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COBie

2.7
Version History

2006 The Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL), within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and under the lead of Bill East, began a project to create an open standard for the delivery of construction handover information. It was sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), under the lead of William Brodt, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
2007 The Construction to Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) V1.0 specification was published.
2008-2014 13 COBie Challenge and Case Study events were held, which showcased how different software vendors were able to comply with COBie.
2012 COBie V2.26 was published as part of the National BIM Standard-United States® (NBIMS-US™) V2 developed by the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS). This version of COBie included a Model View Definition (MVD) based on IFC 2x3.
2015 COBie V2.4 was published as part of NBIMS-US™ V3 and was updated to comply with IFC 4.
2015-2022 COBie V3.0 was under development at NIBS by the COBie Workgroup, a group of volunteers with extensive industry experience with COBie.
2023 COBie V3.0 was published as part of NIBS NBIMS-US™ V4 and contained many user-requested improvements.
National BIM Standard-United States® (NBIMS-US™) Version 4

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