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The International
Clearinghouse for Interoperability Standards and Activities in the
Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Real Estate
Industries
The AIA Technology in Architectural Practice Knowledge Community
created www.building-connections.info/ to
serve as a clearinghouse for information about design and
construction industry initiatives to promote interoperability and
data exchange standards.
Many groups within the building industry are working on this common
issue: how can we agree on standards for data exchange so that real
collaboration can occur throughout our fragmented industry? These
groups are competing within a small community. No one gets
sufficient funding or attention to be effective. And none has the
funding to market the message to the professional user communities
so that the value of interoperability becomes widely
understood.
Interoperability: The ability of software and hardware from
multiple vendors to communicate seamlessly across diverse systems,
platforms, applications, and networks using open, public standards
for data exchange
Now that the potential of intelligent building modeling is
recognized as a means to integrate design, construction, and
operations, we must have open, nonproprietary standards to enable
software interoperability across platforms, disciplines, and
applications. We believe interoperability is critical to process
improvement throughout the building industry. Until now, efforts to
develop standards have themselves been fragmented and
uncoordinated, and the value of interoperability has not been
effectively "sold" to stakeholders.
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