The New [BIM] Information Protocol

In  Issue 27, I wrote about the application of BIM under the FIDIC Form of Contract. I noted that I thought it likely that any "BIM definitions" that are adopted by FIDIC will be based on international standards, preferably ISO 19650. There is no further news from FIDIC but in the UK, at the beginning of June 2020, the UK BIM Framework¹ published a new template Information Protocol which is designed to conform with the (relatively new) international standard BS EN ISO 19650-2 (which deals with the delivery phase of assets). 

The essential idea behind any (BIM) protocol is that it defines a code of conduct, more specifically a code of contractual conduct, which deals with risk allocation, setting out the rights, roles and responsibilities of the parties including for example data or model delivery timetables. Until June, the closest to a standard protocol in the UK was the CIC BIM Protocol, the second version of which came out in April 2018. This second edition was