buildingSMART alliance Associations
These are not necessarily organizations that have a formal relationship with buildingSMART alliance™, although many do. We offer the opportunity for an organization to list itself along with a point of contact and a brief synopsis of how you related to the vision and mission of the buildingSMART alliance. This will give all people attempting to coordinate project outcomes with the appropriate people throughout the industry.
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7group
John Boecker /
(717) 877-8038
Integrative Design, green building, and LEED consultants... Boecker served as vice Chair of the Steering Committee that created the WSIP ANSI Standard
AIA - Integrated Project Delivery
Markku Allison /
(202) 626-7487
Whitepapers, articles, presentations and links to assist members in developing a stronger understanding of Integrated Practice and relevant surrounding issues.
Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI)
Sunil Nanjundaram /
(703) 524-8800 ext. 329
AHRI independently tests and certifies the performance ratings of commercial and residential heating, cooling, ventilation and commercial refrigeration equipment. When you're comparing the performance of similar products made by different manufacturers, you can rely on the ratings you’ll find in the AHRI Directory of Certified Product Performance. This online, real-time database allows you to search by product lines, certified ratings or manufacturer, to get just the information you need, when you need it. So before you make your next HVACR decision, visit this trusted source for performance certified equipment.
Alliance to Save Energy (ASE)
Nils Petermann /
(202) 530-2254
American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA)
Rich Walker /
(330) 242-1916
American College of Construction Lawyers (ACCL)
Patrick J. O'Connor Jr. /
(612) 766-7000
American Concrete Institute (ACI)
Douglas J. Sordyl /
(248) 848-3757
American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC)
David C. Bixby /
(202) 347-7474
American Institue of Architects (AIA) - Building Connections
Markku Allison /
(202) 626-7487
The International Clearinghouse for Interoperability Standards and Activities in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Real Estate industries.
American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)
John Cross /
(312) 670-2400
AISC has taken an active role in pioneering interoperability and BIM through developing the CIS/2 standard and promoting its use in the structural steel design, detailing, fabrication and construction process. AISC actively engages its members and the AEC community at large to ensure that structural steel is a leader in adoption of interoperability and BIM technology.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
Bridgette Dziedzic /
(202) 331-3622
American Portland Cement Association (PCA)
(202) 408-9494
American Public Works Association (APWA)
Kaye Sullivan /
(816) 595-5233
American Society for Quality (ASQ)
Ray Crawford /
(703) 742-5911
ASQ Design and Construction Division is actively pursuing a certification for Quality Managers in design and construction and would like to include BIM and interoperability to the knowledge required of QM's in these disciplines.
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Amar Chaker, PhD /
(703) 295-6393
The Architectural Engineering Institute of ASCE is dealing with building information models.
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
Gordon Holness /
(313) 330-5533
Develop and identify initiatives and opportunities presented by interoperability, BIM, and related topics affecting the HVAC & R industry and ASHRAE interests. Develop informational and educational programs on BIM and Inter-operability for ASHRAE members.
American Society of Interior Designers (ASID)
Thom Banks /
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
(888) 999-2752
American Society of Professional Estimators
Edward Walsh /
All estimating professionals may want to get in on the BIM discussion effecting their work. ASPE Chapters will be presenting speakers and programs to facilitate the move towards BIM.
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC)
Kirk Pickerel /
Association for Facilities Engineering (AFE)
Lawrence Gration /
(703) 234-4066
Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACEi)
Andrew Dowd, Jr /
(800) 858-2678
Association of General Contractors of America (AGC) - BIMForum
Dmitri Alferieff /
(703) 837-5386
BIMForum is the AGC's task force on Building Information Modeling (BIM). BIMForum's 200+ members collaborate virtually via the online forum.
Association of Physical Plant Administrators (APPA)
Lander Medlin /
(703) 684-1446 Ext. 229
Association of Union Constructors (TAUC)
Todd Mustard /
(703) 524-3336 x 112
BIM4Builders
Jerry Laiserin /
Building Industry Consulting Service International (BICSI)
Brian Hansen /
(651) 423-9140
Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA)
Ron Burton /
buildingSMART alliance
Deke Smith /
(202) 289-7800
Goal is to coordinate all efforts to improve all aspects of the facility and infrastructure lifecycle by promoting collaboration, technology, integrated practices and open standards. The technical committee involved with the development and sustainability of the IAI technical products (ifc's) in the United States is now part of this effort.
buildingSMART International (Formerly International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI)) (bSI)
Chris Groome /
+44 (1536) 526429
BuildingSMART International is an international membership organization with representation in North America, Europe, Asia and Australasia. It brings together architects, engineers, constructors, product manufacturers and facilities managers, along with software vendors and progressive construction customers. The buildingSMART alliance is the North American chapter to BuildingSMART International.
Campus FM Technology Association (CFTA)
Lynn Hazelbaker /
405-744-6959
Canadian Green Building Council (CaGBC)
Cam Brewer /
Center for Facilities and Environment (CIFE)
Martin Fischer /
(650) 725-4649
CIFE and Stanford have long been pioneers in collaborative design, integrated practice, and BIM in general.This level of involvement will with out doubt continue long into the future.
Construction Finanacial Management Association (CFMA)
Peter Schwartz /
(609) 452-8000
Construction Industry Institute (CII)
Manual Garcia /
(512) 232-1966
The Construction Industry Institute focuses its efforts on the business needs of its members, which include many of the largest construction related organizations and major facility owners. BIM is beginning to show up on their radar screen and therefore into projects of CII. The emphasis of CII will be toward the strategic business approach to BIM rather than the technology.
Construction Industry Round Table (CIRT)
Jane G. Bonvillain
Construction Institute (CI)
Bill Cianci /
(860) 768-4459
Construction Managers Association of America (CMAA)
George Ghringer, PhD /
(703) 677-3367
Construction Owners Association of America (COAA)
Kim Fisher /
(800) 994-2622
COAA is committed to accomplishing interoperability and served as one of the sponsors of the McGraw-Hill Interoperability Study that was recently released. They are educating our members through their conference education programs and articles in their magazine.
Construction Specifications Canada (CSC)
Michael Schneider /
(780) 735-4105
Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)
Roger Grant /
(703) 706-4740
CSI develops and promulgates the formats and standards that organize project and product specifications and information. With the development of OmniClass and the IFDLibrary, CSI along with CSC is focused on supporting interoperability by providing a complete and consistent open schema for all information used in the building process.
Construction Users Round Table (CURT)
Chuck Hardy /
(312) 886-0205
The Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) mission is to create competitive advantage for construction users. CURT is providing aggressive leadership on business issues that promote excellence in the creation of capital assets and supports BIM/VDC implementation in accord with this direction. CURT is in the third year of an arrangement with CIFE and GSA in conducting a VDC Usage Survey in order to gain business metrics around VDC implementation. Further CURT has a committee focused on process transformation involving various sectors of the industry targeting improved productivity. CURT is working in partnership with AIA and AGC through the 3xPT initiative driving change in the industry toward process transformation.
Contintental Automated Buildings Association (CABA)
Ronald J. Zimmer /
(613) 686-1814 X. 230
CABA is a not-for-profit industry association that promotes advanced technologies for the automation of homes and buildings in North America.
Department of Vetrans Affairs (VA)
Renee Tietjen /
Design Build Institute of America (DBIA)
Lee Evey /
(202) 682-0110
Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA)
Peter Benson /
(610) 861-5990
Electronic Systems Professional Alliance
Grant Mydland /
(703) 226-3772 Ext. 110
Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC)
J. Scott Deiter /
(301) 744-6111
Federal Real Property Association (FRPA)
Kimberly Price /
(703) 561-4104
FIATECH
Ric Jackson /
(301) 424-4202
General Services Administration (GSA)
Charles Matta /
GSA is a leader in the advancement of BIM by being the first agency to require BIM on all new projects. They also provide guidelines and research into advancing the BIM concepts.
Green Building Initiative
Sharene Rekow /
(877) 424-4241
Green Building Institute
(443) 733-1234
Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)
Rita Harrold, Technical Director
(212) 248-5000
InfoComm International
Randal A. Lemke, Ph.D. /
(703) 273-7200 ext. 3070
Institute for Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS)
Bill Reed /
(781) 483-3040
Institute of Green Professionals (IGP)
Grant Austin /
(954) 217-0565
IGP is a transdisciplinary network of sustainable development professionals, academics and organizations that advance global sustainable development through education, credentialing, research, philanthropy, and a Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. Our members include: architects, land-use planners, landscape architects, appraisers, engineers, accountants, attorneys, and the academics teaching these specialties. Within our education program, BIM is a core educational and integrative practice module to bring together all stakeholders at different phases of the facility life cycle.
International Builders Exchange Executives (IBEE)
Ed Walsh / edwalsh@bxnetwork.org
(203) 671-7372
International Center for Facilities (ICF) Ottawa
Francoise Szegretti & Gerald Davis /
(613) 727-1788
Improve the functionality, suitability and quality of the places where people work and live, and of other constructed assets, by focusing in particular on the development of appropriate national and international standards.
International Code Council (ICC) - SMARTcodes™
Dave Conover /
(202) 370-1800 x6244
Automate compliance checking with building regulations, codes, standards, etc. which includes significant work on a dictionary that can serve as a basis for other dictionary work in the US and globally, coordination with model checking software entities and working with BIM software developers to understand what information is needed in a BIM to make it checkable for compliance.
International Construction Information Society (ICIS)
Don Bunting /
64 9 631 7044
International Facilities Managers Associatiion (IFMA)
Shari Epstein /
(713) 623-4362
International Partnering Institute (IPI)
Sue Dyer, CEO /
(925) 447-9100
The International Partnering Institute (IPI) was founded in 1996 and is now a non-profit corporation. IPI seeks out lessons learned and best practices to capture partnering concepts and techniques that develop high trust relationships and organizational cultures for the delivery of construction projects, and then provide education and certification in those concepts and techniques.
Lean Construction Institute (LCI)
Greg Howell /
(303) 665-8191
Focused on reducing waste in the indusrty. Provides research to develop knowledge regarding project based production management in the design, engineering, and construction of capital facilities.
Machinery Information Management Open Systems Alliance (MIMOSA)
Alan Johnston and Ken Bever /
(949) 625-8616
Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA)
NAHB Research Center
Thomas Kenney, P.E. /
(301) 430-6246
National Academy of Sciences Federal Facilities Council (FFC)
Lynda Stanley /
(202) 334-3374
The FFC coordinates the federal agencies and profides educational opportunities to all.
National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)
Large builders of homes are transformaing to BIM in order to optimize their processes and provide agility in delivering customized needs of their customers
National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA)
Mary Germershausen
National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA)
Ron Runkles /
(703) 841-3278
National Facility Management & Technology (NFMT)
National Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC)
Jessica Ferris /
(301) 589-1776 ext. 204
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
Mark Palmer /
(301) 975-5858
The NIST/BFRL Construction Integration and Automation Technologies (CONSIAT) Program is developing enabling measurement science, methods, protocols, and knowledge to improve construction productivity with the integration of information, communication, sensing and automation technologies. The CONSIAT Program works with industry to identify priority issues and problems and develops needed advancements for the effective use of new technologies in achieving fully integrated and automated project processes.
NIBS - Building Enclosure Technology and Environment Council (BETEC)
Wagdy Anis, FAIA /
(617) 423-1700
Encouraging optimum energy use of buildings through a better understanding how oversall complex building components interact with each other and the environment
NIBS - Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC)
Henry Green /
(517) 241-9302
Enhance public safety fostering improved seismic safety for use by the building community
NIBS - Facility Maintenance and Operations Committee (FMOC)
Bill Brodt /
(202) 358-1117
The goal of BIM is to support business processes throughout the lifecycle - getting information to the operator and sustainer of the facility is a key goal of which FMOC is working. They are a co-sponsor of the COBIE project.
NIBS - High Performance Building Council (HPBC)
Earle Kennett /
(202) 289-7800
This emerging effort is focusing on not building to the minimum but looking at sustainability. This will be reinforced by accurate information provided by a BIM.
NIBS - Multihazard Mitigation Council (MMC)
Brent Woodworth /
(818) 702-6295
Having accurate information about facilities is a key need for evaluating the impact of hazards. The MMC is supporting the need for BIM to improve the accuracy of their reporting and analysis
NIBS - National BIM Standard
Alan Edgar /
(765) 215-8251
The NBIMS effort is at the heart of the BIM effort and is foundational to bur buildingSMART alliance.
NIBS - National CAD Standard
Mark Butler /
(402) 392-8782
We will be using drawings for quite a long time into the future. Drawings are a report from a BIM and the NCS will be moving toard optimizing that reporting capability in the future.
NIBS - Whole Building Design Guide
Dominique Fernandez /
(202) 289-7800
The WBDG will be the vehicle used to distribute products of the buildingSMART alliance as they mature. In the interim it will be a coordinating point for many of the related efforts.
National Roofing Contractors Association
Bill Good, CAE
(847) 299-9070
National Trust for Historic Preservation
David Brown
(800) 944-6847
North American Insulation Manufacturers Association (NAIMA)
Paul R. Bertram, Jr. /
(703) 684-0084
Open Building Information Xchange (OBIX)
Toby Considine /
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Mark Reichardt /
(301) 840-1361
Helping the World to Communicate Geographically. Provides industry standards to the ISO level. Recognized test bed approach.
Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE)
Andy Fuhrman /
(831) 458-3346
Painting & Decorating Contractors of America (PDCA)
Marsha Bass /
(800) 332-7322
Partnership for Advanced Technology in Housing (PATH)
Project Management Institute Design Procurement Construction Specific Interest Group (DPC-SIG)
Robert (Robb) Gries /
(206) 526-4837
The D-P-C SIG is an international organization and its mission is to break down barriers that fragment the profession, improve the understanding of capital project management, promote collaboration between capital project stakeholders, and contribute to the professional development of our membership.
Portland Cement Association
(202) 408-9494
Plumbing Manufacturers Institute
Barbara Higgins /
(847) 481-5500
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
Matthew Bruck /
(212) 847 7400
Schools Infeastructure Framework (SIFA)
Richard Robinson /
(651) 207-8643
Security Industry Association (SIA)
Florence Dennis-Huskin /
(703) 683-2075
Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association (SMACNA)
Matthew Cramer /
(810) 579-5000
Participate in the effort to achieve wide acceptance of open standard IFC's and technologically advanced tools to enable and promote growth of Integrated Practice, where efficient collaboration among disciplines can lead to goals of improved productivity and the reduction of errors and waste in the construction process. Assist in the dissemination of information on IFC's, BIM and the Integrated Practice to SMACNA contractors and the entire construction community.
Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology (MFPT)
Chris Pomfret /
(937) 256-2285
Society of American Military Engineers (SAME)
Robert D. Wolff, Ph.D., P.E., F.SAME /
(703) 549-3800
Society of American Registered Architects
N. Michael F. Griffith, FARA /
(888) 385-7272
Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP)
Ramesh Gulati /
703-245-8011
Specifications Consultants in Independent Practice (SCIP)
Dennis J. Hall, FAIA /
(704) 334-2101
Specifications Consultants in Independent Practice is a nationwide technical resource organization that aids design firms, agencies, facility managers, and manufacturers in acquiring specifications from qualified writers, and allows independent specifiers to enhance their professionalism by sharing techniques and industry developments. Widely regarded as the voice of the specifier community, SCIP membership includes specifications consultants and design firm specifiers.
Spray Polyurethane Foam Alliance
(800) 523-6154
Sustainable Buildings Industry Council (SBIC)
Helen English /
(202) 628-7400 ext. 205
The Green Standard
Deborah Dunning /
(919) 968-6516
U.S. Green Building Council
Linda Sorrento /
(202) 587-7185
Utilizing an integrated approach to hasten the transformation of the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated to neutralize first costs, improve building performance, and reduce operations impacts.
Underwriters Laboratory (UL)
John F. Bender, P.E /
(443) 567-8241
United States Coast Guard (USCG)
David M. Hammond /
(202) 475-5606
USACE - CAD/BIM Technology Center
Ken Cook /
(601) 634-4483
US Army - Civil Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL)
Bill East /
(217) 373-6710
The Corps of Engineers is transforming to the use of BIM and is a primary player in the industry transformation with products such as COBIE.
