The U. S. Institute for Building Documentation has published the first standards for specifying contracts for as-built building-measurement capture. The documents are designed to complement previously developed standards specifying 3D building-information-model level of development but are not limited to any measurement-capture technology.
"In the building documentation industry, there is really nothing that people doing the work could rely on and quote to their clients," says Bryan A. Merritt, a principal associate with engineering consulting firm Erdman Anthony, Rochester, N.Y. "It gives owners and clients assurance that you are doing it to some level of accuracy and specification, instead of being willy-nilly."