FireBIM Platform

One open API, one reference web app, and a growing family of platforms that build on the same FireBIM building blocks.

Open the reference platform

Two deployments run side by side — pick the stable one unless you want to see what is coming.

FireBIM Webapp

Stable release

The release we recommend for trying FireBIM: the last version that passed the consortium's checks. Updated when a set of features is complete.

app · https://app.firebim.org

api · https://api.firebim.org

Open FireBIM Webapp API docs

Newest version

Experimental release

Follows the main branch: the newest rule elements, ontology versions and UI — sometimes hours old. Expect rough edges; data may be reset.

app · https://app.staging.firebim.org

api · https://api.staging.firebim.org

Open Newest version API docs

Both releases are beta software from a research project. Do not use them as the basis of a legal fire-safety approval; results depend on the model, the mapping and the rules you choose.

The FireBIM reference platform

The consortium's own implementation: an API-first, no-code environment for writing fire-safety rules and running them against building graphs.

Screenshot of FireBIM Webapp — the reference platform

The RuleBook: a rule dropped into the rule runner, executed step by step against a building graph, with the execution log and the summary panel.

The reference platform shows how the FireBIM building blocks fit together. IFC models are uploaded and converted to a building graph in the FireBIM Building Ontology (FBO, with national extensions); rules are composed visually in the RuleBuilder from start / decision / derive / end elements and compiled to SHACL; the RuleBook runs one or several rules against a graph, chains rules that hand over to each other, shows every decision step and asks the user for the facts the model does not contain. Everything the app does is a call to the public API, so any other front end — or a script — can do the same.

Availability: Open sourceFreeLogin required
Price: Free · open source (ITEA4 FireBIM project)
Countries: BE · DK · LT · NL · PT (national FBO extensions)
Standards: IFC · IDS · RDF / OWL · SHACL · OpenAPI
Status: Beta — under active development

IFC upload & IFC → FBO graphIDS information requirementsRuleBuilder (visual, no-code)Rule elements: decision · derive · rule linksRuleBook rule runner with step logAsk the user when data is missingFBO ontology registry (core + national)Lexicon / term mappingSHACL compile of every rulePublic REST API (OpenAPI)

Two parts: the API and the web app

FireBIM is API-first. The web app you see is one client of a public REST API — everything it does, you can do from your own tool.

FireBIM API

A FastAPI service that stores building graphs, rules and ontologies, converts IFC, compiles rules to SHACL and runs the checks (four independent runners must agree). Fully described by an OpenAPI schema — every screen of the web app is a documented call.

/graphs · publish and fetch building graphs, write answers into an answered copy
/rules · validate, compile, publish, decompile rules and rule elements
/checks · run a rule against a graph (standard, horizontal, vertical, blind) with derived values and open questions
/ontologies · the FBO registry, versions, sync

API reference (Swagger)

FireBIM Webapp

A Next.js front end: IFC models and IDS files, the RuleBuilder canvas, the RuleBook rule runner, the Lexicon and the ontology browser. It keeps no logic of its own — it composes API calls and shows the results, so the same checks can be run from any other client.

RuleBuilder · compose rules from stored rule elements, save as workspaces
RuleBook · drop rules into a runner, chain linked rules, answer open questions
Ontologies · browse FBO core and the national versions

Open the web app

For developers

Build your own front end, plug the checks into a BIM tool, or run the stack yourself. The documentation pages collect the ontology registry, the modelling guideline and the API reference; the source code lives in the FireBIM-org GitHub organisation (partner access during the development phase).

Ontology registry · FBO core, BE / DK / LT / NL / PT versions, Turtle downloads
Modelling guideline · what to model in IFC so FireBIM can check it
Example graphs · synthetic buildings to test rules against

Docs · developer site github.com/FireBIM-org

Other FireBIM platforms

Consortium partners build their own products on the FireBIM building blocks — the FBO ontology, the rule formalism, the IFC-to-graph conversion and the IDS / SHACL checks. Some are live demos, some are announced; this list grows as they are released.

FireBIM – Compliance (VN2R · ISEP · Exactusensu)

by VN2R – Engineering Innovation Consulting, with ISEP and Exactusensu

A Portuguese fire-safety compliance checker: upload an IFC model, run the information requirements (IDS) and the SHACL rules, and export the report — or answer a questionnaire when there is no model yet.

Built on open-source components (IfcOpenShell, pySHACL, RDFLib, React), the demo offers three ways to check: a full IFC check (IDS first, then the SHACL compliance rules with an exportable report), an information-requirements-only check, and a questionnaire for the design stage. A 3D viewer, a decision diagram and a 'rules explained' view sit next to the semantic layer: graph, ontology, IFC mapping and a SHACL Studio. The rules are VN2R's structured reading of the Portuguese SCIE regime and are not a certified legal transposition.

Availability: DemoFree
Price: Free demo · not for official use
Countries: PT
Status: Beta demo (v0.1) — uploads are not kept between restarts

IFC check (IDS → SHACL) with reportIDS-only checkQuestionnaire without a model3D viewer (WebGPU)Decision diagram & rules explainedGraph / ontology / IFC mapping viewsSHACL StudioBCF issue exportEN / PT

Open the demo VN2R

Screenshot to follow

BIM-Connected FireBIM

by BIM-Connected (Eindhoven, NL)

Dutch consortium partner developing a web-based fire-safety assessment on top of its Wistor platform.

BIM-Connected is a BIM consultancy and software developer that received ITEA4 funding to build a web-based platform harmonising fire-safety codes across countries. Details of the FireBIM offering have not been published yet — follow the link for the announcement and news.

Availability: To be announced
Price: To be announced
Countries: NL
Status: In development — no public release yet

Web-basedBuilt on WistorFire-safety assessment

FireBIM news at BIM-Connected

Screenshot to follow

D-studio FireBIM

by D-studio (BE)

Belgian consortium partner working on BIM applications for the verification and validation of fire-safety compliance.

D-studio's portfolio page describes the FireBIM ambition — a harmonised, open BIM platform that streamlines fire-safety assessments across European jurisdictions and lets compliance be verified from the early design phases. Product details have not been published yet — follow the link to the portfolio page.

Availability: To be announced
Price: To be announced
Countries: BE
Status: In development — no public release yet

Compliance verificationEarly design phasesEuropean harmonisation

FireBIM at D-studio

Screenshot to follow

Kabandy

by Kabandy

Cloud BIM data platform (quantity take-off, model enrichment, IFC / IDS / BCF) — consortium partner; a FireBIM offering is to be announced.

Kabandy is a subscription-based cloud platform that turns BIM models into structured data: visual quantity take-off, AI-assisted classification and enrichment, native Revit and IFC input, IDS and BCF support. How FireBIM checks will surface in Kabandy has not been published yet — follow the link for the product and pricing.

Availability: SubscriptionTo be announced
Price: Subscription (see kabandy.com/pricing)
Countries: BE · FR · UK
Status: FireBIM integration to be announced

Cloud SaaSIFC / Revit / IDS / BCFQuantity take-offISO 27001

kabandy.com Pricing

Building a FireBIM platform? Send us the link, a screenshot and a short description via the FireBIM consortium and it will be listed here.