Public bodies are responsible for their buildings over the long term, so the information produced during a project has to remain useful to whoever manages the building next. Those who inherit a building, from asset and facility managers to maintenance teams and the next project team, need to know what is installed, where it is and where to find its documentation, without having to track down the people who built it.
This page explains what the BIM requirement means for a Quebec public body, what DBABIM puts in place to make the data usable after handover, and what supports that work. It follows four steps, from understanding the issue to knowing how to act.
Since 2026, BIM has been mandatory on Société québécoise des infrastructures (SQI) projects over $5M, after being required on projects over $50M since 2021. The number of BIM projects in Quebec grew from 77 in 2021 to 265 in 2025, a 244 percent increase in four years. This is not a passing trend. It is a permanent regulatory requirement, and it changes what your suppliers need to deliver.
The real risk is not missing the contractual requirement. It is receiving a BIM deliverable that is compliant on paper but unusable in operations: a model built to satisfy a clause, not to feed a master plan or an asset-maintenance program.
SQI projects: BIM mandatory since 2026
BIM required since 2021
BIM projects in Quebec, 2021 to 2025
increase in four years
DBA Experts-Conseils is an active supplier to several Quebec public bodies and Crown corporations, with institutional relationships going back decades. DBABIM, our ISO-certified digital division, turns contractual BIM deliverables, Revit modelling, Navisworks coordination, ACC management, into usable data: maintenance logs, building history, a foundation for CAPEX planning.
When an enterprise asset management system is already deployed across your organization, the goal isn’t to replace it. It’s making sure the BIM data produced at construction integrates cleanly into it, rather than sitting as an isolated file after handover.
projects delivered since 1994
of institutional relationships with Quebec’s public sector
BIM specialists
projects running in parallel
More than 970 projects have been delivered since 1994, 31 years of institutional relationships with Quebec’s public sector, and a team of 7 BIM specialists already running 20 to 30 projects in parallel. That institutional continuity, and an understanding of the contractual context of Quebec public procurement, is part of what we bring to every mandate.
A director of real estate or VP of project management who requires structured BIM data from the tender stage avoids paying twice: once for contractual compliance, and again to rebuild the information afterward.
Let's talk about how your next BIM mandate can be structured for operations from day one.
No. When a system like Maximo or SAP is already deployed organization-wide, our role is to structure the BIM data to integrate cleanly with it, not to propose a parallel platform.
The ideal moment is before the professional team is formed, but integration is still possible early in delivery if BIM and data-structuring requirements can still be clarified.
A compliant deliverable meets the contractual clause. A usable one is structured to feed a master plan, an asset-maintenance program or an existing management system, beyond simple compliance.
Generally 60 to 90 days after a demonstration, given the contract management processes specific to public bodies.
