Within the AEC/O industry, many organizations are working to create?one unifying?industry standard for building information modeling.?? Whether you work with an industry standard or your own firm-standard,?professionals who?create?BIM objects and models need to make decisions on a daily basis on what information, both graphic and data, should be in their models, where in the models it should go, and how to best implement the data so that it is useful to other industry stakeholders.? Putting information into BIM models requires a different way of thinking about and organizing data.? Should you model every tread on a screw? Should you model every screw in an assembly? Where should the performance information be placed so that stakeholders who may or may not be using the same software package?can use the model? Weygant, a recognized expert on content-rich BIM models, walks through: how to think about the information, both graphical and data, that can go into a model; how to decide the level of data that should go into the model; and how to place data in the model so that it can be used by other stakeholders in the process, regardless of the software?package used.