Common use of Design Standards Clause in Contracts

Design Standards. The Design Guidelines, Design Standards, Educational Facilities Specifications, and Preliminary Program of Requirements are contained in HISD Design and Construction Standards and all issued updates to these standards and any supplemental written instructions provided to the A/E by HISD and/or as made available on the HISD’s website. The A/E shall develop all designs using Building Information Modeling (BIM). The A/E shall select BIM application(s) and software(s) and develop project designs using commonly accepted BIM software that is compatible with the latest International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) Industry Foundation Class (IFC) standards. A/E shall use 3D graphic model(s) (the “Model”) and associated intelligent attribute data (“Facility Data”) created by this software to produce accurate project documents. The submitted Model shall be in a native file format, interactive for the user, and the model shall be capable of being converted to a standard platform or interoperable file format like IFCs.