Description

The IFC software certification testing is a process for testing software's conformance with a given IFC Release specification, and its subsets defined as so-called Views. The aim of the certification testing is to promote quality in IFC implementations, and demonstrate to end-users that the software passing the certification implement the IFC specification in a consistent way, hence being able to exchange IFC product data with other certified software unambiguously.

The IFC certification is done through a public certification workshop, and quality assurance work preceding the workshop. In the workshop the candidate applications have to demonstrate successful IFC data exchange with the other candidates (or already certified) applications. The quality assurance work before the public workshop is done in co-operation among the candidate applications aiming to ensure consistent IFC implementations. The work also includes cross-checking IFC data exchange between the various candidate applications

Certification workshop

Time	Certification testing	22.05.2001
	Public workshop	23.05.2001
Place	CSTB offices Routes des Lucioles Sophia Antipolis France
Minutes	Certification Workshop Minutes
Participants	Company	Product
	Eurostep Olof Granlund Microsoft Graphisoft Claire project TOPS Solibri PNNL LBNL Olof Granlund Skanska Timberline YIT	WebSTEP BSPro Visio 2002 Professional ArchiCAD 6.5 / 7.0 IFC Viewer IFC to VRML Converter Solibri Model Checker ComCheck EZ EnergyPlus RIUSKA Facets PECAD COVE