Standards-to-construction workflow crosswalk

The authority records

ISO 19650-1:2018

Organizations managing information over built-asset lifecycles · Published international standard; confirmed current. ISO 19650-1 establishes concepts and principles for information management using building information modelling over the asset lifecycle.

ISO 19650-2:2018

Organizations managing information during project delivery · Published international standard; confirmed current. ISO 19650-2 specifies information-management requirements for the delivery phase of assets using BIM.

ISO 16739-1:2024

Organizations exchanging structured building and infrastructure data · Published international standard. ISO 16739-1 specifies the IFC data schema and exchange structure for construction and facility-management information.

ISO 21502:2020

Organizations undertaking projects of any type · Published international standard. ISO 21502 provides guidance on project-management concepts and practices across organizational settings and delivery approaches.

OSHA construction standards

Covered U.S. construction employers and work · Current federal regulation. 29 CFR Part 1926 contains federal safety and health requirements for covered construction work.

GAO Schedule Assessment Guide

Government programs and other organizations applying the guide · Published government guidance. The GAO guide presents ten best practices for developing and maintaining reliable project schedules.

GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide

Government programs and other organizations applying the guide · Published government guidance. The GAO guide describes best practices for developing credible cost estimates and managing cost through program lifecycles.

AACE Total Cost Management Framework

Cost engineering, project controls, and capital-project practitioners · Maintained professional framework. AACE's Total Cost Management Framework organizes cost engineering and project-control processes across strategic asset and project delivery lifecycles.

PMBOK Guide

Project-management practitioners and organizations · Maintained professional publication. PMI maintains the PMBOK Guide and The Standard for Project Management as a professional reference for project delivery and value creation.

buildingSMART IFC

Software vendors and project teams exchanging BIM and asset data · Maintained international standard programme. buildingSMART maintains IFC as an open, vendor-neutral data schema for exchanging built-environment information.

buildingSMART IDS

Organizations defining and checking machine-interpretable BIM information requirements · Maintained buildingSMART standard. buildingSMART maintains IDS as a computer-interpretable specification for information requirements and model checking.

NBIMS-US V4

U.S. built-environment organizations applying the standard · Published industry standard. NBIMS-US V4 organizes consensus standards and implementation resources for building-information management in the United States.

Last Planner System

Construction teams applying collaborative production planning · Maintained professional practice record. LCI describes the Last Planner System as a production-planning and control system for creating reliable workflow through collaborative commitments.

AIA A201 General Conditions

Projects adopting the AIA document and related agreements · Current published contract-document family record. AIA A201 is a widely used general-conditions document that allocates roles and processes among owner, contractor, architect, and others when incorporated into a project agreement.

ConsensusDocs 200

Projects adopting the ConsensusDocs form and related documents · Current published contract-document record. ConsensusDocs 200 combines a standard agreement and general conditions for owner-constructor contracting within the ConsensusDocs family.

The operating-domain lens

Project information and document control

The controlled chain from information requirement and originator through revision, review, status, authorization, distribution, response, supersession, downstream use, and retained project record. The crosswalk links 8 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Cost, commercial, and change control

The evidence chain connecting contract scope, budget, cost code, commitment, event, notice, quantity, price, time, authority, status, contingency, forecast, accounting, payment, and retained commercial position. The crosswalk links 10 capabilities and 4 authority records.

Schedule, production, and delay evidence

The maintained relationship among contract time, approved baseline, current schedule, data date, logic, calendars, constraints, resources, progress, changes, production commitments, risk, forecast, and contemporaneous evidence. The crosswalk links 9 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Field production, quality, and safety

The site-level chain connecting current work information, location, access, conditions, crew, equipment, materials, permits, work performed, inspection, issue, correction, acceptance, quantity, and daily evidence. The crosswalk links 10 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Preconstruction scope, quantity, and bid

The governed process for interpreting current bid documents, defining scope, measuring quantities, applying assemblies and production assumptions, soliciting coverage, leveling exclusions, pricing risk, approving a bid, and preserving revision history. The crosswalk links 9 capabilities and 2 authority records.

Construction financials and payment

The chain from contract and commitment through work progress, application, schedule of values, stored materials, compliance evidence, review, certification, lien documentation, disbursement, accounting, and reconciliation. The crosswalk links 9 capabilities and 3 authority records.

BIM coordination, reality capture, and handover

The evidence chain connecting information requirements, design models, coordination issues, construction status, observed site conditions, deviations, acceptance, as-built records, asset data, and operations transition. The crosswalk links 10 capabilities and 4 authority records.

Integration, data governance, and exit

The governance of project, company, contract, cost, schedule, document, identity, workflow, integration, analytics, retention, portability, and historical evidence across connected construction systems. The crosswalk links 11 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Portfolio, program, and capital governance

The maintained decision system connecting strategy, project need, option, funding, authorization, scope, schedule, cost, risk, benefit, delivery performance, change, forecast, stage gate, and closeout across a capital portfolio. The crosswalk links 9 capabilities and 3 authority records.

How to use the crosswalk

Determine applicability with qualified owners, identify affected records and workflows, map each expectation to an accountable decision and retained evidence, then use capability and organization pages to frame a technology evaluation. A mapping is editorial navigation—not a conformity or legal conclusion.

Methodology

1. Define the market boundary, exclusions, operating models, and capability taxonomy before classifying organizations.
2. Require an approved official source for organization inclusion and each documented capability.
3. Keep authority sources, provider claims, independent observations, editorial synthesis, and unknowns in separate evidence states.
4. Use one primary operating model per organization while retaining adjacent scope in the narrative record.
5. Preserve source URLs, review dates, material changes, limitations, and correction history.

Limitations

• The maintained population is substantial but not claimed to be a complete global market.
• Official public documentation may omit available capabilities or lag product and service changes.
• Documented positioning does not measure product depth, configured availability, independent performance, implementation effort, customer outcome, or commercial terms.
• Authority mappings are editorial research aids and do not establish buyer-specific applicability or product conformity.
• No organization may purchase inclusion, classification, finding, or correction outcome.

Reproducibility and updates

The report is reproduced from the provider registry, normalized facts and evidence, authority and domain records, and the publication taxonomy. A material change requires a dated source and editorial explanation. Historical values remain available through the change ledger rather than disappearing when the current record changes.