The purposes of the European openBIM Forum
- To increase the relationship with other European organizations such as the European
- Commission, national governments, NGOs on sustainability, SME associations,
- and regional associations.
- To ensure the appropriate standards for EU regulations and directives are included.
- To assist the European organizations to better understand the role of openBIM
- and support them to establish strategies for their implementations.
- To direct part of the European funds to the implementation of openBIM standards
- in Europe.
- To participate in European calls and be involved under a unified umbrella of the
- European chapters.
Aims to establish
The majority of the chapters’ representatives involved, highlighted the importance of establishing a forum to:
- Strengthen the presence on the chapters’ experts in the standardization bodies at national, European, and international level
- Speed up the digitalization of the building industry in Europe implementing openBIM standards.
- Become the “technical body” to support the EUBIM Task group in the development of guidelines for the use of openBIM in public works to increase the value for public money and the quality of the public estate
- Provide advice to the European Commission when developing policies on digitalization, circular economy, sustainability, education, etc.
- Every chapter will contribute to the implementation of the roadmap for a sustainable competitiveness of the European building industry. The chapters, in fact, are ready to share, within the forum, all the good practices they have already developed in any domain and in any phase of the building industry.
- Improve the competitiveness of European building industry in the world.
- Enable digital transition as lever of resilience.
- Support public administration on the implementation of e-permits.
- Contribute to upskilling construction professionals and increasing knowledge of open BIM by Label – Certification.
- Develop digital twin technology in the different domains and communities via supply chain, blockchain, IA…
- Identify new challenges and research opportunity aligned with the main stakeholder interests (provide new ideas for R&D).
- Influence the EU on providing funding for BIM standardization/workshops or exchange of knowledge and experience at the European level.
- Advance common open European standards, services and tools, to provide a common reference framework for both joint learning and practice in relation to digital construction with open BIM, which can support the individual, companies, projects and society.
- Be able to develop financed projects under the EU.
- Promote the use of BIM for the refurbishment of existing European assets.