In October, over one hundred of the world’s BIM experts assembled in Singapore to work on the creation of world’s future open building and infrastructure data standards.

Since the last working summit in London, 5 standards have been endorsed as buildingSMART Final Standards, and the number of initiatives in progress is healthier than ever with 27 Activities currently developing a broad range of new output.

The key milestones achieved during the summit include:

• 24 nations attended 52 meetings
• Key note presentations from Autodesk, Trafikverket and Nemetschek Group set the tone on user expectations
• the Standards Committee Executive (SCE) agreed to put forward; ISO IDM Standard, mvdXML Trust in BIM deliverables and IFC for LAND XML report as final standards and technical reports.
• A memorandum of understanding between bSI, Trafikverket, Rijkwaterstat and Liikennevirasto (the Swedish, Dutch & Finnish Traffic Agencies) was signed, ensuring funding and leadership of new infrastructure initiatives.
• The Compliance Program finalised the proposal for the development of a buildingSMART accreditation scheme
• The Technical Executive model was progressed to ensure harmonization across all the initiatives to providing consistent and quality output worthy of the bSI brand.

Focus on what the User needs was a key theme throughout the week and significant strides in improved leadership and coordination strategies were made.

The full set of resolutions and presentations from the summit are posted at Standards Summit Program

The list of standards work is to be found on the Activities page.

buildingSMART International thanked the Singapore Chapter and their sponsors for the excellent organisation and hospitality that ensured this summit was such a  great success.

The next Summit will take place in April 2016 in the Netherlands.

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