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FACILITY INFORMATION COUNCIL (FIC):

The FIC is a voluntary membership body for automated facility planning, design, and operation interests. Established in 1993, it provides broad public/private support for fostering the standardization and integration of computer technologies and software to improve life-cycle performance during facility planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance and retirement phases. The FIC’s first effort was to initiate the U.S. National CAD Standard^®. In 2006 it initiated an effort to define a National Building Information Model Standard^®

• U.S. NATIONAL CAD STANDARD (NCS) www.nationalcadstandard.org: Through the efforts of the FIC’s NCS Consensus Project Committee, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), NIBS published Version 3.1 of the NCS in January 2005. The NCS includes AIA’s CAD Layer Guidelines, CSI’s Uniform Drawing System, DOD’s Tri-Services CADD/GIS Center’s Plotting Guidelines, and a Foreword, Administration and Appendices by the NCS Consensus Project Committee. In May 2006, the NCS Project Committee began the one-year ballot process for the version 4 update of the Standard scheduled to be released in November 2007.
   
• NATIONAL BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL STANDARD^TM (NBIMS) www.facilityinformationcouncil.org/bim: The mission of the United States National Building Information Model (BIM) Standard Project Committee is to improve the performance of facilities over their full life-cycle by fostering a common, standard and integrated life-cycle information model for the A/E/C & FM industry. This information model will foster the free flow of graphic and non-graphic information among all parties to the process of creating and sustaining the built environment, and will work to coordinate U.S. efforts with related activities taking place internationally.