{"id":12545,"date":"2018-09-29T11:54:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T11:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/examchum.uk\/?p=12545"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:59:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T22:59:22","slug":"ifc-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/examchum.uk\/landscape-architecture\/ifc-format\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an .ifc format?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The\u00a0Industry Foundation Classes\u00a0(IFC) data model is intended to describe building and construction industry data.<\/p>\n<p>It is a platform neutral, open file format specification that is not controlled by a single vendor or group of vendors. It is an object-based file format with a data model developed by buildingSMART (formerly the International Alliance for Interoperability, IAI) to facilitate interoperability in the architecture, landscape architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, and is a commonly used collaboration format in <a href=\"https:\/\/examchum.uk\/landscape-architecture\/building-information-modeling-bim\/\">Building information modeling\u00a0(BIM)<\/a> based projects. Its model specification is open and available.<sup id=\"cite_ref-IAI_International_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0It is registered by ISO and is an official\u00a0International Standard\u00a0ISO 16739:2013.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h5>READ MORE<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Industry_Foundation_Classes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Industry Foundation Classes (Wikipedia)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Industry Foundation Classes\u00a0(IFC) data model is intended to describe building and construction industry data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,20],"tags":[619,442,620,621,115,478,528],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is an .ifc format? 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