Compatibility issues with BIM

Abstract: With the growing demand and use of BIM modeling, there’s also a growing number of competitors. Since every provider of BIM software has their own specific functions and file formats, there is no standard common platform and compatibility issues occur when projects are transferred between each other. Focus for this thesis is this gap and what can be done from preventing the gap to expand even more, this will be done by having a look at the most promising solutions that exists today.  If a way to prevent this from happening is discovered, this will be documented in the report and if possible, a program will be developed that can be used by anyone in order for the programs to communicate with each other in a better way.