The buildingSMART International

Standards Summit Summary

A huge thanks to all 769 total attendees (392 in person, 377 virtual) for attending this year's buildingSMART International Standards Summit and Canadian National Conference, which would not have been possible without the 24 sponsors and 9 media partners. Over the course of 4 days, we heard from over 150 speakers, resulting in over 84 hours of presentations. All session recordings will be released soon on our YouTube channel; subscribe now to be notified when new videos are uploaded. The Closing Plenary recording is already available for you to watch here. 

This was the first physical summit in some time following COVID, and it was undoubtedly a successful week. The full report has been published on our website where you can read more details day by day.

The buildingSMART International Award Winners 2022

This year the buildingSMART openBIM Awards Program had 121 submissions; with the most popular categories being Construction for Buildings and Technology. All submissions are reviewed by our technical triage team, this year 51 passed. The jury team was made up of 152 international experts who selected 21 finalists. 

During the Summit, all 2022 finalists presented their projects. After all the finalists from each category had presented, an elite jury deliberated in private to determine a winner. The winners were announced at the buildingSMART gala dinner and Awards Ceremony during the Summit.

Congratulations to all the finalists, special mentions, and winners from this year's Program! 

Chapter updates

We recently had updates from Morocco and Switzerland, which can be viewed via the links below.

Romania

Presented by

Stefan Constantinescu

Turkey

Presented by

Müge Sümerol

National Institute of Building Sciences Announces

Upcoming Release of COBie v3.0

Last week the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) Building Information Management Council (BIMC) announced it is planning the upcoming release of COBie 3.0, as an update to the Construction to Operations Building information exchange (COBie 2.4) Specification. COBie 3.0 also will be published as an integral part of the upcoming version 4.0 of the National BIM Standard – United States®.

Read more about this exciting news through the link below.

Upcoming key dates

• The Richard Petrie Memorial
  London, UK – 5th December 2022
• 2023 Spring Summit
  Rome, Italy – 27-30 March 2023
• International Council and Chapter Conference 
  Brdo, Slovenia – 20-21 June 2023

Thanks to our Strategic Members

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