BuildingSMART UK

BuildingSMART develop standards, tools and training to ensure that the industry knows what open BIM is and how to use it effectively and openly to achieve greener, leaner and more efficient buildings and infrastructure in the UK.

It helps new BIM users to identify pilots and deploy a partial BIM to gain familiarity and encourage experienced users to continue their roll-out of BIM, extend its application and share their experiences.

BuildingSMART UK is part of the international BuildingSMART programme, with representation across Europe, North America, the Middle East, Far East and Australasia.

Members are plugged into a network of leading experts from around the world to define, develop and maintain open standards such as the IFCs and associated protocols to enable truly interoperable data exchange. These standards are moving towards full ISO recognition.

Current list of members includes

- Autodesk

- 4Projects

- Balfour Beaty

- Causeway

- Atkins

- Tekla

- Costain

- Skanska

- Solibri

-Turner & Townsend

- and number of Universities.