Due to the predominant division of labor in Germany and a small-scale, heterogeneous corporate structure within which several offices work on a project with different software tools, interdisciplinary cooperation with powerful interfaces is required. After all, a wealth of information in different data formats is generated from the conception, planning, construction, use and management to the dismantling of buildings.
In order to be able to manage, document, archive and exchange this information efficiently and without loss between the parties involved, a common basis for the exchange of BIM data was created with the object-oriented basic data models IFC (Industry Foundation Classes).