COBie
1.2HISTORY

COBie was first published by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2007 with support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) has curated and maintained COBie since 2013 under a Creative Commons License.

COBie version 2.4 was adopted as part of the U.S. National BIM Standard-United States® (NBIMS-US™) V3 in 2015.

COBie version 3 is the latest version and will become a part of NBIMS-US™ V4 in 2023.
The NBIMS-US™ v4 is a consensus-based national-level standard focused on defining standard approaches and guidelines to defining requirements, planning BIM adoption, and exchanging information between project team members. MORE