Continuing initiatives by buildingSMART Australasia

 At present many discipline groups are re-inventing or duplicating object libraries, a waste of expensive resources and in the absence of cross diciplinary guidelines. It is working with product manufacturers, Government and Industry to create product information in an open object format that can support the Industry's takeup of BIM.

buildingSMART's goal is to assist product manufacturers convert their disparate product information into objects that are accurate 3D representations, have rich data describing key physical, performance and commercial properties and be in a format that all relevant parties of the Built Environment can share from inception to operations and management.

The new National Research Centre at QUT, Sustainable Built Environment national research centre has selected  as one of three research projects Driving Productivity through Procurement: Interoperable Object Libraries and we endorse the importance of a national solution for product information.

The project aim is is to define and develop for the civil, commercial and residential construction industry a standard for a new system of creating, capturing and re-using knowledge. This will be achieved by extending the current paradigm of computer-aided design (CAD) libraries in new and powerful ways through collaborative building object libraries. These will support the design, construction, facilities management, demolition and re-use information across multiple disciplines.