Woodfine BIM Library
The Woodfine BIM Library is a catalog of specification-ready building parts. Browse it by category. Compare dimensions side by side. Open the structured data underneath any part. Every Object in the Library is built to the same open standards, so what you specify is what every downstream tool receives.
Every Object follows one discipline: an IFC 4.3 identity, a Uniclass 2015 classification, its regulatory overlays, and its climate-zone performance — structured data, not prose. Nothing in the Library is a drawing of a part; everything is the part's specification, machine-readable and owner-held.
7 objects · 18 key plans · IFC 4.3 · Uniclass 2015
Objects 7
A smart specification for one part of a building — geometry, data, and the rules it must meet, in one open file.
Browse Objects → The assembliesKey Plans 18
An assembly of Objects — what an architectural drawing becomes once its parts are real, with the rules checked at every join.
Browse Key Plans →The problem
Every building project generates thousands of specification decisions, scattered across incompatible containers: proprietary model files, PDF clauses, product data sheets, O&M binders. Poor project data and miscommunication account for an estimated $31.3 billion a year in U.S. construction rework (FMI Corporation / PlanGrid, Construction Disconnected, 2018). At handover, the model that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce is commonly delivered to the owner as a static PDF. The Library exists so the specification never degrades into a PDF.
Every Object already knows
When an architect places a wall, the wall's BIM Object already knows its required fire rating, its thermal transmittance range, and which code clause governs it in this jurisdiction. The compliance constraint is encoded in the starting material — no post-hoc checking, no separate specification document to fall out of date.
The Library holds two kinds of thing, kept strictly separate. Objects are the parts — a wall type, a workstation, a luminaire — each a self-contained specification, carried as structured data rather than lines, so it can actually be rebuilt, not just depicted. Key Plans are the smallest unit of space worth leasing — a room, sized from real furniture placement rather than an area formula — and every Object placed inside one is listed on its parts list. Key Plans combine into Tiles, Tiles into Floor Plates: our own space-planning system, described in full on the Method page. An Object is contained in a Key Plan the way a desk sits in a room — it is never summed into the room the way the room is summed into the floor above it.
Proven at scale, built differently
The industry has already proven it needs this at scale — Denver International Airport's BIM library covers roughly 17 million square feet across its 53-square-mile campus, unifying Revit, CAD, and other modelling sources into one indoor data system. The Woodfine BIM Library is the same idea on open standards: self-hostable by the property owner, not licensed per seat.
Read the concepts behind the catalog on the Method page, or browse Objects and Key Plans directly.