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New National BIM Standard Released

The NBIMS Executive Committee has released National BIM Standard Version 1 - Part 1: Overview, Principles, and Methodologies for public use. This document, which includes contributions by more than thirty subject-matter experts in the capital facilities industry, incorporates industry comments and now contains new and expanded information about the NBIMS production and use process.

With the release of this document there remain many Building Information Modeling (BIM) issues to discuss, coordinate, and resolve, not only throughout the United States, but also with our international counterparts. It is hoped that this effort will facilitate discussion and lay the groundwork for ongoing organizational and operational activities.

The Executive Committee expresses sincere appreciation to all those who have contributed and continue to contribute to the creation of the National BIM Standard. As always, we invite participants to join the Committee to help shape and share in the transformation of our industry. There is no cost to download Version 1 - Part 1.

National Building Information Model Standard
Version 1.0—Part 1 Overview, Principles, and Methodologies (PDF 9.1 MB)

For more information please contact Alan Edgar, chair of the NBIMS Project Committee at aredgar@comcast.net.

Project Fact Sheets

• Architectural Precast
• Automated Code Compliance Checking (AC3)
• Construction to Operations Building Information Exchange (COBIE)
• Early Design Information Exchange (ED)
• Structural Steel Information Exchange

Marketing/Communications

• NBIMS Project Awareness Handout
• National BIM Standard Presentation
• Building Information Model Presentation
• AEC-ST, National BIM Conference Session W25, BIM Implementation Strategies (May 15, 2007)
• EC-ST, National BIM Conference Session S16, Overview of the National BIM Standard (May 16, 2007)

Online Resources

Organizations

• BLIS: Building Lifecycle Interoperable Software
• CABA Technology Roadmap for Intelligent Buildings—Continental Automated Buildings Association
• CIFE: Stanford University-Center for Facility Engineering
• Constructing Excellence in the Built Environment (previously M4I: Movement for Innovation, a Task Force to promote change in the UK's building industry)
• CURT: The Construction Users Roundtable—an owners based group
• FIATECH—non-profit consortium working with technologies to support FIAPP (Fully Integrated and Automated Project Processes)
• Georgia Tech—includes case studies, a list of publications and research papers, and some review of current BIM tools
• GSA: National 3D-4D-BIM Program
• IAI: International Alliance for Interoperability
• IP: American Institute of Architects-Integrated Practice
• NIBS: National Institute of Building Sciences
  • FIC: Facility Information Council
  • WBDG: Whole Building Design Guide
• OCCS: OmniClass Construction Classification Systems—a new open standard classification system for the AEC industry
• OGC: Open Geospatial Consortium
• OSCRE: Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate
• PRO IT: Finnish Consortium of Modelers
• SHiP Group: Strategic High-Performance integrated Planning Group—membership group of companies involved in BIM
• SMARTcodes

News and Commentary

• AEC Bytes—progressive information about BIM and CAD issues
  • "Right Thinking About BIM and The National BIM Standards Committee"
  • "The AGC's BIM Initiatives and the Contractor's Guide to BIM"
• AIArchitect
  • "Master Builder, R.I.P."
  • "It's Not Always About BIM"
  • "Architect Creates Design Synthesis Software"
  • "Leveraging BIMformation"
  • "Which Architecture Firms Are Using BIM? Why?"
  • "Converging Technologies"
  • "One Hundred Percent BIM"
  • "FOX Architects Takes the Plunge"
  • "BIM 2011: A Five-Year Forecast"
  • "BIM Me Up, Scotty"
  • "Faith-based BIM"
• Cadalyst—online and print magazine covering AEC, MCAD, and GIS
• CAD Digest—"The reading room for computer aided design"
• The Laserin Letter—onoing in issues from mid 2002
  • The BIM Page
• All Things BIM
• Revit OpEd

Software and Service Companies

• Autodesk Building Solutions-Industry Initiatives
• Bentley's Build as One
• CommonPoint 4D Modeling Services
• Estimating Desktop—ADT based product to do cost estimating from a model
• Graphisoft Virtual Building Solutions
• IES Virtual Environment—building performance simulation
• Model Solutions—UK-based service company for modeling
• MyVR: Sharing of a Virtual Model on the Web
• NavisWorks—model viewing and checking for multiple CAD platforms
• Newforma—"Project glue" for the building industry, organizing project information
• Onuma Planning System—Web enabled BIM using IFC and OGC standards
• 3D+—CAD system for structural engineers
• Revit specific info:
  • Kansas City Revit Users Group
  • Revit Users Resource Center
• Solibri—software for checking model integrity

Publications

White Papers

• Autodesk Industry Reports and White Papers on BIM
• Archibus/FM example of interoperability
• Bentley White Papers—including a response to Autodesk's BIM/Revit proposal for the future
• Cyon Research. "The Building Information Model: A Look at Graphisoft's Virtual Building Concept"
• Graphisoft Whitepapers on IFC's and Virtual Construction
• Newforma white papers
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). "GCR 04-867 Cost Analysis of Inadequate Interoperability in the U.S. Capital Facilities Industry".
• Government/Industry Forum—October 31, 2006 National Academies' Federal Facilities Council
  • Antelman, Albert. Facilities Management/Performance Assessment and Metrics - Facility Management Triage
  • Arfsten, Scott. BIM Education for Today's CMAA Members
  • Brodt, Bill. Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBIE)
  • Brodt, Bill. SpecsIntact and the Unified Facilities Guide Specifications Support for Sustainability
  • Christensen, Doug/Moore, Spencer. GAO Best Practice T.E.A.M.S. (Total Enterprise Asset Management Solution) applied to an Air Force Base
  • Cocroft, Nancy. Facility Planning Model
  • Dahl. Pete. Pulling User Feedback into Renovation Design at the Pentagon
  • Davoodpour, Shiva. Building Information Modeling
  • Dempsey, James. Facility Asset Management Defined
  • Ellis, Bryon. Building Automation Systems
  • Geldermann, Dan. Streamlined Facilities Condition Assessments and Deferred Maintenance Cost Estimates
  • Hammond, Dave. The Framework for Integrated Decision-Making
  • Kam, Calvin. GSA's National 3D-4D-BIM Program
  • Kam, Calvin. An Example of Successful Government-Academia Partnership
  • Kymmell, William. Revolutionary Construction Management Processes
  • Lee, Sang Hoon. Efficient Energy Management of Facility
  • Marrano, Lance. Revolutionizing Architecture, Planning and Process
  • McNeil, Sue. Using a Community of Practice for the Exchange of Transportation Asset Management Information
  • Ninassi, Carlo. Design and Implementation of an Asset Management Tool: The IRS Post of Duty Guidelines System
  • Onuma, Kimon. Integrated Operational and Facility Planning using BIM and Web Enabled Tools
  • Raynault, Eloisa. Performance-Based Asset Management: Maintaining and Preserving Lighting Assets in the District of Columbia
  • Sabol, Louise. Bridging the Data Gap in Federal Asset Management
  • Scalfari, Louis. Integration of Facility Condition Assessments, Master Plans, and Capital Improvements Programming: Case Study—U.S. Capitol Complex
  • Scheer, David. From an Educational Perspective: BIM in the Architectural Curriculum
  • Sullivan, John. Transitioning to BIM

Articles

• Batcheler, Bob, and Ian Howell. "The Purpose Driven Exchange of Project Information." Design Build DATELINE, June 2005.
• Campbell, Dace A. "Modeling Rules." Architecture Week, October 2006.
• Dean, Robert Paul, and and Susan McClendon. Specifying and Cost Estimating with BIM. Archi - Tech.
• Fischer, Martin, and John Kunz. "The Scope and Role of Information Technology in Construction." CIFE Technical Paper - TR 156, February 2004.
• Kam, Calvin, and Martin Fischer. "Product Model & 4D CAD - Final Report." CIFE Technical Paper - TR 143, October 2002.
• Khemlani, Lachmi. "The IFC Building Model: A Look Under the Hood." AECbytes, March 2004.
• Kolbe, Thomas, Gerhard Groeger, and Angela Czerwinski. "CityGML OGC Discussion Paper." Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., July 2006.
• Linné, Mark R. and Kellog, Bruce. "Data Standards Promote Industry's Common Good" Valuation, 1st Quarter, 2007.
• Roe, Andrew. "Building Digitally Provides Schedule, Cost Efficiencies. 4D CAD is expensive but becomes more widely available." News from DPR, Engineering News-Record, February 2002.
• Sawyer, Tom. "E-CONSTRUCTION - Coast Guard Pilot Project Casts Wider Net for Data Exchange." ENR, February 2003.

Books and Criteria

• The Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America. The Contractors' Guide to BIM. AGC of America, 2006.
• Department of Veterans Affairs. VA Standards Alert 00CFM1A-SA 001: VA Adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM). April 2008.
• Eastman, Charles M. Building Product Models: Computer Environments, Supporting Design and Construction. CRC, 1999.
• Eastman, Charles M., Paul Teicholz, Rafael Sacks, and Kathleen Liston. BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors. 2007.
• Fukai, Dennis. Building Simple: Building an Information Model. Insightbuilders, 2006.—A primer for those trying to get their arms around the basic concept but does not take you far enough of where BIM can go and is primarily oriented toward construction contractors.
• Gelernter, David. Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean. Oxford University Press, 1993.—Published before the web, this book anticipates ubiquitous computing and all of the implications of the spatial-semantic web and sensor networks. BIM and service oriented architecture are critical pieces of this.
• Howard, Rob. Computing in Construction: Pioneers and the Future. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998.
• Jernigan, Finith. BIG BIM little bim - The practical approach to Building Information Modeling - Integrated practice done the right way!. BookSurge LLC and Design Atlantic Ltd, 2007.
• Kieran, Stephen, and James Timberlake. Refabricating Architecture. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2003.
• Kim, W. Chan, and Renee Mauborgne. Blue Ocean Strategy. Harvard Business School Press, 2005.—Points out that instead of competing against your peers that you are far better off finding the "blue ocean" or new areas in which to grow a business. BIM world is a "target rich environment" of opportunity for all.
• Morville, Peter. Ambient Findability. O'Reilly Media, 2005.—A progress report on Gelenter's vision and provides many interesting examples of ways that the spatial semantic web is being developed today.
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NISTIR 7417 General Buildings Information Handover Guide: Principles, Methodology and Case Studies. 2007.