Dive summary:

• A building isn't finished when work begins, obviously, and an industry group called the BIMForum is working on standards that would help designers, engineers, contractors and others understand what information can be expected and how solid it will be at various stages of development.
• The project for Level of Development Specifications has a two-part goal of helping the team on a project understand what they can expect to be in Building Information Modeling reports and explain what they need to be available at different project stages.
• The standards are being developed by a committee whose co-chairs are Jan Reinhardt of Adept Project Delivery in Pittsburgh and Jim Bedrick of A/E/C Process Engineering in San Francisco, and they are seeking professionals' input.

From the article:

“Nobody benefits if everybody has a different idea about how much information should go into each element of a building model or for what uses those models are suitable,” said Dmitri Alferieff, the director of the BIMForum. ...