CONTRACTOR SYSTEMSINDEX

The operating record for construction systems and project controls.

Organizations defining and checking machine-interpretable BIM information requirements · Open information-requirements specification

Information Delivery Specification

buildingSMART maintains IDS as a computer-interpretable specification for information requirements and model checking.

Maintained buildingSMART standardVoluntary unless adopted through contract or another authority

What the authority record establishes

buildingSMART maintains IDS as a computer-interpretable specification for information requirements and model checking.

Voluntary unless adopted through contract or another authority

The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.

Why it matters to this market

It helps teams separate written requirements, machine-readable constraints, model exchange, checking results, responsibility, and acceptance.

Affected operating stages

  • Requirements
  • Specification
  • Exchange
  • Checking
  • Review
  • Acceptance

Capabilities to examine

BIM Coordination Model Review And Issue Management

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for BIM coordination model review and issue management.

Document Control Versioning And Transmittals

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for document control versioning and transmittals.

Quality Inspection Punch And Nonconformance Workflow

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for quality inspection punch and nonconformance workflow.

Asset Data Handover And Operations Transition

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for asset data handover and operations transition.

API Data Export And Integration Framework

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for API data export and integration framework.

Affected buyer audiences

  • appointing parties
  • designers
  • contractors
  • BIM managers
  • software vendors

Implementation questions

  • Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
  • What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
  • Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
  • Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
  • How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?

Interpretation boundary

IDS can express selected information requirements; it does not establish contractual adoption, model correctness, professional adequacy, or acceptance.