IFC Concepts
Developed by buildingSMART, IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) is all about the sharing of information between project team members and across the software applications that they commonly use for design, construction, procurement, maintenance and operations. BuildingSMART has developed a common data schema (IFC) that makes the data interoperability possible to hold and exchange relevant data between different software applications.
IFC is an open, vendor-neutral BIM data repository for the information of building objects, including geometry, associated properties, and relationships, to facilitate:
Additional information is available at buildingSMART, Industry Foundation Classes, the buildingSMART Standards Library