Common use of Membership Services Clause in Contracts

Membership Services. The Membership Services provided by bS-USA are designed to promote buildingSMART International’s mission and values and to actively recruit participation in support of the development and deployment of open standards in the US. bS-USA’s communications, events and professional certification efforts will be aimed at raising awareness and driving use of open standards on building and infrastructure projects by facility owners, design and engineering consultants and contractors. bS-USA will encourage US Companies to attend bSI international summits, participation in bSI ‘Rooms’ and solicit sponsorship and in-kind resource contributions for bSI projects. bS-USA will disseminate buildingSMART International marketing materials (e.g. Annual Report, Case Studies, Awards, etc.) and secure speaking engagements all toward building awareness of the importance and benefits of open standards at industry conferences. bS-USA will collaborate with other buildingSMART International Chapters and contribute to the technical development of buildingSMART International defined open standards (IFC, BCF, openBIM, etc.). bS-USA will support adoption, localization and implementation of open standards by US industry and coordinate/partner with other relevant US industry standard organizations (including OGC, GS1, etc.) bS-USA will create demand for software applications from commercial software vendors that support open standards and assist them in providing use cases, test data and validation trials.

Membership Services. The Membership Services provided by bS-USA are designed to promote buildingSMART International’s mission and values and to actively recruit participation in support of the development and deployment of open standards in the US. bS-USA’s communications, events and professional certification efforts will be aimed at raising awareness and driving use of open standards on building and infrastructure projects by facility owners, design and engineering consultants and contractors. bS-USA will encourage US Companies to attend bSI international summits, participation in bSI ‘Rooms’ and solicit sponsorship and in-kind resource contributions for bSI projects. bS-USA will disseminate buildingSMART International marketing materials (e.g. Annual Report, Case Studies, Awards, etc.) and secure speaking engagements all toward building awareness of the importance and benefits of open standards at industry conferences. bS-USA will collaborate with other buildingSMART International Chapters and contribute to the technical development of buildingSMART International defined open standards (IFC, BCF, openBIM, etc.). bS-USA will support adoption, localization and implementation of open standards by US industry and coordinate/partner with other relevant US industry standard organizations (including FHWA, NIBS, AASHTO, OGC, GS1, etc.) bS-USA will create demand for software applications from commercial software vendors that support open standards and assist them in providing use cases, test data and validation trials.