Memorandum of Understanding | United States National CAD Standard

Retain the identity of the contributing organizations to the Standard while preserving the fact that the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) CADD Council is the coordinates of the Standard.

Retain the rights of the contributing organizations to copyright their sections of the Standard while retaining the intent to encourage as wide a distribution of the Standard as possible throughout the design and construction industry and its suppliers. Distribution methods of the copyrighted information will be agreed to by the contributing organizations and priced as outlined below.

Structure the Standard in such a way to allow each contributing organization to sell their contributions as stand alone documents. Publication schedules for stand-alone documents shall be solely under the control of contributing organizations.

Each contributing organization shall submit their contribution to a consensus process based on that determined by CADD Council bylaws. This process is intended to ensure coordination, continuity, completeness and absence of redundancy or conflict in the Standard. NIBS shall form a project committee to provide a consensus review of the Standard. The chairman of the Project Committee shall be from one of the contributing organizations. A steering committee, if established, shall be composed of a minimum of one representative of each of the contributing organizations.

Each contributing organization shall have the right to distribute the entire National CADD Standard.

The sale price of the National CADD Standard shall not be greater that the sum of the individual parts.

Pricing of the publications should permit the publishers and contributing organizations to cover their expenses and to see a reasonable return on investment.

Each organization shall develop a process for maintaining their part of the National CADD Standard. Review comments shall be collected by the National Institute of Building Sciences CADD Council and distributed to the participating organizations within 30 days of receipt.

Responsibilities

The following chart is provided as the basis for each contributing organization's responsibilities to the Standard. The dates specified are goals of this agreement:

This document is not intended to be legally binding or set forth any agreements beyond it's intended scope of forming the basis of agreement to work together in the best of the U.S. Building and Construction community and the nation.

The below signed contributing organizations agree to seek the goal identified above adhering to the guiding principles and responsibilities identified herein.

Signatories of the NCS Memorandum of Understanding

The following are members of the board of direction of the National Institute of Building Sciences CADD Council at the time of the signing of this agreement and have contributed to its development and support the development of a National CADD Standard.

Dana (Deke) Smith, Chairman - Naval Facilities Engineering Command
David Jordani, Vice Chairman - CADD Management Institute
Robert Aish - Bentley Systems
Dennis Bradshaw - SMACNA
Michael Cassidy - Construction Specifications Institute
Gary Beimers - McGraw Hill - Construction Information Group
Buddy Cleveland - Construction Sciences Research Foundation
Roger Grant - R. S. Means Company
George Gregory - APEC, Inc.
Ken Herold - Industry Alliance for Interoperability
Paul Herold - United States Coast Guard
Aram Kailian - General Services Administration
George Korte - Intergraph
Jean McGinn - Corps of Engineers
Kent Reed - Liaison to NIST
Michael Schley - International Facilities Management Association
Richard See - AugoDesk
Charlie Shrive - Integrated Information Model
Toby Wilson - Tri-Service CADD/GIS Technology Center
John Weber - Architect of the Capitol
Thomas Young - NIBS Board Liaison
Earle Kennett - NIBS Staff