The NBIMS-US™ v4 is a consensus-based national-level standard focused on defining standard approaches and guidelines to defining requirements, planning BIM adoption, and exchanging information between project team members. MORE
| 2006 | The Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL), within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and under the lead of Bill East, began a project to create an open standard for the delivery of construction handover information. It was sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), under the lead of William Brodt, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. |
| 2007 | The Construction to Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) V1.0 specification was published. |
| 2008-2014 | 13 COBie Challenge and Case Study events were held, which showcased how different software vendors were able to comply with COBie. |
| 2012 | COBie V2.26 was published as part of the National BIM Standard-United States® (NBIMS-US™) V2 developed by the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS). This version of COBie included a Model View Definition (MVD) based on IFC 2×3. |
| 2015 | COBie V2.4 was published as part of NBIMS-US™ V3 and was updated to comply with IFC 4. |
| 2015-2022 | COBie V3.0 was under development at NIBS by the COBie Workgroup, a group of volunteers with extensive industry experience with COBie. |
| 2023 | COBie V3.0 was published as part of NIBS NBIMS-US™ V4 and contained many user-requested improvements. |
The NBIMS-US™ v4 is a consensus-based national-level standard focused on defining standard approaches and guidelines to defining requirements, planning BIM adoption, and exchanging information between project team members. MORE
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