March 16, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, DC - The first version of the National Building Information
Modeling Standard(TM)(NBIMS) was released for a two month industry
review period today. The document titled "National Building Information
Modeling Standard Version 1.0 -- Part 1: Overview, Principles, and
Methodologies" provides the capital facilities industry with its first
comprehensive look at the full scope of requirements for Building
Information Modeling (BIM). The review period will span from March 12,
2007, until May 21, 2007. Those interested in reviewing the document
can obtain it from the NIBS National BIM Standard(TM) web site ?
http://www.facilityinformationcouncil.org/bim/publications.php . This
document is the first to be issued under the new NIBS buildingSMART(R)
Alliance initiative announced February 27, 2007.
The NBIMS will provide the diverse capital facilities industry with a
vision of how to support and facilitate communications throughout the
facility lifecycle, from project inception through design and
construction, even past demolition for improved operations, maintenance,
facility management, and long-term sustainability.
The document was assembled by over thirty subject matter experts from
across the capital facilities industry. It provides both a snap shot of
where this burgeoning capability exists today as well as identifies work
still needing to be accomplished. This first part of Version 1.0, which
is now out for review, will be followed by Part 2 at the end of the
year. Part 2 will contain items to be standardized across the industry
using the NIBS congressionally authorized consensus process.
The NBIMS has six goals: 1) Seek industry wide agreement, 2) Develop an
open and shared standard, 3) Facilitate discovery and requirements for
sharing information throughout the facility lifecycle, 4) Develop and
distribute knowledge that helps share information that is machine
readable, 5) Define a minimum BIM, and 6) Provide for information
assurance for BIM throughout the facility lifecycle. As an initiative
under the buildingSMART(R) Alliance, it is garnering support form the
widest spectrum of associations, agencies, organizations, vendors, and
individual practitioners ever assembled.
Deke Smith, the NBIMS Project Committee Chairman stated that "this open
standard will allow us to take full advantage of worldwide BIM
developments and also to ensure the United States remains competitive in
the world capital facilities market."
Created as part of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to
spur new building technologies and processes through research and
education, NIBS is charged with helping to improve building construction
and operation to benefit all Americans.
For information, contcat:
Bob Miller,
202.289.7800
202.631.7124
rmiller@nibs.org
