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

Document management — Portable document format — RichMedia annotations conforming to the ISO 10303-242 (STEP AP 242) specification

Automation systems and integration — Quality information framework (QIF) — An integrated model for manufacturing quality information

Industrial automation systems and integration — Product data representation and exchange
Part 1473: Application module: Description assignment

Industrial automation systems and integration — Product data representation and exchange
Part 1488: Application module: Verification and validation

Industrial automation systems and integration — Product data representation and exchange
Part 1316: Application module: Camera view 3D

Industrial automation systems and integration — Product data representation and exchange
Part 1253: Application module: Condition