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Invitation to Join the NBIMS—Business Process Integration Task Team (BPITT) (September 2006)
The U.S. National BIM Standard (NBIMS) Executive Committee has authorized the establishment of a Business Process Integration Task Team (BPITT) to facilitate identification and analysis, and to provide recommendations regarding the integration of BIM into the business models of all those who are involved in the facility life cycle. A partial list of stakeholders includes design service firms, contractors, owners, facility managers, product manufacturers, and regulatory agencies. Read more.
The Executive Committee meeting held today was another great success. Significant progress continues to be made at the task team and the NBIMS document levels.
Our goal to have a document by the end of December appears to remain on target, although it will be down to the wire. December will bring us a draft for comment and consensus which we will work for the first few months of 2007. The group of authors we have working on this have all assured me that we will meet or beat our scheduled dates, which is an incredible feat! There are 22 contributing authors of the NBIMS, each one an industry recognized subject matter expert! My personal appreciation to each and every one of them.
I do need to repeat here that the document will be a baseline for where we stand today with BIM and not yet a true standard for BIM. To be honest we are not quite to the point of having a true standard and there will be some gaps that the industry will need to fill before we can get there. This will be spelled out in the document so we can focus our efforts. We will however have our goals stated for the standard which will greatly help any company attempting to embark on standards based BIMs.
I am very happy to say that 14 months ago when we set out on this journey there were many who believed it an impossible journey, and I believe we are going to surprise quite a few folks with the level of coordination not only in the United States, but also with the international community on this project.
Still much work to do and I do appreciate your continued interest and support.
Submitted by: Dana K. Smith, RA, Chair, NBIMS Project Committee