Uniclass is a consistent classification structure for all disciplines in the construction industry. It contains tables classifying items of any scale from a large facility such as a railway, down to products such as a CCTV camera in a railway station.
It’s an essential way of identifying and managing the vast amount of information that’s involved in a project, and it’s a requirement for BIM projects, as set by the BS EN ISO 19650 series of standards.
Uniclass 2015 is divided into a set of tables which can be used to categorise information for costing, briefing, CAD layering, annotations, etc. as well as when preparing specifications or other production documents.
The classifications within the tables, for the first time, allow buildings, landscape and infrastructure to be classified under one unified scheme.
The suite of 12 tables is broadly hierarchical, and allows information about a project to be defined from the broadest view to the most detailed. Spaces/Locations exist in Entities which form part of a wider Complex and Activities may take place in any of these. Entities are composed of Elements/Functions, Systems and then Products.
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We regularly liaise with individuals and organizations in order to provide support and evaluate requests for new codes. We welcome comment and input from all sectors.