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Recently, buildingSMART International invited stakeholders vested in the development of Open BIM processes and standards to Barcelona for a summit to learn about the latest developments in IFC strategy.

The buildingSMART Standards Summit brought together a number of perspectives from around the world to discuss the needs that remain to be addressed to improve collaboration through BIM platforms.

Infrastructure Alignment

Jonathan Riondet, AEC Solution Technical Director for Dassault Systèmes, presented a session focusing on the needs of infrastructure owners, designers and contractors.

He noted that IFC, at the moment, remains focused on the needs of building designers and contractors, but both the industry and the standard must evolve to provide support in IFC 4 for infrastructure.
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