ISO/TC 59/SC 13 - Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling (BIM)

This document specifies a methodology for describing and managing interactions and a format for digital communication between actors in any use case associated with the management of an asset during all life cycle stages. It provides: — a methodology that describes an interaction framework for a use case; — an appropriate way to map responsibilities and interactions that provides a process context for information flow; — a format in which the interaction framework is specified and executed. This document is intended to promote secure, verifiable, traceable and high-quality digital IDM communication between actors during all phases of the life cycle of assets, facilitate interoperability between software applications used, and to provide a basis for data- and process-driven information exchange and traceability of communication.

This document prescribes: — how to document a use case with an associated business context and exchange requirements; — a methodology to identify and specify the information exchanges required at identified times during the life cycle of assets. This document presents the information delivery manual (IDM) in natural language terms to facilitate interoperability between software applications used during all phases of the life cycle of assets (both buildings and infrastructure). It promotes digital collaboration between actors within the identified business context and provides a basis for accurate, reliable, repeatable and high-quality information exchange. The information delivery manual (IDM) methodology specified in this document can be applied to any information management trigger event to identify the details of the information required to be exchanged.

This document specifies requirements for data dictionaries that are used by product catalogues for building services to provide the semantics of their definitions and data modelling. For this purpose, it defines an overall model that contains: — subject kinds that allow to distinguish: — product subjects representing products in product catalogues; — catalogue subjects comprising meta data of product catalogues; — various kinds of blocks that collect properties of complex product features, including ports and in/outlets; — relationship types that allow to distinguish between different kinds of relationships like isSubtypeOf, hasPart, or hasBlock; — property kinds to distinguish between: — static properties describing products by providing property values in product catalogues; — dynamic properties that describe the behaviour of products; — external properties that represent external conditions that influence the behaviour of the product by influencing the values of dynamic properties. This document also describes a mapping of the overall model to the data dictionary model of ISO 12006-3 by introducing a dictionary meta level. Finally, to overcome deficiencies of the standards underlying ISO 16757-5 in capturing all aspects of product catalogues, this document provides some rules and recommendations for required data dictionary elements. This document does not describe how product catalogues have to be organized, and it does not describe any formats for the exchange of product catalogues. Product catalogues are described in ISO 16757-5.

This document describes how product catalogue data for building services products is exchanged by means of ISO 16739-1 (Industry Foundation Classes, IFC) and EN 17549-2 from manufacturers to designers of building services systems. This document specifies how the product catalogue structures and content are set up using the definitions stored in a data dictionary. In scope of this document are: — processes for the provision and exchange of product catalogues; — rules for the geometrical representation of products; — representation of products, product classes, ports, in/outlets, components and accessories by using IFC; — representation of properties in IFC and the use of IFC constraints for the representation of product variants; — representation of parametric geometry and the generation of IFC geometries for selected variants; — calculation of article number. The resulting product catalogue can be used by designers to select the desired products and integrate them into their model of the building services system. The expected audience of this document are software providers for the built environment sector and professionals working in the sector who create product catalogues or use product catalogues by means of software tools. Not in scope of this document is the representation of properties in data dictionaries. The use of data dictionaries is described in ISO 16757-4.

This document provides the concept of data templates developed to enable machine interpretability based on a standardized data structure, carrying the alphanumerical information for any object used in the life cycle of assets. This document provides a description of how data templates are implemented following ISO 12006-3. This document provides a methodology to create and maintain data templates in data dictionary. This document provides guidance for linking between data templates and classification systems within data dictionaries based on ISO 12006-3. This document provides an XML Schema Definition (XSD) representing an implementation of the ISO 23387 and ISO 12006-3 data models. It is not within the scope of this document to provide the content of any data templates.

This document provides an overview of terminological entries relating to building information modelling (BIM) as well as those relating to geographic information or geomatics. This document identifies terminological entries which are identical, equivalent (i.e. synonyms), homonymous, and entries which are unique to their respective domains. This document does not provide recommendations to resolve terminology homonyms.

This document specifies concepts and principles for classifying, sharing and delivering health and safety information collaboratively, to secure the economic, environmental and social benefits. This document: a) specifies requirements for the collaborative sharing of structured health and safety information throughout project and asset life cycles; b) supports the digitization of structured health and safety information in project and asset life cycles progressively from the outset; c) provides specification on how health and safety information is shared for use throughout project and asset life cycle; d) sets out a health and safety information cycle framework for the identification, use, sharing and generalization of health and safety information through information management processes. This document is applicable to individuals and organizations that contribute to and influence the procurement, design, construction, use (including maintenance) and end-of-life of building and infrastructure assets. The principles and requirements of this document can be applied equally to delivery or in-use phases not using BIM.

This document specifies concepts and principles to establish a methodology for specifying level of information need and information deliveries in a consistent way when using building information modelling (BIM). This document specifies the characteristics of different levels used for defining the detail and extent of information required to be exchanged and delivered throughout the life cycle of built assets. It gives guidelines for principles required to specify information needs. The concepts and principles in this document can be applied for a general information exchange and while in progress, for a generally agreed way of information exchange between parties in a collaborative work process, as well as for an appointment with specified information delivery. This document is applicable to the whole life cycle of any built asset, including strategic planning, initial design, engineering, development, documentation and construction, day-to-day operation, maintenance, refurbishment, repair and end-of-life.

This document establishes a framework for providing specifications for the internal commissioning and implementation of building information modelling (BIM) during both delivery and operational phases. It identifies a structured approach so as to encourage clarity during development, management and checking processes for use by organizations that develop and apply these specifications. This document does not provide specific content but it does provide examples. It is applicable to buildings, infrastructure, facilities and managed landscapes, of any size or complexity.

This document is the technical addition to the methodology set out in ISO 29481-1. It defines a specification to store, exchange and read information delivery manual (IDM) specifications in a standardized and machine-readable way.

This document specifies the detailed process and criteria for decision makings when executing an information exchange as specified by the ISO 19650 series to ensure the quality of the resulting project information model or asset information model. It details the implementation of the concepts in ISO 19650-1 and is applicable to any information exchange within the delivery stages covered by ISO 19650-2 and operational trigger events covered by ISO 19650-3. This document is applicable to assets of all sizes and all levels of complexity. This includes portfolios of buildings, campuses, infrastructure networks, individual buildings and pieces of infrastructure. The requirements in this document should be applied in a way that is appropriate to the scale and complexity of the asset. This document makes use of the phrase “shall consider”. This phrase is used to introduce a list of items that the person in question is required to think about carefully in connection with the primary requirement described in the subclause. The amount of thought involved, the time taken to complete it, and the need for supporting evidence depend on the complexity of the asset, the experience of the person(s) involved, and the requirements of any national policy on introducing building information modelling. On a relatively small or straightforward asset, it can be possible to complete, or dismiss as not relevant, some of these “shall consider” items very quickly. One way to help identify which of the “shall consider” statements are relevant can be to review each statement and create templates for assets of different sizes and complexity.

This document specifies a language-independent information model which can be used for the development of dictionaries used to store or provide information about construction works. The model is extended by instantiating content, such as further objects and their relationships, allowing the content to serve as an ontology, taxonomy, meronomy, lexicon and thesaurus. NOTE 1 Lexicons are resources for comprising lexical entries for a given language NOTE 2 Meronomies are type of hierarchies which deals with part-whole relationships NOTE 3 Ontologies are formal, explicit specification of a shared conceptualizationIt enables classification systems, information models, object models, data templates and process models to be cross-referenced from within a common framework. This document provides the description of an API allowing the interconnection of data dictionaries as described in ISO 23386.

This document investigates barriers and proposes measures to improve interoperability between geospatial and BIM domains, namely, to align GIS standards developed by ISO/TC 211 and BIM standards developed by ISO/TC 59/SC 13. Where relevant this document takes into account work and documents from other organizations and committees, such as buildingSMART, International (bSI), Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN). The focus is to identify future topics for standardization and possible revision needs of existing standards. This document investigates conceptual and technological barriers between GIS and BIM domains at the data, service and process levels, as defined by ISO 11354 (all parts).

This document provides the opportunity to add information about the contents of a container by further specializing the generic types of links specified in ISO 21597-1. The defined link types have been chosen to enhance the use of the container by allowing the addition of semantic relationships that are human interpretable to provide greater clarity about those links.

This document specifies requirements for information management, in the form of a management process, within the context of the operational phase of assets and the exchanges of information within it, using building information modelling. This document can be applied to all types of assets and by organizations of all types and sizes involved in the operational phase of assets. The requirements in this document can be achieved through direct actions carried out by the organization in question or can be delegated to another party.

This document sets out the principles and structure for data templates for construction objects. It is developed to support digital processes using machine-readable formats using a standard data structure to exchange information about any type of construction object, e.g. product, system, assembly, space, building etc., used in the inception, brief, design, production, operation and demolition of facilities. This document provides the specification of a taxonomy model that defines concepts from ISO 12006-3:2007, i.e. objects, collections and relationships between them, to support the information need for the specific purpose of the data template. This document provides an EXPRESS specification with extensions of the EXPRESS-G notation and specification from ISO 12006-3:2007. These extensions have been provided to support market needs developed since the publication of ISO 12006-3 in 2007. This document provides the rules for linking between data templates and IFC classes within a data dictionary based on ISO 12006-3:2007. This document provides the rules for linking between data templates and classification systems within a data dictionary based on ISO 12006-3:2007. The target audience of this document is software developers and not construction industry domain experts appointed to create data templates based on sources describing information needs. It is not in the scope of this document to provide the content of any data templates. The data structure provided is intended to be used for developing specific data templates based on standards developed in ISO/IEC, CEN/CENELEC, national standardization organizations, or other sources describing information needs.

This document specifies the principles and requirements for security-minded information management at a stage of maturity described as "building information modelling (BIM) according to the ISO 19650 series", and as defined in ISO 19650-1, as well as the security-minded management of sensitive information that is obtained, created, processed and stored as part of, or in relation to, any other initiative, project, asset, product or service. It addresses the steps required to create and cultivate an appropriate and proportionate security mindset and culture across organizations with access to sensitive information, including the need to monitor and audit compliance. The approach outlined is applicable throughout the lifecycle of an initiative, project, asset, product or service, whether planned or existing, where sensitive information is obtained, created, processed and/or stored. This document is intended for use by any organization involved in the use of information management and technologies in the creation, design, construction, manufacture, operation, management, modification, improvement, demolition and/or recycling of assets or products, as well as the provision of services, within the built environment. It will also be of interest and relevance to those organizations wishing to protect their commercial information, personal information and intellectual property.

This document defines an open and stable container format to exchange files of a heterogeneous nature to deliver, store and archive documents that describe an asset throughout its entire lifecycle. It is suitable for all parties dealing with information concerning the built environment, where there is a need to exchange multiple documents and their interrelationships, either as part of the process or as contracted deliverables. The format is intended to use resources either included in the container (such as documents) or referenced remotely (such as web resources). A key feature is that the container can include information about the relationships between the documents. Relevant use-cases reflect the need for information exchange during the entire life cycle of any built asset and can include, but are not limited to, the handover of - a published bidding package, - required project deliverables at a specific project stage (e.g. when proposing different design scenarios), - shared information as background or for further development, - published approval packages, or - information about versions between partners to provide a means to reference particular states of the information and track changes.

This document establishes the rules for defining properties used in construction and a methodology for authoring and maintaining them, for a confident and seamless digital share among stakeholders following a BIM process. Regarding the definition of properties and groups of properties, this document provides: — definitions of properties and groups of properties as a list of attributes; — definitions of all the provided attributes. Regarding the authoring and maintaining process, this document provides: — definitions and roles of applicants; — definitions and roles of experts and the commission of experts; — definitions of request's attributes; — definitions of expert's attributes; — requirements to establish the management rules to interconnect data dictionaries through the mapping process for properties and groups of properties. To apply the methodology of this document, it is presupposed that the following are in place: — an established governance model for a data dictionary; — a framework for a network of data dictionaries. It is not in the scope of this document to provide the content of the interconnected data dictionaries.

This document outlines the concepts and principles for information management at a stage of maturity described as "building information modelling (BIM) according to the ISO 19650 series". This document provides recommendations for a framework to manage information including exchanging, recording, versioning and organizing for all actors. This document is applicable to the whole life cycle of any built asset, including strategic planning, initial design, engineering, development, documentation and construction, day-to-day operation, maintenance, refurbishment, repair and end-of-life. This document can be adapted to assets or projects of any scale and complexity, so as not to hamper the flexibility and versatility that characterize the large range of potential procurement strategies and so as to address the cost of implementing this document.

This document specifies requirements for information management, in the form of a management process, within the context of the delivery phase of assets and the exchanges of information within it, using building information modelling. This document can be applied to all types of assets and by all types and sizes of organizations, regardless of the chosen procurement strategy.

ISO 16757-2:2016 describes the modelling of building services product geometry. The description is optimized for the interchange of product catalogue data and includes - shapes for representing the product itself, - symbolic shapes for the visualization of the product's function in schematic diagrams, - spaces for functional requirements, - surfaces for visualization, and - ports to represent connectivity between different objects. The shape and space geometry is expressed as Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) based on geometric primitives concatenated to boundary representations by Boolean operations. ISO 16757-2:2016 uses the applicable primitives from ISO 10303‑42 and from ISO 16739 and adds primitives which are required for the special geometry of building services products. For symbolic shapes, line elements are also used. ISO 16757-2:2016 neither describes the inner structure and internal functionality of the product nor the manufacturing information because this is typically not published within a product catalogue. Building services products can have millions of variant dimensions. To avoid the exchange of millions of geometries, a parametric model is introduced which allows the derivation of variant-specific geometries from the generic model. This is necessary to reduce the data to be exchanged in a catalogue to a manageable size. The parametric model will result in smaller data files, which can be easier transmitted during data exchanges. The geometry model used does not contain any drawing information such as views, line styles or hatching.

ISO 29481-1:2016 specifies - a methodology that links the business processes undertaken during the construction of built facilities with the specification of information that is required by these processes, and - a way to map and describe the information processes across the life cycle of construction works. ISO 29481-1:2016 is intended to facilitate interoperability between software applications used during all stages of the life cycle of construction works, including briefing, design, documentation, construction, operation and maintenance, and demolition. It promotes digital collaboration between actors in the construction process and provides a basis for accurate, reliable, repeatable and high-quality information exchange.

ISO 12006-2:2015 defines a framework for the development of built environment classification systems. It identifies a set of recommended classification table titles for a range of information object classes according to particular views, e.g. by form or function, supported by definitions. It shows how the object classes classified in each table are related, as a series of systems and sub-systems, e.g. in a building information model. ISO 12006-2:2015 does not provide a complete operational classification system, nor does it provide the content of the tables, though it does give examples. It is intended for use by organizations which develop and publish such classification systems and tables, which may vary in detail to suit local needs. However, if this part of ISO 12006 is applied in the development of local classification systems and tables, then harmonization between them will be facilitated. ISO 12006-2:2015 applies to the complete life cycle of construction works, including briefing, design, documentation, construction, operation and maintenance, and demolition. It applies to both building and civil engineering works, including associated engineering services and landscaping.

The primary purpose of ISO 16757 is the provision of data structures for electronic product catalogues to transmit building services product data automatically into models of building services software applications. This includes a meta model for the specification of product classes and their properties and a meta model for the product data which is exchanged in product catalogues. Product data has to follow the specifications for their product groups. ISO 16757-1:2015 specifies the underlying concepts, a generic model specifying the available modelling elements and their relationships, and a framework for the specification of the Content Parts by describing the elements which are to be provided by these Parts.

The aim of ISO 16354:2013 is to distinguish categories of knowledge libraries and to lay the foundation for uniform structures and content of such knowledge libraries and for commonality in their usage. By drawing up a number of guidelines, a guiding principle is provided for new libraries as well as for upgrading existing libraries. Without these guidelines there is an undesirable amount of freedom, so that the various libraries may become too heterogeneous. This would render the comparison, linking and integrated usage of these libraries very complex, if not impossible. The objective of ISO 16354:2013 is to categorize knowledge libraries and object libraries and to provide recommendations for the creation of such libraries. Libraries that are compliant with the guidelines of ISO 16354:2013 may be more easily linked to, or integrated with other libraries. The target audience of ISO 16354:2013 consists of developers of knowledge libraries, builders of translation software or interfaces between knowledge libraries, certifying bodies and builders of applications who must base their work on the knowledge libraries laid down.

ISO 29481-2:2012 specifies a methodology and format for describing ?coordination acts' between actors in a building construction project during all life cycle stages. It therefore specifies a methodology that describes an interaction framework, an appropriate way to map responsibilities and interactions that provides a process context for information flow, a format in which the interaction framework should be specified. ISO 29481-2:2012 is intended to facilitate interoperability between software applications used in the construction process, to promote digital collaboration between actors in the building construction process, and to provide a basis for accurate, reliable, repeatable, and high-quality information exchange.

ISO 22263:2008 specifies a framework for the organization of project information (process-related as well as product-related) in construction projects. Its purpose is to facilitate control, exchange, retrieval and use of relevant information about the project and the construction entity. It is intended for all agents in the project organization in management of the construction process as a whole and in coordination of its sub-processes and activities. This framework consists of a number of generic parameters that are applicable to projects of varying complexity, size and duration and is adaptable to national, local and project-specific variations of the construction process.

ISO/TS 12911:2012 establishes a framework for providing specifications for the commissioning of building information modelling (BIM). It is applicable to any range of modelling of buildings and building-related facilities, from a portfolio of assets at a single site or multiple sites, to assets at a single small building and at any constituent system, subsystem, component or element. It is applicable to any asset type, including most infrastructure and public works, equipment and material. BIM processes are applicable across the entire life cycle of a portfolio, facility or component, which can span inception to end-of-use. The main user of the framework is the information manager, who utilizes the framework to assist in structuring an international-, national-project- or facility-level BIM guidance document. The framework can also be used for BIM guidance provided by application providers.

ISO 29481-1:2010 specifies a methodology and format for the development of an information delivery manual (IDM). ISO 29481-1:2010 specifies a methodology that unites the flow of construction processes with the specification of the information required by this flow, a form in which the information should be specified, and an appropriate way to map and describe the information processes within a construction life cycle. ISO 29481-1:2010 is intended to facilitate interoperability between software applications used in the construction process, to promote digital collaboration between actors in the construction process and to provide a basis for accurate, reliable, repeatable and high-quality information exchange.

ISO 12006-3:2007 specifies a language-independent information model which can be used for the development of dictionaries used to store or provide information about construction works. It enables classification systems, information models, object models and process models to be referenced from within a common framework.

The primary purpose is to provide the basis for an improved information flow during the creation and use of facilities, and to give guidelines for organizing industry information. The recommendations are aimed at improving the information flow within particular countries and also from country to country. Is intended to be read in conjunction with a series of standards, each of which will define a recommended international classification table (e.g. for facilities, spaces, elements, construction products and attributes). Defines the underlying philosophy, the relationships between them, and the way in which, together, they will be an integrated whole.