The Protracted Ending of Babel
The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data model has reached past March the level of an international published standard, ISO 16739:2013, but its development started almost 20 years ago when Autodesk promoted the creation of an industry consortium to advise the company on the interoperability of digital information in the AEC market.
The late affirmation in the Building and Estate management sectors of the BIM technology now strongly associated with IFC is a good example too of their characteristic resistance to innovation. It is worth to mention that while professionals are often reported to still have difficulties to understand and accept the changes in their workflows implied by the implementation of BIM systems, ArchiCAD, the first software to provide BIM functions, was first launched on the market on 1987 and Revit, now the most popular software for BIM, was first released on 2000.
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