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
In design and construction projects, the ultimate purpose of COBie is to deliver information about assets in a facility to the next owner/manager at the end of a phase in the project lifecycle. Typically, this is the owner at the end of construction, but it can also be applied to intermediate handovers between consultants during the design and construction process. These handovers may not include all the information ultimately required, but they can still provide valuable pieces of that information to assist other consultants (for example, from the design architect to the construction contractor at the end of design). Interim deliverables are sometimes called “data drops” and are also valuable to allow the project team to build up the process and information ultimately needed by the end of the phase to help ensure that the final handover is successful and includes the content required. Even though interim requirements are not required for all projects utilizing COBie, they are strongly recommended, especially for larger projects. Common milestones where it would be beneficial to include a data drop are end of conceptual design, end of design development, end of construction documentation, and at fixed intervals during the “in-use” phase of a facility.
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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