Information Delivery Specification (IDS) is a description format in the construction industry for specifying information forBIM building model and checking it automatically.

IDS (likeIFC) is defined bybuildingSMART; version 1.0 was published in June 2024.^[1]

An IDS file is amachine-readable document that specifies requirements for a building model. It requires attributes to be supplied, or which attribute values are accepted. For example, it can require that thethermal transmittance of all windows in the building must be within a prescribed range, or that all room names must follow aregular expression such as "Office001".

A typicalworkflow is:^[2]

1. Requirements are described on the client side using an IDS editor (also available free of charge).^[3][4]
2. Requirements are taken into account during planning; BIM software can support the planner.
3. Requirements are checked automatically with the IDS file and the building model as an IFC file.^[5]

• Information Delivery Specification IDS on buildingSMART
• V1.0 Final buildingSMART Standard on GitHub

• Industrial computing
• Building
• Building information modeling