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Native IFC
A white-paper introducing a collaborative BIM using open standards and open protocols
A simple to implement set of protocols for reading and writing BIM data, known as Native IFC, enables robust multi-user collaborative BIM workflows. We show how full version tracking, rollback, attribution, staging, merging, multi-user editing, issue tracking, automated checking, and publishing can be achieved by hosting IFC data in established commercial and open source git-forge services. We show that the git revision control system as a Common Data Environment (CDE) for BIM data is scalable, secure, future-proof and fully interoperable with existing systems. We show multiple software applications and libraries that already implement Native IFC, this is a real-world technology.