BIM Guidelines

The increasing use of BIM in the built environment sector offers great opportunities for increased efficiency, quality and sustainability, for example through more efficient planning, product determination, production, maintenance and operation processes.The built environment sector has been working for a long time to develop standards for BIM such as IFC and CoClass; these are important standards that are in place but where industry-wide applications related to the processes of information exchange need to be made concrete.

The relatively new process standard SS-EN ISO 19650 has now been established internationally, and also within Nationella Riktlinjer - livscykelinformation för byggd miljö (National Guidelines – Life Cycle Information For The Built Environment)), and is seen as a framework and enabler of industry-wide processes for digital information flows.The project BIM Guidelines will develop industry practices for digital information exchange and storage in the built environment process based on the framework SS-EN ISO 19650, the classification system CoClass and the information model IFC, both for the real estate and infrastructure sector.

The BIM Guidelines will not secure the entire information management for an organisation, it will focus on a number of basic applications and practical guidance.

The purpose is for organisations to be able to set requirements for their information deliveries easily by applying a uniform process that the entire industry can endorse.

The results of the project will be made available and managed by Nationella Riktlinjer - livscykelinformation för byggd miljö.The work in the project will be carried out in 4 working groups: Group 1 (SS-EN ISO 19650), Group 2 (CoClass), Group 3 (IFC) and Group 4 (Validation through use cases).

A reference group with broad industry representation is linked to the project, as well as a steering group with representatives from users and managers of the results.