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			<h1>Develop for interoperability</h1>
			<h5>Write software to use the IFC schema and guarantee compatibility with other industry software</h5>
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			<h4>IFC, short for "Industry Foundation Classes", are a data schema enabling the exchange and sharing of relevant data between different software applications in the construction and operation of built facilities. First established in 1996, the IFC have been continuosly enhanced to support software interoperability for openBIM.</h4>
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			<h4>Openbim</h4>
			<p>Digital construction and operation data representations provided in either the EXPRESS or XML Schema data modeling language to built interfaces to share different model elements for built assets. </p>
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			<h4>BuildingSmart mark of approval</h4>
			<p>This specification, ISO 16739, developed and updated by <a href="http://www.buildingsmart.org/">buildingSMART International</a>, and formally standardized by the International Standard Organization, ISO, gives your customers assurance when using your software in their workflows</p>
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		<h2>IFC - Where it all started<br></h2>
		<p>This video gives an explanation and background and context to how IFC came about.</p>
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		<h3 class="center">IFC Features</h3>

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				<h4>Data modelling at the semantic level</h4>
				<p>The EXPRESS schema language has rich facilities for data modeling at the semantic level (e.g., an expression sublanguage, semantic constraint mechanisms, aggregate data types [bag, set, list, array] for attribute values, etc).</p>
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				<h4>STEP ecosystem </h4>
				<p>STEP (ISO 10303 - Industrial automation systems and integration - Product data representation and exchange) is developed by a specialist group in the International Standards Organisation. They have built many tools(classes) for working with the STEP standard.</p>
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				<h4>AP classes</h4>
				<p>IFC progressively makes use of the AP classes developed by the international standards organisation. Take advantage of a growing ecosystem of interoperability solutions.</p>
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				<h4>Good file header management</h4>
				<p>The files have explicit file headers so your software knows what to do with it.</p>
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