The buildingSMART alliance™ is a unique organization helping to make the North American real property industry more efficient by leading the creation of tools and standards that allow projects to be built electronically before they are built physically using Building Information Modeling.

Benefits to stakeholders –

  • Participation in the development of standards changing the industry
  • Realization of higher quality, lower cost, faster construction and more sustainable projects
  • Ability to take advantage of new business models.

What we do –

  • Drive full lifecycle implementation of building information models (BIMs)
  • Engage all facets of the real property and building industries in the creation of new standards and products
  • Develop and promote the National BIM Standard-United States™ and United States National CAD Standard®
  • Educate the public and stakeholders about the efficiency modeling and simulation can bring to the real property industry.

Please support the Alliance
The Alliance develops and disseminates no-cost open BIM standards and coordinated BIM education and information for the real property industry. All bSa resources supporting this work come from individual, corporate, association and agency memberships and sponsorships. The Alliance does not receive any government funding. Please help support this critical industry-wide effort by supporting the Alliance with membership and participation.

News View All

  • Fall 2012 JBIM - Call for abstracts

    May 16 2012

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  • Institute to Release NBIMS-US™ V2 during AIA Conference

    May 14 2012

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  • 2013 BIM Academic Workshop Call for Papers

    Apr 25 2012

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NCC Version 5.0 Now Available

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  • AIA 2012 National Convention and Design Exposition

    May 17 - 19, 2012

    Washington, DC

  • European Conference of Product and Process Modelling (ECPPM) 2012

    July 25 - 27, 2012

    Reykjavik, Iceland

  • 14th Annual Lean Construction Institute Congress

    October 09 - 12, 2012

    Arlington, VA

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In alliance with

  • buildingSMART Korea / Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs (MLTM)Canada BIM Council

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