ISO Releases First Worldwide BIM Standard
Emily Pollock posted on January 28, 2019 |
The ISO develops international standards, and its latest standard is the first worldwide BIM standard. (Image courtesy of ISO.)
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has just released the world’s first international standards for BIM, the ISO 19650-1 and ISO 19650-2.
The ISO is a body that develops international standards for multiple different sectors. On January 21, the organization announced that it had developed standards for using BIM cooperatively as part of a team. The full name for the standard is “Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling (BIM) — Information management using building information modelling,” and the organization has already released Part 1: Concepts and principles and Part 2: Delivery phase of the assets. Currently, the ISO plans to release a Part 3 (on the operational phase of assets) and a Part 5 (security-minded BIM, digital built environments, and smart asset management) in 2020.
The ISO based the new standards on two existing British standards: BS 1192 and PAS 1192-2. BS 1192 is an overall standard that lays out the best practices for managing construction information, while PAS 1192-2 is a specification that deals with information management during the capital/delivery phase. Both standards were made public by the British…