BSI launches information management and fire safety standards

The BSI has launched standards for information management and the digital management of fire safety information.

The Flex 1965: v1.0 2022 standard aims to make it easier for contracting authorities, such as clients, to use the UK BIM Framework to standardise their approach to generating and classifying data, data security and data exchange. It should produce specifications relating to information management that are clear and unambiguous, reducing confusion and disputes.

BIMplus understands that the new standard is not intended to “add” to the BIM process (i.e. creating another process and adding a burden), rather it has a specific task to help clients, appointing parties and/or contracting authorities ask for information management services within their contracts in a more specific way.

Dan Rossiter, head of built environment at BSI, added: “The Construction Playbook calls for contracting authorities to use the UK BIM Framework to standardise their approach to generating, classifying, securing and exchanging information. Flex 1965 supports The Construction Playbook by providing the characteristics to ease the integration of the UK’s approach to information management using BIM into tender and contract documentation.”