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Woodfine BIM Object Library

Building specifications that enforce compliance at placement,
not inspection after the fact.

The AEC industry has spent twenty years validating BIM models after design is complete. BIM Objects take a different position: if every element in the design library already encodes its regulatory requirements and performance constraints, a non-compliant model cannot be assembled. Compliance is a property of the starting material, not a filter applied at the end.

categories0 standardIFC 4.3 · ISO 16739-1:2024 formatDTCG

The problem with building specifications

Every building project generates thousands of specification decisions — fire ratings, thermal values, structural classifications, material provenance. Those decisions are scattered across incompatible containers: proprietary model files, PDF specification clauses, product data sheets, contractor RFIs, O&M binders. None of them travel reliably between the software tools that design, finance, regulate, and manage buildings.

The U.S. construction sector loses an estimated $31.3 billion annually to rework caused by data inconsistencies. At project handover, the BIM model that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce is commonly delivered to the owner as a static PDF extract.

BIM Objects as the answer

A BIM Object is a machine-readable specification unit stored in W3C DTCG format JSON. Each object carries its IFC 4.3 entity anchor, Uniclass 2015 classification, applicable property sets, and regulatory overlays as structured data — not prose. The object travels with the element through every tool in the AEC stack.

When an architect places a wall, the BIM Object for that wall already knows its required fire rating, its thermal transmittance range, and which jurisdictional code clause governs it. No post-hoc checking. No separate specification document. The compliance constraint is encoded in the starting material.

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