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Thank you @Rich Draper, for sharing your thoughts and experience. It’s interesting to learn that you decided on Revit for your entire portfolio. For us however, being a government owned organisation, that’s not possible. Because we are government owned, we are bound by the EU public procurement regulation which restricts the procuring organisation from specifying requirements for suppliers to only use one specific technology e.g. Revit (or any other technology for that matter). This regulation is supposed to protect competition but poses a problem for the procuring organisation. And because we manage updates of our CAD-library through vendors, we would need to demand specific procurement requirements from vendors to only use the CAD-software of our choice which is not permitted. So, my thoughts are, either the IFC-standard needs changing so that the geometries can be edited, or the EU regulation needs to change because this is a huge barrier to digitalisation in our sector.
What’s the situation in the UK, do you have a similar public procurement regulation?