STAND-INN is a 2 year funded project under the EU-INNOVA scheme. It is led by SINTEF Byggforsk in Norway and brings together over 30 organisations in Europe and China to define how technology based standards such as IFC, IFD (Information Framework for Dictionaries) and IDM (Information Delivery Manual) can add value to sustainable design and procurement.

buildingSMART International is a major partner in the project responsible for project information dissemination. Other buildingSMART Chapters involved in the project include UK, French Speaking, German Speaking, Iberia, Italy, Nordic (Norwegian Forum).

A key outcome of the project is intended to be support for the development of a standard for IFC based common data structure for service life data (ISO 15686 part 4)

To find out more about STAND-INN and about other EU Innova projects and to download the STAND-INN Newsletters produced by buildingSMART, go to http://www.standards.eu-innova.org/Pages/StandInn/Default.aspx

Click on the items below to go direct to the Newsletters in English (French language versions are also available):

• Newsletter 1 January 2007
• Newsletter no 2 - March 2007
• Newsletter no 3 - June 2007
• Newsletter no 4 - September 2007
• Newsletter no 5 - December 2007
• Newsletter no 6 Special issue case studies - March 2008