About Project Teams

Project teams are the atomic elements of the buildingSMART alliance organization. Teams are self-contained sets of stakeholders who come together to solve specific informational, practice, or information exchange problems. The results of your team's efforts, once specified and demonstrated, may be used as the basis for follow-on projects that have a national and or international impact.

Teams are often started by a group of subject matter experts with a problem that might be solved through the creation of informational, best-practice, or information exchange project. buildingSMART alliance teams will have the set of participants needed to develop and implement resulting products into the professional practice of members of the team membership.

Ideally, teams are led by a subject matter expert with the responsibility for developing the language needed to implement the team's products. As the team's efforts progress, software manufactures and service providers will join the team to support the product development and demonstration. For projects related to information exchange standards, a data architect and/or IFC modeler need to be members of the team. For information exchange projects, software firms, product manufacturers and service providers may become members of the team to assist in demonstrating successful applications.

As you begin to form a team, the buildingSMART alliance may be a resource to help you to identify those industry partners, and related products or existing teams, who can help your project reach a rapid solution. The Alliance can assist your team to estimate the resources required for analysts, modelers, and other industry support.

If all members of the teams are members in good standing of the Alliance, the Alliance will provide essential collaborative services to support the group including: email list server, monthly web conference and voice conference calling, and a private team web page project file sharing. If four or more organizations in a team have Bronze (or higher) corporate Alliance memberships, the Alliance may, depending on the scope of the project, provide project administrative support, data architect, and/or IFC modeler.