About Us
Many groups within the building industry are working on this common issue: how can we agree on standards for data exchange so that real collaboration can occur throughout our fragmented industry? These groups are competing within a small community: No one gets sufficient funding or attention to be effective. And none has the funding to market the message to the professional user communities so that the value of interoperability becomes widely understood.
Interoperability:
"The ability of software and hardware from multiple vendors to communicate seamlessly across diverse systems, platforms, applications and networks using open, public standards for data exchange"
Now that the potential of intelligent building modeling is recognized as a means to integrate design, construction and operations, we must have open, non-proprietary standards to enable software interoperability across platforms, disciplines and applications. We believe that interoperability is critical to process improvement throughout the building industry. Up to now, efforts to develop standards have themselves been fragmented and uncoordinated, and the value of interoperability has not been effectively "sold" to stakeholders.
Many groups within the building industry are working on this common issue: how can we agree on standards for data exchange so that real collaboration can occur throughout our fragmented industry? These groups are competing within a small community: No one gets sufficient funding or attention to be effective. And none has the funding to market the message to the professional user communities so that the value of interoperability becomes widely understood.
Interoperability:
"The ability of software and hardware from multiple vendors to communicate seamlessly across diverse systems, platforms, applications and networks using open, public standards for data exchange"
Now that the potential of intelligent building modeling is recognized as a means to integrate design, construction and operations, we must have open, non-proprietary standards to enable software interoperability across platforms, disciplines and applications. We believe that interoperability is critical to process improvement throughout the building industry. Up to now, efforts to develop standards have themselves been fragmented and uncoordinated, and the value of interoperability has not been effectively "sold" to stakeholders.
| Interoperability Pledge |
|
| We will respect the investment of our colleagues by actively finding ways to avoid duplication of efforts and by informing each other whenever new projects are initiated. | |
| We will require our technical working groups to interact with each other on related efforts. | |
| We will provide regular updates of our activities to be posted on building-connections.org. | |
| We will communicate on an open forum on an ongoing basis, including regular face to face meetings. | |
The AIA Technology in Architectural Practice Knowledge Community acknowledges the Object Management Group who developed this pledge. |
 |
Home | |
About Us | |
News | |
Events | |
Organizations | |
Standards Activities | |
Contacts | |
last updated: Dec 12, 2007 |