Information Delivery Specification (IDS) is a description format in the construction industry for specifying information for

BIM Building information modeling (BIM) is an approach involving the generation and management of digital representations of the physical and functional characteristics of buildings or other physical assets and facilities. BIM is supported by vario ...

building model and checking it automatically. IDS (like IFC) is defined by

buildingSMART buildingSMART, formerly the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI), is an international organisation which aims to improve the exchange of information between software applications used in the construction industry. It has developed Ind ...

; version 1.0 was published in June 2024.

Description

An IDS file is a

machine-readable document A machine-readable document is a document whose content can be readily processed by computers. Such documents are distinguished from more general machine-readable data by virtue of having further structure to provide the necessary context to suppo ...

that specifies requirements for a building model. It requires attributes to be supplied, or which attribute values are accepted. For example, it can require that the

thermal transmittance Thermal transmittance is the rate of transfer of heat through matter. The thermal transmittance of a material (such as insulation or concrete) or an assembly (such as a wall or window) is expressed as a R-value (insulation)#U-factor.2FU-value, U- ...

of all windows in the building must be within a prescribed range, or that all room names must follow a

regular expression A regular expression (shortened as regex or regexp), sometimes referred to as rational expression, is a sequence of characters that specifies a match pattern in text. Usually such patterns are used by string-searching algorithms for "find" ...

such as "Office001". A typical

workflow Workflow is a generic term for orchestrated and repeatable patterns of activity, enabled by the systematic organization of resources into processes that transform materials, provide services, or process information. It can be depicted as a seque ...

is: # Requirements are described on the client side using an IDS editor (also available free of charge). # Requirements are taken into account during planning; BIM software can support the planner. # Requirements are checked automatically with the IDS file and the building model as an IFC file.

References

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External links

Information Delivery Specification IDS
on buildingSMART
V1.0 Final buildingSMART Standard
on GitHub Industrial computing Building Building information modeling