International standards provide a trusted foundation for innovation, safety, and sustainability in the building and construction sector. From optimizing energy performance and ensuring accessibility to managing facilities and digitizing information, these standards empower stakeholders to achieve efficiency, enhance quality, and collaborate seamlessly across projects and borders by aligning with globally recognized benchmarks.

Top standards

Classification of fires

Facility management — Management systems — Requirements with guidance for use

Lifts for the transport of persons and goods
Part 1: Safety rules for the construction and installation of passenger and goods passenger lifts

Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling (BIM) — Information management using building information modelling
Part 1: Concepts and principles

Lifts for the transport of persons and goods
Part 2: Design rules, calculations, verifications and tests of lift components

Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling (BIM) — Information management using building information modelling
Part 2: Delivery phase of the assets

Security and resilience — Emergency management — Guidelines for incident management

Insights

Occupational health and safety: Where protection meets performance and wellbeing

Every year, millions of employees suffer illnesses and injuries that could have been prevented. As workplaces modernize, one thing remains constant: the need to protect our most valuable asset – people.

Energy storage: Powering the future of renewable energy

From the compact lithium-ion battery powering your e-bike to colossal grid-scale solutions that can keep entire neighbourhoods humming, energy storage is the secret sauce making renewable energy reliable around the clock.

Sustainable development for a changing planet

Cities worldwide are in the race to adapt to a changing climate. Everywhere, soaring temperatures fuelled by human-made greenhouse gas emissions are disrupting the delicate balance of our climate systems.