ABSTRACT
Increased efficiency of building information flow depends on clearly defined data in the information package to be exchanged. IFC goes a long way to provide this, but falls short in many important scenarios that deals with product information. IFD, or the buildingSMART ontology, brings us one step closer to 100% standardization of the information, and will together with the IDM initiative and IFCs allow an efficient building information exchange. This paper demonstrates how the IFD standard is able to standardize the information in a language agnostic way, and provide the whole building process with new possibilities within the area of product information exchange, knowledge systems, and life-cycle analysis. We will also describe our technical solution to the challenge and refer to the actual implementation of the solution, running on the internet today.
