Does AI mean the end of standards? That was the question debated during a session at the recent Digital Construction Week. That event is like a nightmare version of your ideal festival line-up with all your favourite bands on different stages at the same time. Thus, while BIMplus was at another presentation, a correspondent filed this report of the debate.

As the UK’s national standards body, BSI publishes a plethora of standards to support those who operate within the built environment. Here, Dan Rossiter FCIAT, sector lead at BSI as well as vice-president technical at the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists, highlights three in particular set to have an impact in 2024.

IFC 4.3 for infrastructure has been approved as a final standard by ISO.

BIM and asset management, data dictionaries, standards, error-reducing technologies, and parametric design: these are all areas that are complex until explained by an expert in terms we can understand.

Real world innovations, standards, enforcement and the progress of BIM were all targets for Paul Morrell OBE in a recent CIOB lecture.

PAS 2080, BS 8670 and BSI Flex 1965: BSI’s Dan Rossiter details the three standards that will have the biggest impact in 2023.

The BSI has just published the revision to BS 8536 standard, which focuses on the information and data needed to determine operability and performance requirements of a built asset.

BSI Flex 260 Built Environment, the BSI standard giving guidance on the general principles of a digital twin for the built environment is open for consultation.

The ISO standard for the level of information need part 1 is now out for consultation. 20 December is the deadline to give feedback.

Trimble’s Charles M.E. Lekx says real value can only be achieved when all parties operate to the same standards.