Use cases Information requirements
Information requirements say what information a client needs, when, and why. Under ISO 19650 the OIR sets the goals, the AIR and PIR turn them into asset and project needs, and the EIR tells each appointed party what to deliver at each exchange. In Plannerly they become one list every model is checked against.
Stop finding the gaps at handover. Ask for exactly the information you'll use to run the asset, and say why. Your OIR, AIR and EIR become one list, staged by milestone, that every appointed party signs for and every model is checked against.
Stop guessing what the client's EIR really wants. Split it into requirements each subcontractor can meet, by team and milestone, issue each one as a PDF, a spreadsheet or an IDS file, and check the models before they go to the client.
Stop modelling what nobody asked for. See what the client needs for each element at each stage before you model it, with the rule that checks it, so your team delivers what's asked and can show it.
Stop rewriting requirements for every client. Start from ISO 19650 templates, the buildingSMART Data Dictionary or your own library, stage them by milestone, and hand your client requirements the supply chain can check.
Teach information requirements as a working system, not a list of acronyms. Students build the OIR, AIR and EIR for a real project, stage them by milestone and check a model against them.
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24 chapters
How it works
Requirements copied from the last job ask for everything and explain nothing. Write the OIR from an ISO 19650 template: what your organisation needs to know to run its assets, and why.
Requirements with a reason behind themFive spreadsheets never agree. In Scope, list the assets and elements and add the information each one needs - from the library, the buildingSMART Data Dictionary, a CSV or by hand - each with the rule that checks it.
One structured list instead of five spreadsheetsAsk for everything on day one and teams model what nobody needs yet. Assign each requirement at the information exchange where it's needed, with the level of information need for that stage.
The right information at the right exchangeA PDF can't check a model. Give each task team its own requirements as a PDF, a spreadsheet or an IDS file, have them signed, and check the models that come back against the same rules in Verify.
Requirements every team can check againstSee it work
In beta
Ask Javis, Plannerly's project assistant, about your requirements and who owns them, in plain words. It answers from what the project records, and says what it can't confirm. Javis is in beta, so expect it to keep improving.
The short version
Free live webinar
Agree it. Check it. Fix what failed. Everyone is talking about AI checking BIM models, but it only works if the model has something to be checked against. How to turn your information requirements into rules a model passes or fails, check every delivered model against them, and get each failure to the team that can fix it.
Free webinar on Zoom · 45 minutes · How to survive as a BIM Manager
Free download
Stop copying the last job's EIR. Start from a requirements project for Plannerly, with the EIR, OIR and AIR explained in three PDFs from our free ISO 19650 training.
OIR and EIR documents in Docs and a structured requirements list in Scope, staged by milestone and ready for your own assets and task teams.
Case studies
Owners and designers who made their requirements checkable: 11,000 Excel rows replaced by automated checks, government model data checked against defined requirements, and structured BIM requirements across a global portfolio.
For owners the payoff is certainty at every exchange: JTC Corporation replaced 11,000 Excel rows with automated checks and cut model validation time by 95%.
Contractors know what their models will be checked against: Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads checks supply-chain model data against defined information requirements.
Design teams get requirements they can see and meet: Foster + Partners uses Plannerly to manage structured BIM requirements across its global portfolio.
Consultants turn requirements into a standard their clients can check: JTC automated compliance checks across 2,000+ object types and 27 model categories.
These are the requirements your students will be checked against on real projects: structured, staged and checked by software, not by eye.
Singapore
95% faster
Model validation time
JTC Corporation · Government agency
Eliminated 11,000 Excel rows and automated compliance checks across 2,000+ object types and 27 model categories with Plannerly's Verify module.
Before Plannerly, it took weeks to do model checks. Now we do it in hours.
Australia
Government QA
Model data checked against information requirements
Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads · Government owner
Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads uses Plannerly Verify to check supply-chain model data against defined information requirements, giving the team more certainty that model deliverables contain the information they expect.
It highlights the need for due diligence when pulling all of the pieces of the puzzle together.
United Kingdom
Global practice
World-leading architecture studio
Foster + Partners · Architecture
One of the world's most celebrated architecture studios uses Plannerly to manage structured BIM requirements across their global portfolio of landmark projects.
Trusted by one of the world's most iconic architecture practices to manage BIM requirements at a global scale.
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What owners say
5 out of 5
It highlights the need for due diligence when pulling all of the pieces of the puzzle together to make sure there are no errors in the definition of our information requirements.
5 out of 5
Compliance checks used to be a black box. Now, every requirement is traceable and auditable.
What contractors say
5 out of 5
Plannerly cut the time we spent tracking scope and verifying models by 60%.
5 out of 5
Plannerly is both a tool and a process. It gives my teams an advantage over the competition.
What design teams say
5 out of 5
It gives structure. It restructures everything. Everyone knows what they have to do.
5 out of 5
Everyone was able to work from different countries in a collaborative way online.
5 out of 5
In the 12 years working in this industry, it's the first time I can say I have an up-to-date BEP ... the Scope module is the best way I've seen to display requirements so that everyone can interpret the data
What consultants say
5 out of 5
Plannerly accelerated our standards creation and virtually eliminated the burden to get updates to end users.
5 out of 5
When you're helping governments go digital, you need a platform teams actually understand. That's Plannerly.
What educators say
5 out of 5
Many software companies get this wrong. They don't create content or videos. You can't ask me to bring your tool into my curriculum when there's nothing for students to learn from. Plannerly has all of that.
5 out of 5
Students love Plannerly and it makes my life so much easier!
Setup guides
Short Help Center guides that walk you through each step in Plannerly. Open one beside the app and follow along.
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Learn it properly
(EIR) Exchange Information Requirements
Free lessons
Level 3 lesson - the OIR
What an OIR is, who writes it, and how it sets the goals every other requirement traces back to.
Level 3 lesson - the AIR
How to list the assets you'll operate and maintain, and the data you need on each one.
Level 2 lesson - in Plannerly
How to set clear requirements in Plannerly with visual scope, milestones and IDS, so teams know what to deliver.
Level 3 - free certificate
The OIR, AIR, PIR and EIR in the whole ISO 19650 process, with a free certificate. 17,000+ people have taken our free training, rated 4.9 out of 5 from thousands of ratings.
Read more
Free templates for every ISO 19650 requirement document, with a lesson on each one.
TemplatesFree PDFs and videos on the OIR, AIR, PIR and EIR, and every step that follows them.
Free PDFsAdding requirements from the buildingSMART Data Dictionary and property libraries, and keeping them organised.
GuideProfessional requirement documents from Plannerly's template library, with SmartFields doing the retyping.
GuideHow much detail each requirement needs, and when - the ISO 7817 way.
GuideInformation requirements as a file that software can check models against.
GuideThe BEP that answers your EIR, already structured for ISO 19650.
TemplateModel checking with IDS: every delivered model checked against what you asked for.
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