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buildingSMART Technical
  • Home
  • Standards
    • Data standards
      • Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
        • IFC Specifications database
        • IFC Formats
        • Model View Definitions (MVD)
          • MVD Database
    • Workflow standards
      • Information Delivery Specification (IDS)
      • BIM Collaboration Format (BCF)
        • bcfXML
      • Information Delivery Manual (IDM)
        • IDM Database
    • Interface standards (APIs)
      • Shared/Common API (Foundations API)
      • BCF API
      • Documents API
      • Property Exchange API (coming soon)
  • Services
    • Development & Conformance
      • IFC Release teams
      • General Assembly Technical
      • Software Certification
        • Benefits
        • Software Certification Team
        • IFC2x3 Certification Program
        • IFC4 Certification Program
        • IFC Certification Participants
    • Data Tools
      • buildingSMART Data Dictionary (bSDD)
      • IFC Validation service (coming soon)
    • Workflow tools
      • Use Case Management Tool
      • Translations Framework
  • Resources
    • GitHub page
    • Related standards
    • Sample files
    • IFC Implementation Guidance
    • buildingSMART Standards database
    • Technical Roadmap
    • Software Implementation overview

Related standards

In the wider openBIM community, there are several standards related to buildingSMART Standards.  buildingSMART is aware of these initiatives and is trying to integrate these with the official buildingSMART standards. An overview:

  • Structural Analysis Format (SAF)
  • International Construction Measurement Standards (ICMS)
  • Building Topology Ontology (BOT)
  • IFC based query language BimQL
  • Binary IFC (IfcHDF5)
  • Product Data Templates (PDT; ISO 23386/7)
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