A free resource library for information management across the built environment.
Classification
Uniclass 2015 is a unified classification for the UK industry covering all construction sectors.
Definitions
Over 5,700 construction definitions for level of detail and information.
Product data templates
Standardised templates for manufacturers' product information.
The free-to-use NBS BIM Toolkit has been developed by NBS experts and industry partners and gives you the power to:
Comprehensively define information requirements to ensure your needs are met and better project outcomes are guaranteed. Find out more
Assemble a team with clearly assigned roles and responsibilities to work collaboratively on your Level-2 BIM project. Find out more
Provide digital information quickly and easily to specifiers on thousands of construction projects. Find out more
"The BIM Toolkit will allow the industry to enforce a discipline and rigour across building design and delivery that doesn’t exist at present."
“We can now make it clear what levels of detail and information are required through every stage of a project. Through design, manufacture, assembly and through the operation lifecycle of the asset.”
"The Toolkit will provide a common language across different infrastructure types and the ability to identify the documentation, the graphical data and the non-graphical data to be provided at each work stage by the supply chain."
"The level-2 BIM package is for all sectors of the UK built environment. This BIM Toolkit provides a digital plan of works that sets out the levels of detail and information required through all stages of any construction project and assists collaborative working."
The NBS BIM Toolkit is an integral part of the suite of documents and tools that underpin the delivery of BIM according to ISO 19650 allowing you to:
Easily produce the information requirements, aligned to specific project stages, for insertion into key documentation such as Employer’s Information Requirements.
Develop and manage this information through the project timeline using a standard digital plan of work that is built for BIM.
Save time by referencing thousands of expertly researched definition templates, all classified by a construction-wide unified classification system to give a common UK construction language.
The BIM Toolkit project was initiated by HM Government’s BIM Task Group and funded by Innovate UK.
Development was provided by NBS in association with the BIM Academy, RICS, Microsoft, BDP, Mott MacDonald, Newcastle University and Laing O’Rourke.
Support was provided by APM, BIFM, CIBSE, CIOB, ICE, IStructE, RIBA and RICS.
Create a new project or browse our extensive definition library.
