Strategic Plan

The following is an excerpt from the buildingSMART alliance Strategic plan and we do work to this plan.

To support the mission and achieve the vision the buildingSMART alliance must foster new interdisciplinary and collaborative business approaches for the building industry with the goal of achieving the highest level of sustainable design and construction productivity, predictable on time and the most cost effective development and maintenance of the value of the building infrastructure. This will be enabled by the transparent and accessible use of BIM technology, analysis, and simulation supporting smarter and more informed decisions, and interdisciplinary communication and coordination based upon open standards. The approach must also be able to be implemented by all practitioners and stakeholders and supported by capturing and effectively redeploying currently wasted resources. Therefore, incremental results must be evident. This transformation will necessitate process re-engineering to change the current sequential non-integrated culture associated with everything from contractual relationships to building design conceptualization through commissioning and then to pass information to manage operations and sustainment. This collaborative, transparent, and interoperable approach based on open standards must be available to all in the facilities industry. By involving practitioners and all stakeholders in pursuing this strategy, we can build buy-in, eliminate non-value added effort in the facilities industry, and invest outcome of the efficiencies gained to improve further the facilities industry and the built environment.

To accomplish this strategy we shall:

1. Create a strong industry presence and recognition for the buildingSMART alliance vision and mission and the programs to support and achieve them.
2. Connect major participants of the building industry in a stakeholder activity model describing behavior associated with delivering, maintaining, and operating buildings by articulating improved information exchange processes thereby defining the scope of the Alliance.
3. Implement and support coordination of candidate open standards and guidance that populate the stakeholder activity model. Ensure that information needs are identified, capable of being easily collected and applied and that such information encourages flow throughout the lifecycle of the building to all stakeholders.
4. Develop a consensus infrastructure to advance open industry standards for interoperability and collaboration between practitioners based on the stakeholder activity model that provides a framework for assessing conformance.

The complete strategic plan can be viewed here. (PDF)