A common language for competence in the built environment.
Roles, Profiles & Flows is part of the BIM Excellence Initiative (BIMei) Project C — Competence & Learning. It is open and not-for-profit, with every claim grounded in a verbatim quote from an authoritative source — traceable in two clicks. AI helps with extraction; humans curate and publish; the audit trail is permanent.
Who RPF is for
Three audiences, one shared vocabulary.
Publish authoritative competence frameworks for your members in a vocabulary the rest of the industry can also use.
Define what your project really needs, instead of reaching for the role titles you inherited.
See exactly what a target role or project requires, and map your own work against it.
From persona to accredited learning
The path from competence planning to accredited learning.
A personain RPF is a small tuple: the role you're in, the role you're aiming for, the jurisdiction you work in, and your discipline. The Persona Planner reads that tuple, compares the profiles required against the profiles you already hold, and shows the gap — alongside a suggested learning flow that points at the action statements you have yet to demonstrate.
That suggested flow is the bridge to accredited learning: each gap maps to action statements; each action statement is evidence-grounded; each cluster of statements is the basis for a learning unit or micro-accreditation under Project C.
Where this app sits
Three nested containers — the wider initiative, the programme, and this app.
An international research-and-delivery network publishing shared concepts, taxonomies and tools for digital transformation in the built environment.
bimexcellence.orgDevelops and maintains the modular language — components, indices and methods — that underpin every role, profile and learning artefact described here.
An authoring and reference layer that operationalises Project C — including the BFB collaboration as its first applied dataset.
What Project C is
The programme's own definition of scope and intent.
Project C — Competence and Learning aims to develop and maintain a competency-based modular language for continuous learning and improvement. This language — composed of components, indices and methods — provides a robust structure for defining roles, developing competence-based learning materials and introducing or improving competence certification and micro-accreditation programmes.
The components include defined roles, competency profiles and action statements; the indices include the IRI and ICI that quantify each role-profile edge.
This is the loop the Persona Analyser closes for individuals: the gap analysis is the input, an accredited learning flow is the intended output.
The BIM Forum Brazil collaboration
One application of Project C — and the dataset shipped with this app.
BIM Forum Brazil (BFB) Working Group 6 used the Project C language to define the Structure of Educational Objectives and BIM Competencies across the Brazilian market. Roles and profiles were validated through national workshops; some deliverables were supported by BFB sponsors, while most activities were conducted as a volunteering effort by BIMei and BFB members.
The project concluded in early 2026 and was delivered as a formal report in Portuguese on 16 March 2026: Matriz Brasileira de Competências BIM. The report can be downloaded from bimforum.org.br/publicacoes-bfb.
- A conceptual scheme to establish BIM Educational Objectives and Competencies focused on the Brazilian market.
- A reference for the minimum content of BIM professional training.
- A reference for the certification of BIM professionals in Brazil.
- Sensitising learners to the skills and knowledge they need to develop.
How this app supports Project C
An authoring and reference layer on top of the modular language.
Build competency profiles from items; assemble roles from profiles; set the IRI and ICI for each edge.
Navigate published roles and profiles, cross-cut the role × profile matrix, and inspect the information uses referenced by each profile.
