Development of National BIM Standard and Certification Program

Canada’s first program which is going to provide national standard to companies which use Building Information Modeling (BIM) is under the phase of development. This program is going to be launched by Canada BIM Council and will provide the level of certification to BIM companies.

The director and chairperson of Research and Education Committee of CanBIM told that it is the long term aim of CanBIM to support the building information modeling. For this certification program has been launched with which companies will get certificates based on their competency and become benchmarked with a certain level of competitor ship. Building certification will be provided to anybody or any company which is related in any case with building like architecture, engineering, construction and consulting.

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Building information modeling performs while generating and managing the digital representations with physical and functional characteristics of different places. Files can be exchanged to support the decision making. BIM supports the companies which prefer saving the money on design, construction, architecture and operation of the buildings that are meant for public. BIM has a goal to indulge in to the large number companies which may be governmental or private. UK government expects to acquire a full BIM with all 3D features latest by 2016.

CanBIM is currently working on the launching of certification system on the basis of which companies will be evaluated on the set of criteria and benchmarks.