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11 November 2025
Don’t know how to justify the adoption of the IFC data schema and open data to your board? A new report from buildingSmart UK & Ireland may help.
The report outlines the business value of open data and IFC adoption for five stakeholder groups and asserts that:
- for developers, it reduces risk, improves ESG standing and maximises asset value;
- for contractors, it improves productivity, coordination and payment certainty;
- for design consultants, it enables quality, creativity and data-driven insight;
- for product manufacturers, it ensures specification retention, market access and digital continuity; and
- for government regulatory bodies, it supports smarter, faster and more transparent approvals.
The report, The Business Value of Adopting openData via Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), includes a six-point implementation roadmap.
It concludes: “Across every corner of the built environment, stakeholders face the same core challenges: cost pressure, fragmented data, increasing risk, regulatory complexity and the demand for faster, greener delivery.
“IFC addresses these not as a software feature, but as a strategic enabler. It provides the consistency, transparency and openness needed to operate in a complex, data-driven economy. Above all, IFC delivers on the promise of digital transformation: one open data format, multiple business outcomes, real-world results.”
BuildingSmart UK & Ireland chair Casey Rutland wrote the report, with contributions from the likes of Emma Hooper at RLB Digital, information management standards author Nick Nisbet, Nigel Davies from Evolve Consultancy and Mohammad Shana’a at Morta.
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