Classification is essential in implementing company directive of Digital Transformation as well as realizing effective information management. It has been acknowledged as one of the eight pillars required for implementing building information modelling (BIM) level 2
Advantages
Increase Productivity
Increase accuracy of quotation
Make search and identification of assets and resources faster
Easier to understand
Easier to deal with suppliers
More organization and saving time
Compliance with classification standard ISO 12006-2, (witch Uniclass fully comply); bimforum.org have also published mappings to Omniclass and Uniformat (US) in that LOD specification
Solution – UNICLASS
Uniclass is a unified classification, (consistent approach of arranging things into logical families and groups that place similar things together, groping, structuring and organized information witch make easier to search find and share data) for the built environment:
Activities, complexes, elements, entities, equipment, functions, forms of information, locations, products, project management, roles, spaces, systems, tools, and graphical model content.
Support Asset Owners, Information Management, Sale, HR, Accounting, Design, Purchasing, Project Management, Construction Teams, Commissioning, Service, Maintenance and Communication
Codes that are flexible enough to accommodate new technologies and materials, new processes, new asset types, and new users as the built environment evolves.
Simple terminology where possible, and a database of synonyms to make searching easy, using everyday plain language and standard industry terms
Covering all sectors and roles in all stages in the project lifecycle,