Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs) are
data elements that represent the parts of
buildings, or elements of the process, and contain the relevant information
about those parts. IFCs are used by
computer
applications to assemble a computer
readable model of the facility that contains all the information of the parts
and their relationships to be shared among project participants. The project
model constitutes an object-oriented database of the information shared among
project participants and continues to grow as the project goes through design,
construction and operation.
[Source:
International Alliance for
Interoperability]
