Welcome to the buildingSMART International Newsletter for November 2021. This edition covers a range of topics including a review of the buildingSMART Virtual Summit Autumn 2021, the awards program winners, and some information about upcoming webinars!

There is news about the IFC 4.3 project which has recently had a vote and continues to make progress, and the IFC4Precast project also has some voting updates. Chapter updates and additional community news can also be found in this edition.

Virtual Summit Autumn 2021

The buildingSMART Virtual Summit Autumn 2021 took place from Monday 27th September - Friday 8th October. This was the fourth fully virtual event and was again another successful two weeks of presentations and updates from around the community. 

Below are some stats from the event which you may find interesting! Overall, the event had:

• 51 sessions
• 202 presentations
• 139 speakers
• 9 sponsors

And about the attendees…

• 783 registrations
• 17.25 hours average time spent at the event
• 8.7 out of 10 average post-event rating
• 61 countries in attendance

The recordings from the summit are in the final stages of being post-edited and uploaded to our website, so please keep an eye on our social channels as an announcement to say they are publicly available is expected very soon!

The buildingSMART Award Winners 2021

We are delighted to announce the full list of winners, finalists, and special mentions for the Awards Program 2021. All finalists presented their projects during the buildingSMART Virtual Summit and a small finalist jury (from an original Jury of 154) deliberated following the presentations to select a winner from each category.

A total of 9 winners were announced at a live awards ceremony, alongside recognition of the other 12 finalists and 7 special mentions. A full press release has since been made, detailing all projects and their respective submitting companies.