2 Standard Proposal UNI 11337:2016

– Gestione digitale dei processi

informativi delle costruzioni

2.1 Introduction
The diffusion of the Building Information Modelling, which is widely interesting
the world of constructions at an international level, has endured in Europe a
tremendous acceleration. That was due to the fact that the United Kingdom,
through the release of the Government Construction Strategy (2011), since 2016
made mandatory the use of this method in all the projects financed with public
funds. Following the English model, The European Commission intervened on
the former Directive 2004/18/CE regarding the public contracts, introducing
explicit links to the digital world and to the BIM methodology. Several European
northern countries (among which Denmark, Finland, Norway and Netherlands)
are dealing with these issues for some time now, and in France and Germany the
governments have recently established governments groups in order to give an
incentive to the use of the BIM methodology in the building field. On the contrary,
Italy still seems undecided on the path to follow, and it’s also in late regarding the
definition of a national industrial policy towards the unification. Nevertheless,
there are several voluntary initiatives “from the bottom”, promoted by the
construction industry and by other organizations in charge of that purpose,
directed to the introduction of the BIM methodology in the field of the built
environment.
While the International and Community Labour tables (ISO e CEN) are working
for the definition of a regulatory framework to accompany local legislations, Italy
has readily undertook the same path: at the Ente Nazionale Italiano di
Unificazione (UNI) the work group UNI/CT 033/GL 05 “Codificazione dei
prodotti e dei processi costruttivi in edilizia”, coordinated by the professor Alberto
Pavan of the Politecnico of Milan, is currently reprocessing the original reference
standard – UNI 11337:200910 – with the goal of regulate the utilization of the
BIM, in an international context, in order to proceed toward and effective
application of this methodology, which include all the leading actors of the
construction sector, from the purchaser until the last subcontractor of the supply
chain.
2.2 The European Standard
As stated by the prof. Alberto Pavan in one article on the UNI website11, a CEN
(European Committee for Standardization) working group is currently working
on the BIM topic, that is CEN/BT/WG 215 “Building Information Modelling”,
promoted and coordinated by Norway. Today several countries adhere to the
table: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, United
Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Czech Republic, Spain and Sweden. The
four experts representing Italy are: Alberto Pavan (Politecnico of Milan), Filippo
Romano (Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione – ANAC), Fulvio Re Cecconi
(Associazione Nazionale Costruttori Edili – ANCE) and Paolo Odorizzi
(Harpaceas S.r.l.).

The European work group is still at an early stage of its own regulatory pathway
that also includes the implementation of three ISO standards:

− ISO 29481-1:2010 – Building Information Modelling – Information

delivery manual – Part 1: Methodology and format;
− ISO 29481-2:2012 – Building Information Modelling – Information
delivery manual – Part 2: Interaction framework;
− ISO 16739:2013 – Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) for data sharing in
the construction and facility management industries;
− ISO 12006-2:2015 – Building construction – Organization of information
about construction works – Part 2: Framework for classification;
− ISO 12006-3:2007 – Building construction – Organization of information
about construction works – Part 3: Framework for object-oriented
information.

Besides the table will also pay considerable attention to the harmonization of the
classification tables and the properties of construction products, at a European
level.

The end of the works is expected by the end of the year 2016, and the release of
the corresponding standards in 2017.
2.3 The International Standard
The ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is currently working
on the BIM topic. In particular the work group ISO/TC 59/SC 13/WG 13
“Information Management”, promoted and coordinate by the United Kingdom.
Today the countries that adhere to the table are: Australia, Austria, Germany,
Japan, United Kingdom, Italy, Norway, Netherlands and USA. The two experts
who represent Italy are Alberto Pavan e Angelo Luigi Camillo Ciribini
(University of Brescia).

A wide range of ISO standards regarding the Building Information Modelling

already exists, among them:

ISO STEP 10303 – Standard for the Exchange of Product model data;

− ISO 12006-2:2015 – Building construction – Organization of information

about construction works – Part 2: Framework for classification;
− ISO 12006-3:2007 – Building construction – Organization of information
about construction works – Part 3: Framework for object-oriented
information.
− ISO 16354:2013 – Guidelines for knowledge libraries and object libraries;
− ISO 16739:2013 – Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) for data sharing in
the construction and facility management industries;
− ISO 16757-1:2015 – Data structures for electronic product catalogues for
building services – Part 1: Concepts, architecture and model;
− ISO/DIS 16757-2:2014 – Data structures for electronic product catalogues
for building services – Part 2: Geometry;
− ISO 29481-1:2010 – Building Information Modelling – Information
delivery manual – Part 1: Methodology and format;
− ISO 29481-2:2012 – Building Information Modelling – Information
delivery manual – Part 2: Interaction framework;
− ISO 12911:2012 – Framework for building information modelling (BIM)
guidance.

The supporting structure of the ISO norm takes roots from two recent English
normative proposals: PAS 1192-2:201312 and PAS 1192-3:201413. These two
texts, sponsored by the Construction Industry Council (CIC) and published under
the license of The British Standard Institution, illustrate the modalities of
production and delivery of information regarding an asset, both of construction
and of infrastructure engineering, through the Level 2 BIM methodology,

respectively in the design and construction phases and in the management and
maintenance ones of the good.

The new standard will take name after the ISO 19650 “Information management
using building information modelling” and four parts will compose it:

− Part 1 – Concepts and Principles;

− Part 2 – Delivery phase of the assets;
− Part 3 – Operational phase of assets;
− Part 4 – Server based systems.

The end of the works is expected by the end of the year 2015, a period of sharing
and consolidation of the text that will include the time of the year 2016 and the
release of the first two parts of the standard by the end of the first quarter of the
year 2017.
2.4 The Italian Framework
At national level in UNI, the work group UNI/CT 033/GL 05 “Codificazione dei
prodotti e dei processi costruttivi in edilizia”, coordinated by prof. Alberto Pavan,
senior partner of BAEC and professor at Politecnico in Milan, is currently
working on the BIM topic. The main stakeholders of the construction industry in
Italy participate at the table, in particular: for the public administration, the
Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione (ANAC), the Provveditorato Interregionale
for the Public Works Lombardia-Liguria and Regione Lombardia; for the research
area, the Politecnico of Milan, the Politecnico of Torino and the Construction
Technology Institute – National Research Council (ITC-CNR); for the
enterprises, the Associazione Nazionale Costruttori Edili (ANCE), Salini
Impregilo, Cmb, Permasteelisa e Manens-Tifs; for the industry, Federlegno,
Unione Nazionale delle Industrie delle Costruzioni Metalliche dell’Involucro e
dei serramenti (UNICMI), Associazione Nazionale degli Industriali dei Laterizi

(ANDIL), Associazione Nazionale Industrie Manufatti Cementizi (Assobeton)

and the Federazione Industrie Prodotti Impianti Servizi ed Opere Specialistiche
per le Costruzioni (Finco); for the high level employer, the Lega Nazionale delle
Cooperative e Mutue (Legacoop) and Aspesi; for the agencies, Agenzia
CasaClima and the Camera di Commercio of Milano; for the informatics,
Autodesk, One-Team, Harpaceas, Bentley and Nemetschek; for the professions,
the National Council of Engineers and Architects, Arup, Watson, Farley &
Williams and Conteco.

The work group UNI is currently reprocess the original reference standard, the
standard UNI 11337:2009, for which from the star was planned the drafting of a
dedicated specific technic that would regulate the use of the BIM at an national
level.

The new standard, which will be first published as a specific technic for a
preventive verification on the market, will be composed by five parts:

− Parte 1, Contenuto informativo, prodotto, processo e modello;

− Parte 2, Criteri di denominazione e classificazione;
− Parte 3, Modelli di raccolta, organizzazione e archiviazione
dell’informazione tecnica per i prodotti da costruzione;
 − Parte 4, Livelli di dettaglio informativo;
− Parte 5, Gestione dei flussi informativi nelle fasi di progettazione, di
costruzione e di manutenzione e gestione.

The end of the works is expected by the end of the year 2015 and the release of
the different parts of the standard between 2015 and 2016.