BS1192, BIM drawing numbering and other naming conventions
If there was one single place I’d recommend anybody starts when beginning the journey to become BS1192 compliant I would recommend the naming convention.
The naming convention has been around since 2007 when BS1192 was first released and it sets out how we’re supposed to name everything—documents, drawing, models and data files. If we can start to adopt a common naming convention across the construction industry it will actually be an enormous advantage—clients will instantly understand what something is and who has done it, from project to project.
In the construction industry, it will save us an enormous amount of time that we currently spend on bespoke company inductions and training because everybody will turn up already knowing how it is that they’re supposed to label everything and communicate what they’re doing—and of course, with Trimble Viewpoint for Projects being a Common Data Environment (CDE), we absolutely love it because as we head towards a data-centric world, it is the meta-data which these filing and naming conventions provide that will allow us to do much more intelligent searches for information, not just on a single asset, but across multiple assets—so it’s really important going forwards.
So, what is BS1192? What does it look like? Well, here it is as shown in the first image:
