ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the FIDE initiative, where the Spanish Administration has promoted the work to develop a Product Data Management (PDM) for the Spanish construction sector. The usage of a common data model will allow a drastic reduction in the use of resources by all the involved agents. The FIDE model focuses on the scope of the Spanish National Technical Building Code. The Technical Building Code is the normative framework that establishes the safety and habitability requirements of buildings set out in the building Act. FIDE model is public and open. In addition, its foundations have been established taking into account the possible relations with the most internationally spreaded standards and data models, like the Industrial Foundation Classes from the International Alliance for Interoperability. The chapter describes the objectives of the development of the model. It shows that the methodology used in the development, including management and organization issues as well as technical issues.
