buildingSMART International is a global authority leading the digital transformation of the built environment by creating and adopting open international standards for infrastructure and buildings addressing data, processes and terminology. Among the international standards established by buildingSMART is the IFC – Industry Foundation Classes (ISO 16739:2013), the most important standard in the area of interoperability in the AEC sector and the mainspring behind BIM – Building Information Modeling or Information Modeling of the Construction.