What is a Construction Standard?A construction standard is a type of identification criteria used throughout the construction process. Standards are used to determine values of specifications. Typical examples of construction standards include IFC and OmniClass. When the administrator decides to use a certain standard, such as IFC, the users will only have access to specifications that meet that standard. Why Use a Standard?You use a standard because it ensures that all the Building & Civil objects you place and the manner in which you place them will meet certain minimum construction requirements or be within a certain range Standards restrict users to certain predefined Building & Civil objects, or other attribute values that are compatible with a project. When a user selects a standard during the civil engineering design process, then only the values defined in the resource file associated with that standard can be applied to the design. IFCIFC is an object-oriented file format used by the AEC industry — architecture, engineering and construction — to exchange and share information between a set of software. Using IFC types lets you structure content and design a civil engineering infrastructure with 62 building and civil engineering dedicated types. Note:
The IFC4 Official Release Final specification is available on the
buildingSMART International Ltd © web site
(http://www.buildingsmart-tech.org/).
Creating objects with such construction types presents two main advantages:
To visualize a complete description of the type compatibility rules, see Type Compatibility Rules. Convert IFC Data InteractivelyBuilding and Civil Assemblies supports import and export of IFC files for both geometry and BIM data. With a valid license for Format Converter for IFC and the appropriate assigned role, you can import Industry Class Foundation (IFC) data interactively. For more information, see Converting IFC Data Interactively in Format Converter User's Guide. OmniClassThe OmniClass Construction Classification System (known as OmniClass™ or OCCS) is a new classification system for the construction industry. OmniClass is useful for many applications, from organizing library materials, product literature, and project information, to providing a classification structure for electronic databases. It incorporates other existing systems currently in use as the basis of many of its Tables – MasterFormat™ for work results, UniFormat™ for elements, and EPIC (Electronic Product Information Cooperation) for products. OmniClass is a strategy for classifying the entire built environment. OmniClass consists of 15 tables, each of which represents a different facet of construction information. Each table can be used independently to classify a particular type of information, or entries in it can be combined with entries in other tables to classify more complex subjects.Note:
The OmniClass Official Release
Final specification is available on the omniclass International Ltd © web site
(http:// www.omniclass.org/).
UniFormatUNIFORMAT II Elemental Classification for building specifications, cost estimating, and cost analysis proposed UNIFORMAT II Classification of bridge elements are both supported in the Building and Civil Assemblies app. This element classification standard identifies any building and civil element by a string made up of a letter plus a number. You can set two UniFormat classifications as extensions. See Extensions. ExtensionsBuilding and Civil Assemblies leverages the usage of standards by providing extensions that can be automatically added to Building & Civil objects (also referred to as construction -type objects) at creation. Building and Civil Assemblies supports the following extensions that comply with the IFC, Uniformat and OmniClass standards:
Note:
Specialized attributes are stored in IFC, UniFormat and OmniClass
extensions.
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