IFC schema organizes building elements into 'classes'.

Each class represents a type of building object, like a wall or a window. For example, 'IfcWall' represents a wall. An 'IfcWindow' represents a window.

Each instance of these classes in an IFC file represents a specific wall or window in a building.

🔍 Demystifying Information Delivery Specifications (IDS) 🔍

You may have been hearing a lot about Information Delivery Specifications (IDS) on social media recently.

It's time we break it down and make sense of it together. ⭐ IDS has three core components:

1️⃣ Description
2️⃣ Applicability
3️⃣ Requirements

Let's delve into these components.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑵𝒆𝒙𝒕𝑮𝒆𝒏 𝑰𝑭𝑪𝒔:

Source: buildingSMART International (Léon van Berlo)

#openbim #ifc

𝑩𝑰𝑴 𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒘𝒂𝒚: 𝑺𝑰𝑴𝑩𝑨 2.1 𝒂𝒕 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒔𝒃𝒚𝒈𝒈

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐁𝐈𝐌 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥, 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝? On the 1st of July 2022, Statsbygg published their new BIM requirements for their projects.
 
This set of requirements is called SIMBA and the latest version is SIMBA 2.1.

This is based on the previous version released one year earlier, SIMBA 2.0.