For many years now LOD - be it Level of Detail, Level of Definition, Level of Development or another term, has been an important but badly defined term in the work of digital transformation in the UK construction industry. Level of Definition, a UK specific term published in BS1192 created much debate in the industry as to how it should be interpreted.
But now, with the publication of the BS EN 17412-1:2020 Building Information Modelling - Level of Information Need, these problems have been resolved.
What is Level of Information Need?
Level of Information Need is not really anything new, we are all used to asking for things - whether physical objects such as materials and equipment or virtual objects such as digital data and 3D models. However as an industry we aren’t always good at accurately asking for what we want and so can be surprised at what we get.
