to its push for widespread BIM adoption within the supply chain. It contains current information, news items relevant to the Swedish adoption of BIM and multiple video resources designed to help the supply chain understand this transformation.
