In the construction and installation industry, more and more information is being exchanged digitally between parties. To ensure this information is exchanged properly, systems and organizations must speak the same language and follow the same conventions. But there are so many standards. How do you know which one to use for what? digiGO is here to help you choose.
Building more homes faster, maintaining our buildings and infrastructure, and complying with new European requirements for product and material data. In the construction and installation sectors, we deal with these issues every day. All of these challenges make joint decisions on standards more urgent than ever.
That importance is now also recognized nationwide. Minister Elanor Boekholt-O’Sullivan wrote a letter to Parliament this summer in which she expressed a strong commitment to digitization and standardization. And in her Action Plan for Accelerating Housing Construction, which she launched in September, digitization once again plays a key role.
Register of Preferred Standards
The goal of the letter to Parliament and the action plan is to reduce errors, speed up processes, and lower costs. In the letter to Parliament, the minister explicitly mentions digiGO’s Register of Preferred Standards (RPS).
The RPS is an overview of standards that are considered the preferred choice for digital collaboration across various supply chains in the built environment. It is intended to help clients, contractors, supply chain partners, and software vendors specify and apply the same standards.
Bringing consistency to what already exists
The registry is being developed in collaboration with industry practitioners, at the request of the Construction Digitalization Council (BDR). A selection of clients, contractors, and software providers is helping to choose the most practical standards: which set of standards will truly be essential when collaborating digitally in the built environment? So we’re not adding something new, but rather bringing consistency to what already exists.
That’s absolutely essential. Standards only deliver benefits when all parties speak the same language, and to do that, they need to agree on common terms. This makes it easier to transfer data from design to implementation and management. It also makes it easier for software vendors to integrate their applications with these standards.
Are you also wondering which standards are best to use? Stop by the digiGO booth at DigiBouw , Hall 2, Booth A044
