Guides for building owners
Practical guides for Swiss building owners and asset managers on checkable EIR data contracts, goal-driven requirements, and Actions on the published plan.
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The updated pragmaticBIM Elementplan in screenshots, plus the Swiss Starter Elementplan on GitHub - a public master with more than 40 workflows and around 80 elements mapped to seven project goals.
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Run an Elementplan IDS check in the viewer. Upload an IFC, validate it with IfcTester against the published IDS, and read the pass/fail report.
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Configure an Elementplan project on a draft. Set goal levels, select use cases, then assign the Information Delivery Plan. Submit, approve, and publish.
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Maintain the Elementplan master catalogue. Create a draft, edit goals, workflows, elements, and values, then submit, approve, and publish a version projects can copy.
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Create an Elementplan project from a published master version. Set name, number, and language. The viewer stays empty until you configure, approve, and publish.
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Elementplan turns BIM modelling requirements into a versioned project plan. Copy a master template, configure this building, publish, and check IFC against the same rules.
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Import another planner's buildingSMART IDS into an Elementplan project draft. Review matched and new specifications, apply to the draft, then update the IDP and publish.
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Fill the Elementplan IDP matrix. Assign elements to models and phases, add a Teilmodell if needed, then save. Assignments drive IDS split by model.
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Browse published Elementplan requirements by model, filter by use case and phase, and download IDS, Excel, and PDF reports. Downloads may need an email login code.
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The Elementplan is contract-relevant. Review a draft, approve onto Live Data, publish a version, then invite GitHub editors and viewer emails.
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Stop copy-pasting LOD and EIR checklists. Set seven project goals in pragmaticBIM to auto-activate workflows, required elements, and export IDS plus contractual Excel/PDF.
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Compare BIMQ, Plannerly, and pragmaticBIM by buyer job. pragmaticBIM turns ISO 19650 into goal-driven IDP data contracts (Git, IDS, Excel, Actions) - not a BEP document suite.
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IDS is an exchange artifact, not a data requirement standard. Use the open-source elementplan-data-schema to define Domains, Elements, and AI-ready data contracts.
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Swiss building owners can replace extra staff and 3,000-page specs with three automated BIM QA levels—unit, integration, and system tests—for data presence, geometry logic, and business rules.
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Stop chasing a single BIM standard for every stakeholder. Avoid manual eBKP typing, data hoarding, and 80-page PDFs—use minimalist workflows and automated IFC translation instead.
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Stop copying BAP templates and ordering collision-check use cases. Swiss building owners should define EIR outcomes and automated QA, not planner workflows.
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