PO BIM is an industry-initiated project aimed at enabling the development of trusted digital data that describes the manufacturer’s products used on construction projects. The project encompassed the creation of a library of generic construction objects and their properties in accordance with the NF XP P07-150 standard. The successfully achieved objective of the project was to share high-quality, agreed information by speaking the same technical language for the proper use of digital tools supporting BIM processes.
The original need
In 2012, a group of manufacturers, members of the AIMCC (French Association of Building Materials and Products Industries) expressed the need to have shared, trusted, and reliable data describing the materials and solutions in the construction sector in…