buildingSMART International has made the organisations first newsletter. The plan is publish newsletters regulary in the future. 

You can dowvnload the  newsletter from buildingSMART International here

Here is a newsletter from Tout sur le BIM in France. It is dedicated to IFC and BIM.

 Link to the newsletter.

 

Tips for those who not speak french: Use google translate

French FFB, which is the most influent and powerful body of the french building industry, opened a few weeks ago their own website dedicated to the promotion of BIM-IFC.

At the same time they delivered the results of a brand new study about the loss of money due to non-interoperable, and non IFC based method.

The page is named "Tout sur le BIM" or "All about BIM".

Here is a link to the website.

buildingSMART International has launched a new certification program aiming at improving the quality and robustness of IFC implementations. The new certification process, called "IFC Certification 2.0" is the result of intensive discussions within buildingSMART and with users of the openBIM IFC interfaces. It responds to the strong demand to improve the quality of software interfaces and to strengthen the rigidness of certification. The call for participation in an "early-bird" program of

 

Draft Norwegian Technical Specification for implementation of IFD Library support in IFC is out for public review. Deadline June 28th. 

 

Download the document here.

ExCom has approved buildingSMART International Strategic plan 2010 - 2011. You can download it here.