Video: The "Base Model" - A sneak peek by Maria Lennox

Simplebim "Base Model" is the best way to find, understand, and organize IFC data: it brings to life the idea of automatically standardising BIM model data, laying the foundation for the different types of enrichment we need to solve our use cases.

At Tarcon Day 2026, Maria Lennox, Head of BIM Data Product Development at Datacubist Oy, gave a sneak peek into the latest technology to process BIM data, that will be introduced in Simplebim 12. Here is the video recording of Maria's presentation, kindly shared by the Tarcon team (more about the event in this Community post). 

A quick reminder: where Simplebim sits in the BIM ecosystem

In the construction industry, BIM workflows roughly look like this:

•    Upstream: architects, engineers, and modellers create IFC model

•    Downstream: construction companies, planners, cost estimators, logistics teams, site teams, facility management, and many others need to use that data.

Simplebim’s role has always been very clear: to focus on processing IFC model data, so that BIM models can actually work smoothly in downstream systems and tools.

In other words: Simplebim does not replace authoring tools, it makes their outputs usable at scale for the rest of the industry.

The challenge we all know

Even when an IFC model is available, downstream work often starts with the same questions:

•    Where is the information I need?
•    Once I find it, what does it actually mean in this project?
•    How can I enrich the model so it matches my use case?

Because models vary by discipline, software, modelling habits, naming conventions, and project history.

Finding the right objects reliably and repeatedly is often the hardest part of BIM data work - not the actions themselves.

The Simplebim “Base Model”: a new foundation for BIM data work

The Base Model introduces a standardized foundation that makes BIM data:

•    easy to find
•    easy to understand
•    and easy to enrich, depending on the use case

The result: when structure and values are standardized, enrichments become standardized as well - and can simply be plugged in, reused, and scaled.

“Base Model” and “Cloud”

The Base Model will come combined with Simplebim Cloud: the Dataflows carefully prepared by a few BIM experts can be run centrally, allowing whole project teams simply benefit from consistent, ready to use models.

This will enable a fully automated Data processing - while saving time, costs, and resources to construction companies and consulting offices. 

Cooming soon

More details, examples, sneak peeks about Simplebim 12, the Base Model, and the Cloud will be shared later this year. 

In the meanwhile, learn more about BIM Dataflows here - and share your thoughts with the Community!