Additional Resources

National Institute of Building Sciences – many related articles on Integrated Project Delivery, Building Information Modeling

U.S. General Services Administration – the Nation’s largest facility owner and manager’s program to use innovative 3D, 4D, and BIM technologies to complement, leverage, and improve existing technologies to achieve major quality and productivity improvements.

The American Institute of Architects – Integrated Practice information

Associated General Contractors of America BIM Guide for Contractors

McGraw-Hill Construction – source for design and construction industry information regarding Integrated Project Delivery

Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) – owners’ views on the need for Integrated Project Delivery

Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate – standards related to information sharing/BIM

Open Geospatial Consortium – an international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services

FIATECH – a consortium of leading capital project industry owners, engineering construction contractors and technology suppliers that provides global leadership in development and deployment of fully integrated and automated technologies.

LEAN Construction Institute – a non-profit corporation dedicated to conducting research to develop knowledge regarding project based production management in the design, engineering, and construction of capital facilities.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cost Analysis of Inadequate Interoperability in the U.S. Capital Facilities Industry

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) UNIFORMAT II Elemental Classification for Building Specifications, Cost Estimating, and Cost Analysis

OmniClass – a classification structure for electronic databases

Construction Specifications Institute – Master Format

Design Build Institute of America (DBIA) – library of information and case studies related to design build

Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE) – research center for Virtual Design and Construction AEC industry projects

 

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